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BalancedLifeChiropractic-EP136-Health Plans · Back To The Basics In Healthcare

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  Time now for back to the basics and healthcare with doctor Harley from Balanced Life
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  Chiropractic. Hey doing, doctor Harley, Hey John, I'm doing fantastic.
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  Definitely loving the cooler weather that's ahead. I mean, summer's fun, but
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  fall is a lot of fun. This is one of my favorite I guess
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  I kind of like spring too, because then all winter you're cold and you're
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  finally getting warm. But the thing I like about this is it's just like
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  you're not hot, you're not cold. It's just right, very true.
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  And when it comes to health, everybody has kind of a different definition in
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  their mind of what healthcare is and what health is. So let's talk about
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  what your basis of healthcare and what health means to you. Yeah, I
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  like asking all of my new patients, you know, what is health or
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  what does it mean to be healthy? To them? What do you think,
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  John, what does health look like to you? For me, it's
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  just not being in pain, you know, because if I'm in pain,
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  I feel like I must not be doing something right. And that's the most
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  common answer I get for most people is a lot of people base their health
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  on how we feel. It's like, well, if I feel good,
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  today, or don't feel good tomorrow like the other day, like I'm not
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  healthy then at that point and I'm healthy days I feel good, But a
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  lot of times help Like the feeling aspect of it can kind of give us
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  a false sensus of purity becau if you think about it. You know,
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  most people don't know they have heart disease until it's in the later stages,
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  but they had to start somewhere, And it's kind of one of those if
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  we started earlier, you know, preventing health problems to begin with, we'd
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  be a lot healthier in the long run. So the feeling bad is kind
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  of one of the last things. So there's all kinds of stuff happening way
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  before I ever feel it exactly. There's so many disease processes. There's so
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  many functions in our body that have no symptoms. You know, we can't
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  necessarily tell how our stomach's functioning or our kidneys until they're not working right,
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  So it's kind of like if we wait until they're not working, then that's
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  been going on long enough, it's going to take a while to start correcting
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  it. So I look at health a little bit differently, and I actually
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  looked up the definition of health wants it was a state of being without disease
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  or injury. Now, most people know when they don't have injuries, right,
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  but we don't always know when we don't have disease, especially in the
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  early stages of it. So I kind of look at that aspects for health
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  and looking more at how's your body of working, how's it functioning? Is
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  it functioning at one hundred percent one hundred percent of the time? That is
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  true optimal health, And that would be probably pretty tough for most people to
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  be at one hundred percent one hundred percent of the time. But that's the
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  goal, right that that's ideal perfect health. Most people are probably running at
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  sixty seventy percent but all the time, or sometimes maybe they're one hundred percent
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  but only sixty percent of the time, and that other forty percent they're kind
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  of all over the place, right, You know, look at your body
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  like a car or a machine in any shape or form. If your car
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  wasn't running at max performance, we probably would want to get it tuned up,
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  fixed up. Most people do, right. Obviously, some people take
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  better care of their bodies in their cars, and some people are the opposite.
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  They take better care of their cars than themselves. But regardless, like
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  we only get one body, if we don't take care of it, it's
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  not going to last us. You know, ninety some years that you know,
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  that's kind of the average lifespan and thing. It's like eighty three or
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  something right now, but it's supposed to last that long. But if we
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  don't take care of it when we're younger, it's gonna be a lot harder
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  getting to that point. And I suppose the same thing could be thought like
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  when you think about a car. If you go in and have your oil
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  change done at the right times, and you get the breakpads changed and do
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  all of the things you're supposed to do, you probably don't have breakdowns.
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  But if you don't do those things and you only respond when there are breakdowns,
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  and when it comes to health, it's probably the same thing. If
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  I take care of myself long term and I don't have the breakdowns, rather
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  than waiting and tell hey, doctor Harley, can you fix this right?
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  Maintenance is much easier. It's much cheaper than having to do a big fix
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  because something actually has broken down. So that's one thing I really talk about
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  patients is more about preventative healthcare or maintenance care, making sure that we're keeping
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  your health where we want it versus waiting for it to start falling apart.
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  If somebody listening is going, boy, I really could probably use some health
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  some help with my healthcare and finding a way to have that maintenance plan and
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  to take care of myself rather than waiting for the breakdowns. How do they
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  get a hold of you here at Balanced Life Chiropractic. They can give us
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  a call at six zero five two one five one seven eighty five, or
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  shoot us a message on our Facebook page Balanced Life Chiropractic. We'd love to
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  chat and let you know how we can help you. Very nice. You
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  can also find them online their website once again balancedlifesd dot com