... Defense is not the way to wellness. Offense is the way to wellness. We’ve got to be proactive. And I say at least once or twice a day to somebody in their 40s and 50s, I say this is the time, right now, you've got to get serious about this. At least a percentage of your day...of your life...has to be focused on maintaining your body. Not just stressing it...

Why You Feel Old on GoodLivingDoc.com

...My point of this entire podcast is that there is a reason why our bodies are falling apart. It's not just a genetic thing. It's not just inherent disease and bad luck and just inevitable misery that we all have to endure. We’re all going to get sick at some point in our lives. That’s inevitable. We can’t avoid that, but there is plenty that we can do to reverse our misery. And it starts and ends with deficiency and toxicity. Those are the things that we can control...

Why Humans are the Sickest Species on Earth on GoodLivingDoc.com

... But unlike the kind of swelling and inflammation that happens if you get bit by an insect or if you twist your ankle, this kind of systemic inflammation that happens within can linger for weeks or even years in some people undetected and negatively affecting our health and we don't even know about it...

8 Little Known Causes of Inflammation on GoodLivingDoc.com

... My goal here is to take you on a very slow journey, making tiny, tiny changes to your lifestyle over time that you barely notice. And in doing that, if you change your life one percent a day, in 100 days your life has been completely transformed...

Fave 5 on GoodLivingDoc.com

... Because if you believe that your body's weak, sick, and stupid, then there's nothing to do. You just go live your life and good luck. But if you believe that your body is intelligent, and is self-healing and self-regulating…because it is…then living a wellness lifestyle means you make changes to your environment and the way you live and the things that you put into your body and the way you spend your time in order to optimize your body's function…so that it can deal with its problems better...

5 Health Habits That Can Extend Your LIfe on GoodLivingDoc.com

... The L5 disc takes a beating in modern life. Just the act of sitting for long periods is very stressful on the lower back. I know sitting doesn't seem like a stressful thing, but it is. It's very unnatural to tuck our pelvis underneath us and sit our body weight on top of it for hours at a time. And it's almost impossible to sit in a way that is not stressful on the lower back. ..

7 Activities You Should Avoid When Your Lower Back Hurts on GoodLivingDoc.com

...Now, if you change your lifestyle one percent a day, in a few months you will have completely transformed yourself. But these little changes are so much easier to make and stick to because they don't really take away all that much from our regular lives. And so, the change is so subtle that it makes it easy...

The Purge - The First Step In Improving Your Diet on GoodLivingDoc.com

... But what is pain? Pain is a symptom. Pain is an effect. Pain is not the actual problem that you're having, even though at that time it is dominating everything about your life. The pain is not actually the issue, just like when you've got a pain in your tooth because you've got a cavity, the pain isn't the problem. And if you just do something for the pain, if you just put some pain relieving gel on your gums or take an anti-inflammatory or pain pill and the pain goes away, that doesn't make the cavity go away. ..

Why Your Back Keeps Going Out on GoodLivingDoc.com

...This is a monumental idea. Disease does not happen to a body. It's not something that gets into your body. The body expresses itself based on what it's capable of and what it's capable of has a lot to do with our lifestyle. But disease is not something that happens to you. It's something that the body expresses. And if that's the case then health is too...

Deficiency and Toxicity on GoodLivingDoc.com

... Longevity isn't really enough. That's not really what we're after. Because if you live 30 years in misery, unable to have any kind of quality of life because you're wrought with disease and symptoms and pain, we haven't really achieved anything because we want to live long but we want to live well. And so we're going to talk about the concept that I spent my days trying to get people to understand and embrace when it comes to good living...

The Forgotten Key to Longevity and Good Living on GoodLivingDoc.com