We’ve been lied to.  We’ve been taught to believe that the absence of symptoms means health and the presence of symptoms means sickness.   While it is true symptoms can sometimes tell us how sick we are, the lack of them can never give us information about how healthy we are.

Judging your health by your symptoms is not only unreliable; it is also dangerous.  The first sign of heart disease is often a fatal heart attack, the first sign of cancer sudden weight loss or a palpable lump. The result is the vast proportion of our population living symptom-free, yet very sick and unwell.

Do you wake up feeling as though you haven’t slept at all, or maybe you’ve just dozed here and there? Do you have trouble completing a sentence before racing on to your next thought? Are you sick fairly often? Are you easily irritated? Are you stressed out about your spouse, your kids, your job, your family, your aging parents, your health, your money problems? Does thinking about your future stress you out?