Healthcare can be defined as ANY approach or intervention aimed at helping a state of sickness move toward wellness by improving cellular function.
This includes any intervention which identifies cells that are not operating at 10/10 function – and then works toward removing, reducing or counteracting physical, chemical, mental-emotional or behavioural toxicities and/or resolving deficiencies.
The result of this model is that you are moving a person from wherever they are on the health scale HIGHER, back toward the 10/10 level.
This is the ‘salutogenic’ model where healthcare is focused on factors that support human health and well-being, rather than on factors that cause disease (pathogenesis). This model specifically concerns itself with the relationship between health, stress, and coping.
In our view healthcare professionals do need to be consulted regularly, whether you are suffering from overt symptoms and disease, or not! Healthcare is a process, not an event. Healthcare providers are coaches – skilled, knowledgeable people who can help you learn new ideas and implement strategies to make great change and help you live a better life.
An approach or intervention that further induces a state of toxicity or deficiency, or overrides the organisms natural function, EVEN if it removes a symptom or helps someone feel better is NOT true healthcare.
It may be a useful or helpful intervention for someone in crisis, but it is not about actually moving someone further along the health continuum to a state of better health.
Much of the traditional system of what is called ‘healthcare’ in our society (while important, valuable and valid when a patient is in a critical or crisis state) does not move toward further cellular health. Instead, it tends to suppress symptoms, and by making someone ‘feel’ better, gives them an inaccurate belief or trust that they are now well or that the problem is resolved.
This archive contains a range of articles and resources that focus on this salutogenic model of healthcare.
The so-called ‘western’ or industrialised nations of the world have long struggled with high levels of preventable illness. According to World Health Organization statistics the majority of population death occurring in these countries results from a very particular cause. What is responsible for 75% of all deaths in Western nations? What is responsible for the … Read more
The key to any shift toward health (homeostasis) and happiness is personal change. By realising that some (or many) or our current behaviours (including the environment in which we choose to live and the stressors we choose to accept or endure) are causing adaptation and a resultant shift AWAY from homeostasis – toward illness, sickness … Read more
Lifestyle choices, not genetics are by far the most profound causes of illness, sickness and dysfunction affecting our society today. It is useful, in fact necessary, to begin to look at genes with different eyes – to see them as a cause of health and ideal function (if given the biological needs to achieve this) … Read more
A primary concept we want to myth-bust through Health & Wellness coaching is the impact of genetics on both our health, our illness and more broadly, our lives! Commonly, our society assumes that genes control our lives and the risk of genetic illness is high. This reliance on genes-as-cause of illness and on family history being … Read more
The Wellness Practice™ (a program developed by our colleague Dr James Chestnut) has defined the 3 Golden Rules of Personal Change. This is all about creating personal change in our lives without pressure or feelings of failure. It is also about getting away from a ‘cold turkey’ mentality as regards making changes in one’s life, … Read more
At Noosa Junction Chiropractic we argue that all stress can be classed as either a toxicity or deficiency (or both) – children’s health now suffers from such high levels of these stressful stimuli that the impact as individuals and as a population segment to stark. We know the impact of obesity. We know that what … Read more
Levels of internal acidity are normally kept within very tight confines because this impacts cellular function to such a great degree. This is one of the clearest examples of ‘homeostasis’ in the human body – where products are leached from bone to balance out acidity if it rises too high. Our bodies are SUPPOSED to … Read more
Nutritional guidelines, like any form of evidence are based on research. However the paradigm within which the research is undertaken will determine the value and/or validity of the answers given. It is the view of Noosa Junction Chiropractic that the current nutritional guidelines recommended by many governments around the world (and often supported by the … Read more
There are as many experts as there are ideas about nutrition – what and how you need to eat. Our approach to nutrition is influenced by our ‘lens’ (paradigm) through which we look at the world. Nutrition, and advice about nutrition, is a complex area fraught with confusion.Who Do You Trust? What Do You Trust? … Read more
It is a common belief in our society that as our average life expectancy has gone up across our wider population, that we are living longer, better lives as individuals; this has produced a myth that says we are living longer because we have better illness protection or “health” interventions keeping us alive. This assumption … Read more
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