Happy New Year from Whole Life Medicine!
Now, I am not generally one for New Year’s Resolutions. However, the New Year does give us all an opportunity to start the things we have been planning for so long. In that vein, I have restructured the Whole Life Medicine newsletter to emphasize to a greater extent education and the foundations of the good health practices I use with my patients.
And with this first article, we will start at the beginning, with what I believe is the foundation of changing and maintaining excellent health.
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The foundation of health:
There is one common entity at the heart of the most costly and widespread diseases in the United States. And there is similarly one strategy to get you started on the road to healing and avoiding the most prominent diseases in our country.
Sugar is poison!
What if I offered you a single idea that offered to dramatically decrease or eliminate your risk of developing hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, sexual dysfunction, gangrene, blindness, cancer of the breast, prostate, colon and lung, arthritis, asthma, dementia, memory loss, mood disorders and Alzheimer’s disease? Well, ladies and gents, that day has come (and in fact has been here for quite some time).
Whether we call ourselves practitioners of alternative, complementary, functional, or integrative medicine, what we attempt to offer is a natural way to avoid and cure common ailments. There are many tools available towards that end, but none so powerful or comprehensive as this: control your blood sugar (and your insulin) and you will see a dramatic and quantifiable change in your mood, energy, current health and future vitality. It really is that simple.
And this is what I, through Whole Life Medicine, would like us to focus on. Before we even think about the herbs and supplements and fancier forms of healing. Yes, in my opinion, this forms the absolute foundation of health. Its opposite, with as much strength, forms the foundation of disease. Put simply, high blood sugar, high insulin and insulin resistance are a vicious cycle that lie at the center of a web of our most common and prevalent illnesses.
Understanding this fact represents perhaps the most powerful opportunity we have in choosing the path our bodies take in avoiding or promoting either disease or fantastic health.
What is even more important is that the chief factors determining our blood sugar and insulin levels – diet, exercise, and genes – are all areas of potential therapeutic intervention. In the coming months I will in detail explain the different aspects of this idea (which lies at the heart of Whole Life Medicine’s practice model). But first, could sugar be a problem for you:
Top ten signs you might have a problem with sugar (and insulin):
- You crave sweets and have a crash in energy or mood after eating them.
- You get irritable, anxious, tired, or jittery in between meals.
- You are on a low-fat diet and not losing any weight.
- You are tired most of the time (or you can’t get moving in the morning without coffee).
- You carry your excess weight around you middle or “gut.”
- You go for the bread basket whenever you eat out.
- You have trouble with memory or concentration.
- You have chronic fungal infections or joint pains.
- You retain water.
- You have a personal or family history of diabetes, hypoglycemia, or alcohol abuse.
If this sounds like you, take the opportunity now to get yourself on the fast track to wellness, before waiting for disease to happen.
Call today for a free telephone consultation with me at Whole Life Medicine.
Stay tuned for more!
In good health,
David R. Gurley, MD
Whole Life Medicine
888.399.5580
info@wholelifemedicine.com
