If you look around you will notice that almost everyone you know has some kind of ache or pain that they are dealing with. Recently I was having some problems with my right shoulder and realized something after spending a lot of money at the doctor, chiropractor, and on pain relievers.

I realized that I had recently changed my habits. For a long time I felt strong and dealt with everything life threw at me very well. But after a long run of working long hours I realized that I had neglected many things that kept me strong.

For one I realized that I had swayed away from proper eating habits and fell into eating fast food because it was quick and easy.

Also, my morning workouts had taken a back seat to making money. But I noticed that without the morning workouts, I was working harder at making money but really not making any more than I usually do.

This seem quite tragic really because, in neglecting my normal habits of eating correctly, and working out regularly I had decreased my indurance, strength, and effectively weakened my body.

So much so in fact that sitting at a computer to work was causing pain in my neck and shoulder. A lot of pain, so much that my doctor prescribed a wealth of pain relievers in very high doses to keep me from going crazy from it.

How my doctor “Helped”.

Don’t get me wrong I’m greatful that my doctor could bring me relief. So I sincerely appreciate that.

He threw some pain killers (Vicodin), an anti-inflamatory (Nepraxin), and muscle relaxers (Flexeril) into the mix to keep me from feeling pain. After all that it was literally impossible to get anything done… “GREAT”… I thought… “I don’t feel any pain but I’m completely worthless now”… Not the way an ambitious person like me spends his days.

How my chiropractor helped.

My chiropractor took a much different approach. She did a lot of great natural things to help the pain and that worked remarkably compared to what my doctor did.

In doing all this she reminded me to do things that I KNOW I should be doing… interesting I thought… I’m here because I didn’t follow my normal regime of eating high alkaline foods, low in sugar/salt. And, beside that I wasn’t working our regularly…

Hm… interesting… is it merely coincidence that after a month of breaking my normal routine I would start to experience side affects of not taking care of myself…  I don’t think it was just coincidence.

I firmly believe that we create our pain (baring accidental injury, and even that most could attribute to not paying attention in most cases).

We create our own pain and our own disease by not doing that which we know to be correct. We instead opt to do what everyone else is doing…

Take fast food for instance we eat it because everyone else does, its fast, and its cheap. But at what cost? What is the REAL cost of eating fast food?

Lethargy, irritability, sickness, heartburn, and disease are all things that come from consuming poor quality foods. Ad lack of exercise to that and you might as well invite unhealthy muscle ache, pain, and general dysphoria to into your house to hang out with for a while.

So what is the answer?

Well this probably isn’t what you want to hear but… somebody has to say it… You have to stop killing yourself.

Eating fast food is normal, but it is FAR from natural. I say normal because everyone does it… but really it is killing you. Eating natural foods (raw fruits, vegetables, legumes, and plenty of green leafy stuff) makes a tremendous difference in the way I felt… But here is what sucked (at least initially).

I had deadened my taste buds with too much salt and sugar/sugar substitutes (eliminate those too, as a crutch they don’t work unless you’re using something natural like Stevia). You see killing my taste buds was the most horrible part of the entire equation.

Why? That part is simple… once my taste buds were dead from overloads of sugar and salt something interesting happened… natural foods didn’t taste good.

But once I cut back on those and started eating naturally, my taste buds came back and food (even raw natural foods normally thought of as boring) became really tasty again…

This harkens back to our first discussion on the main page of this site about thresholds… your body gets used to what ever you subject it to… and when your body gets used to tasting salt and sugar that is what it expects as normal.

I guess the same could be said about anything really, heroine addition does the same thing… tobacco too… your body gets used to having them and when they don’t you body finds ways to keep it coming.

If you load up on salt all the time you will crave it. Same goes for sugar.

So the answer is to stick with natural foods… Nothing in a box, preserved, or processed.

When I did this, started working out again, and made sure my workspace was ergonomically correct. My stress naturally left and my shoulder stopped hurting.

Sounds pretty extreme but in reality… nobody had these sugary and salty foods that fast food delivers say 50 years ago and remarkably cases of cancer, heart disease, and a myriad of other societal diseases didn’t exist.

Sounds like more than coincidence to me… I would argue that some causes could be derived from this stuff.

It will take a week or so to get used to but eat naturally, Exercise, and reduce the salt/sugar intake… it will help you to feel amazing…