How Healthy Do You Want To Be? - Dr Ekberg

Today I wanted to talk about the health continuum because most people when you

ask them if they're healthy they say yes or no. They think it's a yes or no answer

They think that health is something that you have or don't have. It's something

that you are or you're not. Stay tuned and I'll explain I am doctor Ekberg with

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So that you don't miss anything Health is a continuum Health is a degree

of function, so we want to think of it as all the way from a hundred percent to

zero percent so on this continuum hundred percent would be the best

possible health that you can have it's top function top energy everything in

the body is working optimally and there's probably very few if any people

like that on the planet the rest of us are somewhere on this continuum all the

way down to zero percent which is death so the question is where are we and

where do we want to be so the problem is that we start out in life around

eighteen to twenty years old we've we've grown we've developed and we probably

have the most health that we will ever have we have high function we have

wellness we have optimal health we we sleep well we have energy we have focus

but then as we go through the years we kind of slip down the scale and a lot of

these changes are so gradual that we don't really notice and then we get into

our 30s and 40s and 50s and we think that we're still doing okay we're having

adequate health we sleep well most of the time or some time and then we have

fair health and we have trouble focusing and we don't sleep so well we don't have

so much energy but we still think we're doing okay because everyone else around

us seem to be having being in the same boat kind of in the same situation and a

lot of us even at that point we really have any symptoms we just have

less health we have lost a lot of health but not so much as to develop symptoms

and then we get down to poor health and then we get into symptoms and now we're

suffering now we think oh here all of a sudden we think that now I'm not healthy

anymore but it was a process it was something that we lost over a long

period of time usually decades it's it was a gradual slip and slide but then a

symptom shows up suddenly and all of a sudden we think oh wow now this happened

out of the blue no it didn't we were working our way down for a long long

time and then we get into the area where we have less and less health so now we

have symptoms and now we have disability and we have disease and we have loss of

function we suffer we have pain we can't do the things in life that we enjoy we

don't have the energy we don't sleep and so on and so on and down at this level

of course this is where we start using more and more medication more and more

drugs to treat the symptoms to get past a pain or high blood pressure or

something like that and somewhere around here is also where a lot of people will

come into our office and say oh yeah I had this pain it came out of the blue

and by the way I have I have heartburn and high blood pressure and high

cholesterol but don't worry it's under control because my medication keeps it

at a normal level so these people are down here they're on medication for

their symptoms and their health is slipping and they think they're doing ok

they they believe that they're healthy because the medication is interfering

and keeping something at a specific level we have interfered we have pushed

something to where we think it should be against the body's will and now we think

they were doing ok so that's one of the mindsets that we have to change we're

not okay on drug there's something that isn't

working we need to address the underlying causes in the fine print for

chiropractic for example the insurance that covers chiropractic they

specifically say that this plan does not cover wellness care if the symptoms go

away you can't treat them anymore so what

that means and it's the same in medicine you're only allowed to treat symptoms so

if you're near death or if you have a disease or disability or symptoms then

you can treat the patients but only up to the point of poor health you can't

treat them any further than that it's not part of the plan and I don't

think it should be because I think health insurance which isn't health

insurance but disease insurance should be for accidents and traumas and things

like that I think that we need to understand that health is our

responsibility no one else there is no one else's responsibility no one else is

going to pay for you to get healthy they will assist you to get maybe to hear but

it's your job to attain optimal health it's your job to understand what health

is and work your way up to understand what the body needs

what is interfering with the body what is the body missing and that the body is

chemical structural emotional it has certain requirements if you provide them

then the body will continue healing and you will get up to optimal health

whatever that is for your age as we age it is not inevitable it is not a must

that we get down into these levels there's a lot of people in their 90's

and hundreds who are up at this level having functional symptom-free lives it

is up to us to understand how this works and is our responsibility to work our

way up so remember health is not something that

you have or don't have it's a continuum and you decide we're on that continuum

you want to be it's called lifestyle it's called choices educate yourself

following the mainstream living by default isn't good enough anymore that

the world we live in doesn't allow us to stay up here unless we do something by

choice and understand how this works the reason we're making this channel is

to save lives to reduce suffering so everyone in the world needs to know this

information there's very very few people who truly get this who truly are healthy

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