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The Basics of Good Health

While the health details of each individual are unique, it is also true that most healthy people share common habits that I consider essential to creating and sustaining health. At some point in a first appointment, I like to touch on the components I prioritize for creating good health.

“Health” is actually a word that was never uttered during my medical school training, and in modern medical dialogue is usually used to refer to a specific portion of physiology or medical understanding. We are interested in cardiovascular health, or mental health, or perhaps the health of our microbiome (the enormous colonies of helpful bacteria that live on our skin, respiratory tract, and the surface of our intestines.)

In both my practice and my writing, I am interested in helping each individual cultivate their own optimal health. Whatever limitations you might actually or possibly have, we can work together to strengthen your body and your mind and your satisfaction with the whole package! Imagine we’re sitting down in my office and we want to start to fine tune key actions for your better health.

Your Fitness - Part 2 of 4

Your Fitness - for the Metabolically Challenged

"Metabolically Challenged" means that you weigh more than you'd like to and that one or more of the following is true:

  • Your waist measures more than half your height
  • You have elevated levels of fasting blood sugar, fasting insulin, hemoglobin A1C, triglycerides, hsCRP, fibrinogen, and/or elevated blood pressure

I love creating a partnership with folks who want to improve their health, and it can be really exciting if the goal is fitness on all levels - mental, emotional, and physical. Focusing just on physical fitness, many different variables are tweakable. We could just imagine that we're focusing on improving healthy muscles and cover all the bases. To optimize the health of your muscles and avoid the debilitating effects of sarcopenia a good program will get you on the road to losing excess fat, providing proper nutrition, stimulation, and rest to the muscles, and do it all by starting with optimizing the metabolic environment in which your muscles live.

Your Fitness - Part 1 of 4

What is your level of fitness? Consider your mental, physical, emotional, and even spiritual health - how fit are you? My training did not actually focus on “health” until I first studied Classical Homeopathy over 20 years ago. I realized it was a concept lacking from my professional medical education and found it interesting to consider: how does one define health? At the time, the homeopathic definition derived from teachings of the contemporary Greek homeopath, George Vithoulkous, who defined health as freedom on all levels. Not necessarily the absence of disease or symptoms, but freedom from those symptoms. A recent patient of mine who lives in chronic pain told me she realized at some point the pain was inevitable: she could find happiness and freedom with the pain, or succumb to suffering. I am impressed by the freedom she enjoys despite her significant pain.

There is a great personal value for you to be derived from fitness, and in this series I am specifically talking about fitness that is both physical (whether you are currently an athlete or a couch potato!), and metabolic (that's your body fat, your fat distribution, and your lab tests). Paraphrasing the words of Ben Greenfield, a trainer and fitness specialist, a goal of improved fitness offers the chance to optimize your power/weight ratio.

Homeopathy

Homeopathic remedies make a perfect first aid kit. With twelve simple remedies, you can help yourself or your family members heal from many common injuries and illnesses.

Homeopathy is a 200-year old system of natural medicine that gently encourages the body to heal itself using homeopathic remedies made from natural substances. The remedies are highly diluted and therefore always safe and gentle. With a few simple instructions, anyone can successfully use our select group of First Aid Remedies for common accidents and illnesses. For successful dosing of the remedy refer to the instructions at the end of the article.

As with any First Aid intervention, medical evaluation is always indicated for severe or persistent pain or symptoms.

Injuries

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