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Understanding how models of wellness shape our ability to be healthy around a virus

We believe that there is more to health than simply avoiding disease.

Yes, each of us can take preventive measures to help us avoid exposure to vectors of disease.  AND as you’ll see in this video tutorial, what is of primary importance is the ‘host response’, the health we each maintain.  Stated another way, our immune system’s ability to be strong is of greater importance in being healthy than avoiding exposure.

Here are 5 helpful actions you can take to support your wellness today:

1. Turn off your media

Yes, it may be important to know what’s going on.  But being constantly bombarded with the most recent update of something scary is downright bad for our health. It was proven that people who watched the twin towers fall during 9/11 multiple times were more likely to feel overwhelmed and fearful.  Chronic fear creates ill health.

Be informed but don’t allow yourself to be bombarded.  If the world is going to end, trust that someone close to you will alert you.

2. Get outside and enjoy some fresh air.

While turning off your media bomb, take some time to enjoy the coming Spring.  Look around you.  Are the daffodils worried?  Do the birds seem afraid about the virus?

3. Spend time supporting family.

Quality social time has been proven to be extremely important for our health.  While you unplug from media, encourage others around you to do the same.

4. Laugh (a lot)

The science SO overwhelmingly backs up the fact that laughter supports our immunological health more than any avoidance or pill ever could.  Here’s a wonderful place to start getting your laugh on! 🙂

5. Increase your vitamin C

Now that we have the bigger picture stuff in place, sure, increasing your vitamin C intake certainly helps to increase your immune response.

 

 

Details

This video dives into two medical theories from the mid-1800s that have shaped our modern cultural mindset regarding what it takes to be healthy.

It also explains how to use these two theories together to optimally support health and wellness.

Important points:

Scientists Louis Pasteur and Antoine Béchamp were bitter rivals who had competing theories.

Pasteur’s germ theory has played an important role in our modern understanding of disease prevention (for example, it’s why we wash our hands after going to the bathroom).  It focuses on preventing disease by defending the host (us) from microbes.

Béchamp came up with cellular theory (aka ‘terrain theory’).  Its primary focus is to create and support the health of the host.

Pasteur’s theory became wildly popular (think of all of the anti-bacterial products on the market right now) while Béchamp’s theory fell by the wayside.

But is there a difference between avoiding disease and creating health?  Is health created simply by the absence of disease, or is there more to it?

 

Highlights:

  • 1:07 Discussion about Louis Pasteur
  • 1:47 Introduction to Antoine Béchamp
  • 2:15 Four main points from Pasteur’s germ theory
  • 2:55 Introduction to Béchamp’s cellular theory
  • 3:25 Comparing germ theory with cellular theory
  • 5:32 How to weave these two theories into one holistic approach to help us along our path to optimal health and vitality
  • 6:33 A chart that helps illustrate how these two theories interact and can work synergistically
  • 7:15 Examples of how this chart works
  • 9:10 How to estimate where you fall on this chart and leverage cell and germ theory to assist you on your path

 

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Will and Susan are the founders of OraWellness and are passionate about health, wellness and positive living.

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  1. Luc says

    April 26, 2020

    I thank you very much, Will and Susan! This is the most balanced video I have ever seen about an holistic approach to health. There are a few websites, put up even by well intended MD’s, like Mercola.com by example, yet the info there, however accurate is filled with an extremist vision of various organizations enemies of our health. Your approach is so refreshing and calm.
    You must be very healthy with such an outlook on life.

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    • Will And Susan says

      May 10, 2020

      Aloha Luc,

      Thanks so much for your kind words. It’s always a pleasure to see your name and comments on our blog 🙂

      Reply
  2. Mahmoud says

    April 9, 2020

    Thank you very much for this video, I would like to really congratulate you, about the amount and quality of information, and about the way it’s conveyed.
    🙏🙏🙏

    Reply
  3. Eileen says

    April 4, 2020

    Will and Susan, I think this post is a very timely — and a very sensitive reminder about what is most important in fighting disease. My understanding is that when viruses mutate, they mutate against themselves — in other words, they weaken. So healthy people who come in contact with a virus actually help the virus to die or to become less effective to make anyone else sick. I do not suggest that we become cavalier about the situation, as I think that spring break with hundreds of people on the beaches here in Florida was excessive. But cowering in a closet is equally excessive, in my opinion. I think that reaching an informed equilibrium in our approach makes the most sense. Thank you for sharing this post with all of us.

