Respect Your Body

Are people sick because of a lack of drugs or excess of organs?

Really think about this one.  Your answer is probably a "NO!".

Let's look at the reverse question:
Are people healthy because they take enough drugs and have had the improper organs removed?

It's a weird question, right?  Who the heck would say yes?  In my experience, healthy people take no drugs and have never had any surgeries.  The healthiest people I know stay far away from both.

Why is it then, that the traditional way to treat patients in the medical model is drugs (most commonly) and surgery.  Organ removal is very common- we all know at least one person that's had a gall bladder, appendix, or spleen removed.  Why do these organs get "sick" or function poorly so often?

Answer:  We are not taking care of our health properly.

Medicine is the best crisis care option.  In fact, nothing beats it.  But preventive medicine for anything but acute diseases?  There are so many contradictions in a medicine treating a chronic, preventable disease..  I won't even start.

We are in a society that dies from preventable diseases.  There are very few acute/crisis type illnesses anymore- medicine did a phenomenal job with these.  However, it's incredibly clear to me that medicine does not do well at treating the top chronic and preventable diseases (ex: heart disease, cancer, auto-immune disorders).

How does one take good care of their body, not just to prevent disease, but to truly maintain great health?

For your best health, you need to honor your body.  You need to treat it like the gift and temple it is.  When your temple starts to break down, it's near impossible to fix it.  Our body is a brilliant mix of physical work, chemical signals, and emotional energy that is constantly changing.  Anything introduced into the body will either assist it in working better, or throw everything off.  In the case of introducing medicine:  even if it "fixes" one measurable chemical system, it will throw off something that we can't understand or measure. 

When you look for a medical doctor, naturopath, chiropractor, etc...  make sure they respect the deep intelligence your body possesses.  Make sure they realize the only way they can help you is to assist your body in healing better.  And lastly, any doctor that believes he is the reason his patients get better is a complete and utter fool.  Doctors are merely teachers that practice the art and science of helping the body heal.  No doctor can heal your body.  Only you can heal your body.

You are the "master" or "God" of your body.  If you want the 100 trillion cells you have to live happily, give them good nutritious food and hydration, calming/building exercise, and be happy that you're alive.  If you want them to be miserable and eventually revolt against their "master", eat processed food and sugar, sit all day in a job you hate, and feel constant stress.  If you've listened to your body's messages (sent from the cells), you'll feel horrible when you make poor choices.  What is your body telling you when you don't feel good?  "Stop it, stupid!"     You just have to figure out what you need to change. 

Pain, fatigue, and feeling generally ill are not normal or healthy.  If you decide to mask these feelings with a drug, or accept them as normal because you've been "diagnosed with a condition"- you are majorly harming your entire body.  They are signs that there is a serious problem.  Your doctor should be finding what is causing the problem.  Your symptoms are not causing the problem- so why would you want to cover them up with a drug?  And- an organ never causes a problem.  You did something to cause that organ to revolt or just give up.  It's difficult to accept responsibility for your own health- but amazingly freeing when you actually do.

Take care of your body.  It's the only place you have to live.

Treat your body with respect.  Honor it, and claim responsibility for how it works.  Learn why it gives you good feelings and bad feelings. 
Love it unconditionally, and it will love you back.  That's a promise.

Why is health simple?

No one is ever suprised to hear that the health & wellness industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, and has been forcasted to be worth a trillion in the US alone very soon.  While North Americans continue to spend their hard earned money on products and services to prevent disease, we keep getting sicker as a population.  Obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer are at an all time high, and show no signs of slowing.

While everyone has an opinion about why we spend more and more, and get sicker and sicker- nothing seems to stop it.  There are more products out there than ever before.  There is more information out there than our grandparents could have ever imagined.  (I read somewhere that the average person gets more information from reading a newspaper than there was available 150 years ago from doing, well..  anything.)  As we learn more about our surroundings and as billions of dollars are put into research, wouldn't it seem that we would be healthier, happier, and have a much better quality of life?
Although we're living longer (which many attribute to modern medicine), many studies show that the quality of life for those over 60 is very low.  This can be attributable to many of the predominate and preventable diseases in our society.  Anyone living with heart disease, diabetes, or cancer can tell you that the disease takes a lot out of their quality of life.

So, if we keep learning more about health and how to stay away from disease, why are we sicker?

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"   

- Albert Einstein

A common misconception I find is this:  people believe that others know what they're doing.  Because the human body seems too complicated to them (and they've been led to believe this by medical and health professionals), they leave their health to everybody else.

Here's the truth:  Your Health is Your Responsibility.



I'm not a fan of the "sick care" industry.  I know that if I let my body get to the point where I need a drug to feel ok or function well, I'm pretty much stuck in an industry that's really good at making money and keeping people in the system.  My interest lies in becoming and staying healthy.  If I can do that, and let my body regulate itself (as it is designed to do), I'll maintain the health I was given and designed to have.

So here's the big question:  How do I get my body as healthy as possible and keep it there for as long as possible?

I, like many wellness chiropractors, have spent my time reading and experimenting (on myself) to see what makes my body its healthiest.  Do I believe the same exact formula works for everyone on the planet?  Not exactly.  I do believe in simple guidelines that have been shown to help most people, most of the time.  We're all at different places on the wellness spectrum.  Some of us are outrightly very sick, some sick without symptoms, some healthy, and some incredibly healthy and adaptive.  A healthy body will adapt to positive changes much more quickly than a body that's "out of whack".

I've created this blog to write those simple things I've learned improve the health of most people very quickly.  The nice thing: they're all easy.  To me, they're common sense and very easy to implement.  Although, my logic is a little different than what's typically accepted (for instance- I don't understand "calorie counting", but this is for another post and another day).

I look forward to showing you easy and simple ways to be your very best.

Until next time,

Dr. Christine Hafer