Welcome to The Strive
Hello and welcome to The Strive! We are here to guide you, remind you, and maybe even introduce you to the path of your own health strive. While many of you may be flooded with information about health and wellness regularly, it can be hard to know what works for each of us. Striving to promote your healthspan and longevity will increase the likelihood that your quality of life, disease prevention, mental well-being, productivity and performance, family and social life, and economic benefits will all improve as well. We want you to love striving for the health of you. We’re here to support you with resources that may make both your strive and your goals just a little easier.
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
-Bruce Lee
What is Personalized lifestyle medicine?
The traditional medical paradigm has primarily been to treat those facing a disorder, disease, or diagnosis by focusing on symptoms instead of root-cause medicine. Generally, the current model of medicine and the focus on prescriptions as the primary treatment modality is just not working. Although there are several public health recommendations concerning the prevention of disease, whether it be from the American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, or the American Diabetes Association, the information disseminated from these sources seems to be somewhat ineffective in creating shifts toward decreasing the diagnoses of disease and improving health outcomes.
The Strive spotlight
Re-fined and Striving
In this episode, we dive into the inspiring journey of Jessi Burge, the Founder and Executive Director of Re-fined, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping victims of sexual exploitation. Jessi’s life has been a testament to the idea of the conscious strive.
what’s up with your genes?
If you’ve heard about genetic testing in the past decade, it’s probably been through the marketing of ancestry companies. There’s the allure of finding out where you came from (or uncovering family secrets!), and at-home kits provided by these companies have shown everyday people how easy it is to test their DNA.
But unfortunately, due to the popularity and widespread marketing of ancestry tests, most people aren’t aware of the other benefits genetic testing can provide. While ancestry testing simply tells you where your family came from, genetic testing for health and wellness can lead you to a whole array of actionable insights into optimizing your eating, exercise, lifestyle choices, and more in order to achieve better health.
how to create change ?
