Health Is Simple (Disease Is Complicated)

Health is really simple, but how does it work? Coming right up

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everybody wants to be healthy everybody it's this big catch word everybody wants

to be healthy it's a good thing but very few people understand it and as a

society we think of health as the lack of disease we take better care of our

cars than we do ourselves we take our cars in for service before they break

but we wait until something happens then we have a symptom before we do something

about the body for the most part so we want to change our way of thinking about

what health is and health is when everything is working the way it's

supposed to when there is adequate function in the body and disease is the

lack of function disease cannot happen if everything is working the way it's

supposed to disease cannot develop the function in the body is everything that

the body does to maintain all of the systems and all the actions and the

digestion and the immune system and the movement and the thought and so forth

all of that is function there's something generated that results in that

function think of that as light light is something that we can see we can measure

it we can quantify it we know what what it is and function is the same way it's

something that's there it's something real but darkness doesn't exist darkness

it not is not measurable there is no source of darkness darkness is the lack

of light and disease works the same way just like darkness

it's disease is the lack of function so if you think of function as light and

the body then disease is simply the absence of that light or not enough

light okay so if we understand that then it makes no sense

to treat the disease that would be like going around to treat a shadow okay we

have a light source and we have something shading something creating a

shadow and then we wouldn't go in and try to treat the shadow do something

about the shadow we remove the thing that's shading it and that's how we have

to start thinking that the body has an infinite intelligence that manages and

balances things and if something isn't working there's something interfering

and we now have to get rid of the thing interfering we have to provide the

things that create function we have to remove the things that create

interference so think about a plant so here we have two flowers and we have the

sun shining on them but there's a fence that's shading one of them so the plants

in this case really like a lot of sunlight so the one in the Sun is very

healthy it's colorful it's strong it's very very resistant to wind and stress

but this one growing in the shade it doesn't get what it needs it's not

getting the Sun the water and the soil it might get water and soil but it's not

getting enough Sun because there's a fence shading it so it's very pale and

very weak so what would we do in this case it's really really obvious right we

just go in and we remove the fence or we remove the plant into the Sun where it

can get the things that it needs but if we think from a medical mindset of

treating symptoms with drugs by treating the problem rather than creating a

solution then we might go in and say oh that plants really really pale you got

some paint I think we need to paint it because it looks really pale yeah that

that's good so now for a little while if we do a really good job it will look a

little better but it won't be any healthier because there's a lack of

function it's not getting the things that it has to have and then we said

well it's it's kind of fragile it's almost

falling over by itself I think we need to go in and put some struts give it

some some crutches support it a little bit and again that's not gonna solve the

problem we couldn't even go one step further say oh let's give it some more

water let's give it some more some better nutrients let's plant it in

better soil but if it's not getting the Sun it has to have then it's not going

to be a healthy plant so the same thing works with humans that we don't

necessarily have those exact requirements they're similar but we have

chemical requirements because humans are we have a chemical aspect we have a

physical aspect we have an emotional aspect that can change physiology and

function so we have chemical physical and emotional requirements so these are

the things that create function these are the things that the body has to have

to produce the appropriate energy and signals and communication and so forth

nutrition from whole foods provides the resources the fuel and the building

blocks movement and signals create the signals that the brain and the body has

to have use it or lose it anything that you don't use is going to degenerate

it's going to atrophy if we don't have joy and purpose we're going to be in a

constant state of stress our body is going to start shutting down and we're

not going to function at optimum so these are the things that create the

appropriate function then and these are the ones we want to create more of we

want to put more of these into our lives then the other thing is the things that

are interfering and these we want to reduce such as toxins heavy metals and

medicine because these are all foreign to the body they are not things that fit

into in normal physiology that the body actually needs for fuel or building

blocks these are things that either interfere or treat symptoms medicine

work to reduce a symptom by blocking signals the body wants more signals it

wants function not less and so even though

medicine can treat a symptom which can be a good thing in an emergency it does

never produce more function physical if we're sedentary if we have physical

trauma if we have poor posture all of these interfere they reduce the amount

of motion that creates signals that is the juice if you will for the brain the

nutrient juice for the brain emotional if we have stress despair and overwhelm

constantly we put the body in a state of stress which will shut down it's very

destructive we can't get the body into a state of rebuilding as long as we have a

lot of these present humans have chemical physical emotional needs

plants have sun water and soil needs anything that's not there we could try

to raise a plant with water and soil but and not enough Sun but it's not going to

be a healthy plant in the long run if we try to just add physical and emotional

support but we're toxic and efficient we're not going to be healthy if we eat

right but we're worried we're not going to be healthy in the long run so optimal

health depends on addressing the body holistically addressing all the factors

that influence health so health is not the mere absence of disease disease is

the lack of enough function just like darkness is not enough light so how many

people have a dark switch at home I didn't think so

okay there is no source of darkness there is no source of disease there is

only lack of function and lack of light so we have to start understanding what

biology is and how the body works we have to stop thinking in terms of

symptoms even though emergency intervention can save a lot of lives the

emergency wants the emergency is over we have to start looking at rebuilding the

body by giving it what it needs that's the only way we can build optimum health

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