Naperville Integrated Wellness

NAPERVILLE'S TOP RATED LOCAL® FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE FACILITY

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You may not realize it, but you could be losing something of significant value. What is “this thing” that might be slipping through your fingers this very moment?

Your chance to regain your health and well being. We often believe that we have all the time in the world to fix problems with our health. Unfortunately, this is not always the case; many people wait until they have lost a significant level of health before deciding to do anything about it…sometimes it’s too little too late.

Somewhere in in the back of your mind you believe that you have plenty of time to get your health under control. This kind of thinking causes you to put off doing the very things you need to be doing right now. I can’t tell you how many people I see who wait until their health is so bad that it has now become a significant problem that will take a lot of time, energy and resources to fix…if it can be fixed at all. You can compare your body to the roof of your home. You can fix the leak when it first appears; or wait until your entire ceiling caves in. Your body is different than your roof in that it does possess the ability to heal and correct itself; but even your body has its limits. By failing to take care of yourself and seek the help you need BEFORE a complete health disaster occurs you may cause damage that is beyond the body’s ability to repair. Then what will you do? Your opportunity to have a healthy body is now lost…forever. You will from that point forward…for the rest of your life struggle with and try to manage chronic disease.

Have you ever thought about your health this way? Most have not, and are under the false assumption that they can let their health deteriorate and the “miracles of medicine” will somehow come to the rescue. You probably know someone who is plagued with chronic health issues and taking all sorts of drugs just to live a bearable existence. They are not well, they are not healthy and most importantly they are living the kind of life they had hoped for. Nobody expects to get an autoimmune disease, diabetes, cancer, heart disease…nobody expects to get chronically ill. Yet, this happens every day to countless people.

The truth of the matter is that the idea of improving or gaining greater health is not a major concern for most people. If it were, they would eat a better diet, reduce their stress, get more rest and exercise regularly and attempt to maximize their nutrition. What they don’t consider is what they stand to lose…the only thing that really matters today, next month and 10 years from now; their health.  When you don’t feel well, how happy are you? What is the quality of your life? We all want to improve the quality and circumstances of our life, but we all too often put our health at the bottom of the list; health all too often comes after family, work, finances, entertainment…you get the idea…somewhere near the bottom.

If you want to know how valuable health really is, talk to someone who has lost it. They know that it was is much more valuable than they ever imagined. Hindsight is always 20/20 and obvious, foresight on the other hand is a rare commodity then is comes to one’s health.

The point of this article is simple and something we already know on some level. Your health significantly impacts all other areas of your life. If not given the importance it deserves you may find yourself stuck with a problem you can’t fix, that you can’t do anything about. Is this where you want to be? If not, then functional medicine may be a good place for you to start. Its purpose is to restore function and health to your body. It is health-centered and not disease-centered; this means the focus is on restoring and increasing your health…helping your body to work better and keep itself healthy. The opposite of this disease-centered which means the focus is on managing diseases with medication.

So take care of yourself! Just in case you were not aware of this fact, I will state it now, you only get one body and there are no trade-ins or do-overs. You can push your body too far and lose so much function that you just can’t get back to normal again. Yes, you could lose your chance, your chance to be well again. If you are not feeling well or struggling with unpleasant symptoms, that is nature’s way of warning you that something needs to be done… that you need to do something.

You can dismiss nature’s warnings, but I would not recommend it; she is often fair but her forgiveness has its limits.

If you are looking for a functional medicine doctor in Orland Park, Wheaton or Geneva, please contact us today!

If you would like more information about functional medicine or Dr. Sexton go to napervilleintegratedwellness.com or contact our Naperville office today.

Do your own research, inform yourself and ask lots of questions. When collecting information you MUST consider the source. There is no shortage of false, misleading, outdated, profit-driven and utterly biased information in healthcare today; even from the most respected sources.

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