Are you adapting to, supporting, or correcting the real problem?

Our Health is the foundation of all our life experience. Each day you create memories. The better your health, the finer, more desirable and choice will those memories be. Good health leads to greater optimism, more energy to do more, greater clarity about lifes potentials and purposes, and the ability to reach toward those noble possibilities. There is no life event that will not be finer and more special, experienced from a place of vibrant health than otherwise.

If you want your life to be the best it can be, you must approach the issue of health in all its 5 areas, Spiritual, Emotional, Nutritional, Structural, and Energetic. Remember that health is the ability to comprehend yourself in your environment, or circumstance as you really are in each of those areas. Lets abbreviate these 5 areas into Health SENSE. I think we can all agree that any symptom, condition, pain, or otherwise unhealthy state is caused by a departure from a balanced and vibrant SENSE of health. So when you get a condition are you caring for the SENSE, or for the condition? Think about it. Is that elevated blood pressure a result of an imbalance, or the base level problem? Do you then adapt to it, support it, correct it or aggravate it? What about thyroid problems, back pain, headaches, or emotional problems? How do you deal with these situations?

A vital question to ask yourself is the problem (like a pain) the problem or a result of the problem? If you think the pain is the problem, you will do all you can to get rid of the pain, at almost any cost. If you have the stomach, look at this video clip of what a spinal surgery can be like. Let me warn you it is disturbing and graphic. It goes to show what lengths people will go to try and fix the pain. Check out this website.

What about high blood pressure? This can be caused by stress. How does stress cause an elevation in the blood pressure? One mechanism is that chronic stress secretes a hormone called Cortisol. Cortisol forces blood from the vital organs to the muscular tissue as a response to help us fight or flea from our stressors. Eventually the organs begin to be starved of blood and accumulate toxins as a result of poor circulation. Blood pressure is raised as a last ditch effort of the body to provide more oxygen to the vital organs and purge out the heavy toxins that poison our system. We discover that our blood pressure is high and adapt to it by taking drugs for the rest of our lives to lower blood pressure, thus starving our vital internal organs of needed nutrient and actually facilitating the deadly accumulation of toxins in our vital organs. Is this a good choice? Why? because you are just adapting to a symptom rather than fixing the problem. What is the real problem? Stress.

Many drugs support our life style, but dont allow a cure. We must take them for the rest of our lives. Studies show that over 80% of all drug prescriptions are lifetime prescriptions. That means that they dont fix the problem, just help us adapt to certain aspects of it. But they do allow us to live with less doubt than before. The very popular drug Lipitor is an example of this response. Lipitor lowers cholesterol. This must be good isnt it? We have been told that cholesterol causes heart attacks. Is this right? Actually the cause of cholesterol plaquing on the inside of vessel walls has more to do with inflammation than with the cholesterol levels. Out of 10,000 people studied, Lipitor had 6 fewer heart attacks than the placebo group. This is trumpeted as a significant reduction in the rate of heart attacks. 6 out of 10, 305 is a significant reduction? This comes at a cost of over 9 billion dollars a year, that amounts to more than 1 million dollars an hour, every hour, every day of the year.

Do you want to adapt, support or correct the problem? How do you correct it? What is the cause of the cause? Look at the symptom and go backwards. What in your lifestyle can create that problem. What manner of thinking? What imbalance in nutrition? What lack of spiritual understanding? What structural problem that is causing a nerve system imbalance? Is it an energetic problem? How do you know?

Are you looking for the cause of the cause? Keep asking questions until you get to this level of reality. Then set a course to correct it and you will help to heal you body mind and spirit. An example of this is one lady, who was seeking care for infertility said that after getting healthier, she realized she didnt need to get pregnant to be whole and healthy. She elected not to have another child. Not only was her body healthier, but her mind was clearer and her self image more whole.

What do you want your life to be like? Identify the factors that you want in your life. Take just a minute. Write them down. If you really want a more complete life, you will do this now.

Now come in and lets create a plan to obtain the health needed to have that kind of life.

Welcome to summer, and may your life be more whole and complete than ever before.

If you were required to choose, which would you choose:
A. Live to 70 years with a high quality of life.
B. Live to 100 with a poor quality of life.

