A springboard for client discussions or workshops on health & wellness: universal truths. These significant and practical teachings create a strong foundation from which to build.
A series on tools, resources, and support for health and wellness providers to practically rebuild or refine how they serve.
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Foundational Considerations — Perhaps you’d like to use the following as a springboard for client discussions or workshops related to health and wellness. You can explain how, in every area of consideration, there are universal truths and unique considerations.
Arguably the Greatest Challenge to Making a Real Impact — When we have foundational-level knowledge built on verifiable truths that have stood the test of time, we can build on that foundation in a moment’s notice. New information builds on and evolves one’s current understanding. But when we’ve been misinformed or lied to, then our foundation is faulty and, therefore, to accept some truths will cause it to crack. Unlike learning when one’s foundation is solid, this process isn’t instantaneous; it’s a path that must be traversed.
Making a Real Impact: Universal Truths that Underpin the Individual Situation — For those who have started the process of uncovering how they’ve been misinformed and lied to, gaining knowledge on a few universal truths can help them to build a new, solid foundation.
How Providers Serve — A series on tools, resources, and support for health and wellness providers to practically rebuild or refine how they serve.
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Foundational Considerations
Perhaps you’d like to use the following as a springboard for client discussions or workshops related to health and wellness. You can explain how, in every area of consideration, there are universal truths and unique considerations.
For example, in landscaping, it’s universally important to examine foundational facts and considerations regarding climate, sunlight, water, soil composition, and native plant species.
And each situation has unique elements, particularly factors related to the environment such as the intentions and uses of the people who interact with the land.
In the area of human health and wellness, the universal and foundational considerations are synonymous with how humans optimally function and feel healthy and whole.
A human lives her life through processes that we refer to as physiology: activities at the organ and cellular level.
These are named as in the image below. (It’s missing the immune system.)
While physiology can sound like it encompass only physical considerations, that’s not the case. Physiology is simply a way to describe the manner in which health and imbalance manifest.
Non-physical elements including mental patterns, chronic stress, and trauma, for example, have a measurable and brutal impact on physiology.
Similarly, stress-relief, trauma-healing, and spiritual beliefs have a measurable and miraculous impact on physiology.
While physiology encompasses cellular activity, some discussions emphasize cellular functioning.
When using this lens, a universal and foundational factor is “oxidative stress”, referring to a serious imbalance at the cellular level that is at the root of health issues (and related to a lack of necessary antioxidant activity).
Another common way of referencing cellular health is the term, “metabolic disease” where “metabolic” refers to the processes that make energy available for cellular functioning and “disease” refers to disruptions in the chemical reactions of the cells.
Also of universal relevance is how human physiology is significantly impacted by environmental inputs (not predetermined by genes). In other words, health and disease are dependent upon lifestyle choices. For example:
Chronic stress or trauma can create a dysregulated nervous system which then has a cascade of effects that are experienced energetically, mentally, and physically.
Inadequate movement, sunlight/bioactive light, vitamin D or sleep creates physiological dysregulation and dysfunction.
Also proven to create physiological devastation are toxins in air, food and water, such as pesticides, EDCs, and heavy metals.
Arguably the Greatest Challenge to Making a Real Impact
A Difficult Situation with Many False Beliefs
We find ourselves in a world so out of balance that many people have not only a lack of knowledge about universal truths regarding human health, but also a belief in many things that aren’t true. For example, establishment propaganda has convinced many people that Allopathic medicine is evidence-based when it is not, is successful when it is not, and that numerous beliefs that benefit big business are facts despite being verifiably false. For example:
Some hold the false belief that genes cause disease — as opposed to controllable factors.
Some hold the false belief that cholesterol causes heart disease — as opposed to inflammation, blood sugar issues and excess clotting.
Some hold the false belief that seed oils are heart-healthy — as opposed to being devastating to health.
Some hold the false belief that osteoporosis fracture prediction tools, which include the DXA measurement of bone mineral density, are useful for determining a person’s bone health and strength — as opposed to the fact that they are not.
Implications
In any subject matter, when we have foundational-level knowledge built on verifiable truths that have stood the test of time, we can build on that foundation in a moment’s notice. New information builds on and evolves one’s current understanding.
But when we’ve been misinformed or lied to, then our foundation is faulty and, therefore, to accept some truths will cause it to crack. To allow the foundation to crack means (sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously) that one realizes there is likely a need to demolish the foundation and rebuild. That typically involves disbelief, anguish, anger, and other significant and uncomfortable experiences in the process of acceptance and learning. Unlike learning when one’s foundation is solid, this process isn’t instantaneous; it’s a path that must be traversed.
