You don’t GET sick, you DO sick.

How empowering - to think that we are not living “at effect”. To understand that the best minds in science can all agree on one thing: the way that you choose to live is the greatest predictor of your health. But wait, it gets better.

We now understand that your health is best represented by a point on a continuum. Imagine a spectrum that has SICKNESS at the far left and HEALTH at the far right. At any point in time, and more accurately, at every point in time, you are either moving towards sickness or towards health. In fact, there is no stasis. There is not one second out of the 84,600 seconds that you’ll enjoy today where you sit idle on this scale. Your health is absolutely dynamic, always changing, never the same from one moment to the next. Wait, there’s more.

Science also tells us that our lifestyle choices (read: how we eat, move and think) are not only additive, they are multiplicative. In other words, it’s not EAT + MOVE + THINK, it’s actually EAT X MOVE X THINK. Now get this: your choices actually COMPOUND over time. The longer you practice healthier behaviors, the benefits actually accrue geometrically – compounding wellness.

So what are you going to do about it?

It all adds up. Every little positive thing that you do adds to this equation and moves you towards HEATLH on the bigger continuum. Like points in a Pacman game, you should be gobbling up every opportunity make deposits into your wellness account (does anybody even remember Pacman - I guess I'm dating myself with that one). Every workout, every meditation, every avocado … point, point, point.

Of course, this presents a sobering truth. The opposite is also true. If good habits add together and you get well; bad habits must also add together and you get sick. Unfortunately, sickness is as much a holistic issue as wellness is. Our lifestyle choices can create debt as easily as abundance. Toxicity and deficiency follow the same mathematical laws and the outcomes are just as predictable.

These days everyone seems to fear that the sky is falling and radical measures are being considered. You should realize that there is nothing proven to be more effective at preventing disease and promoting health like a radical commitment to a healthy lifestyle. Point, by point, by point.

Remember, you don’t GET healthy, you Do healthy.

Dr. Stephen Franson