I have been so inundated by queries regarding the recent flu epidemic, as well as normal cold season, that I have been surprised yet again regarding the expectation level of my typical client regarding their health status.
I perhaps should not be surprised at this given the sense of entitlement people hold towards just about anything in our current cultural climate. Yes, I've even seen it in friends and family members that I would have thought might have known better.
I think the prevalent and perhaps unspoken myth is that if one comes to me and does everything I suggest, that nothing unfavorable will ever happen to them, healthwise. They will in essence experience perfect health.
That is a faulty assumption and I believe that it stems from a very black and white viewpoint our society holds towards health and illness in general, instead of the process or continuum approach that I take. Illness by many doctors simply occurs at random unless well-established in the medical literature such as the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
In simplest terms, I look at health as if it were a bank account. Health promoting behaviors such as Diet, Supplementation, Herbs, Exercise, Stress elimination, proper rejuvenative sleep and spiritual practices such as meditation build up the amount of savings in your "health bank".
Stressors: allergens, many times out of one's control, germs, drama, sugar, alcohol, excess salt, sedentary lifestyle are withdrawals on that health account and deplete it's balance. Excess weight is both a stressor and also a symptom of a greater disharmony internally. Sometimes we have control of these events but sometimes we don't.
I will tell you, I exercise strenuously 5 times a week, enjoy a nearly perfect diet, do not have chronic stressors eating away at me, and have no lifestyle risk factors against me and still managed to get the flu this winter, an occupational hazard some of us might say. Still, I was over it in about 5 days and was functional all that time, working at least a normal schedule. Most of my friends and colleagues got way sicker, for far longer.
I don't believe that if you do even everything you can for your health it will ever be perfect. What I do think is that you will experience fewer downtimes and recover faster, and need less heroics in terms of medical care, prescriptions and surgeries. Most importantly, your health span, as I like to refer to it or the amount of time you feel physically good or great is substantially higher than the average persons.
I cannot even remember the last time I had a headache or when something hurt, other than from an injury. That to me is the biggest advantage to depositing frequently to my "health bank ".
Next week we'll talk about dietary changes to make for the spring season.
Cheers!
Taryn DeCicco, ND, LAc, LDN
Apple-A-Day Clinic, SC
Apple-A-Day-Clinic.com
847-577-4455
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