recovery

The first of the 3 pillars. Hallucinations and psychosis occur from 48-72 hours without sleep with your brain pulling the emergency handbrake along the way.

Your body can only last without food for about 40 days without kicking the bucket and only up to 5 days without water.

Recovery allows us to continue, not just in our exercise and performance, but in our everyday lives. Whether it is sleep, nutrient sufficiency, healing or medication, recovery allows us to take that one further step every day.

Needless to say, adequate recovery from a combination of factors plays a huge role in our short and long-term health.

EXERCISE

“If exercise could be packed into a pill, it would be the single most widely prescribed and beneficial medicine in the nation.” – Dr Robert Butler.

Through our clinical and community experience and the purely immense amount of literature, we believe the act of self-exertion is one of the most effective tools that we have in our arsenal to address almost every aspect of health. Our practitioners can personally vouch for how exercise and physical activity has made huge impacts in their own lives.

From sleep length and quality, to the confidence to walk up a flight of stairs without the fear of falling all the way back down, the saying “movement is medicine” is worth it’s weight in gold.

Activity

While activity is incredibly important, it is important to note.

Activity and exercise are no the same thing.

The act of exercise is to exert yourself to perform a task more difficult than the requirements of your daily life. Activity is all the items within your life up until that point.

This isn’t just in focus of physical activity, but mental as well. It’s all too common where we see loved ones and individuals we’re used to be around suddenly retired or stop going to social gatherings, then begin a spiral of reduced function and diminishing capacity.

There is a  saying that is common within the health sphere and each and every day that passes we are more and more convinced of it’s truth.

You use it or you lose it.

LIFESTYLE

Lifestyle, the tricky one. This pillar encompasses many things (too many for this short summary). It incorporates various aspects such as daily activities, nutrition and food choices, interests, values, behaviours and our ability to respond to the daily stressors of life.

Both recovery and exercise have colloquially been a part of lifestyle, however, we have found that their significance is diminished when they are combined under this one pillar. Thus, what remains in lifestyle is nutrition and psychological health.

Now, while we acknowledge the significant importance of mental health, we are by no means experts in psychology and promote adequate care from external practitioners.

Nutrition on the other hand, well that’s our bread and butter! We acknowledge that food plays an impact on almost every aspect of our day and adequate nutrition supplies the building blocks for a long and healthy life. Balance is a hard thing to achieve, we intend to make it easy.