    Reply
  4. Turquoise Hooper says

    March 29, 2020

    Thank you, for the wonderful expression of this video. There is such gentleness in the strength of its vitally important message. The comparison between Pasteur and Bechamp made it very clear that my path of choice has been and always will be “cellular.”
    I also appreciate the comment Jonathon made about the mosquitoes …………….so true.

    I raise my hands to you in thankfulness. I will hold the beauty of your expressions for a moment then wrap them in my gratitude & return them to you filled with light & love that you may keep them passing forward.

    Reply
    • Will And Susan says

      April 4, 2020

      Aloha Turquoise,

      Wow! Thank you for the precious words you share with us here. You are quite a wordsmith!

      Keep on shining your Light!

      Reply
  5. Rajkumar Ratnasamy says

    March 26, 2020

    Thanks to you for those wonderful ides you have shared.Its very useful

    Reply
  6. Kiran Patel says

    March 17, 2020

    Very useful information in the video to help one understand personal responsibility around health and wellness.
    5 points are very helpful, I have overindulge on CORVID 19 updates, creating stress and anxiety. Thanks for reminding me importance of balance.

    Reply
  7. Jesse says

    March 16, 2020

    Very comforting and informative. Thank you.

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  8. Jonathan says

    March 15, 2020

    What fun watching your video. Your approach to Pasteur and Bechamp resonates with me. One of my favorite crowbars for mining truth (paticularly from scriptures) has long been the question, “How can both of these scriptures possibly be true?” I may have underutilized that question in other scientific matters. You clearly have not, and have brought the term “wholistic approach” up a notch.

    Mosquotoes breed in stagnant water, not swift flowing streams. I spent several of my formative years up on a ranch in British Columbia. Across the main field was a slow-moving slough, which bred myriads of mosquitoes. A couple hundred yards away was the Kettle river, where we could swim and fish for hours with nary a mosquito to bother us. Same mosquitoes, same water. Different water conditions was the primary importance.

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    • Will And Susan says

      March 18, 2020

      Jonathan,

      It’s always such an honor to have such a well studied person like you comment on our articles.

      We are in complete agreement here. The terrain of the host is such a powerful determinant on the outcome…

      Thanks for being here with us!

      Reply
  9. Maureen says

    March 15, 2020

    I appreciate the breakdown of 2 approaches. But this ignores herd immunity. You state that someone who is healthier doesn’t need a flu vaccine. However, being healthy doesn’t equal not getting infected – only that THAT person might not get very sick. So that “healthy person” can still infect someone who will succumb to that virus and perhaps die. They are carrying and spreading because they decided they don’t need a vaccine. I don’t think this is a smart message to convey. To use your path analogy, it should be underscored that we share a path with other people as far as communicable diseases, and need to keep that in mind.

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    • Will And Susan says

      March 18, 2020

      Thank you for sharing your point here Maureen.

      I think your argument has merit. Truly, we are all in this together.

      Reply
    • Terry says

      March 30, 2020

      Sorry Maureen,
      I personally do not buy into vaccines as the answer. The recent outbreak of measles last summer at Disneyland is one of many cases in point. MOST of the measles victims HAD BEEN
      vaccinated!!! Closer to home, my sister (70 yrs) did NOT get the flu shot ….her husband (71) DID get the vaccine. Guess who got the flu last week? Her husband,…….but not my sister. We’re
      being sold a “bad” bill of goods on vaccines. A
      host of independent studies have proven that
      vaccines damage your immune system over time. They’ve proven this conclusively with
      animals that are over-vaccinated!

      Reply
    • Amanda says

      April 26, 2020

      Aloha Maureen,
      It sounds like you’ve been watching too much “news” on your TV.
      Your buying the whole vaccination game pharmaceutical companies are selling
      Don’t fall for it Maureen!
      Thank you Will for sharing such important non fear based information!
      Mahalo

      Reply

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