You Are Responsible For Your Health

How would it make you feel if you were told that youdollars a year.
are responsible for your own health and wellness?It is imperative to realize that it is normal to be healthy
Would it scare you or would it maybe even motivateand well. You need to accept and understand that
you to respond in a new and different way? Youyour genes do not determine your level of health and
could take control of your life to a much greaterlongevity. It soon becomes self-evident that it is your
degree than you have ever been lead to believe eitherlifestyle choices that trigger disease and sets the bar
by traditional healthcare providers, the media orfor your level of health right throughout your life.
especially by the rest of society.And hence your lifestyle choices particularly with
After all we have been programmed from a youngproper exercise and proper eating should be aimed at
age to accept without question our fate as we getliving up to your full potential; to optimize your health,
older. If we get sick so be it, and it is just 'lady luck'rather than just trying to run from inevitable disease. It
whether we live a long healthy life or have an earlyis also important to understand that true health and
death.wellness is a whole lot more than simply 'not being
We have never been taught that what we do or don'tsick'.
do on a daily basis in the way of proper exercise andIf you want to live a long healthy life, you may need to
healthy eating is almost 100% responsible how well werevisit your own deep core beliefs. Have you
are and stay. Nobody bothers to tell us that ourinadvertently bought into the prevailing disease based
lifestyle choices will either help or hinder our health.model believing your health is largely predetermined
It does not help that the current medical model viewstherefore it is not worth you taking the time and effort
"health" as freedom from disease symptoms. Theto take responsibility for it yourself. Waiting until you get
best they can offer as 'prevention' is early detection ofsick then expecting doctors or drugs to make you well
disease. Bu the idea of 'prevention' is absurd becauseagain is like playing Russian roulette.
early detection is not going to prevent anything.Once you show symptoms of disease it is often way
The treatment offered by conventional medicine istoo late as that disease has possibly taken years or
only aimed at those who are sick and there is no goaleven decades to show itself and there simply is no
or treatment to restore health. Therefore they cannotcure. There is no doctor or drug that can fix the
offer any such thing as health or wellness and most ofhuman body once it has arrived at a broken down
us go along with these untrue beliefs. Supplying drugsstate. At best if the disease can be managed you are
that just treat symptoms of disease never was, andleft with half a life.
never will be, the solution. Doesn't it make sense that toTake it upon yourself to take preventative action to
treat sickness the root cause must be addressed?protect the most precious asset you own - your
Our current disease-based model is a true testimonyhealth. A proper exercise program that is made up of
to the power of the mighty dollar that utilizes themostly strength training exercise and eating as much
power of advertising to its fullest. People do notnatural whole foods as possible and getting rid of the
believe disease is normal or that drugs can cureprocessed food that comes in pretty boxes will go a
disease because it is the truth. A long term culturallong way to getting and keeping you strong, fit and
belief system has been created and paid for by thehealthy for a long, long time.
pharmaceutical industry to the tune of tens of billions of