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100 Healthy Days™ Week 10- Personal Renewal, Life-Long Learning, and Surround Sound Support

March 8, 2021 by admin Leave a Comment

Taking responsibility for your health and lifestyle choices is vital to your and your family’s well-being. We love seeing our patients and practice members getting younger and healthier every year as they commit themselves to Chiropractic Lifestyle Care and healthy lifestyle choices. Learn to love the things that are good for you and make them a priority.

Support Yourself

Treat yourself the way you would want to be treated. Set an example for others. Apply the Three Life-Changing Principles to change the way you support yourself for an ideal 100 years.

Commit to your Personal Renewal Recipe

Once you know what works for you, make it a priority. Make these things your Human Potential Pattern and a part of your lifestyle. Define your early-morning renewal, midday renewal, and nighttime renewal. Do not compromise. Another thing you should not compromise on is your nutrition.

Listen to the 100 Year Lifestyle Podcast Episode 22, Food Synergy, and Plant-Based Nutrition For All Seasons.

Give and Receive

Be willing to give the people you love and care about the kind of support that they need, even if it is different from the kind of support you like for yourself. Ask for the ideal support that you need from your life partner.

Establish Surround Sound Support

Expand your support system using the Health Care Hierarchy, multiple circles, and multiple generations. Build your awareness of the support system you desire and the people and resources that are already in your life. Plug the most important relationships into your Quality Time Calendar in the next chapter.

Read more about establishing surround sound support in the 100 Year Lifestyle article, Surround Sound Support.

Balance Your Support System

If your current support system is great for a crisis but empty for quality of life, joy, knowledge, and health, spend time building and nurturing support in these areas. Embrace multiple generations and multiple circles of people. Step outside your current box. Make the time for the support you deserve.

Listen to the 100 Year Lifestyle Podcast Episode 23, Valuable Longevity Lessons From A 10-Year-Old. This episode, Valuable Longevity Lessons from a 10-year-old will move you and make you a better parent, daughter, son, spouse, and leader. It will move you to make the changes in your life that you know need to be made so that you make the most of every day and do not become a burden as you age.

Decide What You Want To Learn

Buy a book, enroll in a class, or attend a seminar. Make an appointment with an expert. Choose a mentor. Create a long list, since you will have plenty of time to experience it all. Become an expert in an area you are passionate about.

Be The Change We Wish to See in Others

We set the tone of our lives by attracting those who speak the same language. Luckily, we have thousands of languages to choose from, so choose a language that speaks your truth, and live your ultimate 100 Year Lifestyle!

Get your FREE 100 Healthy Days™ eBook & The 100 Year Lifestyle 2nd Edition PDF!

Click the link and follow the directions to receive your free eBook & PDF.

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Rats in a Dump

May 6, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

As we find ourselves in the thick of cold and flu season our focus on avoiding germs becomes top priority for many of us. We’re quick to Purell our hands and sanitize everything we touch. But are germs really the issue? [Read more…] about Rats in a Dump

Licking Doorknobs

January 28, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

I recently posed the following question to my patients: Suppose, for a moment, that you had to catch a cold. Now, obviously, no one in their right mind really sets out to do such a thing, but, for the sake of argument, let’s just say that your goal was to actually catch a cold. How would you go about doing it? [Read more…] about Licking Doorknobs

Change Your Family’s Course of History

December 4, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Stop Blaming Your Genes

If you want to live an active, healthy, quality of life for 80, 90, 100 years and beyond, here is a very important message: stop blaming your genes. Too many people rationalize unhealthy choices with words like, “Why bother? It’s in my genes.” You can’t get away with this anymore.

The lifestyle choices that you make for yourself and your family can literally change the course of your history. A family history of heart disease or cancer used to mean that it was your destiny to get those conditions too, because they were “in your genes.”

We are learning through the science of epigenetics that nothing could be further from the truth. Epigenetics, which means ‘around the gene’, has shown that your lifestyle choices, both positive and negative, can influence the expression of your genes, turning them on and off like a light switch. In the largest nature/nurture study that was ever done, on 44,000 pairs of twins, it was found that the primary determines in most cases of cancer were environmental or lifestyle factors such as tobacco use, diet, and exercise habits rather than the inherited disposition of their family history.

A recent report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA found the activity of more than 500 genes in the normal tissue of thirty men with low-risk prostate cancer changed after the patients began eating diets higher in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, and lower in red meats and fats, while also implementing an exercise and stress reducing regimen. After three months the men had changes in the activity of about 500 genes, including 48 disease-preventing genes that were turned on and 453 disease-promoting genes that were turned off.

Adjust Your Lifestyle
Changing the course of your history is not rocket science. Eating a diet filled with fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, healthy fats, and grass-fed meats will keep you lean and healthy, and they will activate healthy genes. Reducing stress is also important as stress has been shown to shorten the telomeres (the caps on the genes), which can reduce the life expectancy of your cells. Exercise, as a part of a lifestyle, reduces stress, strengthens your heart and muscles, and has been shown to reduce the risk of nearly every disease. Optimistic thinking has been shown to keep people motivated to make healthy lifestyle choices regardless of their circumstances. In addition, chiropractic care as a part of a healthy lifestyle, Lifestyle Care, keeps your spine and nervous system aligned, balanced, healthy, and free from deterioration. This ensures that the vital messages between the brain and the body are optimized.

One of the life-changing principles of The 100 Year Lifestyle is “Change is easy, thinking about change is hard.” It is much easier to eat healthy and exercise regularly as a part of your lifestyle than it is to be on a weight gain-weight loss rollercoaster or to have to deal with being chronically sick or injured.

Chiropractic care as a part of a lifestyle is a much better option than the crisis-to-crisis suffering that comes with an unhealthy spine and nervous system. Bringing these values into your home can literally change the course of your history and ensure a healthy future for you and your loved ones.

