Therapy #1: Attitude

Attitude?  Well, truth be told, what made me better is a cocktail of therapies. Health is like a meal, it takes many ingredients, some more than others, and often in a given order. You don't mix syrup with flower, eggs and water to make pancakes. 

You may think that's a silly example, but there is actually a tremendous amount of truth to it. To think that one thing is going to improve your health is a quick solution for failure. The first dozen therapies that I will talk about are all important. They all play an important role in getting your body functioning.

Your body is extremely complex. The immune system itself is made of all kinds of lymphocytes, T cells, etc etc. You have several components of blood (rbc's, wbc's, plasma and platelets). I mean just think about it for a second. Do you really think that there is a little pill out there that will be a cure all?

Your attitude will dictate what your willing to put up with, how hard you'll be willing to try something, with what persistence you will search for the solution.  

Things like stress can have a profound effect on your ability to heal, sleep, digest and so on. The list is long. Stress causes a sustained elevation of cortisol in your system. I won't get into it here, but know that there are thousands of articles on the effects of long term stress. 

I'll have lots of posts in the future about stress and attitude, but for the first post, just know that one of the most important, if not the most important ingredient in your quest to find good health is already within you. Check your attitude.  There is only one person that has your best interest in mind...and its you. You will always be your own best advocate.  Don't wait for someone else to fix you. Learn, absorb, learn, absorb and learn some more. 

Knowledge is power.