The Whole Body or Holistic approach to Optimal Health is based on the idea of treating the body as an integrated, interrelated, and interdependent whole. The goal is to BALANCE AND OPTIMIZE all bodily systems and organs as much as possible.  To understand the Baseline of Health, we must first understand the four levels of Health, which represents how healthy you really are:

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Optimal Health Level – In a perfect world, all bodily systems and organs would be at the Optimal Health Level.  In reality, this is not practically achievable since no one has absolute perfect Optimal Health.  But, what we all can do is keep doing the things necessary to stay as close to the Optimal Health Level as possible, for as long as possible, by controlling the things we can control, and mitigating the negative effects of things outside of our control.

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Subclinical Symptoms Level - When some of our bodily systems and organs chronically function at a sub optimal level, we begin to have Subclinical Symptoms.  These Subclinical Symptoms are not bad enough yet, to show up on Standard Tests, but are bad enough to make us function as less than Optimal. Subclinical Symptoms don't show up on Standard Tests like Blood Test, X-Ray, CT, MRI, etc.  But nonetheless, if left uncorrected, it will eventually lead to Clinical Symptoms.

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Clinical Symptoms Level – Once we move farther and farther away from Optimal Health, and not correct Subclinical Symptoms, we will eventually experience Clinical Symptoms.  Clinical Symptoms are symptoms we can see and will show up on Standard Tests.

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Death Level - When Clinical Symptoms show up and the person does not correct it, the chronic accumulated abuse on a bodily system or organ can drive a person's health to the Death Level, and the person dies.

At what level of health are you aiming to achieve and maintain?  Some people are content to do just enough to avoid clinical symptoms, or just perpetually tread above the Clinical Symptoms level.  They will stop only long enough to cope with any symptoms, but never really learn to go beyond it.  Then there are others who experience Clinical and Subclinical Symptoms, but they LEARN, and LEARN their lessons well.  They realize a very simple truth:

It’s far easier to maintain Optimal Health than it is to lose Optimal Health, and then try to regain it.

I learned this lesson the hard way by not paying attention to clinical and subclinical symptoms in the past, and finally ended up with PN.  Of course, if I could do it over, I would not have done it the same way.  I would have paid more attention to maintaining optimal health as much as possible, not take my good health for granted, and aim for perpetual buoy well beyond the Sub Clinical Symptoms Level.  The good news is that despite my bad choices and decisions in the past regarding my own health, I was still given a second chance.  The lesson wasn’t lost on me.

It’s okay to make mistakes as long as we learn from it and not repeat it.

Be careful what you aim for because you just might achieve it.  If your aim is just symptom coping, don’t be surprised by the outcome.  However, if your aim is getting as close to Optimal Health as possible, then don’t be surprised that with Optimal Health comes perpetual buoy, making it unnecessary to tread or cope.