The life you have is the result of either the harmony or the disharmony between your body and mind. A life in balance is the representation of good mental and physical habits. Habits, in a way, are the pieces that can be arranged and re-arranged to create the image of health or disease. Dr. Stacey Wells reaffirms this way of looking at life. For her, prevention is better than treatment; it involves keeping bad lifestyle choices and habits at bay. In this article, she unpacks her wisdom on the power that lifestyle changes can have to prevent common ailments altogether.
Dr. Wells deals with illnesses and diseases on a day-to-day basis, and she says, “85% of what I do in the hospital is completely preventable. It doesn’t have to happen if people could learn to take care of themselves properly. A daily concentrated focus on preventing disease while still enjoying life and maximizing time on earth would almost guarantee that expensive hospital and clinic visits would be unnecessary.”
Her convictions stem from her personal experience. Talking about her parents, she says, “They are in their late 70s, and extremely healthy and fit, despite my grandparents dying from preventable diseases. They beat so-called generational health curses while passing down such precious health knowledge to their offspring. I wish to spread these secrets to everyone else.”
Clearly, Dr. Wells has a different take on health and its maintenance than others in her profession. She’s more than aware of the current lifestyle of young people and predicts that most of them, thanks to their “obsession and addiction” with fast food and fast eating, lack of physical exercise, and stressful jobs, are “paving their way to unnecessary pain and diseases in the near future.” Every time she comes across a young person who is beginning to depend increasingly on pharmaceutical drugs instead of their own body’s ability to deal with problems, she suggests they “change their lifestyle while they are still young. Develop healthy habits now. I also share with them statistical proofs of the consequences of such a change or lack of it. But I also tell them that I understand that it’s easier said than done. And yet, developing a strong psyche and cultivating a deep love for self and life can make these changes possible.”
For her older patient populations, she says, “It is never too late to change one’s lifestyle. If you’re tired of taking band-aid medicines everyday, then consider implementing basic lifestyle changes that can cure those diseases and truly heal yourself from the inside out. No one likes a breakfast of pills.”
Dr. Stacey Wells is on a mission to help people, young and old, understand the control they have over their lives and how small changes can drastically improve the quality of their mental and physical well-being.
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