Health Is No Accident!

When we get sick or experience various aches and pains, it’s tempting to look for causes outside ourselves. The most convenient culprits:

Bad luck. Accidents often fall into this category—being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Germs. Blaming a cold or flu on germs overlooks one critical ingredient—being a hospitable host!

Genetics. The new fall guy is "bad genes.” Yet, research shows that gene expression is a reaction to our environment.

Thankfully, we live in a world of cause and effect. Every symptom has a cause. And as tempting as it is to look to outside causes, many health problems are the result of our own choices, beliefs and habits. Sometimes the effects can take decades to appear.

Ill health is not an accident, but the result of your body’s inability to accommodate physical, chemical or emotional stress. Similarly, good health results when your body works the way it was designed to.

Better Living Through Chemistry?

We often talk about the three types of stress, physical, emotional and chemical. The chemical stress on our bodies can be tremendous.

You probably have a favorite laundry detergent. If they supplied a list of ingredients it would require a chemical engineering degree to decipher. It gets worse.

After your “whites are whiter than white” many people add more chemicals to their clothing by using a fabric softener. All these chemicals attach themselves to your favorite shirt and lucky socks.

Better living through chemistry? We’re not convinced. We think better living comes from less chemistry. Give some thought to the potential carcinogens, allergens and chemical stressors in your life. See what you can do to reduce them—improving your health in the process.

Pain PR Campaign Announced

(New York, NY) The public relations firm of Sensori & Partners has been named by Pain, Inc. to lead a campaign to upgrade the public perceptions of pain.

“Pain has acquired a bad reputation,” observed a spokesperson for the firm. “We’re looking forward to refurbishing its image so it can assume its proper place in the lives of the public.”

Pain, which used to be seen as merely a warning sign of some other issue, is today increasingly perceived as the problem itself. Correcting this misperception will fall on the shoulders of the Sensori organization, which similarly turned around the smoke detector industry.

“We’ll employ some of the same strategies we used to successfully stop the effort to lower the piercing sound made by smoke detectors,” says the spokesperson. “People need to know that pain, like the smoke detector alert, is rarely the problem. It’s merely a warning sign that something else needs attention.”

Experts predict a battle from the pain reliever manufacturing industry. Pain medications account for billions in sales each year.

“Bring it on!” says a spokesperson for the drug-lobbying group. “Most people prefer the easy way and popping a pill is convenient. Drug users can mask the pain and carry on with their life. We don’t expect significant changes.”

(Naturally, this is a parody. It’s the kind of press release we often see when a new drug concoction is announced. But it makes a great point. Pain isn’t the problem, but many think it is! Dr. Santucci)