choosing health

dr. force’s functional selfcare workbook

 
Finally the truth about how to live the healthy, vibrant life you want!  What if you could have the.. unstoppable vitality of youth exhilarating mental clarity a pain-free and disease-free body You CAN have all of this by making choices as easy as what you’re having for breakfast! Your level of health determines the quality of life you experience! If you’re like many (most?) people, you’re likely frustrated with how you feel or the condition of your health and don’t know where to turn. It’s natural to feel well, vital, energetic, clear-headed, and pain-free! Don’t rely on healthcare to save you. You’re probably already getting a doctors care. That’s good, but it’s not enough. Just getting a doctor’s care will never make you well, keep you well, or give you the kind of vibrant health that you’re capable of. No drug will either. Using healthcare to make you or keep you healthy doesn’t work! It can’t work! I’m a doctor and I know that healthcare won’t work by itself, regardless of how good the doctor is or what kind of doctoring you’re getting! If you want to avoid needless suffering & illness & life limited by poor health, you have to take care of it yourself! So what makes me think the book will transform your health and your life? Because I see it happen every day in my practice. I am an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of complex and chronic illnesses. How can I say this? I’ve been doing it since 1984 and have consulted, taught, and contributed to books about it. You are welcome to take a look at my background. What if you actually had control over your health? Selfcare is the only way you can have exceptional health. And, exceptional is what you want, because you definitely don’t want average health! Why? Because if you fit the norm, you’ll end up being overweight or even obese. You’ll have heart disease, and digestive problems like gas, bloating, heartburn, and constipation. You’ll sleep poorly, feel tired all the time, have trouble with feeling foggy headed, find it difficult to concentrate, and be frustrated by your inability to remember things. Constant aches and pains will nag you. It’s likely that you’ll have arthritis in your hips and knees. Your back and neck will most likely be painful and especially when you try to lift or move objects. Your body will feel heavy with every movement. You’ll be aware of the weakness in your legs and you’ll have to push yourself up from a chair with your hands. Getting up from a squatting position will be something that you remember being able to do. You will be shorter than you once were, your muscles have wasted away and you feel the pull of gravity with every movement, even breathing; your body feels slow and heavy. Your hearing is muted and your vision is dulled. Is this really what you want? To die of a number of diseases and ailments, for which you take handfuls of medications, after a long and slow decline in your physical and mental abilities? Your possibilities in life will have become smaller and smaller and you will have probably never expressed the level of health that is your birthright! Or, the flush of youth’s vigor will be a vague memory.  It’s NOT too late!!! If you haven’t gotten there yet, you probably don’t have the level of health you really want. Maybe you don’t think about it much (maybe you don’t want to), but do that now. Ask yourself, “What symptoms do I feel or have that I don’t want in my life anymore? What limitations do I experience? What illnesses do I have that aren’t going away? What do I want my life to be?” “What would my life look like if I was totally healthy?” Now, and for the first time anywhere – the knowledge and methods I’ve taught doctors and used and refined in my practice for 25 years have been distilled down into a straightforward and easily understandable method of selfcare for you!! When I was a teenager, I had ulcerative colitis, severe allergies, and recurrent infections. Severe hypoglycemia caused me to suffer from depression, moodiness and a severe inability to concentrate; I was in a constant and severe mental fog. I was a physical and mental mess. My mother took me to scores of doctors of all different types and the “medical opinions” ranged from “Everything tests fine”, “You’ll just have to live with it”, to “It’s all in your head, maybe you should see a psychiatrist.” Got some allergy shots for a while. Took some drugs. Nothing changed. Finally, disgusted and tired of feeling bad all the time, I went to a health food store, figuring I’d have to go in a different direction, if I wanted to get a different result. There, I found a book called “The Miracle of Fasting” by Paul