What is Vital Health Management? Everyone please read! :)

[shelley]

Hi and welcome to the Ask Shelley forum, a crucial part of the Vital Health Management System. I'm so glad you stopped by and are reading this now. This very well may be the most important and crucial choice you've made today.

The Vital Health Management System (VHMS) endeavors to take a comprehensive, eclectic, organized and proactive approach to health, quality of life and treatment of symptoms. Because most sites having to do with holistic health are really just marketing products, I saw a need for an unbiased, experienced consumer/researcher to offer the real facts in a more educational manner.

I hope that this site will become a grass-roots movement that offers an alternative to the insanity perpetuated by big business special interest groups. Orthodox medicine and food manufacturing companies have proven that they are out for profits, and at the expense of our quality of life. It's time we stop relying on them and start relying on ourselves.

Am I totally against prescription medicine? No! that would be extremist. I am merely all for people becoming more educated and aware, of finding a balance based on natural laws that cannot be circumvented or fully spoken for by the current scientific method and passing fashions of our generation.

The VHMS is organic - developed over many years through trial and error, much observation and research and real-world experience. It combines many modalities because no one has a monopoly on truth and no single one covers all aspects of well being.

To get started on your journey of discovery and well being, please start reading the FAQ, the forums, and feel free to ask questions. Be ready to drop some assumptions and beliefs that you have about what is healthy. In other words, keep an open mind.

The VHMS uses many Ayurvedic terms which are defined in the FAQ, and talks about Stages. The Stages are all about where you are with your health.

Cleansing Stage: You have symptoms that suggest Ama, or toxins, have built up and are causing pain, discomfort, degenerative disease, premature aging. This stage should be preceded by rehydration, as most of us are woefully dehydrated, has a special alkaline diet, and requires that you keep the paths of elimination clean.

Because cleansing is so debilitating, requires certain nutrients and people who need cleansing are usually highly deficient in nutrients, you should also be taking in tonics, foods and super-foods that are highly nutritious. This is called Tonifying.

Rebuilding Stage: Your symptoms are those of weakness and depletion. Your tongue is not coated, no signs of Ama, you are underweight. This always happens after a long cleansing stage or poor diet.

Maintenance Stage: You are pretty much symptom-free, vital, energized. Now you just have to maintain it. That means very short periods of cleansing, regular tonifying. Cheats are allowed and even encouraged. Life was meant to be enjoyed, after all!

The diagram below illustrates how the stages work together.