First the Facts
Good decision making requires two important steps:
Gather all the information you can, then analyze the risks and benefits as they relate to what’s best for YOU.
Why start here?
Being informed is key to effective and sustainable change. Most people know it’s important to eat well, move often, stress less and love more. Most also know their lifestyle determines the success – or failure – of their health and wellness.
But why? Why are our lifestyle choices the most important thing we can address in order to live long and well?
In my fifteen years of practice and education, I found it is much easier to change when I understood the why behind the what. This section contains five short, easy to read articles on what I believe are critical topics about the current healthcare crisis, the underlying causes of chronic illness, and the impact of lifestyle choices on disease.
Understanding this information will empower you with informed choice and increase your success on your wellness journey.
Approximately 80% of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes, and 40% of cancer could be avoided through healthy diet, regular physical activity and avoidance of tobacco use.
Dr Robert Beaglehole
Director, Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion
“The real tragedy is that more hasn’t been done to avoid this epidemic, as overweight and obesity, and their related chronic diseases, are largely preventable.”
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patients in care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”
-Thomas Edison, 1903
Don’t Let The Current Healthcare Crisis Be Your Crisis
The United States of America is one of the richest yet sickest nations in the world. The rampant increase in obesity and chronic disease may be a current healthcare crisis, but it doesn’t have to be your crisis. Learn the facts of the matter and become empowered by understanding that your story can be different.
Be Blue To Be Well
It’s not your genes. It’s not your age. The choices you make every day are the biggest determinant of your health – and it’s never too late to start. How do we know? Read this article to learn the scientifically supported secrets of the Blue Zones, the parts of the world where people live well into their 90s and 100s without the same rates of chronic disease – secrets that anyone can implement.
Redefining The Doctor
Medical schools train physicians to treat the symptoms of chronic disease, but not necessarily the underlying causes. You can address a good portion of the roots of chronic disease through informed lifestyle choices. Read this article to get a fresh perspective on partnering with your doctor in becoming a healthier you.
Think Pro-Immunity, NOT Anti-Inflammation
Reducing inflammation seems to be all the rage. But why? Understanding its role in chronic disease and obesity is pivotal to understanding why eating a plant-based diet, moving more, managing stress and loving deeply is so crucial to the treatment and prevention of chronic disease.
Bugs Are A Man’s Best Friend
The relationship between your holobiome and chronic disease is one of the hottest research topics in medicine – and for good reason. Taking care of your gut buddies is a must to living a long and healthy life. Read this article to learn about the importance of the friends you didn’t know you had and how healthy choices, especially eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet, keeps them happy.