Bragg. That book changed my life. By using the ideas in it, I felt strong again. And my mind was crystal clear; my memory was sharp. I felt joy for no other reason that I felt so good! And it was about more than fasting. The book, along with the other wonderful books by Paul Bragg, gave direction on breathing, exercising, diet, sleep, and mental habits. Then, I learned about Jack LaLanne, Paavo Airola, and others who And, today, at 50 years “young”, people often mistake me for being 10-15 years younger. I lift weights and train with an intensity that men in their 20s envy and enjoy a number of “risk” sports like rock climbing and whitewater rafting. I’ve recently started competing in the Scottish Highland Games and, dang, is that fun! I’m fit and flexible, pain-free, and energetic, and game for anything. Now, I wake each morning ready for the day with energy and a sense of joy that comes naturally from good health! Living Proof These Ideas Work!  Paul Bragg was sick with TB when he was a teenager. He wasn’t expected to live, but his family did send him, as a last resort, to a TB sanitarium in the mountains of Switzerland run by Dr. Auguste Rollier. It is here his health is restored and he learns the natural tools of air, water, sun, food, exercise, and mental training that leads to exceptional health. For the rest of his long and vital life, Paul Bragg wrote and lectured about these ideas. I have a patient who saw Paul Bragg demonstrate a handstand at 92! From being expected to die from TB while still in his teens, Bragg died at 95 from a bodysurfing accident. Paul Bragg certainly exemplifies the “living proof” of the results of self care. Ever heard of Jack LaLanne? When he was 70 years old, Jack LaLanne towed 70 boats with 70 people in them across California’s Long Beach Harbor by swimming while his hands and feet were shackled! An incredible feat for a young athlete; an almost unfathomable feat for a “old”man! When a teenager, Jack Lalanne was very sickly. He suffered from violent headaches and an equally violent temper.  At 15, Jack LaLanne attended one of Bragg’s lectures and his life was transformed through using Bragg’s ideas. Now 92 years old, Jack LaLanne is a still “living testament” that confirms the underlying truth of natural selfcare. He enjoys a level of health, strength, vitality, and well-being that young men envy. Jack LaLanne has a painless, tireless, and ageless body from using the ideas he learned from Paul Bragg! Now you can learn what they know that has allowed these men to enjoy painless, tireless, and ageless bodies! Don’t get the impression that these ideas only work for men!  Elaine LaLanne is a handsome and vital woman in her 80s. And, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of meeting Patricia Bragg and she is a very athletic, beautiful, sharp-minded, and gracious woman in her 70s. These fine women, too, prove the results of natural selfcare. All of the ideas and methods of Bragg’s and LaLanne’s selfcare is in the workbook! And, I can tell you that I’ve seen these ideas transform thousands of people’s lives in my practice over the last 25 years! But, don’t take my word for it... Here’s what you’ll find in the workbook...... Don’t treat the symptoms – solve the problem! How to make your health a matter of choice! (p14) Learn how to use the principles of healing to restore and/or protect your health. (p22) Treating symptoms can prevent you from getting at the cause of the health problem. Learn how imbalances in body function can cause virtually every symptom and health issue in your body. (p23) Stress is a killer! Chronic stress can make you “come apart at the seams.” If you have a list of symptoms a mile long, stress might be the culprit. If you have an illness that has yet to be diagnosed or have an illness that doesn’t respond to care or you “just don’t feel right”, this gland may be working itself to death from stress.  How to test your self to find out and what to do to fix it. (p165) Learn all fifteen elements of health Learn what the the elements of health are and how to use them to produce health for yourself as predictably as a mathematical formula! (p25) Use the  elements to balance Body, Mind, and Spirit. (p27) Breathe health into your body Markedly improve your health by learning how to breath. Increase energy, endurance, and athletic performance. Restore optimal digestion and elimination; increase the flexibility of your spine and pelvis. (p35) Dehydration is probably killing you! Find out if you’re dehydrated (you probably are). Be sure you are hydrated (the book tells you how), because, if you are, you’ll have constant fatigue, constipation, headaches, indigestion, muscle and joint pain, asthma, allergies, high