YOUR BODY IS TELLING YOU WHAT IT NEEDS TO BE HEALTHY. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS LISTEN.

When someone talks about the importance of cellular health, what do they actually mean? With so many gimmicks out there offering temporary health solutions through the use of synthetic (often harmful) chemicals, cellular health can be an easy buzzword to throw on the pile. The truth is you are probably already doing things that promote cellular health, and you should probably be doing more. The human body is an amazing machine. Designed to diagnose and repair itself when faced with bacteria, infection, stress, or injury, our bodies are naturally prepared for most of what life can throw at us. At the foundation of this ingeniously crafted network of systems, tissues and organs are the building blocks of life. Our cells. Each of us are made up of trillions of cells which perform complex functions throughout our bodies that control how we move, how we think and how we feel. For our bodies to function at their best, it is crucial that our cells are functioning at THEIR best, so the more we can do to ensure that our cells are healthy, the more we can improve our health overall. This is why focusing on cellular health is so important.

For many years, the medical and scientific communities have recommended that the best way to stay healthy and active was to eat a balanced diet, get plenty of rest, exercise daily and avoid bad habits like smoking or drinking too much. While we know that practicing these good habits has always been great for our health, modern science has shown us exactly how our cells react to the way we live. As we have begun to better understand the things that our cells need to function, we can do more than just maintain a healthy balance, we can actually power up our cells to be better prepared to fight off infections, boost our energy levels and prevent disease and chronic illness. Our bodies have an amazing ability to repair or even replace failing cells, but after prolonged damage and cellular stress, our cells begin to die off causing us to age more rapidly and can lead to organ failure. For most people, it is only after we can see or feel that something is wrong with our bodies that we react with trips to the doctor or changes in lifestyle to try and “fix” the problem, which may have been building up long before we were even aware that something wasn’t right. This reactionary approach to the way we see health can now be a thing of the past.  We can now combine the idea of leading a healthier lifestyle while directly promoting and supporting health at the cellular level to achieve truly longer lasting, whole body health.

Stress on the body comes in many different forms. Stubbing your toe can stress the body, as can an overexposure to the sun. Then comes the emotional stress we’ve all come to know so well. We’ve all experienced some form of elevated stress in our lives and when our bodies are stressed, we can actually physically feel it. Our cells can feel it too. The slight rise in temperature and the tension we feel is our cells going into emergency mode. Just like when we catch a virus, stress will trigger our cells to find the problem and to start the repair process in the affected part of the body. They spring into action and figure out what needs to be detoxified, what needs to be fixed and what the body needs to get rid of. In most circumstances, the cells will react the way they need to, the “stress” will be healed and things will go back to normal, but what happens to our bodies after prolonged exposure to stress? Simply put, things can go very bad. When our cells are exposed to prolonged or chronic stress, their ability to function, heal, duplicate or detoxify starts to dramatically decrease. As our body tries to replenish the cells that die off under stressful conditions, it will create new cells that are better equipped to live in the stressed environment, but these cells can be weaker and more susceptible to infection. Prolonged stress can also decrease the cell’s ability to remove toxins, which can lead to a buildup of plaque. This excess waste in the cells can lead to heart attack, stroke or even worse, cancer. The list of health risks goes on and on when we look at what happens to our cells under stress, so something as simple as doing 30 seconds of breathing can oxygenate the cells, improve mood and relieve stress. While stress may be unavoidable in our day to day lives, when we know what it can do to our cells and ultimately our health, we can stop, take a deep breath and start to heal.