Stept 3: Body Control

Most people have no idea how good their body is designed to feel.
- Kevin Trudeau

Easy access to medical care and pills encourages us to visit our GP whenever we catch a cold, and when we suffer from a painful indigestion we dare to call an ambulance. But we rather tend to forget that it would be better for us to make a regular medical check-up of our whole body. So many women die of a breast cancer, because they went to the doctor too late, because they ignored subtle symptoms. The situation is the same in case of cardiological illnesses. The reason for such a situation is often the lack of money for prevention and health education. We treat only results. We don’t look deeper into the true cause of a heart attack, for example, which is a very fast lifestyle, unhealthy diet and the lack of physical exercise. There is a need for real changes here.

Why don’t we get examined?
A Russian medical doctor, Piotr Pałagin, a defender of natural medicine, says that fear related to the diagnosis itself, with the check-up and finally with the awareness of an illness risk, can decrease a patient’s mood so much that it may make it impossible to do anything for prevention. People who are stressed in life would get so much more stressed in case of a bad diagnosis.

There is yet further proof how much our state of mind and our attitude may impact our health. Those who are afraid to hear their diagnosis usually know very well that their lifestyle is very distant from being healthy, for example, people who smoke cigarettes. Another scary factor is the awareness that we have cancer cases in our closest family. But is it a solution to say “I prefer not to know”?

Check your health on a regular basis
Our job, home duties or lack of money - could these things be our excuses to stop caring about our health? It’s true that sometimes the price of some tests is a bit scary. But when you think how much it may cost to treat an illness, then the money invested in prevention does not seem such a big investment. It is better to spend €100 once on a complex checkup than spend €50 per month on a lifetime pill. Nowadays, we can get a quick diagnosis and start a proper treatment within days. And it is not only about cancer, there are also other illnesses that have a big impact on how we feel, such as diabetes or candida albicans, they all start to develop in the digestive tract. A lot of illnesses can be treated by changing your lifestyle.

Marc Lalonde, Health Minister in Canada, published in 1974 a famous report called "A New Perspective on the Health of Canadians” (which became a new public health strategy of WHO), from which we read that diseases are caused mainly by:

                                                          Heart diseases          Cancer
Biological & genetic factors:          25%                             29%
Environmental conditions:             9%                              24%
Healthcare system:                          12%                               10%
Human lifestyle:                               54%                               37%

Nowadays, it is claimed that our lifestyle is responsible for even 60%, and healthcare system for maximum 10%.

A lot of diseases, including mental illness, can be treated by changing a patient’s lifestyle. Surgery or medicine is the last resort.

No one teaches us how to deal with difficult situations so that we stay calm. We can’t live without stress. But what we can do is changing our lifestyle so that we find time for relaxation every single day. It should be an active form of relaxation, like taking up fitness classes or yoga, or adopting a dog, that will get us out of the house for a walk.

How to avoid surprises?

• At least once a year have a medical check-up done of your blood, sugar level, D3 vitamin level, B12, etc.
• Eat healthy food, stay away from processed food that is full of preservatives, become a hunter of certified products.
• Find time for physical activities, at least 10 minutes a day; choose such an activity that will bring you pleasure.
• Relax, spend time with your family and friends, take care of your solid night sleep.

Each of us can be healthy
Don’t wait for an illness to come or for some sort of accident to shake your lifestyle. It is not worth it. Try to improve it now. Everyone can implement some improvements. They are not for teenagers only or people in their 30s or seniors. They are for everyone, no matter what age or what illnesses we suffer or suffered from. Smoking is so difficult to quit, because you don’t see the result of the change immediately. When you start eating organic vegetable salad instead of salty fries, your energy level will increase straight away. It is a more sophisticated process. You will definitely see some results after a few weeks. What’s important for a lot of people: thanks to these changes, your look will improve, too! You will get slimmer. You will have a stronger organism and notice much more energy within you.

Regular medical check-ups and prevention don’t have to carry the stigma of a lifetime sentence. It may turn out that you are healthy. It will make you even more sure that the lifestyle you have now is not bad. But if it turns out that you suffer from some sort of illness, treat it like a signal that you need to make a change in your lifestyle. These regular check-ups should become our habit. They should make us think of our health in a positive way, as we usually get good results that will make us certain that we are in good shape and we should stop worrying about hypothetical illnesses. Calming down our mind means less stress.

You fight one difficulty, and you will avoid 100 others. 
Confucius

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