blood pressure, depression, diabetes, strokes, high cholesterol, tinnitis, vertigo, hearing loss, glaucoma, and cataracts. Find out what water makes you most healthy and how to figure out how much you need to drink. (p37) Eat your salt! Eating salt can kill you, yet not eating salt will make you sick. Find out what to do and what salt is actually healthy for you! When you read the long list of symptoms and illnesses caused by salt deficiency, it will make your jaw drop! (p38) Confused about diet? Learn two straightforward and logical rules of good diet to dramatically improve your health! (p42) What chemicals added to most foods cause disease and shorten your life. (p43) Why you’re most likely protein deficient, what diseases  it causes , and how to solve it. (p45) Foods to avoid, if you want the level of health you deserve. (p46) You’re being poisoned... Find out what toxins in your environment are poisoning you and what to do about it. (p49) How and why to use detoxification and fasting to improve your health and lengthen your life. Research proves that periodic fasting will increase your lifespan! (p49) Exercise - make sure to use all five types, but keep it simple Learn how expensive and high tech exercise equipment doesn’t work as well as simple and inexpensive workout tools! (p63) Learn how to combine the five types to work out to get better and quicker results while spending less time exercising! (p63) Sleep, rest, relax... How to improve your sleep and use sleep, rest, and relaxation to improve your health. (p68) Make sure to be there... How practicing “being present” and “doing nothing” are critical to your health. (p70) Be reasonable... How and why to incorporate moderation, reason, and compassion into your life. (p71) Understanding addictions and what to do about them... How to identify and repattern addictions! How to find out what you really want and get that instead! (p72) Prayer? The differences between contemplation, meditation, and prayer. How to do them and how to use them together. Learn seven different classifications of prayer. (p76) Relate... How to evaluate the relationships in your life for their quality and how to use a systematic process for improving them. (p79) Make a difference... Learn how to determine, clarify, and direct you purpose and mission and why it’s important to your health! (p80) Make a contribution to others! It doesn’t have to be difficult and it improves your health! (p81) Use The Health Graph! Learn how to make a bar chart from a health questionnaire that will tell you how each system of your body is functioning AND learn how to fix what you find yourself! (p82) The Health Graph will tell you how these systems or organs are working: digestion
 large intestine
 liver and gall bladder
 immune system
 allergies
 B vitamins
 essential fatty acids
 heart
 blood sugar
 nervous system
 male and female hormones
 adrenal glands
 pituitary gland
 thyroid
 Do You Suffer With Digestive Problems? The only clues might be  hormone problems, allergies, chronic fatigue, anemia, mineral deficiencies, and even premature aging. A chart shows you how to fix your digestion! (p99) Here’s the sex hook! Low libido? Lack of sensation? Weak erections? A simple exercise can turbocharge your sex life! It increases how good sex feels! And, for men, end premature ejaculation and have perfect control over how long you have sex! (p122) Tired of feeling tired? Find out why you feel fatigued and tired throughout the day or during certain times of the day. Learn why every cell of your body make not be able to make energy, how to find the actual problem  and how to fix it by following a simple chart. (p148) Overcome Diabetes! Learn exactly what to do to control your blood sugar through diet and exercise. Learn how high blood sugar affects every part of your life. (p154) Get the pulse on your health! How checking your pulse can help you find and solve 16 different health problems! (p123) Under pressure? How taking your blood pressure in 3 different positions can help you find and solve 15 different health problems! (p126 Can’t lose weight? Find out if it’s your thyroid and, if so, how to fix it. Do the same with 6 other health problems, just by taking your temperature! (p128) Acid or alkaline? Use simple and inexpensive pH paper to find out the ideal diet for you and optimize the metabolism of every cell in you body! (p128) Don’t go without this mineral... Do you know what the most common mineral deficiency is?  Hint:It’s not calcium!  