Functional health is really the same thing as health but we've been so
conditioned into another way of thinking that it's difficult for us to understand
what functional health is we're gonna go over the differences here so in
traditional healthcare traditional health view we've become accustomed to
think of health as the absence of symptoms as the absence of disease so
diseases when you're not healthy and healthy is when you don't have symptoms
sort of thing but the fact is it's not black or white most of us are somewhere
in between we're not feeling really great and we're not having a full-blown
disease either so here's kind of how that works functional problems means
that you have a partial loss of function there's something that's supposed to
work and it's almost working it's kind of working but it's not totally working
whereas in a pathology or a disease we have a complete loss of function so
think about it this way think of it in terms of light that you're trying to
read something and it's fine print as long as you have really good light you
can make out what it says so you're reading and then all of a sudden the
light bulb goes out and the whole room is black and obviously you can't see
anything that's kind of what a lesion what what a pathology is the function is
gone but if we think of it as a dimmer switch now you're reading and someone
starts turning down the dimmer switch so it they start out at a hundred percent
and then you go down to 90 and 80 and at 80 you're barely noticing there's hardly
any difference and then you get down to 70 and 60 and now you start to notice
there's a little bit of difference but you can still kind of make it work and
then you get down to 50 and it's difficult and you get down to 40 and
it's like really struggling and get down to 30 and now you can't make it out it's
just too too little light and that's kind of how
works as well that we want to think of health as function the ability to
generate energy the ability of the cells to do their job to take in nutrients to
produce energy to produce signals etc if they can do that at a hundred percent
now you have full health you have optimal health and as that starts
declining if it gets down to 90 or 80% you're probably not going to notice
because you have some reserves and because it goes slowly you're not really
noticing from day to day as you get down to 70 things get a little harder you
your vision isn't as good your memory isn't as good your focus you don't have
the energy that you're used to you don't sleep so well and as you go down as it's
continues to decline these things get worse and worse you get some aches and
pains and now you start taking some some stimulants you got to have the coffee
and the energy drinks and the pills to make it through the day you got to have
the pain medication and then you get down into the to the red zone here now
things are starting to fail now you've got to have medication to compensate for
for things that aren't working to cover up the symptoms this is also called a
soft lesion or a hard lesion so in computer language hard lesion would be
that the hardware failed you have a circuit card you have a processor you
have a memory stick something blows up and the computer dies you get a blue
screen or it just shuts down that's a hard lesion the hardware has
failed and in a soft lesion that would be something like the processor is
starting to overheat it's still running it's just not working as well or in the
terms of software if you have malware if you have really poor computer code where
the computer just doesn't work very well anymore it can sort of get the job done
but it's really whoa and it's dragging and it's stopping
and so forth so that would be an analogy with with computers in the body we kind
of have the same thing though in Neurology they talk about a hard lesion
when it comes to things like a spinal cord injury where you can't move your
lower body because the pathway from the brain to the legs is completely severed
it's off it's broken gone not coming back
whereas the soft lesion means the pathway is still there but it might be
having some pressure on it so the signal is interfered with or the brain cells
that are sending signals through that pathway have been weakened or they can't
produce more than 50% of their output that would be a soft lesion if
functionalism would be like type 2 diabetes the body can still make insulin
but it can't keep up because the body has been so abused and so out of balance
that even though the pancreas can still make some insulin it's just not keeping
up type 1 diabetes would be when the pancreas has lost the function to make
insulin that that'd be a hard lesion the cells are gone we can also think of
heart disease versus a heart attack heart disease is the gradual build-up
the gradual degeneration so you have some inflammation so your body produces
cholesterol in response to the inflammation it tries to fix
inflammatory damage now we get buildup of cholesterol plaques so we get
atherosclerosis and narrowing of the blood vessels so less blood can make it
through to the end organ and it makes it harder for the heart to do its job but
it can still keep up that all the cells are still there they're just suffering
because they're they're poorly supplied whereas in a heart attack now we get to
the point where the cells die because the delivery is of blood and oxygen is
so poor that the muscle cell actually dies and not come not coming back we
could have brain degeneration this would be when we lose energy when
we start becoming forgetful when we don't have the focus or the drive we
used to the cells are still there they're just not running at a hundred
percent versus Alzheimer's when a significant portion of the brain cells
are destroyed they're not coming back arterial weakening versus stroke so
arteries are supposed to be really strong and elastic but if they lose that
elasticity then they can lose their strength and pliability and now if they
break and we have a bleeding in the brain that's a stroke and that lack of
blood flow kills the brain cells something that's talked about a lot is
adrenal fatigue and this is because we have a chronic situation of stress our
bodies are designed to deal with short bursts of large amounts of stress to
deal with it and then be able to relax our bodies are not designed for chronic
stress which is a little bit of stress all the time hour after hour after hour
after hour so now we get adrenal fatigue they're working we're just not feeling
good we don't have the energy we don't deal with stress very well versus
Addison which isn't a complete or almost complete loss of adrenal function so now
we're like sitting ducks anytime there's a little bit of stress we totally shut
down so this is the world we've learned to think in we've learned to think that
we either have a disease or we don't when in reality it's more like we have a
little bit or a lot and this healthcare model works really really well with
infections and disasters and bleeding and broken bones and this is what we're
our healthcare model shines but most of the cases today are over here this is
where 90 plus percent of all prescription Medicaid
and all over-the-counter medication everything that we try to take drugs to
compensate is about functional problems and when we do that we are simply
covering up a symptom we are not improving the function so if
we start declining and function and we start taking some medication the
medication will never help us improve function it will never turn that dimmer
switch back up so what is health what how do we want to think about it well
health is about signals if you take an extreme example just hypothetically I
know this isn't gonna happen but you have a person that's alive standing up
and then for some reason he falls down dead and we hurry up and we run all
sorts of medical tests on it so we take x-rays and we take MRIs and we do
imaging on him we run blood tests and we run blood panel lipid profiles his blood
sugar looks good his cholesterol looks good his hormone levels are fine his
spine is misaligned we don't find anything wrong on the MRI but the guy is
dead he is not producing or processing any signals so that's what life is
things that are alive has the ability to produce signals things that are dead
like a rock have no signals and signals are so much tied to life and movement
that only things that move have brains and nervous systems so if you want to
generate lots of signals the best way is is to move so health is the ability to
maintain lots of signals in an appropriate way so homeostasis is where
all the signals are there all the cells have enough nutrients enough resources
enough oxygen to produce energy and produce signals and then we have a
nervous system that's imbalance that we can create homeostasis
that is optimum health and when that works at a hundred percent then we have
no diseases we have no symptoms we have no problems as that ability to produce
and manage signals decline it's like a dimmer switch going down and as we lose
the ability to generate and manage signals then we start developing
degenerative disease and there is no drug that can make you produce more
signals there is no drug that will help or assist a cell in coming closer to a
hundred percent function all they do is they cover up the symptoms so this is
why it's so crucial to understand what functional health is that it's about
signals that it's like a dimmer switch and why the healthcare system is really
really good at managing crises but they have nothing to offer in terms of
regenerating function and if we want to be healthy then regenerating function is
all it's about so let me know if you have any questions on this if this
produced any new awareness or any breakthroughs for you I'd love to know
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dimmer switch working a little bit closer to a hundred percent thanks for
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