Unless your over 70 the answer is easy. Almost 100 percent of you would pick A. What does a high quality of life mean to you? What is it made of? No pain? The ability to engage in physical activity? The ability to care for you children and grandchildren? The ability to laugh? The ability to share what you learn in life? The awareness of what is going on around you, that matches what others dear to you experience? The ability to travel and visit different places in the world? What do you really value in life? Take a minute to evaluate.

Now that you have thought about it, what do you need to do to ensure that you can achieve your goal? Pick the five aspects of health: Spiritual, Emotional, Nutritional, Structural, and Energetic. Choose the steps in each of these attributes that will enhance your health to allow you to feel the freedom and have the power you need to achieve your goals and dreams.

Americans may be taking too many vitamin supplements in the hope of staying healthy and living longer, a panel of U.S. experts say.

Some people need supplements though, for instance, older women benefit from taking calcium and vitamin D to strengthen their bones, and younger women need to take folic acid to reduce birth defects in any children they may have.

No study shows strongly that popping multivitamins and mineral supplements will help you proper, some suggest that eating healthy and exercising prodives more benefits.

"Half of American adults are taking multivitamins and minerals and the bottom line is that we don't know for sure that they're benefiting from them ," (so let's tell them to stop taking them, just because we don't know. (but let's keep taking tons of medication, even though we know it kills at least 100,00 people a year by acceptable side effects.), said Dr. J. Michael McGinns, a senior scholor witht he Institue of Medicine.

"In fact, we're concerned that some people may be getting too much of certain nutrients," (but too much of certain drugs?) added McGinnis, whose organization advises the federal government on health issues.

the 13 member panel included experts in nutrition, biostatistics, biochemistry, toxicology, geriatric medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, cancer prevention, consumer protection, and other fields.

They said much more study was needed on vitamins Americans lacked in their dies and whether taking supplements provided actual benefits. (Then dont make statements on what we need or dont need until you know).

Many people may assume that because vitamins and minerals are vital for health, that more is better. But some are toxic at high levels, includint vitamin A and iron, and others simply excerted in the urine. Beta-carotene was shown in a suprise study to raise the risk on lung cancer in smokers.

The panel said anti-oxidant vitamins and zinc might help nonsmoking adults with early stage, age-related macular degeneration, which can cause blindness.

But many foods are fortified with vitamins and minerals, so the value of supplements is often questioned.

There are no good studies showing people who take multivitamin or mineral supplements can prevent chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease.

Many of the studies that suggest a protective effect also show that people who take citamins ten to take of their health in other ways, such as eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, excersing and not smoking, so it is difficult to determine whether the vitamins were responsible for health benefits.

Diabetes raises early death in young adults by 300 percent, according to shocking British study.

The study involved 264,000 people found that young adults between the ages of 35 - 54 having type 2 diabetes boosted the likelihood of early death by 300 percent.

Dr. Henrietta Muliner of Surrey University, head researcher of the study, said that the results shows how dangerous type 2 diabetes is, and how important early detection is going to be.

"With people being diagnosed with type 2, younger and younger, the figures are only going to worsen," Dr. Muliner said.

- Diabetic Medicine

While most people exercise to lose weight or get in shape, for teenagers evidence suggests there's considerably more to regular exercise than weight control. In fact, a recent survey has found that teenagers who make a habit out of exercise and physical activity are more likely to adapt other positive habits, while avoiding negative ones.
In the survey, researchers asked nearly 12,000 middle- and high-school students to report how often they had participated in various activities in the previous week, including playing sports, using local recreation centers, skating or skateboarding, bicycling, watching television, and playing video games. The students also provided information about their grades, self- esteem, and other behaviors. Compared to teenagers whose primary activities were watching TV and playing video games, teenagers who exercised five or more times per week were:

• less likely to have sex, including unprotected sex.
• less likely to smoke cigarettes.
• less likely to drink alcohol or drive while drunk.
• less likely to use illegal drugs other than marijuana.
• less likely to miss time away from school.
• less likely to have a low self-esteem.
• more likely to wear a seat belt while driving.
• more likely to get "A" grades in math and science.
• more likely to get a good night's sleep.
• more likely to do household chores and to have summer jobs outside the home.

As this survey shows, there are definite benefits to regular exercise that can't be measured on a scale. So what are you waiting for? Turn off that TV , tell your children to put down the video games , and get them moving .
Talk to your chiropractor for more information on appropriate exercise guidelines for your family.