Better Health is Possible

Transform Your Health Journey

During over a decade I’ve discovered many ways to vastly improve my own health. That begins when you realise that it’s possible to do that.

We all wish to be healthy, but typically you improve and then in a circular way you end up back in the same place.

If you don’t start too late, (I was 70) you have the prospect of adding 10 or 15 years of joyful, active and pain-free years to your lifespan.

Don’t delay

You can do this!

Ways to Get Started

The Causes of Poor Metabolic Health for almost Everyone.

It’s not about the doctor, or the hospital or often about medicine at all.

The Poor Health of the Nation

At the age of 60, at least 70% of people already suffer from the chronic metabolic problems that will end their lives, probably ten+ years short, and often after being severely disabled for most of the last decade.

This particularly applies to people like me who was trained as a teacher, and part of that training was so that I could give my students high quality health information. I now know that much of what I was taught (1960’s) was wrong. Most of the physical training ideas were wrong, and the dietary ideas were completely without foundation. Even most of the medical ideas were common practice but without scientific backing. Who knew? None of us.

The American Dietary Guidelines were produced in the late 1970’s and copied around the world. But they were a political compromise, without scientific validity, but the guidelines changed the nature of food manufacturing and advertising. The world got fatter and sicker on a low fat, heart saving diet.

So here we are. In the 1990’s medicine as practiced was still not scientific. Even today, that is partly true. Unfortunately, dietary wars continue. You see the failure of public health knowledge, on the street, in supermarkets, and at the beach. And sadly, the staff in hospitals, doctors’ offices, and university staff in health-related specialties, suffer the same problems as the rest of us.

Your Own Autonomy

Everybody needs to have complete control of their own decisions, and that’s why most people are very reluctant to consider using a health coach.

Given that even people with significant expertise and knowledge about health, still fail to be healthy themselves is a puzzling thing. Or perhaps not, maybe we are looking in the wrong place for answers. If it’s not about the science of health, although the best new science if helpful, maybe it’s about how you put a successful life together, about lifestyle.

Where do you shop, how do you travel, how much time do you spend sitting, do you get time to exercise, how are you sleeping, do you have your own garden, can you still run, do you weigh the same as you did at 25, do you have a large circle of friends? For almost everyone, the answers to those questions will be so close to identical, maybe that’s the problem. It’s not about you, it’s about the way our modern society is.

Our modern way of living makes almost all of us SICK and most of us will suffer ill health for many years, before we die, ill health that the doctor cannot cure, despite the best modern medicine and medical procedures. Normal health is killing us. If you are like most of the community, where is your autonomy? How can you learn to be not like everyone else, and preserve your own health?

Your Final Decade – Better Physical Health

At the population level most people fail to maintain their fitness as they age. But people who make an effort to be involved in significant physical activity, retain much of their ability to perform until at least the age of 60 years. They get slower, but not by much. But after the age of 70, at the population level the drop-off in performance becomes much steeper. But it gets worse ….