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Seven Dynamics of Health
What Makes What You Do so Different?
We are often asked this question when people first come to our practice.
The short answer is that we apply a SYSTEMS Philosophy to our practice rather than being bound by a SYMPTOMS Docterine.
When you consider that the Plague killed about 30% of the human population...today over 80% of the population is dealing with at least one chronic, degenerative disease, (and a large percentage of those people have more than one degenerative disease), such as diabetes, cancer, heart disease, stroke, thyroid, adrenal, digestive, mental, emotional and autoimmune issues which were virtually non-existant a century ago, we need to ask the question, "How's that working for you?' relative to our current system of "health care." What is so different? Has the human Genome suddenly degenerated that we no longer have are able to adapt to our environment, or has our environment changed dramatically enough to overwhelm our bodies ability to adapt?
The later is more likely the truth.
However, our current system of chasing symptoms which are more and more prevalent in the population, and therefore considered "normal" (there is a BIG difference between Common and Normal...) keeps us locked in a narrow focus that prevents a broader view and inhibits the ability to see a patients case relative to the broader context of their environment.
Over the years, through personal experience and by treating thousands of patients, we have found certain axioms to be true pertaining to human health, well-being and function.
Axiom 1: We Are All Wild Animals Living in Captivity
The human genome is not programmed for the modern, sedentary, chemical and preservative laden life-style. Just like when we take a wild animal out of its natural environment and place it in captivity and it gets sick, as a biological species, the same holds true for humans. We are currently the sickest species that has EVER inhabited this earth!
Axiom 2: The Body Never Does Anything Wrong
Symptoms are the result of the body attempting to do exactly the right thing, relative to its environment, in order to survive. You don't have a sick body...you have a body doing the exact right thing, in order to help you survive, despite a sick environment.
Axiom 3: The Body is a Stimulus-Response Mechanism
Since the primary drive of the human organism is to survive, and the genetic birthright is to thrive, there has to be a systme in place that allows the body to assess its environment and make the requisite adjustments to either ADAPT or COMPENSATE to that environment.
Adaptation makes the body bigger, faster, smarter and stronger...more survivable relative to its environment.
Compensation is like "robbing Peter to pay Paul." Compensations degrade the bodies ability to adapt. The more one compensates, the less adaptable they become and the more they have to compensate. Symptoms are simply an indication that the body has lost the ability to compensate any more.
Axiom 4: The Body is a Single, Synchronized Functional Unit
Everything in the body effects everything else. The body ALWAYS reacts to physical, chemical, emotional and spiritual stressors! It either adapts or it compensates.
Axiom 5: Optimal Health is a Function of ALLOSTASIS, Rather Than HOMEOSTASIS.
Allostasis is the ability of the body to maintain an internal balance, realtive to its externcal environment.
We have found that by applying the concept of the Seven Essential Dynamics of Real Health, we are able to facilitate proper allostasis, and people get well.
The principle of Allostasis recognises the body is an eco-system relating in a dynamic way with a greater eco-system.
Axiom 6: Three Steps Must Be Applied to Balance Any Eco-system
All toxins must be removed.
All deficientcies must be balanced.
Proper communication must be restored.
Axiom 7: Optimal Health is a Continuum, A Process...not a Static State of Being
The only constant in the Universe is CHANGE...
The physical universe is governed by certain universal laws. These laws apply to the physical body.
You are always in either a state of degeneration or regeneration...you are either growing or dying...there is no static place in between.
Regeneration is an active state which requires energy and work.
Degeneration is a passive state of self perpetuating breakdown.
True health...i.e., optimal expression of human genetic potential, requires participation and a mind-set of personal responsibility.
No Doctor can bestow health upon any patient. We are not that gifted or powerful!
Real Health is only gained and maintained through certain actions and behaviors that enhance the bodies ability to adapt to its enviroment, and within the context of universal laws.
A body in a state of degeneration can regenerate if the principles of healing an ecosystem are applied, and if enough time is given for the ecosystem to find its balance.
Axiom 8: Only When We Apply the Data Discovered Through Advances in Modern Technology, in Congruenc with The Laws of Nature and in Context with Ancient Wisdom, Will We Restore Health and BAlance to the Human Genome
The Seven Essential Dymanics of Real Health cover all the major topics that allow us to apply these principles to the treatment of our patients.
Rather than being viewed as "healers" (Only the power that made the body, heals the body...) we prefer to be viewed as Health, Wellness and Life-Style Coaches.
Our job is to teach, lead and empower people to achieve their own unique, individual peak potential for health and happiness. Our patients job is to apply what we teach and to DO THE WORK.
