What is Health?

I see around 20 new patients in the clinic each week. When we sit down to go over their health history, which is usually plastered with black ink describing ailments from pain and muscle rigidity to cancer and multiple sclerosis, I hear the same declaration time and again. "I feel I am pretty healthy." What do people usually mean when they say this? Are they stating that their bodies are expressing their fullest potential for health and proper function? Quite to the contrary. What they usually mean is that they are either asymptomatic or have symptoms they feel everyone has, so they MUST be normal. "Do you ever get headaches?"..."Just the normal ones..." This is lunacy and could not be further from the truth!

How many times have we heard of someone "coming down" with cancer suddenly? We hear people say things like, "I don't get it...yesterday they were fine." Or how about a heart attack that takes someones life? "They were completely healthy one day and the next...bam." Haven't we all heard this before? The truth is that these diseases don't appear over night. In fact, 60% of people who suffer from a myocardial infarction (heart attack) are symptom free before they have it! It would be absurd to think, however, that the day before their heart attack they had a healthy heart. You see, health accumulates over time like drops of water in a bucket. The more healthy choices you make, the more healthy and "full" your "bucket" becomes!

The truth is that cancer, cardiovascular (heart) disease, and diabetes/obesity related illnesses kill nearly 90% of the people in America each year, and that these are all PREVENTABLE illnesses!!!

The bottom line is that the body is NOT programmed for sickness and early death, and there has NEVER been one study showing it has. Every study EVER about the nature of the body has always shown it to be self-healing, self-regulating, and capable of restoring and maintaining superior levels of health. Instead of asking the questions, "What's wrong with me? How can I treat it?" we should be asking, "What nutrients does my body need to express its fullest potential for health? What is toxic to my body that could be driving it away from health?"

If you want to arrive at the correct answer, you MUST ask the right question!

This is the wellness paradigm and remains the ONLY way to achieve true health!