Eyes on the prize with veggie juice in tow. #MYHBA
Are you focused on the absence of disease or creating optimal health? What we focus on determines what we carry in our bag.
Western medicine actually focuses on pathogenesis – the origins and development of disease and the use of medicine to prevent, treat, and “cure” these diseases.
As a practitioner coming from a holistic perspective, my focus is more on salutogenesis, or how to support and promote health and well-being and bring about a healthier body by optimizing its function. When we approach disease from a holistic perspective we can more readily get to the root cause and connect the dots of lifestyle, diet, and other factors that caused imbalance rather than simply treating symptoms with medicine that in most cases ultimately doesn’t resolve the problem.
With this small change of focus,we can drastically change our approach and find tools, lifestyle interventions, supplements, and foods that help us to THRIVE and actually cure the underlying cause of any health imbalance. Some things I do daily to optimize function: adequate rest, water, proper diet, exposure to sunshine, meditation and prayer. What are some things YOU do daily to promote health? Shout it out in the comments below. -XO