Happy Mindset Monday! 😎
Last week I had my first physical in my 60s.
And things went great! Maybe I will elaborate in the future, but two big takeaways:
💥 I’m on ZERO meds.
💥 My problematic knees have never felt better.
But my physical, as well as some conversations that I’ve had with some of my peers recently, got me thinking.
When your doctor says…
“Everything is in normal ranges”,
What exactly does that mean?
Normal for what? Normal for me? Normal for the population of the United States? Of the world? Is normal good enough?
So I started doing a little research and frankly, (and maybe a little scary), I couldn’t really find a great answer.
My non-doctor summary of “normal” goes something like this:
“Normal” simply means that you don’t have anything bad enough to require immediate medical attention – medicines or surgeries.
Normal does not mean healthy.
Normal does not mean that your trajectory is going in the right direction.
Normal does not mean that you are free of concerns.
And it certainly doesn’t mean “optimized” for this final third of my life.
To me “normal” means “average”. (Perhaps that’s not correct, but that is how my mind perceives it.)
I remember being an adolescent and someone stating that “average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top”. 🤔
That really stuck with me, and I have zero desire to be average. I don’t want my marriage to be average. I don’t want my life to be average, I don’t want my faith to be average, and I don’t want my health to be average.
As I recently read:
“In my experience, just because labs come back without any red flags doesn’t mean we’re in an optimal place health-wise, and oftentimes, we can feel it. Traditional Western medicine-practicing doctors will usually move on once labs “prove” nothing is wrong. Most reference ranges for lab values are based on the current adult population—with more than half living with at least one chronic illness. By taking averages from a group that includes unhealthy individuals, are those “normal” ranges really normal at all?”
“with more than half living with at least one chronic illness.” WOW. Again, that sentence wants me to steer as far away from “normal” and “average” as humanly possible.
So what do you think?
Is normal good enough for your health and fitness?
Would you like to do at least a little bit better than that?
I hope by now you know my feelings on this. And it goes way beyond getting shredded for the beach!
And so much of this is within your control!
This is how we do LIFE! 💪🏼
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