Total Load and Chronic Illness

As a man drove through the mountains one day, he stopped now and then to load rocks into the trunk of his car. With each new rock his car got slower and slower, and sagged lower and lower. Stopping again to toss in yet another rock, all of a sudden–BAMMM!!!–his suspension gave way. The gas tank slammed to the pavement, sparks flew, gasoline ignited. By the time the authorities arrived on the scene nothing remained of the man’s car but twisted metal and smoking ashes.

Your body is like that man’s car. You go through life accumulating various kinds of “rocks” (stressors), knowingly or not, that place a growing burden on your body’s ability to function normally. These are “toxic” stressors. In other words, anything that taxes normal functioning and pushes you away from optimal health can rightly be called a toxin. Along the road through life the total load of toxic stressors can become too much.

Physical breakdown occurs. A major health crisis sets in–cancer and other degenerative conditions like heart attack, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, arthritis, allergies, and many, many other such crises. They are conditions in which the normal functioning of the body’s various systems, working together to fight disease and produce health, have become compromised.

Total load is the term for the buildup of things that are disagreeable to you. You can handle some of them, but as toxic stressors pile up, eventually your body can’t keep pulling the load. It is hard to tell how much each factor is affecting you until you address it.

Are you loaded down with these?

Inadequate nutrition is one of the three common causes of stress to your body. The other two common stresses (rocks) are loss of income and insufficient exercise. To get a sense of the burden you are carrying around, take our nutritional assessment. The assessment evaluates 15 systems and includes questions for diet, lifestyle, and medications. I will evaluate it and provide you with a written report and consultation for $40.00. This is a $75 value.

Click on nutritional assessment and download your questionnaire, fill it out, and mail, email, or fax it back to me.  Pay by clicking on this paypal link.