- Do you like drawing?
- Drawing?
I'm terrible!
- Perfect!
Could you draw a good body for me?
- You want me to do what?
- To draw a good body.
- Of course, you gotta have a head.
- [Person Drawing] And then we have his neck,
which is gonna be a little bigger.
- Okay.
- The most important part to me
is a good abs.
- Good abs.
- [Person Drawing] I don't know, like, a dancer's body.
- I'm trying to go for, like, a pretty neutral body.
- I think curvy bodies can be pretty hot.
- Her hips gotta match her body.
- A good body has a wonderful penis.
- She's got her third eye open.
- I'm just gonna draw a big smile.
- A groovy person.
- Oh so we don't need to draw it.
- You don't need to draw it.
- The body's like the surface
of what's going on,
so it's not really, you know,
the whole picture.
- I can't draw all this right now.
- I'm gonna try and figure it out though,
so I'm gonna talk to a few people
and see what they can tell me.
- So I think a good body,
or someone who's optimally healthy,
is one that pays equal attention
to all aspects of self,
that being mind, body, spirit.
- What do you look at to determine somebody's health?
- So physically, I would say that one of the markers
that we look at is BMI,
body mass index.
So that is essentially a ratio of your weight
to your height.
Another thing we wanna know is your blood pressure,
and then of course, we would always want
to do a battery of tests to screen
for basic things like blood sugar,
cholesterol, vitamin panel, hormones,
to make sure that all of those things are intact.
- Can the numbers be misleading
or is it all pretty clear?
- The numbers can be misleading,
and I would say as a clinician
you have to look at your patient
so that it's not just based upon solely the number.
So certainly, if someone is more muscular built
or perhaps has denser bones,
that could skew the BMI.
- I immediately think all bodies are good bodies.
When you hear, like, I have a good body
or I have a bad body,
it sort of bleeds through the fabric
of oh, I'm a good or bad person,
I have a good or bad life.
The idea, like, waking up every day
and being frustrated, or depressed,
or upset because my body isn't a good body,
it just seems like such a waste.
For me, a good body is complicated,
and a good body is flawed.
- A good body is a strong healthy body.
- And what does that look like?
- So a strong good body has different shapes and sizes.
It's not about the size jeans you are,
it's not about the size waist you are.
It's about being good, and strong,
and healthy on the inside,
which could look different on the outside.
- Have you heard this, like,
every body is beautiful thing?
- Sure.
- Do you believe it?
- I do believe it.
- I think that's true, definitely.
- I definitely agree.
Every body's beautiful in their own way.
- I think every body, it could be beautiful.
- Do you think that every body is beautiful?
- I do.
- So these days there's a lot of talk
about every body being beautiful
and all this body empowerment lingo
that's going around, and I certainly believe
that and I think it's great,
but I have a hard time reconciling
that with, as you described, optimal health.
- In terms of how we are dealing emotionally
and spiritually, that also will show up
in how you look physically.
You know, when you feel good, you look good,
that kind of premise.
- If you can get to a place
where you know who you are,
where you know you're worthy of your best life,
where you know you have everything
on the inside to be all you were intended to be,
things change for you.
Things shift for you, and so it's a mindset.
I think having a healthy life and a healthy body
starts with a healthy mindset.
- The best thing you can do is just start loving yourself
and loving yourself now and taking the steps
to make sure that every day is meaningful
for you and every day is beautiful.
- Being grateful for what you have
is the key to beginning to love
the body that you have.