After years of research, study, and treating people of all ages, shapes, and sizes, the Five Essentials we have have discovered that people must practice in order to achieve long, satisfying, healthy Maximized Lives are the following:
ESSENTIAL 1: Minimize the use of drugs, other toxins, and surgery. ESSENTIAL 2: Maximize nerve supply. ESSENTIAL 3: Maximize quality nutrition.
ESSENTIAL 4: Maximize oxygen and lean muscle.
ESSENTIAL 5: Maximize peace and strong relationships.
There is only one way to well-being. It is not treatment, it is care. Taking care of yourself and getting doctors to help you with this care by removing components of your lifestyle that are out of alignment with how the body works and eliminating that which goes in your body that interfere are the natural consequences of the Five Essentials.
For example, take the enormous eruption in Depression, and the backlash created by its treatment using anti-depressants drugs. The truth is that condition, along with most others, are a complex problem brought on by issues with body function and lifestyle. Quick fixes like toxic, mind-altering drugs are not the best answer.
Depression and anxiety has been found to be associated with multiple causes - not just one. To get well, address the causes - not just the symptoms. While there are rare cases when there are actual organic issues with the brain, the large majority, as well as those suffers from the effects of modern lifestyle on the brain and emotions.
These damaging effects and their resolution are solved through the Five Essentials:
Essential 1: Toxicity effects hormone balance and glandular function.
Essential 2: Spinal health and function - Correcting vertebral alignment and posture has a marked effect on the Central Nervous System and how well it functions and produces well balanced body chemistry.
Essential 3: Nutrition
a. Diet high in carbohydrates leave a constant level of insulin in the system which lowers serotonin levels and causes inflammation.b. Omega 3 and Omega 6 ratios which Oxford and Harvard have found to be the first factor to address regarding depression. c. Ph balance leading to inflammation. d. Stimulants, sugars, and artificial additives effect on brain function.
e. Nutrient deficiency solved by food and supplementation. Essential 4: Movement - A sedentary lifestyle has many damaging effects to function and mental health. That is why exercise consistently matches or exceeds the benefits of anti-depressants.Essential 5: Sleep, Time, and Stress. Identifying and resolving the effects of inadequate sleep, abundant stress, and negative attitude to slow down the neurotransmitter burnout these issues cause.We can walk through the major issue of high cholesterol the same way. Rather than utilizing dangerous, controversial Statins, there are other solutions to look at:
We can walk through the major issue of high cholesterol the same way. Rather than utilizing dangerous, controversial Statins, there are other solutions to look at:Maximized Living Solution:
Essential 1: Avoid modern nutrition - flour, sugar, fried foods.
Essential 2: Improve liver and bowel function.
Essential 3: Embrace proper nutrition. A diet robust in soluble fiber and improve liver and bowel function.
Essential 4: Fat to muscle ratios.
Essential 5: Stress levels create an inflammatory response requiring an increase in cholesterol levels to protect, heal, and repair nerve tissue.
OTHER MODERN CONDITIONSWe can go through pain syndromes, cancer, heart disease, degenerative illness and address all of them through Maximized Living. A way of living that is best prescribed long before the conditions arise in the first place and must be applied that much more so once the symptoms do show up.We can go through pain syndromes, cancer, heart disease, degenerative illness and address all of them through Maximized Living. A way of living that is best prescribed long before the conditions arise in the first place and must be applied that much more so once the symptoms do show up.Here’s a good example of what happens when the Five Essentials are not put into practice:
We can go through pain syndromes, cancer, heart disease, degenerative illness and address all of them through Maximized Living. A way of living that is best prescribed long before the conditions arise in the first place and must be applied that much more so once the symptoms do show up.Here’s a good example of what happens when the Five Essentials are not put into practice:Joan Smith is a 38-year-old secretary for a medium-sized law firm. She is married with two kids at home, ages 9 and 11. Joan wakes up at 6:30, gets the kids going, and heads out of the house by 7:30 to get the kids to school and get to work by 8:00. She typically grabs breakfast on the run, a coffee with artificial sweetener and bagel with cream cheese, eats lunch at her desk or out with colleagues, and rushes out of the office at 4:30 to pick the kids up from after-school care and get home each night to fix dinner for her family. A typical dinner might consist of roasted chicken; some kind of frozen green vegetable or salad from a bag; rice or stuffing from a box; and a dessert of ice cream or prepackaged cookies.
Joan works forty hours a week, volunteers at her son’s school, goes to church on Sunday mornings and helps her kids with their homework after dinner each weeknight, in between loads of laundry. She connects with her husband John for conversation or television watching after 9:30 PM when the kids go to bed and before John’s head hits the pillow around 11:00 PM. Then she folds the last load of laundry or straightens up the kitchen, reads a few pages of a novel, and goes to sleep around midnight.
On the weekends, the family tries to do something together on Friday nights; heads to the kids’ sports activities on Saturdays and on Saturday night visits with friends, or John and Joan try to have a “date night.” Sundays are taken up by church, lunch, homework and getting groceries or other needed supplies before the work and school week starts again.
Joan often feels tired, stressed, and overwhelmed. Her back hurts from leaning over her desk to see the computer, and her neck hurts from leaning her head to the side to hold the phone between her ear and shoulder so she can type while she talks. She has not been to a doctor in years, pops an aspirin or ibuprofen when her headaches and backaches get too intense and an antacid when her stomach acts up. Her relationship with John is often tense, and she never feels like she is giving enough to her husband or kids, let alone finding any time for her. She would love to exercise more and knows she isn’t always eating right, but doesn’t know how or when to fit it all in. After years of this lifestyle, Joan finds herself experiencing depression and eventually feels like she is having a breakdown. She finally sees a doctor who prescribes anti-anxiety drugs and anti-depressants.
If you asked Joan if she was living a Maximized Life, she would probably laugh in your face or break down and cry.
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Joan Smith is most likely just like you - sprinting through life, skipping essentials of well-being, and ignoring the symptoms of degeneration as they pop up - eventually using drugs to get through your day. If you are saying that is not you, it most likely eventually will be. Most of us are a part of DA, or De-generators Anonymous, living lives that cause us to deteriorate physically and mentally until there is nothing left.
It’s time to regenerate through Maximized Living!