A deficiency of this mineral is devastating to your health. Find out how to test for it and fix it at home. (p130) You’re under attack... Every cell of your body is under constant attack from these “biochemical murderers”. They burn and slash the cell walls, the tiny organelles, and even the DNA inside every cell of your body, if they’re not controlled. Easily test yourself at home to make sure they’re “under lock and key.” If you don’t they’ll cause disease throughout your body and cause you to age faster than you should. (p132) Better get your calcium right... Not enough and you’ll develop osteoporosis, high blood pressure, and other health problems. Too  much and you’ll be more likely to have arteriosclerosis, osteoarthritis, and other illnesses. Use a simple test at home to find out what to do to make your calcium levels perfect! (p135) Read your own lab work like an expert... How to read your own lab (blood) tests! You’ll be able to find and fix problems before they’re BIG problems, even if your doctor has told you that the findings are perfectly normal! (p139) Make sure you get the lab tests you need. (p140) How to chart lab tests (charts included) over time to perfect your health.(p140) Learn how the ratio between calcium and phosphorus in you lab tests is critical to your health. Learn what the optimal balance is and how to make it happen with your diet. (p153) Heart disease, fat, cholesterol, insulin resistance, and diabetes... Learn the dire relationships between cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL, and glucose and how they cause disease. Find out how low fat diets make you fat and cause disease; find out what to do instead. Find out how these factors relate to insulin resistance. Understand how insulin resistance causes chronic diseases and accelerated aging and know exactly how to fix it. All of this leads to diabetes! (p154) If the tests so far don’t give answers... Learn about some tests that you may not have had that may answer that illness that has doctors still scratching their heads. (p161) Don’t know what diet is perfect for you? How to use foods to heal your body and a table of each vitamin and mineral - functions, deficiency symptoms, and sources from foods. (p176) Can Vitamin B or Vitamin G Make You Tired? (What’s Vitamin G?) Learn what causes depletion of these vitamins in your body and how it leads to you feeling tired most of the time. Did you know that you can’t get B vitamins from taking the typical B vitamin supplements? High-potency B vitamins are mostly useless and can even cause problems such as stress on your liver and mineral depletion. Read this and notice BIG changes in your energy within a week! (p105) There are good and bad fats? Essential fatty acids (EFAs) regulate your body down to every cell. Hydrogenated fats cause heart attacks, strokes, inflammation, pain, and both male and female hormone problems. Find out if you’re EFA deficient and how to fix it with a simple and inexpensive test you can do at home. (p106) How are your nerves? If your autonomic (unconscious) nervous system doesn’t work right, nothing works right, and you won’t be healthy, no matter what you do! (p106) I know you can easily understand and use all of the tools and strategies from my workbook. I know this because hundreds of people have told me they have been inspired by my workbook, have used it, and it has changed their lives for the better. And, I’ll teach you how can you put all of these tools and strategies together in a way that it actually works and adds to your life instead of overwhelming it. Just follow the flowchart. (p32) When you order the Choosing Health workbook, you will also get a lifetime subscription to The Elements of Health email newsletter and podcasts. This monthly newsletter has articles covering general health topics, new research of interest along with my recommendations on how to incorporate  the research into your lifestyle, how to use the workbook more efficiently, book reviews, and more. You will also have lifetime discounts on the professional-only supplements that I use in my office and endorse for my patients (I am very picky) and discounts on future books, CDs, and DVDs. You’re still not sure?! OK, take a look at a PDF sample of the Choosing Health workbook (4.2MB) on me. Enjoy and I’m sure you’ll be hooked! You will still get the monthly email newsletter and podcasts, for free, for life (or for as long as you choose)! Your natural ability to experience a sound mind in a sound body is phenomenal. I’ve seen it over and over again. I’ve seen people that I doubted would ever be well again be restored to health with the tools from the Choosing Health workbook. It works. There is no doubt in my mind! May it be a tremendous tool in your hands and may it serve you and everyone you are able to serve through your greater health and well-being. 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