The step that a person must make to acknowledge he’s been misinformed and lied to is something that can’t be forced from outside; it must be done individually. Unfortunately, even once a person is open to having been misinformed, he must be willing to wade into a world of information overload and chaos, with a trust — however tenuous — that it will be affordable and worth his while, that he’ll be able to “separate the wheat from the chaff”, and that he’ll be able to access truth that will actually, truly help him.
Making a Real Impact: Universal Truths that Underpin the Individual Situation
For those who have started the process of uncovering how they’ve been misinformed and lied to, gaining knowledge on a few universal truths can help them to build a new, solid foundation:
Our health and wellness require that our immune system is functioning effectively. — Our magical, powerful immune system is key to our health. It “works to protect us every day, and we don’t even notice it.” [source] There is “a clear association” between a compromised immune system and the incidence of disease. [source]
Chronic exposure to toxins overburdens the immune system. — By definition, toxins are poisonous to living systems. Due to the tens of thousands of toxic chemicals now circulating on planet Earth, it doesn’t take research to logically deduce that the immune system is likely to become overburdened. But there is also extensive scientific research demonstrating how many chemicals are in foods, consumer products and the human body, and how they negatively impact human health. Research summaries here.
Toxins have serious effects on the body’s cellular functioning. — As a result of hundreds of research papers, we know that toxins damage the human body and the earth. We even know how they affect the body’s cellular processes (the foundational physical activities within the body). What scientists can see in a microscope, we know of as symptoms of immune issues and disease.
During normal, healthy cellular activity, mitochondria (the site of energy production in cells) create a by-product called oxidative stress.
Oxidative stress is kept in balance by natural anti-oxidants in the cells.
When oxidative stress is excessive and the natural antioxidants can’t keep up, oxidative stress can cause cellular damage, experienced as a decrease in energy and overall function. [source]
Damage at the cellular level can then lead to impacts on gene activation (epigenetics). — As a result of excess oxidative stress, DNA methylation can then happen. This is an example of epigenetics, referring to lifestyle and environmental factors that cause genes to turn on or off, thereby leading to disease. [source]
Chronic pain and chronic disease typically involve one or more of the following underlying conditions:
Chronic inflammation — The inflammatory response is a natural and supportive bodily process associated with the immune system. Chronic inflammation, however, overwhelms the immune system, causing additional symptoms. The list of manifested diseases associated with inflammation is long and the diseases are among the most chronic and painful. See the disease list and sources here.
Over-activated sympathetic nervous system, chronic stress — In a healthy situation, the sympathetic nervous system flows on and off in response to a variety of triggers, both positive and negative. After a stressful encounter is perceived to be over, the stress response is switched off. However, when distress is persistent and long-lasting, draining a person psychologically or emotionally, it is termed chronic stress. In chronic stress, the sympathetic nervous system is overactivated and the relaxation response doesn’t occur enough to achieve nervous system balance. Research shows that chronic stress can cause and exacerbate disease and mental health issues. See research synopses here.
Microbiome imbalance — Microbiome is the term used to describe that our body is made up of “an unfathomably complex array of microorganisms… Considering the immense contribution towards sustaining basic functions like digestion, immunity, and brain function, the microbiome could just as well be relabeled the macrobiome.” [Sayer Ji] There is a bi-directional link between the central nervous system (brain, spine and nerves) and the gut (digestive organs, microbiome and enteric nervous system); this link involves the autonomic nervous system (including the vagus nerve).
Unresolved trauma — As a natural human response to stress, a person exposed to trauma will experience elevated stress hormones. In people who have unresolved trauma, their nervous system takes much longer to return to balance and their response to stress goes into overdrive in daily life, “spiking quickly and disproportionately” in response to mild stress. The prolonged stress response caused by trauma contributes to such wide-ranging problems as memory and attention issues, irritability, depression, hyper-vigilance, angry outbursts and sleep disorders.
For those open to learning about the impact of inputs on their health, then the unique factors for their situation can be understood to include not only the existence of underlying conditions associated with chronic disease but factors related to one’s constitution (the dosha model is enlightening) and current life situation.
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How Providers Serve
A series on tools, resources, and support for health and wellness providers to practically rebuild or refine how they serve.
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Evidence-Based Decision-Making — Help clients move from the illusion of making evidence-based decisions to actually doing so.
Using Context to Individualize Wellness Strategies — A decision can be helpful in one situation and not in another. Providers need concrete ways to evaluate context with authentic and practical tools that hold up under real world conditions.
Foundational Considerations, Universal Truths (you’re here) — A springboard for client discussions or workshops on health and wellness: universal truths. These significant and practical teachings create a strong foundation from which to build.
Incontrovertible Facts about Germs & Immunity — You know this, but many clients need to see the evidence for themselves. AMA research published in 1919 proves without a doubt that germs don’t cause disease. How immunity works and why we must dismantle false beliefs to inspire people to identify the real causes of illness.
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