Welcome to the series titled The Six Pillars of Health.
I wanted to quickly introduce myself.
My name is Chandler.
I'm a mother of two, a wife,
and a huge advocate for healthy living.
I have my master's in nursing
with an emphasis in nursing education.
I decided to go into nursing
because I was always fascinated by the human body
and understanding how it works optimally.
Through the seven years that I worked at the bedside,
I took care of a lot of sick patients and noticed a trend.
The people that I took care of were really hospitalized,
most often for chronic disease issues,
and I kept taking care of the same people over and over.
It felt a little like a revolving door, honestly,
and I got tired of seeing people not get better.
When I evaluated why people were not getting better,
I discovered it was twofold.
First, a lot of people were not taking ownership
over their own personal health.
And second, the general practitioner was not educated
on how to truly teach their patients
how to become better through lifestyle modification.
As a mastered, prepared nurse,
what my education included
was general understanding of the human body,
what could go wrong with different body systems,
and then what pharmaceuticals to use when things went wrong.
Really, the only education I got about lifestyle
was very general nutrition and lifestyle education,
like things like to exercise more,
to encourage people to limit processed foods,
limit fat, and limit sugar.
The problem I found was that really everyone is at a loss.
Our education system doesn't teach
our teenagers about health.
Our practitioners are taught a lot
about medication administration,
and the general public is taught very blanket education
from the CDC and the FDA,
leaving everyone really confused
about how to live healthy and live to prevent disease
and have optimal health and vitality.
So I started down the path of self-discovery.
I really wanted to understand how we could live in a way
that fosters health for myself,
for my family, and for my community.
I have done a lot of research and reading
over the last three years to put all the pieces together,
and that's where I wanna get started with you today.
So like I said, I titled this series
The Six Pillars of Health,
and I'm super, super excited to dive in
and cover this material with you
because it will lay the foundation
of what we build our entire understanding
of health on going forward.
In this series, my goal is to accomplish three things.
First, I wanna divine health.
Second, I wanna cover basic human body physiology,
focusing our education on the gut,
the thyroid, and the metabolism,
because I believe if we can understand
how these three systems work,
we can work with our bodies and not against them.
And lastly, I want to cover the six pillars of health.
It is through these six pillars working together
that we could become the healthiest versions of ourselves,
both physically and mentally.
So let's jump in.
To define health, we need to understand
that in the world today,
there are really two schools of thought
that determine how we as individuals define health.
The first school of thought is called the germ theory.
The germ theory, otherwise known
as the microbial theory of disease,
was first made popular by a gentleman named Louis Pasteur,
who was the inventor of pasteurization.
This theory states that there are external germs,
which when they invade our bodies,
are the direct causes of different definable diseases.
This theory believes that the only way
we can prevent illness is through avoiding these germs.
This theory believes that germs
should be avoided at all costs.
This is the theory that our Western medicine system
is based off of and proposes that drugs, vaccines,
surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy
are the ways that we can prevent or treat disease.
The second school of thought is called the terrain theory.
The terrain theory was proposed
by a gentleman named Antoine Béchamp,
who stated that our terrain or our internal environment
determines our state of health.
This school of thought proposes
that when our internal environment
is functioning in homeostasis,
and our body has the ability to detox
and our immune system is strong,
we have the ability to handle
any germs we come into contact with.
This school of thought focuses
not only on understanding the body,
but strengthening it so we can have
every ability to prevent disease.
and illness. So I want you to ask yourself which theory do you believe? It's important for you to
understand this because this will dictate your ability to receive and utilize the information
that I will be discussing with you in this series. I am a firm firm believer that there is a place
for both. I believe that 95 to 99 percent of the time we need to look at our body, understand our
body, and strengthen our internal terrain through diet and lifestyle to be able to handle the germs
that we will inevitably come into contact with. I also believe that we do have a time and place
for medicine. I believe that around five percent even one percent of the time we need to use the
medicine in our western medicine system to handle emergency situations. In times of acute emergencies
our traditional western medical system can serve us well, but we need to remember that it's not the
answer to curing or preventing our disease. It is our responsibility to honor our bodies and treat
them in a way that is honoring to the Lord. Now that you understand the different schools of
thought, I want to define health. The World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete
physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
I appreciate this definition because it takes into account that true health is holistic in nature
and requires someone to have full physical, mental, and social well-being to be healthy.
When we are approaching our understanding of health, I believe it's important to first understand
how the Lord created our bodies to work. When we understand how our bodies work optimally,
we can better understand how to take a holistic approach to nourish ourselves physically,
mentally, and spiritually. In the upcoming lessons, we're going to take a deep look
at our digestive system so that you can understand how we can work with our digestive system to
support and nourish it. Then we're going to take a look at our metabolism and our thyroid
so you can understand how we can support these systems for optimal health. And then lastly,
we're going to discuss the six pillars of health. As stated, these pillars focus on the whole person
and include pillar number one, which is diet, pillar number two, which is hydration,
pillar number three, sleep and stress management, pillar number four, which is sunlight,
pillar number five, which is breathing and connection, and then pillar number six,
which is movement and exercise. I will be giving you an overview of these pillars,
how they're important to our overall health, and some tips on how to improve each of them.
I'm excited to jump into the material with you, and I hope this material will be as impactful
in your life as it has been in mine. So when you're ready, I will see you in the next video.