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Two Truths and A Lie | Why What You Believe Determines Your Health

If there’s one thing I have learned from both working with clients for 12 years and trying this thing called parenting is that beliefs dictate behavior. If someone believes they can do something, they will at least attempt it.  If they don’t believe they can do something, they won’t attempt it.  Their belief dictates whether something is true or not.  If they feel something is true, there is subsequent action.  If they feel something is a lie, there is subsequent action in the opposite direction.

With that said, your belief regarding health will have a massive determining factor on your action steps, which will result in the promotion or negation of health expression.  I will present you with 3 statements.  Your belief in their trueness factor will be a good indication as to which path you choose in creating health.  And if you’re not satisfied with your health expression, then maybe you have to challenge some beliefs you hold regarding health.

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Hospice or Health Care

What’s the difference between Hospice Care and traditional Health Care?  Nothing.  Think about it.

The Providers:

Providers in either scenario are generally kind, have a great intention to help people in need, and genuinely care about the patient.

The Outcomes:

The outcome in either situation is to make you comfortable.  If you have terminal cancer, they want you to feel little to no pain, as you pass away gently.  If you have high blood pressure, hormone imbalance, chronic pain, behavioral issues, and immune system imbalances, you are given something to numb the symptoms as you continue down the course that got you in that situation.  The best possible outcome in either scenario is to numb you.

The Delivery System:

The quickest route to make sure you don’t feel anything is through medication.  In both scenarios, the patient is given a chemical intervention.  Why not alcohol?  Why not Mary Jane?  Wouldn’t they be cheaper?  Isn’t one of the biggest complaints about our health care system the cost?

The Results:

People die early with less symptoms.  You wouldn’t say someone in hospice care is healthy.  Why do you say someone on 5 medications is healthy?  Even the insurance company doesn’t think so.  They know to the penny how much more someone on medication is going to cost them in the long run and therefore raise premiums.  Why is it harder to get life insurance?  They know you will die sooner and therefore charge you a higher premium to be covered in case you die…early.

You and I can have the same cholesterol levels.  You take Lipitor to suppress it, I do it through lifestyle.  Who do you think pays more in insurance premiums for the exact same coverage?

With any system touted as health care, the primary outcome has to be health.  Less symptoms is not health.  With this being an election year, see if any candidate mentions this or do they just spout out a plan for ‘who is going to pay for it.’  Until we change the question from, ‘who is paying for this,’ to ‘what are we actually paying for,’ we’ll be in a chronic state of discouragement.

Policy change will be slow if it ever changes.  That leaves you to create health in yourself and family.  Choose wisely.

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Finding the Right Doctor…Here’s How.

I get emails and messages every week from people complaining about their doctor.  I get very similar stories each time.

“I want to know nutritional strategies to help my condition but all they do is recommend is a stupid low fat diet.”

“I told them I don’t want medications and all they recommend is drugs.”

“They told me if I don’t get my kid vaccinated, they will kick me out of their office.”

As much as I sympathize with these complaints, it’s not really the doctor’s fault.  As the consumer, you have to do some homework about that doctor you are trying to develop a relationship with more than just looking up if they are covered by your insurance.

There’s a lot of doctors that are covered by your insurance that will do you far more harm than help.  After all, our healthcare system is the 3rd leading cause of death in our country.

Your insurance has covered everything that hasn’t worked for you so far.  What makes you think using your insurance has anything to do with your health outcomes?  Your attitude, your diet, your sleep, your physical activity, your environment, your stress levels are all things that get you better. And guess what?  None of those are covered by your insurance.  No wonder you’re sick.  – Dr. Sachin Patel

You don’t go to a Muslim mosque and get pissed because they didn’t talk about Jesus.   You don’t watch an R rated movie and get complain because there was too much violence and profanity.  So why do you get frustrated stepping into an MDs office and them wanting to prescribe you drugs or give you horrible  nutrition and lifestyle advice?

Contradictions lead to destruction.  The contradiction at play with these destructions is your health outcomes.  We see this pretty evidently with the results of our healthcare system.  Lots of access and interventions, not much health production.

If you take anything away from this post, just remember, ‘contradictions lead to destructions.’  To avoid destruction, you have to clear up contradictions.  To clear up those contradictions, you need to assess your own philosophy and see if that matches the philosophy of your doctor.  If you try and engage this conversation with your doctor and they don’t have time, that probably answers your question.

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