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What does a healthy woman look like?

Uncategorized Feb 28, 2019

What does a healthy woman look like?

What's the true picture of a healthy woman?

If you open glamour or vogue, they're going to list off things like percent body fat and weight.

Because we've all become so used to these parameters, we too have adopted them as our image of a healthy woman.

But I'm going to break the mold and say that's not necessarily true. In fact, just because you're really low in body fat percentage does not mean you're healthy.

There are a lot of athletes, professional athletes even who come out and tell us how they've gotten sick. Remember when Lance Armstrong, (not that he's a woman) got prostate cancer?

I'm sure his body fat percentage was quite low. He certainly was lean,  and was not overweight in any way, shape or form. And yet there he was with cancer.

So what does that say about those topics, those issues, those parameters?

A healthy woman will have a couple of characteristics in common consistently. 

Number one is she feels warm all the time. Not Hot, not like menopausal sweats, I’m talking warm hands, warm feet, warm nose... not sweaty, but warm, like vibrant, vital and not warm in a way that means you need the temperature of the building to be adjusted, comfortable.

A Healthy woman has a libido, a healthy libido, and can sustain healthy relationships.

A healthy woman has easy menstrual cycles and if she's in menopause, she's having a relaxed time going through menopause, not feeling crazy, not feeling brain fog, or hot flashy.

A healthy woman does not have aches and pains, and her joints don't ache, and she doesn't have headaches commonly.

A healthy woman has a clear mind, no brain fog, no depression, no anxiety.

A healthy woman has good digestion, easy elimination, no constipation, no diarrhea, not getting bloated from foods, and able to eat happily

A healthy woman also has clear skin,  healthy hair, strong nails, energy throughout the day, sleep that is solid, beautiful and uninterrupted.

A healthy woman urinates maybe four or five times a day, and does not wake up at night to pee.

These are some of the hallmarks of a healthy woman.

Now if we chase these down as voraciously, as we chase weight loss, our rates of cancer would plummet as would our rates of heart disease, suicide, depression, and diabetes...we would change the face of our entire health picture...but we don't chase these down.

We chase down numbers on a scale and percent body fat and as a result, we tend to force our body to do things it didn't want to do.

We create an external appearance of change when in fact the internal environment has just gotten worse...it is my assertion that it is time to change these parameters because it is killing us.

It is killing us to chase down numbers on a scale over values like these.

Another major health value being a good solid body temperature and a resting pulse rate.

So your body temperature should be 98.6 or above. If it's not, you're in a hypometabolic state, your pulse should be 75 to 85.

If you can't say, yes, all of that is true for me, you're in a hypometabolic state or you're running on pure adrenaline or both.

See, the thing is, lab tests don't show you this.

I can't tell you the number of women I've worked with who say, I'm tired, I'm freezing, I'm not sleeping, my mind is foggy, I don't feel connected to life, and yet when I go to the doctor, they say:  “you're the picture of health.”

These women all know this isn't true, but no one's giving them other options.

So, truthfully, this is because our health system isn't chasing health, they are chasing poorly designed values on lab tests combined with external appearance, weight and BMI and it's not working.

Recovering your health to a vibrant state requires a multifocal approach.

It is not a diet.

It is not cutting calories really low so we can force your body to take off fat. That's never going to work to regain metabolic power, in fact, regaining metabolic power may mean that you even gain a little weight in the beginning or don't lose any weight for a while until your metabolism heals.

Sadly, many think if I'm not losing weight, then it's not working,  that's simply not true, the order of health is….healing and metabolic restoration first, weight loss second.

Consequently, because they have no reference point for real health, they give up too easily and go back to their bad habits.

When you gain metabolic strength, what happens is then, you can do the rest of it with ease. Metabolic strength might take six months, it might take a year, but when you get there, you get to keep it cause you just healed years of discord, inflammation, toxicity, and cell exhaustion.

I think it's time that we changed the picture of what a healthy woman is,  because a healthy woman is not a size two or four or even eight or 10.

A healthy woman is a woman who has a strong temperature, energy, vitality,  a clear head, she's happy, she's joyful, she has a libido and she's finding pleasure in life among all of these other things.

Honestly,  you can chase weight loss, which will ultimately not improve any of that, and therefore keep you at risk for the same conditions that are robbing us of strong women everywhere. Or you can chase these parameters and finally get something back that's more precious than the number on a scale…

You can get back your life.

Choice is yours.

Blessings
Dr. Julie


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