Health can be defined most accurately as the absence of the need for medicinal attention, support, advice, and medicines. The better health we are in as individuals, the less we "need" for healthcare. Perfect health would mean no medicine, no treatments, no doctors, period.
Towards that end, there are two things to discuss, the process of finding health and the basic understanding of maintaining health. These two together provide a primer on the art of being healthy.
The process of achieving good health.
This is rooted in using symptoms as signposts, pointing the problem, not as something to be cured. Modern medicine is focused primarily on relief of symptoms, not resolution of problems. They are very good at resolving symptoms, but doing this generally lowers the patient's overall health. Symptoms appear because of something, something wrong. some underlying cause. The cause must find a weakness. Some area of the body that is less capable of thwarting that cause. Then, a symptom is born. The symptom is NOT the problem. The problem is two fold: 1)a weakness and 2) a cause. Only in addressing both of those will true health be gained and in most cases the symptoms resolves itself. Understanding this process is what modern western medicine lacks, and what is at the root of the failing american health care system and public health.
Understanding the maintenance of health
This is rooted in an understanding of Gods design for nature and biology. It requires the acceptance of a few basic principles that together build the case to how to stay healthy:
1. God created life good with an overall design that allowed for man to live forever, in his present body. Even after the fall, man was designed to life for 1000 years. That is the goal.
2. At the flood, things changed dramatically, so that the lifespan of man reduced by about 10 times. 100 to 120 years is the max lifespan that we dropped to within a few generations of the flood. We can assume that this is all our current environment will support.
3. God provided all the elements necessary for man to live healthy for 100 to 120 years. It is built into nature. It is our job to preserve that wisdom.
4. Food, environment, microbes, genetics work together to produce health. It takes a careful balance of all four to maintain good health.
5. A system that is supported by sickness will never bring proper health, it would be suicide. This is at the root of why modern healthcare does not provide for health, only sustaining sickness.
6. prevention is significantly easier than curing. But often they are the same treatment, just in different proportions.
7. america is dying from malnutrition. The food of america is devoid of minerals, vitamins, as well as the other stuff of life and full of toxins from poison based agriculture. It has been so long since a healthy individual was the norm that "normal" today is a state of deficiency.
8. Modern medicine has much wisdom about treating disease, but little if any in preventing. In fact, modern medicine is responsible for causing the bulk of disease it must then treat. This must be taken into account when treatment decisions are to be made.
9. Each generation of america has become sicker. The last 2 generations especially. Children today are riddled with diseases that were once rare. The "sins of the fathers" are being passed on and magnified in the children. This will continue until a set of parents individually rises up to protect their family, goes against the tide in america, and creates health from within. Then the trend for that family changes and children become more healthy than parents.
10. God did not intend us to be sick and suffering. While not all suffering can be eliminated in this world, MOST is self inflicted by america's intense drive for convenience, recreation, pleasure and ease. These work together in a aura of selfishness that prevents god from bringing health. Consider the person that smokes, contracts cancer, begs god to heal them, but continues smoking. What is HE to do? If he heals the cancer the person feels justified in continuing to cause obvious and willful damage to their body to gain physical pleasure. The person puts pleasure over proper and god can not honor that. The same analogy can be used to cover those who eat sweets, inorganic food, fast food, processed food, etc. All these are rooted in selfishness on the part of the individual and that both created disease as well as ties gods hands to help.
If you know not, he has mercy and removes the consequences. Once you know, or have opportunity to know, you are without excuse and must pay the price for willful mistakes even if done in willful ignorance.
In upcoming blog posts I will explore the details of what we have learned about health, how we have avoided doctors for about 2 years in a family of 6 to 8, mostly cured autism and adhd without drugs, prevented and healed cavities, stopped the aging process and reversed the clock, etc. There are definite lessons here, but first the ground of your understanding must be prepared to hear. The points above must fall into place or the wisdom I have to share will fall on deaf ears.
God gives us a free will, for better or for worse. We should never use that free will to disrespect his enduring love by asking to fix a physical problem for which we are not willing to change our lifestyle.
