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Friday, May 11, 2012
Longboat Key News
StayingAlive
‘Healthy Without Health Insurance’ — 12 points
MATTHEW EDLUND M.D.
Contributing Columnist
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Now that “Healthy Without Health Insurance” is out
on Kindle, people keep asking me what it’s about. I
tell them it’s about getting healthy simply, cheaply and
effectively. I also tell them it has a new paradigm for real
health and well being — that if
you give your body the right information, it can regenerate itself
very well — in ways you might
really like.
But some people want to know
more. Here are a few of the major
points in the book:
1. Health care is our Titanic,
heading for the ice floes while
we re-embroider the deck chairs. EDLUND
People have no choice but to protect themselves — to
get as healthy as they can. A strategy of denial may work
for a while. Unfortunately in the end, stuff that’s denied
tends to come back to kick you in the head.
2. The body regenerates itself quickly, with most of it
replaced within three to four weeks. The science fiction
stories of people waking up each morning internally
changed are truer than people know. Since we remake
ourselves constantly, we have a fantastic opportunity to
rebuild ourselves — the way we want.
3. Your body is a giant information network — a little
bit like the movie “The Matrix” — where new (often
unconscious) information continuously updates genetic
and metabolic information to literally remake us. Health
and aging are not the machine breaking down, but our
regeneration not working right. Your aging knee does
not slowly tear and wear; it just gets to the point where
its continuous remake fails. That day can be very much
delayed if we use it in ways that allow proper restoration
and regeneration.
4. Rest is exciting because even during “passive” periods we are continuously remade. You’re getting a newly
rewired brain while you sleep. And if you give the body
proper information, as when you walk for 20 minutes,
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5. Exercise is any use of voluntary muscle, including
reading this sentence out loud. How much housework
you do cuts down breast cancer risk. Once you realize
what exercise is, you can put it into virtually all the parts
of your day — I’m typing this standing up at a standing desk. Moving after meals can really change weight,
because it changes the body’s energy equation — and
how insulin gets produced and fat stuffed into your
belly.
6. Longevity is about lifestyle. Lifestyle is far more than
Johnny-One-Note approaches of “eat this not that” or go
out and run three miles every day. The body is an information system. Put a group of simple things together
and they really work well, including weight control.
7.The longest-lived populations in the world are in the
United States, including a large population that lives in
one of the more polluted parts of the country. It’s not
our toxic environment that’s killing us, it’s our lifestyle.
What you do is what you become.
8. In terms of overall longevity, medical care has been
a relative sideshow compared to nutrition, education,
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sanitation and vaccination. Health care should be about
health — physical, social, mental and spiritual wellbeing
— rather than producing more of itself.
9. Social connection is one of the biggest factors in
getting people well and keeping them alive longer and
gets hardly any press.
10. As the health care system fails, how you navigate
the system becomes more and more critical. Savvy users
will do better. In the meantime, there are basic health
signs to monitor even if you can’t always find enough
money to fully get by. Keep in mind that the best way to
stay out of the expensive insides of a hospital is to get
and stay healthy.
11. Life is fast.A python can double the size of its heart
in 24 hours. We take three days to replace most of ours.
Not the quickest operator, but not shabby, either.
12. Part of the information network that makes us
are the 100 trillion plus critters — there are that many
bacteria in our guts alone — that live within the human
ecosystem. Now that some scientists argue that half our
DNA comes from bacteria and viruses, it’s time to pay
attention to our co-inhabitants who clearly have been
modifying our immunity and much else for a very, very
long time. If a few lactobacilli can prevent a mouse from
feeling stress or getting depressed, our many internal
organisms — and how we eat and treat them — are
really important. So far we know they’re part of asthma,
ulcerative colitis and ulcer, but this is a much bigger
story.
Bottom line
What you do is what you become. “Healthy Without
Health Insurance” provides you a simple program to
regenerate your body — the way you want.
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