In our previous post we mentioned the importance of being healthy to maintain our quality of life. 

It is worth mentioning that the main focus at our Doctor For Life medical office is very special and different compared to other traditional medical offices. And the difference lies in that we give a lot of importance to how to improve health and not just to how to treat the illness of our patients. 

It is important to highlight that there is an essential difference between the concept of “being healthy” compared to the concept of “being less sick”

Some would say that they could be the same, but however, they are not. 

Generally, people go to traditional medical offices when they are sick with the idea of ​​being prescribed a medicine for that illness. If the medicine works, great, they will continue taking it and return to the doctor the next time they get sick or need to renew the prescription. If the medicine does not work, the treating doctor could increase the dosage, add an extra medicine or change it to another alternative. 

With this traditional system, prescriptions only make you “less sick” and occasionally they may make you sicker due to adverse effects or allergic reactions. And the worst thing is that unfortunately the underlying diseases are still present and follow their natural course. 

Something similar can be seen in an obese patient who undergoes a surgical procedure to remove fatty tissue (for example, liposuction or abdominoplasty). This patient reduces the size of his body and is surely now “less sick” but there is the possibility that internally his organs are not as healthy as his body now appears externally. “Being less sick” is part of the process of “being healthier” but once again, it is not the same. “Being healthy” implies feeling happy with the way we feel, how we look, with what we eat, happy with what we do, and with health parameters within normal ranges without the need for medicines. 

And dear readers, here I tell you with profound honesty, with these almost 30 years of experience in health, that there is only one way to achieve that, nutrition, mental health and physical activity. 

There is no pill, injection, procedure or surgery that will magically make you “healthier.”

The human body is a set of tissues and organs with diverse functions that coordinate multiple processes to maintain life depending on the signals it perceives represented in what we breathe (hopefully clean air and not smoking), what we eat (hopefully balanced meals and not so high in carbohydrates), what we drink (hopefully only water and not sugary or alcoholic beverages), what we do (hopefully consistent physical activity and not sedentary lifestyle) and what we think and feel (hopefully positivity and not stress). 

If we find a balance in the aforementioned functionality, the human body, knowing how to be healthy innately, responds to the signals by becoming physiologically and anatomically healthy. The body does this automatically because it is programmed to function healthily. You don't decide how your liver does its metabolic processes, or how your kidneys clean your blood, or how your heart beats. The body just does it the right way, as long as our bad habits don't interfere. 

Therefore, medicines don't make us healthier, they just make us less sick. 

And here lies the big difference of Doctor For Life, compared to traditional medical offices. Being proactive, we have a team of professionals that includes a doctor, nutritionist, chef, behavioral counselor, personal trainer, and massage therapist. All working together to be your primary doctor and make you healthier. 

We will continue to talk about health, in the meantime, let's make real efforts to become healthier. It all depends on the consistency of ourselves. And at Doctor For Life we ​​can help you.