"Many of us don't realize it, but our bodies are constantly organizing and carrying out complex operations to maintain our health. Nearly all our internal functions occur outside our awareness. For instance, we don't put in much effort to digest our food, or filter our blood. And under most circumstances our bodies easily manage blood clots, fight infections, repair organs and kill cancer cells using their own natural chemicals. In fact, the world's best 'pharmacy' exists inside each and every one of us. Taking full advantage of this internal 'pharmacy' is the most effective way to care for our health."
In order to take advantage of the hard work that our body undergoes on our behalf, each day, we need to help it out. Eating healthy foods, drinking adequate water for our body size and activity levels, performing daily de-stressing exercise (including meditation) and getting adequate sleep, are all vital to our well being or "wellness" and have been subjects of earlier blogs. Without doing all of these things on a daily basis, we cannot expect our bodies to continue to regenerate and rebalance themselves to help us remain healthy and avoid illness and disease.
I had an out-of-state patient contact me about some health concerns she had. I recommended that she have blood work done that her medical doctor didn't normally order for a woman her age. "You look healthy, why do you want these tests done?" she was asked. The patient insisted and the tests were run. The results confirmed my suspicions; her body was not functioning, optimally, at all.
We need to work at becoming healthy and maintaining that state, each day. We need to stop relying upon appearance to determine our state of health. Health is not predicated upon how we look; it is not the absence of sickness, disease or death; it is the presence of vitality and vigor and balance, which is "wellness." My job is to help people like this patient to return to the state of wellness.
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