Please take advantage of the resources our office provides to help you and your loved ones rewrite your history. Contact us to make an appointment for yourself or someone in your family. A healthy future could be yours for generations.

A Truly Sustainable Health Care Solution

December 4, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Is Your Health Care Philosophy Sustainable?
When you think of “Health Care” what is the first image that pops into your mind? Do you envision hospitals, prescriptions, expensive surgeries, or a sick person? This is often what people have been conditioned to think about because the current health care delivery system is actually a Sick Care system in disguise. Fortunately, heart disease, diabetes and even many forms of cancer are preventable “lifestyle” diseases.

Lifestyle choices such as smoking, poor eating habits, sedentary living, and allowing stress to build all affect your body negatively and can cause you or a loved one to suffer from a disease that could have been prevented.

Suffering or sickness can be reasons to make lifestyle changes, and pain can certainly get your attention fast. However, avoiding sickness and pain altogether is a much more desirable option. When you make good choices and invest in your health you are more likely to thrive over the course of your lifetime. This is a truly sustainable health care solution for you and your family, and for our society as a whole.

The Health Care Hierarchy
The Health Care Hierarchy of The 100 Year Lifestyle is Self Care, Health Care, and Crisis Care, in that order. They will help you set your priorities regardless of your current health condition or age and get you on a sustainable path.

Self Care
Self Care is what you must do for yourself to keep your mind, body and spirit healthy and functioning at your highest level. Nobody can sleep, sit up straight or exercise for you.

Health Care
Health Care is what you need to do to stay healthy that you cannot do for yourself. Chiropractors, dentists, and nutritionists are some of the professionally trained experts that can help you stay healthy beyond your Self Care.

Crisis Care
Crisis Care is meant to help you recover from a serious injury or illness which requires the support of the appropriate crisis care specialists.

With the right Self Care and Health Care team you may be able to avoid the need for Crisis Care completely.

Who is Responsible?
Who is responsible for your health? Is it your doctor, government, or your insurance carrier? Keep in mind that our current health care system’s main focus is on Crisis Care only, sometimes leading to severe side effects and long term damage. Dramatic and expensive rescue measures as a way of life add to your stress and can make health challenges worse for you and your loved ones.

This even includes prescription drugs. The “quick fix” of over-the-counter or prescription drugs can make you feel different because they change your body chemistry but they can give you a false sense of security that everything is fine when it really is not.

Lifestyle Care
Chiropractic Lifestyle Care aligns your spine and nervous system to optimize your body’s functions. Your spine and nervous system are the means by which your brain communicates with your vital organs, muscles, ligaments, and cells. When there is interference to this communication system, the messages are interrupted. Your body may experience immediate symptoms or it may take a while to feel like something is wrong or not functioning like it used it.

Keeping your spine and nervous system aligned and balanced before a crisis can improve your body’s natural immunity and ability to reach a higher level of vitality, energy and health. If you are already in crisis, chiropractic care can remove the interference, get the pressure off the nerve, and may promote a faster recovery without having to resort to more invasive options.

Begin making better lifestyle choices today for yourself and for your family. Make Self Care and Health Care your top priority.

Health Care Is Rising

November 27, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Health Care is Rising.

As the U.S. and many other nations try to figure out how to pay for the challenges of the aging population, individuals are realizing that they need to take responsibility for their own health through their lifestyle choices, while also utilizing chiropractic as their first choice for care.

People are living longer than ever. Our generation is the first in history that is getting the advance notice that whether we like it or not, want to or not we will probably live longer than we ever thought. The question is what will our quality of life be like along the way? Will we enjoy an active, healthy, purposeful life with meaningful relationships or will we follow in the path of the many elderly now residing in nursing homes? When it comes to health care values, how will we raise our children differently?

A Sobering Statistic

Hundred year old people are the world’s fastest growing segment of the population. The U.S. Census expects this group to grow by 746% between now and the year 2040. This is a staggering statistic as the Baby Boomer Generation moves into their later years. Unfortunately, Baby Boomers are watching their parents and grandparents suffer in their longevity with deterioration and chronic disease. Simultaneously, as they themselves get older, they are waking up to the reality that they need to live their lives differently and make their health a priority—before they get sick. This is a philosophical shift that goes way beyond the concept of Affordable Care.

When Dr. Eric Plasker wrote The 100 Year Lifestyle in 2007, the United States was ranked 37th in Life Expectancy and 35th in Infant Mortality. Upon researching the statistics for The 100 Year Lifestyle Second Edition, which was published in 2013 and is available now, he was disturbed that our country has become worse in both categories: dropping to 51st in Life Expectancy and 44th in Infant Mortality.

Crisis Care vs. Health Care

While quality medical care may be necessary when there is disease or a severe crisis, Health Care is different. Health Care is about keeping your body, mind and spirit functioning at full potential. It’s about keeping yourself fit, balanced, and healthy and optimizing the function of your nervous system. Chiropractors who are practicing this philosophy of The 100 Year Lifestyle are providing this solution for the people in their communities.

Millions of families—three, four and five generations of them—have been utilizing chiropractic care since birth or early childhood and are some of the healthiest people I know. I look at my family members who have been fortunate enough to grow up with a healthy spine and nervous system and healthy lifestyle choices and I have seen them thrive as they become healthy adults. This is the direction that humanity needs to follow.

The Doctor of the Future

In 1903 Thomas Edison, the great inventor, was quoted:

“The doctor of the FUTURE will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.”

Well, that was 110 years ago. Enough time has passed to have the “future” be now. The new quote says:

“The doctor of the PRESENT will give no medicine but will interest their patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of Dis-ease.”

Isn’t it time that you and your family be present? Yes, let health care begin rising for you!

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