America has a sick care system, not a health care system.

We get sick first and then we get “treatment”. America spends 2+ trillion dollars a year on “sick care”, but less than 2% of that on preventing illnesses, including America’s #1 health problem—STRESS (World Health Organization=WHO).

The WHO has identified stress as the #1 health and quality of life problem in America. Stress isn’t about just feeling wired and tired. It’s about the release of powerful stress hormones into your body that can make your mind miserable and your body ill.

More than 75% of visits to physicians and untold numbers of hospitalizations are stress-hormone driven.

And according to a landmark study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, doctors and hospitals are the third leading cause of death in America.

Not good news. It may be safer joining a motorcycle gang than it is to get stressed out and sick in America. So don’t be casual about your health.

Don’t Be Passive or Assume Your Doctor Understands Wellness

Don’t be passive assuming that your doctor will take care of things. Learning how to be healthy and live well is one of the best investments you can make.

Read, learn, experiment…work to understand what it takes to get and stay healthy. Reduce your stress hormones. There are many sources of reliable health and quality of life information. Here’s a few to try on the internet:

• Medline Plus http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
• Health Gov http://www.health.gov/
• Toll Free #’s for health info http://www.health.gov/nhic/pubs/tollfree.htm
• Alternative medicine http://www.altmedicine.com/

Best to be an open skeptic when reviewing health information. Make sure it’s reliable and valid—before you invest your time and money buying things or following a program.

Build a good health and quality of life team. For example, a medical physician you can trust, an acupuncturist, a therapist/mindbody expert, a massage therapist, meditation/yoga/conditioning consultants—etc.

Develop a regular “practice”—let it become part of your daily life.

There’s an art and a science to cultivating “A Sound Mind in a Healthy Body”.  It’s worth the effort. It’s the cornerstone of crafting a truly “good life”.

The last third of life is meant to be the best part. But not if we’re ill. It’s no fun feeling weak, tired and depleted.

Research shows that to devlopop a Sound Mind in a Healthy Body, and so greatly increase your chances of a robust health and resilience throughout your lifespan, then you must do these two things regularly:

1) lower your stress hormone levels and

2) flush stress hormones from your blood and tissues

If you want access to some proven and powerful methods to do these two critical things, then let me know.