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There's a whole world of health, wellness, and medicine out there. If you've ever felt confused by it then join the club. Many, if not most, will throw their hands in the air and just give up before they start. That may be you. Statistically it probably is.
If you choose to find the answers you may find many of them. However, along the way you'll find many people with wild claims about the one great thing you can do to become truly healthy once and for all. With time you'll become so desensitized to the statement you'll start to conclude with everyone else that there is no answer. Of course anyone that says there is an answer, has something to sell. And those who say there isn't one are just giving up.
If you still feel motivated to search then you'll need to develop an idea about who you can trust and who you can't. For a long time I've been on the quest. I've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars learning everything I could. I went to countless hours of graduate schooling, read countless books, and attended countless seminars. Some claimed to have the answers, some claimed to have a piece, and others just admitted they didn't know. Give it up to being highly moral and a bit of a perfectionist, but I refused to quit until I had the answers. Today, I have most of the answers. Certainly I have the most important ones. With time I'll improve things so that I can help everyone in every situation. For right now what we have at our disposal is that which is 'scientifically dependable.'
Let me explain that. This is a phrase I coined to help people cut threw all the bull. You'll hear everyone from your doctor to the news to your uncle and best friend throwing around the phrase 'scientifically proven'. It's this magical phrase. If you use it in an argument about anything it instantly transforms you into an expert and makes everyone else in the room a great fool if they don't believe you. It's funny, buy sadly true. No one wants to look like a fool. Out of fear we all step back and bow to the great phrases: "scientifically proven," "they've shown," "they did a study and found out."
Well, If you're not talking about math than throw the phrase 'scientifically proven' out. The phrase itself shows a complete misunderstanding of science. Science, my friends is not designed to prove anything. It's designed to gather data. There is a very important difference and there in lies the answer to health, wellness, and medicine.
Let me explain: ever notice how the news will report one day that butter is bad, then the next day they'll be saying that margarine is bad and you should stick to real butter, then the next day they'll be saying that butter is the bad guy again. Or they have the same conversation about different kinds of milk, or meat, or cholesterol, or fat, or different types of sugar, or exercise, or .... the list goes on forever. Yet every time they throw something out there they're quoting an 'expert' who's supposed to know the exact answer. Of course the experts never agree. If two people with the same PHDs and Doctoral degrees can't agree than basing your health choices on someone with a special degree is not the answer. You get to a point where you decide that scientists have no clue and you're ready to join the crowd who says, 'yea so what if it's scientifically proven, those scientists will change their minds next week."
The problem is that these people are all quoting a single study. One study says one thing and another study says the exact opposite. The trick to cutting through the garbage is knowing a little about scientific studies. If people are basing their ideas on a single study, then they're not basing their ideas on science. Science is designed to accumulate large amounts of data. When we take the entire of body of data into consideration when looking at milk, or butter, or exercise what does the big picture say. That's what science is designed to do. It was never designed for you to take a single study and run with it. Science was designed to be looked as more of an old fashioned scale. If one side of an issue gets enough support from large numbers of studies, then it weighs down the scale. Where as the other side of the issue lacks proper support by anything more than a few studies. Take veggies. Some might argue that veggies are bad, but there is an overwhelming body of evidence showing that they are essential to the human existence. In this case the studies for veggies far out weight the studies against veggies. Some people will actually tell you that exercise is bad. Again, the arguments for exercise far out weigh the arguments against it. Veggies and exercise are a few of the things that I would call the "scientifically dependable." Does that mean that every time there is more studies in one area than another that the side with the most studies wins. Don't be ridiculous.
Who pays for studies to be conducted? In a particular issue it may be that one side of the issue has a lot to gain financially and so they do more studies. This doesn't mean that the side with all the money is the best supported.
So then what? What can you do then? Well, the academic answer is to trust the schools. Convenient. The problem with this is that the schools are also paid. So can you have a pure study without some financial intention. I'm sure there have been. Those like you and I who want to know the truth of some matter for the sake of knowing the truth. However, you can never know 100%. And that's why there's no such thing as scientifically proven. It's an urban legend. However, there is 'scientifically dependable'. They are the things that are most likely true. To call them dependable is not to say that they're 100% right, but to say that it would be safe to depend on them. If I'm going to choose a course of action with my health and wellness, than I want the most dependable concepts to focus on. You can have your debate about meat and milk, you can debate about which supplement is best, or which bed is the best to sleep in. You can argue over chiropractic or medical doctors or osteopaths till you're blue in the face, but I'm not interested. I'm interested in the non-arguments. Most all of what you'll learn from me are the dependables.
I believe that there are enough dependables that you never have to get into the 'fringe arguments'. 'Fringe arguments' is another phrase I've coined. Picture a circle. In the center are all of the dependable things we know about the human body and it's health and wellness. Out on the outer limbs are the 'fringe sciences' or 'fringe arguements.' The things that are called, cutting edge. The things that are supported by a single study and are hotly debated. Milk, whether you like it or not, is a fringe argument. There are a lot of arguments for and a lot of arguments against. Quality studies on both sides. The truth is, there isn't one answer. The scales are too closely even. One more study for milk tilts the scales toward milk and one more study against tilts it away from milk. It just isn't dependable. The 'experts' opinion will change tomorrow. So ignore the debate. Stick to the topics in the center. If you just did all of the dependables you'd have to be healthy. Note, only 5% of all medical treatments have solid scientific evidence. Chiropractic has next to none. If you ever hear the term treatment you should be thinking - non-dependable. In a few years the idea will be out dated and a new treatment will be used to experiment with the population for a while. Stick to the things that are 'scientifically dependable.'
My mission is to explain what "True Wellness" (my phrase) is and to help people shift their lifestyles so that they're doing the things that we at least know will work. This blog will highlight some of those dependables we've been talking about and will delve into what True Wellness is as opposed to commercial wellness.
I'm asking that you don't give up on your health. Do the things you know you should today, and by tomorrow hopefully I'll be able to show you a few more dependable things you can rely on. Please, Join my revolution. Let's change the world of health and wellness. I've worked hard to find the answers. Now I need you and everyone you know to help me spread the message. Let's start a revolution of thought. Let's finally get the world healthy. Let's take them to the next step. Let's get them Truly Well.
It starts with one. Start with your family and friends. You don't have to save the world, just your loved ones. For that noble cause alone we can take up the challenge.
Please Join the True Wellness Revolution