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We’re Back for Another Year!

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I hope you had a happy holiday season and a great start to the New Year. I’ve got plenty of great things planned for 2025 designed to help you get and stay healthy, and I’m going to start by reinforcing the Memo I sent a week ago in a slightly different way.

About 60 years ago, a new wellness movement was just beginning. I read an article about it and was fascinated. It was written by the then director of the Department of Vital Statistics in 1959, and while the article is several pages long, it was summarized in a chart.

Here’s the main idea. Traditional wellness relies on people taking care of themselves through diet, exercise, stress management, etc., if the environment allows it. Traditional medicine relies on treating disease through medications and surgeries. They are not opposites; optimal health requires both approaches, not the exclusion of one over the other. The key is that they both must be based on science.

The Department of Vital Statistics is now part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Whoever becomes the head of that department must understand that the wellness of the nation depends on continuing health and medical research; there can be no pauses or time outs. That person must also understand that wellness includes both approaches; we need to know more about personal health and the necessary healthy habits, but we also need continued research in medical approaches to treat disease. They are both critical to the health of our nation.

For your part? Your wellness begins with making healthy diet, exercise, and supplementation a part of your healthy habits, in addition to seeing your medical professionals on schedule. It all begins with one question:

What are you prepared to do today?

        Dr. Chet

Reference: Am J Public Health. 1959 Jun;49(6):786–792. doi: 10.2105/ajph.49.6.786

Happy New Year!

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The beginning of a new year! Even though calendars are man-made, the new year signals a time for new goals to be accomplished in the next 365 days. I’m sure that health goals are included in those goals. Getting fitter, getting leaner, adding muscle, improving balance and flexibility, and addressing digestive issues, but that’s not all. Lowering blood pressure and cholesterol and getting a solution for chronic joint pain. Addressing dental health to improve chewing­—so important for getting adequate nutrition. Don’t forget vision when glasses aren’t enough.

Some solutions can be found in diet, nutrition, exercise, and supplements, but they can’t solve every issue. Medications and surgery may also be required, because they can be a part of health as well. They are not competitors; they can complement one another.

As I see it, we all can do better on our end to optimize our health, and healthcare professionals certainly have room for improving how they treat patients. I’ll do my part by giving you the tried-and-true methods as well as the latest science so you can reach every health goal you set.

Happy New Year! Let’s make this the year you achieve your health goals. Together we can do it.

What are you prepared to do today?

        Dr. Chet

Happy New Year!

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Welcome to 2021! I’m looking forward to teaching you how to be healthier, leaner, and fitter this year—in other words, how to be the best version of yourself.

The first day of a new year is always exciting. What I’d recommend is that you use today as well as the rest of the weekend for reflection and analysis. If you want to change your diet, you have to know what you’re eating right now. If you want to improve your strength, you have to know how strong you are right now. We could go through every possible health goal, from managing type 2 diabetes to losing a significant amount of body fat, but it all starts with knowing where you are right now.

The way you end 2021 will not be the way that you begin it. Think of babies: they learn to hold their head up, how to roll over, and sit up. Then they learn to crawl and creep, then stand, take steps holding on to something, and finally those wobbly steps when they start the process of walking and then running. At each step of the process, they’re learning and building for the next step. One more thing: they fail. A lot.

Keep that in mind as you decide how you’re going to do what you need to do to make the best version of yourself in 2021. Approach it in a step-wise manner, and it starts with assessing where you are right now.

What are you prepared to do today?

        Dr. Chet

Happy New Year!

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Another year has begun, filled with our hopes and dreams of what is possible. It’s a time of setting goals, developing a plan, and then working on seeing those dreams become reality. Most of you probably have a revamped healthier and fitter body on your list.

The question is: what does that mean to you? How do you define health? How do you define fitness? The answers could be different for everyone. That means that you may need a specialized plan to reach those goals.

For 2020, I’m designing the information and programs you need to do just that. As the month and year proceed, I’ll tell you how I’m going to help you achieve those goals. One thing for sure is this: it will all come down to how you answer one question.

What are you prepared to do today?

        Dr. Chet

Happy 2015!

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For my first message of the New Year, I want to say this: resolve to take better care of your health in 2015. It’s the foundation for everything you do—how you perform at work, how well you take care of your family, how fully you support your friends, how well you serve the church and organizations where you volunteer, and how much you enjoy your life every day.

One more thing: thank you. Thanks for supporting the Messages, for attending my seminars, and for buying products at drchet.com. Most of all, thank you for trusting me to . . .

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