Chinese Medicine considers a person’s lifestyle as perhaps the most powerful form of disease prevention. Most illnesses that we see in our modern society, such as Diabetes, Heart Disease and Arthritis, just to name a few, are the result of gradual breakdowns in human physiology brought on by the way we live our lives.

Over several decades, our bodies become weakened by the foods we eat, the exercise we don’t do (or in some cases, the exercise we do), the hours we keep, the sleep we neglect, the downtime and relaxation we ignore, the attitudes we hold on to, and the thoughts we think. Slowly, and often unconsciously, our daily habits become the key contributing factor to why we get sick.

Our current medical system has very little to offer us in this regard, largely because it’s a model based on the treatment of disease rather than the cultivation of health. So, we go about our busy lives until, one day, something doesn’t feel right – and then we go see our doctors! This is not a very intelligent approach to one’s health and life.

Fortunately, there are things we can do and ways we can live that will keep our bodies strong and every aspect of our health intact. Sometimes, the only things preventing us from doing this successfully is a lack of good information.