Functional Trainer: Holistic Health Series 4; Diabetes and Dysglycemia
Feb 27 2010 by Jack Walton
Diseases and Health Problems are never the Real Cause
We often think that factors such as high blood sugar or high cholesterol are the causes of related diseases, but in fact they could just be the symptoms. The REAL causes are actually imbalances in the body that may lead to changes in blood sugar or cholesterol, or any other disruption in the body’s biochemistry. The key is being able to make significant changes to these imbalances. As opposed to only ever treating the symptom.
Holistic Approach to Diabetes and Dysglycemia
So what is the answer? How do we prevent the rise in diabetes, obesity and heart disease and in addition how do we reverse it if we are already living with it. When we take a holistic approach, we are simply taking an individual approach and looking at that whole individual.
Unless we want to continue treating only the symptoms and not the causes we must take responsibility for our own health and seek change. The key is to not treat the disease that has the person, but treat the person that has the disease. This makes a great deal of sense when we understand that a disease such as diabetes will have many individual causes that will give rise to the problem. If we do not treat the whole, we will just be chasing the symptoms around the body. This cannot be done in one article, but we can introduce some foundational principles:
:: Diet and Nutrition: Essential component is for you to find out what food your body works well on. Find out your Metabolic Type to eradicate blood sugar problems and balance the body.
:: Exercise: Plays an important role in regulating blood sugar, but is secondary to nutrition.
:: Lifestyle: Anything from how much sleep and relaxation to air quality and hydration will play a critical role.
:: Posture and Alignment: As all the body’s systems are interconnected, posture, alignment, space and length of the body are all influential on things like our ability to digest and deal with foods that we eat.
:: Mental and Emotional: You may not realise, but the food we eat can have a major impact on our mood and thoughts.
:: Stress and Toxicity: Stress levels from physical to mental affect how healthy, strong and robust our body can be and therefore how likely we are to develop various diseases. Toxicity in the form of smoking, alcohol, traffic fumes, plastics, heavy metals all have the capacity to block and disrupt the body’s normal functioning.
These are just some ideas when considering our health as a whole and individual. No matter what our health complaint, diabetes or other, these will be key to our success in achieving optimal health.
Functional Trainer’ provides Corrective Exercise Coaching, The Bowen Technique and Metabolic Typing ® Nutrition. www.functionaltrainer.co.uk. Contact 07792761324 jack@functionaltrainer.co.uk.
