(Don't) Get In Shape for the Summer

“My Doctor Takes Care of My Health”

I recently had this very scenario come up with a client. When I screened and advised him to take certain supplements to deal with a sub-clinical level of blood sugar dysregulation, his answer was to question why we were dealing with blood sugar at all – he felt that was a matter for his physician.

Though I agree with him in theory, in practice, it rarely happens, because most physicians are trained to treat disease, not to guide you toward optimal function. Until you present with a fasting glucose level of greater than 99 – and many times not until your level is over 110, chances are excellent that your doctor won’t even look at you sideways, except to say that you’re fine, and no, you don’t need to do anything differently, because you’re completely healthy. Physicians, when they come from traditional Western medical thought, almost never do anything proactively; they react to disease states.

Getting in shape is a function of creating optimal health, which implies that disease is far away and not even a remote possible future situation. Health is a continuum, and there are plenty of warning signs along the road to hell, one of which may be the inability to lose fat once an exercise routine has begun. Putting up resistance to supplementation when it is warranted is akin to coming to your personal trainer and saying: “I am going to pay you to get me in shape, but I am actually going to pay you more than you should be paid for longer than you need to be paid, because I intend to make sub-optimal progress.”

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