13 Ways to Stay Out of Your Doctor's Office and Overhaul Your Health
There isn't a single health condition on the planet that you don't have the ability to dramatically improve — you only need the knowledge to do so.
Have you ever wondered why we aren't taught how to care for our bodies, either in school or in our doctor's office? What if I told you that you are actually worth more to most of the industries on this planet if you don't have this knowledge?
If you'd like to understand why that is, you might enjoy our On-Demand Summit What Is Happening to Our Health, which explores this in detail.
The changes you are very capable of making in your life won't just get you off the merry-go-round of the medical system — they'll end the "forever-seeking" for the next thing that makes you feel whole again... temporarily.
After over 30 years in the Conventional Healthcare Industry and over 20 years in the Wellness Industry, here are the key ingredients I've witnessed in our community and clients that are critical for a healthy, happy, thriving life.
Will it take some work and possibly a change to your habits or mindset? Sure will! Why? Because if you're struggling with your health, know that it's most likely a result of what you are either consciously or unconsciously doing to yourself, or allowing somebody else to do to you.
But let me ask you: which would you prefer — a little hard self-work, or:
Not being able to work and support your family
Being drained of your finances by a system that only manages rather than reverses disease
Slowly accumulating more symptoms that impact your life because the bandaid approach ultimately created further issues
Not being able to fully enjoy time with your loved ones or life
A small step every day toward each of these goals will make a dramatic difference in a far shorter period of time than you realise.
I encourage you to set a start date and journal how you feel at the beginning of your journey, and again a year from now — and every year after that.
Ready? Let's do this.
The 14 Keys to Thriving Health:
A Return to Whole Real Food — Consume food made of whole, single, real ingredients. Avoid packages and ingredients you'd need a chemist degree to decipher. Refined packaged food is cheap for a reason: think Problem → Reaction → Solution. Most food manufacturing companies are owned by, or hold shares in, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries — a win-win for them if you don't know better. Not sure how to start?
Check out our Nutrient Dense Resources →
Drink Quality Filtered Water — Nothing will ruin your thyroid function faster than the chlorine and fluoride in your water. Invest in a quality filter for drinking water and taps, and work towards making that your primary hydration source.
Get the Chemicals Out — Over 85,000 chemicals currently on the market have never been tested for long-term human safety, many of them in household cleaning products, fragrances, cosmetics, and toiletries. Stop with the chemical-based fabric softener and laundry detergent — it's off-gassing on your clothes and messing with your hormones, and you're inflicting it on others without their permission. And there is no safe level of alcohol consumption — if you're still drinking regularly, you are slowly poisoning yourself.
Work on Working With Your Body — Your body is not the workhorse you think it is. Keep pushing it beyond its limits and you will pay a price. Start listening to the signals it's giving you and learn to decipher its language. Need a body interpreter? Our Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners train to understand the over 320 signs the body conveys as biofeedback.
Work on Your Mind — This is the number one cause of ongoing chronic disease after diet and chemical exposure. How you think literally initiates a chemical cascade within your body that can either break you down or heal you.
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Value Sleep as a Superpower — For every hour you push your body to stay awake longer than it wants to, you gain three hours of insulin resistance — putting you in fat-storing mode and chronic inflammation.
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Connect with Nature — You are intimately connected to this earth and you need electrical grounding. Take off your shoes, walk on the grass, and sit on the ground for 10 minutes a day.
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Fear Not the Sun — Morning sunlight regulates your circadian rhythm, and two-thirds of energy production is directly derived from sunlight exposure. Bonus points for sweating — now you're supporting detoxification too.
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Laugh — Laughter and joy create the biochemistry of healing. Laugh and smile every day; you don't need a reason or someone to give you joy.
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Let That Sh*t Go — This relates to working on the mind, but it deserves a special mention. Ruminating, grudges, and judgement are literally like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
Breathe — Pause and observe your breath right now. Are you breathing deeply, filling the abdomen, or breathing light and shallow? Shallow breathing is a sign of chronic stress and creates a hypoxic state — your cells cannot heal without adequate respiration.
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Connect — Find a tribe that wants to heal as badly as you do. Continuing to immerse yourself in a community that reaffirms habits not conducive to healing will keep you stuck. Consider joining our Functional Self-Care Course — not just a program, but a community dedicated to self-empowerment and sovereignty.
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Create Purpose — Find a reason to get out of bed in the morning, one you look forward to. Find a way to do good in the world and watch what it does to your health.
A few tips to get started →
Get Off the Damn Phone — Find a better pastime than scrolling. Turn it on flight mode at night. Add a yellow screen filter after 5pm. Educate yourself on electromagnetic pollution with FNTP Brian Hoyer.
And finally, before you find an excuse as to why this is too hard, know that there are millions of people on the planet who have now taken their health back into their own hands via these steps.
And also know this: you now have the knowledge to start, and with that, the responsibility to not make your health problems the responsibility of your loved ones.
It's not an act of love to treat your body poorly and then leave it up to your partner or children to look after it when you can't.
Do not make that the legacy you pass on.
