Life By Design

Did you know that you were created for health?  Yup, that's right!  Your body was born with all of the wisdom, processes, and intelligence it needs to keep you healthy and to heal you from illness or injury.  Your body already knows what to do and how to adapt to any stress that you can introduce.  Your body was created to provide you years and years of health, vitality, energy, and performance - probably to a greater degree than you can even imagine.  So, why aren't you experiencing all that that your body has to offer?

The answer is that you are not living your Life By Design.  If you are like the vast majority of the world' population, you are not living according to your body's genetic, biochemical, and physiological requirements.  You are robbing your body of the building blocks that it needs to function optimally and to provide you with boundless health.

Life By Design is a lifestyle based on the following 5 core principles:

1.  Brain-Body Connection:  Your brain is the master control system of your body.  In order for you to experience a life of ease, health, and harmony your brain must have clear and constant communication with your body.  This communication takes place over your nerve system.  A good nerve supply is essential for health.  Every single one of your 70 million cells require proper nerve input to function properly.  At Thrive Chiropractic Studio, our focus is on helping your body re-establish and maintain a clear nerve supply through a clear brain-body connection.  The brain-body connection is the foundation upon which all of the other Life By Design principles  rest.  While you may still experience benefits from living By Design, if you are ignoring the brain-body connection, you're going to miss out on the full benefits.

2.  Eat By Design:  Based on the ground-breaking work of Loren Cordain, PhD, Eat By Design emphasizes eating foods that will fulfill your body's genetic requirements and avoiding foods that are toxic and harmful to the body.  Eat By Design is a delicious, easy, and health-affirming way to approach nutrition.  Eat By Design is not a diet, nor is it a way of eating that will treat any disease processes or conditions.  However, when people start to Eat By Design amazing things happen to their health - excess weight disappears, diabetes reverses, chronic pain and inflammation reside, energy appears, and strong, lean bodies start to develop.

Essential Supplements:  Our current lifestyle and environment makes being fully sufficient in all required nutrients challenging and in some cases, nearly impossible.  We recommend some basic supplementation to fulfill what is missing for the majority of people.  Keep it simple: an animal source of omega 3 fats, vitamin D, a probiotic, digestive enzymes, and a multiple mineral supplement.  Eat By Design is the primary approach to fulfilling your nutritional requirements, the LBD Essentials simply fill in the gaps.

3.  Move By Design:  We have clear indicators that our body requires much more and different types of movement than are currently “normal” for the average person.  Move By Design is based on 4 parameters:  Be Mobile, Lift Heavy, Go Fast, Move Slow.  Depending on goals and objectives, each one of these areas can be tailored individually, but they form the basic foundations for optimal human movement, health and longevity.



4.  Rest.  Play.  Love.:  Do you take time for yourself?  Do you experience quality, restful sleep? Do you enjoy what you do? Is your life fun? Are you able to give and receive love?  Each of these components has an enormous physiologic effect on the function of our bodies.  Each enhances our stress chemistry, immunology, healing, energy levels, moods, digestion, happiness and our overall quality of life.


5.  Have a Clearly Defined Purpose: Are you wandering aimlessly or are you anchored like a rock?  A purpose is your compass, your map and your horizon.  It can focus you, drive you and reward you.  Whether it be raising a healthy, happy family, traveling the world giving to others or creating a successful business, the secret to happiness is having a clearly defined purpose.