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