Finding the Right Balance Between Lifestyle Tools vs. Meds and/or Surgery

Yikes - this pictures says a thousand words! Personally, the shift to lifestyle changes is becoming more popular than going straight to pills and surgery amongst baby boomers and more. "Unlike conventional🩺medicine, the focus of lifestyle medicine is not on the treatment of chronic diseases but rather on their prevention" stated in PubMed Central article.

We are moving away from the mindset of "whatever the doctor says" being the only option, towards a more considered approach to preventative care. We understand that medication💊and surgery have their place, but we also recognize that they aren't the remedy for every issue.

Suggestions for preventative lifestyle tools include:

• 🍽️nutritious eating

• physical🚶activity

• maintaining a healthy weight

• building emotional resilience*

• socialization

• sunshine☀️and nature

• stress reduction|qigong|meditation|breathwork

Since our body should be considered a "whole" system of being, any one piece out of alignment impacts the whole. For example, if we are overweight, this may impact the heart, circulation, and mental health😓which then influences the ability for physical activity, socialization etc. Type II diabetes onset may come into play and then there are choices to be made. Should I take medicine? Should I change my diet and exercise? Do I just wait and see what happens?

The bottom line is we all have a choice. To use tools for preventative medicine is a "no brainer" and somehow seems hard to do. Maybe there has to be an "intention" set to prioritize taking care of our 🍎physical, mental and spiritual self and to do this on a daily basis. Witnessing others facing health concerns, has brought great awareness and the thought "it's time (finally) to prioritize personal health and wellness👏."

Join us as we teach and share what we learn - see you soon.

*Emotional resilience is defined as one’s ability to respond to an adverse situation and, more importantly, a return to the “pre-event” baseline state of health.