Stop Vicious Cycles Dead in their Tracks

Never under­es­ti­mate the impor­tance of main­tain­ing your blood sugar and stress level is on the human body…I just spent a few hours yes­ter­day read­ing about all of the vicious cycles that sugar and adrenal imbal­ances can con­tribute to:

• hypothy­roidism
• gastrointestinal problems (ulcers, dysbiosis...)
• hor­monal imbal­ances like PCOS
• low libido
• sleep prob­lems
• neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­ease like Alzheimer’s/Multiple Sclerosis
• chronic fatigue
• GI dys­func­tion
• food allergies/sensitivities/intolerances
• inflammation/pain
• Autoim­mune dis­eases and other immune imbalances
• decreased abil­ity to clear toxins/hormones/metabolic waste…

All of these self-feed each other mean­ing I could draw inter-linking arrows between most of these prob­lems and point to research arti­cles sup­port­ing the claims.

One idea is to pay less atten­tion to the man­age­ment of symp­toms, stop ask­ing ques­tions that amount to “was it the chicken or the egg?” and look to cor­rect the dietary, behav­ioral, and envi­ron­men­tal trig­gers one small step at a time, it’s frus­trat­ing, it can take months of unlay­er­ing, it takes some soul-searching lifestyle change, but the acute care model hasn’t been get­ting us too far and there’s resources out there to help.

A sick nation can’t be a pro­duc­tive one. 62.1% of bank­rupt­cies are caused by med­ical expen­sive, 75% of those peo­ple had insur­ance at the time of their ill­ness, expenses are now close to $10,000/person (direct/indirect costs), and by 2018 health expenses are expected to be 20.3% of GDP mean­ing every ser­vice or prod­uct you buy will be 20% more expen­sive because of health­care (star­bucks already pays more for H/C than it does on cof­fee, GM more for H/C than it does steel).

1/3 kids born after the year 2000 are expected to have dia­betes later in life. 2/3 Amer­i­cans are now over­weight or obese.

When is it enough to sig­nal that change is needed?

Any top­ics that you guys would like me to explore fur­ther? Mes­sage me if you’d like to keep it private.