The average American retires at 64 and dies at 76. Over 50% of Americans will spend these “golden years” living with hypertension, obesity, and reliant on over a dozen prescription drugs annually.
Put bluntly, the average American will spend over 45+ years and nearly 100,000 hours working to save enough to retire in poor health, limited by age, obesity, and illness for about 12 years.
Don’t be the average American. Be the American who invests not only in your retirement but in your health for the long term. Gone are the days when you can rely on your health insurance company to keep you healthy. Your health insurance company is there to cover reactive medicine, meaning care that treats you after the fact of disease or illness. And as time goes on, your health insurance company is barely covering that. DO NOT rely on your health insurance to keep you healthy. Instead, take a proactive approach to your own health by becoming educated on steps you can take to improve your health and well-being. These things need to happen before it’s too late. To me, age is just a number. It just tells you how many years you’ve been on this earth. It doesn’t tell you how many of those years were productive and healthy. We have the ability to maintain our health into our latter years, maintain our productivity, and our movement.
Statistics for those folks who have reached retirement age show an increased incidence of diabetes, obesity, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. What do all of these diseases have in common?
It comes down to how well our cells are operating. Mitochondrial function is a key element to how well our cells can operate. Our cells make up our tissue, our tissue makes up our organs, and our organ systems must operate to make each of us healthy, productive humans. Our cells primarily perform the following tasks. Detoxify themselves, regenerate themselves, repair themselves, and kill themselves if something is going haywire. That’s a lot of work to be doing. What allows our cells to perform these important jobs? ATP or adenosine triphosphate. Each of our cells produces ATP through the work of the mitochondria. This energy currency of the cell is vital to our cells performing their jobs and not missing out on this important work. Without proper cell energy, the job doesn’t get done. If our cells are not repairing, detoxifying, regenerating, and killing themselves when there is a problem, we see several things start to occur.
For one, aging occurs. A fancy term for aging is mitochondrial dysfunction. Our cells become damaged, filled with toxins, and are not operating well enough to keep our tissues healthy, so we start to get breakdown in the tissue (ie: arthritis, hardening of arteries, stiffness of joints and muscle, loss of muscle mass, etc). If cells are not dying when they should, not detoxifying, and not regenerating properly, we could get unhealthy cells that form (ie: cancers, autoimmune disorders, other diseases). It is my opinion that every disease process starts with the health of the cells. If we have thyroid dysfunction, bladder issues, gut issues, heart issues, remember that those are all organs that are made up of tissue that is made up of thousands and thousands of cells that must operate properly to keep things functioning properly.
So what does all this mean? This means we must address our cellular health in order to improve our overall health and address it when we have health issues of all types. Ok, Emilio, you said that like 1000 times, get to the point where you tell me how to improve my cellular health?
For starters, this is multifactorial. Cells are impacted by environmental and behavioral factors. Within our control, we must try to avoid frequent exposure to harsh chemicals, avoid constant exposure to EMFs such as cell towers, cell phones, microwaves, and avoid being exposed to air pollutants. If we are exposed to these environmental factors out of our control, we should do our best to detoxify the system. How do we detoxify? Sweat is one way, peeing is another way. So exercise with at least moderate intensity, use a sauna, and stay consistently hydrated. Electron rich diets that involve eating whole organic foods from the soil and that get natural sunlight and intermittent fasting can also be beneficial to improving cellular health and increasing cellular energy. Although buying organic whole foods is more expensive, it pays off in the long run. What we put in our bodies is vital to our cellular health.
How can we improve our cellular energy? Probably one of the most effective ways to get our mitochondria to produce ATP is to get sunlight and exposure to red light. Red light is found naturally from the sun at sunrise and sunset. If you don’t see the sun too often or don’t make it outside for sunrise and sunset, then you should invest in red light therapy. Daily exposure to this light will increase cellular ATP production. In a nutshell, long wavelength light can penetrate past the skin and absorb into our tissue and cells to stimulate the mitochondria to produce more energy.
What else is vital for the survival of good cells? Oxygen. Sound familiar. I talk about this a lot, but I’m going to keep hammering this home. There isn’t one disease or pathological etiology (where disease starts) that can survive in a well oxygenated environment. We increase our oxygen absorption to our body through breathing. This means that we need to address sleep apnea issues, perform deep breathing work (Wim Hoff method), and exercise to improve oxygen absorption to our cells. To really go the extra mile with oxygen, one can use the hyperbaric oxygen chamber to increase oxygen perfusion to your blood stream 10x the amount you would breathing normal air.
Hydration of your tissue is key. Don’t just drink a bunch of water all at once because you will just pee out excess water. Steadily hydrating throughout the day is most beneficial for hydrating your tissues and cells. You should be drinking about half of your body weight in ounces daily, and even more if you aren’t eating water-rich foods like vegetables. Hydrogen water is the best kind of water you can drink for your cells and will reduce inflammation and improve gut health.
Knowing what deficiencies you have in nutrients or methylated supplements is also important. Blood tests or genetic tests can show where your deficiencies are, and then you can supplement accordingly. I don’t recommend you supplement for the sake of supplementing. You should see where your deficiencies are first, and then supplement accordingly.
Good circulation is also crucial to getting oxygen and other nutrients to the cells effectively. If our tissue isn’t receiving good blood flow, cells begin to die as well. How can we improve circulation? For starters, everyday exercise, even a light walk, can improve circulation. Movement is key to good circulation. Another way is grounding. By touching the surfaces of the earth (grass, dirt, sand) with our bare feet, we can actually change the polarity of our bloodstream, making it electron-rich and causing our red blood cells to repel one another. This increases the flow of our red blood cells through the blood stream, delivering oxygen and nutrients at a more efficient rate. PEMF mats will do the same thing for you if you cannot ground yourself consistently.
As you can see, a lot of the ways we can positively impact our cellular health are provided to us from God for FREE. And investing in or using devices to enhance cellular health, such as the ones we have at the clinic, is an investment to your overall health and an added benefit. I don’t have these fancy wellness tools at my clinic that improve oxygenated blood flow, circulation, and cellular energy because it’s cool or new, but because they are backed by peer-reviewed research. I am not trying to hack biology or make everyone live 100 years. God is going to take you from this earth when it’s your time, but while we are here he wants us to live our most productive lives according to his will and purpose and in order to do that, being healthy is a key component to doing just that! God bless!
-Dr. Emilio Galis
