Green Health Live is the place for chemical free, all natural information on medicine, lifestyle and diet choices that can help improve your health and the health of the planet.
That's what our website is all about. We provide you with
great information, products and services. Our focus is on positive solutions and we present them in an entertaining manner. We all have a choice. We can choose to focus on the grim,
depressing news cycle or accentuate the positive and take action to make things
better.
We are:
Pro-Health: There are many factors in the modern world that contribute to illness. We focus on the things that will help make you healthy.
Pro-Sustainability: The time has come for meaningful change in our behaviors as citizens of this planet. We must be mindful of the impact our actions have. We focus on ways to live responsibly.
Pro-Solution: Enough of the fear mongering. We don't try to sell you things after scaring the crap out of you. Instead, we share knowledge so that you can learn how to make the changes that will lead to a happier, healthier and more rewarding life.
All of our articles, videos, products and services are devoted to helping you discover how to implement these things into your daily life.
What are the causes
of disease in today's world?
Most Come From Advances in Industry That Were Supposed to Help Us.
Unfortunately, the sad truth is; THEY ARE NOW OFTEN DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD.
In today's world, the biggest threats to our health and the health of planet come from three primary areas:
Industrial Medicine: Any
sane person would agree that our current industrialized medical system is not
working. Many pharmaceutical drugs have been shown to have dangerous side
effects and much of the research that was used to justify their use has been
called into question because it was fraudulent, misleading or important parts
of it were not revealed. If you look at the facts you can see that the big
pharmaceutical drug companies are usually more interested in profits than
health.
What's the solution?
True Conservative Health
Care:
First: Use Diet and Exercise: Before we reach for the prescription, let's make changes in the most important areas of lives: What we eat and how much we move! Take prevention seriously.
Second: Use Natural Modalities like Herbs, Acupuncture, Physical Therapy, etc.: When employed early, these treatment methods produce great results. They also have little to no side effects, so they won't cause additional problems for you later on.
Lastly: Pharmaceutical Drugs or Invasive Techniques Like Surgery Should Be Employed Only When Necessary: This is just common sense. We are not anti-Western medicine. Many advances in medicine are amazing and we are fortunate to have them.
However, if you really look at modern medicine critically, you will see that most drugs work by shutting down some function in the body. The body has these mechanisms for a reason. Just simply shutting down function is not a real solution.
Let's give you an analogy: this is like disconnecting your light switch after you discover
that you have problems with your wiring. You correct the problem temporarily,
but you are not addressing the root cause.
You can accomplish a
lot clinically using this model and live a much better quality of life in the process.
Industrialized Agriculture: The great irony of the 21st century is that the very innovation that gave us the luxury of having civilization as we know it is now causing unacceptable destruction of the planet. Industrial agriculture uses more land, water, oil and chemicals than any other industry and has already reached a point that can't be sustained. Biotech companies (like Monsanto) are poisoning the planet with toxic chemicals (like Roundup) and patenting seeds so that they can control the future of our food supply. Governments around the world are complicit in this wholesale destruction of the planet and our birthright and seem to always put business interests above our collective health and well being.
What's the solution? Permaculture.
Basically, this is holistic medicine for the planet.
Permaculture is a philosophy of land use that thinks about how to get the most out of our land while creating long term sustainable solutions that can help solve a lot of our current problems such as food shortages, drought, soil and water depletion.
The problems we have seen recently with the world's food supply is only the tip of the iceberg. Using this technology and philosophy we can conserve a great deal of water, oil and land and feed billions of people. And it doesn't involve returning to the drudgery of the 19th century farmers. It involves working much smarter and allowing your immediate environment to work for you so you have more time to enjoy life!
Learn all about this and discover you how you can easily
incorporate this into your life. Check
out some of our programs here.
Industrial Chemicals
and Petroleum: Research has shown that our bodies are reservoirs for toxic
chemicals. Many chemicals accumulate in our fat tissues and are stored there
for many years after exposure. This is called bioaccumulation. To give you a
sense of the scope of this issue; in the past 50 years an estimated 75,000
chemicals have been introduced into our environment, about 300 and have been
detected in human tissue, even in newborns.
What's the solution? Stop Using Products and Foods Made With These Chemicals and Stop Supporting the Companies That Make Them. Obviously, the best thing we can do is to eliminate our exposure to these chemicals. In order to do that, we have to stop using them.
In addition, the companies responsible for dumping these chemicals into our ground water, air and soil need to be held accountable for their actions. We need elected officials to stop protecting these corporations under the guise of "economic interests", because the truth of the matter is that the long term economic toll of their unscrupulous behavior is far worse than the modest costs of common sense regulation.
Learn how to
incorporate natural herbs, foods and supplements into your life to help
minimize the damage caused by these environmental toxins.
One nice side effect of this approach: we help to save the planet and ourselves.
