Why do I need a health and wellness coach?

A health and wellness coach can do more than just help you with your health concerns. You coach works with you in achieving optimal health.

A Health and Wellness Coach should be part of your healthcare team, to make sure your body is operating at its best, and to ensure you have a better understanding of your body, and its functions. Using various tools, your coach will help you to identify activities, foods or supplements that either are causing a problem, or imbalance, or should be added to aid your body's health. A good example of this is identifying a behavior or foods that may contribute to Cardiovascular disease. If you took medication for this disorder, but never identified what the cause was, how would you expect to heal. Taking medication with out correcting the cause is like unplugging your dash board light in your car because it told you the oil was low. What is the inevitable outcome?

Using Diet food therapy in accordance with your diagnosis and evaluation, you can begin to modify your health in a very painless, stress free way, without side effects. The diet food therapy used by "my health and wellness coach" is not a western model based soley nutrition, but rather one based on the 5000 year old practice of Chinese medicine.

Cholesterol levels are routinely monitored as we age, but why? Cholesterol is said to be the cause of cardiovascular disease, but many researchers disagree. It is a known fact, there are some cultures with very high cholesterol, but no build up in the arteries! The problem is not the cholesterol, in fact your body needs it, and it is in fact a powerful antioxidant. The problem is oxidized cholesterol that is the danger. This is why your it is important to have a oxidata test.

Your health and wellness coach will still want to work with you to reduce your LDL (low density lipids-- "bad cholesterol") and raise your HDL (high density lipids-- "good cholesterol") to ensure balance. Just adjusting your levels is not enough. You should have a personal wellness program to ensure your levels are not only correct but that your nutrition is in balance to counter free radical damage.

Going back to the topic of cholesterol, what would happen if you had high cholesterol? The doctor would put you on drugs, maybe statins right? Statins are coming under fire more and more and research is showing a number of people have side effects with them. Not to mention that many believe they are not only ineffective for cardiovascular health, but harmful. why do you think your doctor tests your liver function when you are on these drugs? You can find out more information if you go to scholar.google.com

Not too long ago, if you had high cholesterol, or high blood pressure, your doctor would ask you to make some lifestyle changes, and would use drugs as a last resort. Now, it seems to be the first choice for many physicians.

If you have high cholesterol and are put on meds to bring the levels down, but you do not change your lifestyle, or make dietary changes, how effective can you expect the therapy to be? That is why you need a health and wellness coach, to help you regain balance.

Why a coach? Why not my doctor? As your coach, I do not want to replace your primary health care physician. Working with you, to try and regain optimal body function is the goal. With that in mind, I only seek to help you identify harmful factors, while adding in beneficial ones. Some harmful factors, such as air quality in a big city, may not be able to be eliminated, but we can add in more detoxifying foods and extra antioxidants to combat the effects of poor air quality.

We use a coach for fitness, for finances, for learning something new, why not for health? You shouldn't be expected to know everything. You work hard at what you do, why not have some one working hard for you? This is the job of your coach. Working for you, with you, to help you regain balance, and control of your health.

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