Taking Care of Yourself (& Others) in 2016

 

Ed Reilly, DC

 

The Dilemma

 

Most people care deeply about three things:  their families, their health, and their money.  Sometimes when we lose our health, there isn’t enough money to get it back. That’s when we wish that we did more to stay healthy in the first place. In America, we have this notion of insurance-covered health care but the reality is that insurance is better described as illness/disease/injury management insurance. In other words, most insurance benefits allow for the management of sickness/disease/injury but not for health maintenance or improvement.

 

A patient, recently returned from Germany, related a relative’s health care story regarding her diabetes diagnosis. The Germany relative was not put on oral diabetes medicine.  Instead, she was sent to an insurance-based health community. There she was instructed in shopping, diet, exercise, supplementation, and healthy lifestyle. Two months later she returned to work, 25 lbs. lighter and no longer diabetic. No need for a progression of medications that lead to insulin dependence and a host of related long-term diabetes-related complications.

 

Everything was covered by her health insurance, including no loss of pay.

 

In the US, even though we have the most expensive health care system of all industrialized nations, we have some of the worst longevity and infant mortality statistics.  Health care chews up nearly 20% of our GDP.  Despite all this need to change, the German approach to health is unlikely to be a reality in my lifetime, for many reasons. I can’t tell if expanded health care under the Affordable Health Care Act simply expands a broken system of disease care or is improving the health of Americans.

 

Things to Consider in 2016!

 

Get and stay healthy:  you ultimately you are in charge of your health care:

 

  1. Move- find an activity that gets you moving:  walking, swimming, jogging, biking. I like the safety of a good quality recumbent bike to get you moving and sweating. Find something that you like and get started gently.
    1. Consider some supplementations. I think almost everyone can benefit form:

 

  1. Look at yourself in the mirror and see if you need to lose weight. To lose weight, GET moving, make gradual changes to what you eat, try a structured short-term weight loss program.
  2. Drink more water, some health experts suggest one half your body weight in ounces per day of water. (Ask your doctor first if you have CHF or are using diuretics.

 

-a high quality multivitamin

 

-omega three (fish oil) - molecularly distilled

 

-curcumin

 

 

 

  1. Deflame your Diet.  Go to deflame.com to learn how to reduce inflammatory foods in your diet.

 

 

 

  1. Give back to your community. Volunteer.  Find a passion that helps the world you live in.

 

 

 

  1. Do something nice for someone else every day-anonymously.

 

 

 

Happy & Healthy New Years!!!!

 

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