Body Management

Your body is a complicated symphony of systems working in concert with themselves to stay balanced. And you are the conductor who will determine how well they work together.

Isn’t Body Management and Weight Management the Same?

Weight management is primarily focused on energy metabolism and calories, whereas body management is much more holistic, necessitating more targeted involvement with our many human body systems.

However, the two are not mutually exclusive. Weight management also relies on optimizing body systems to work efficiently and harmoniously as well. Which is why we often coach the two in tandem.

Understanding Your “healthspan” & Why it is So Important

Advances in primary health care are helping people live longer, but not necessarily with better quality of life. After all, pills, shots, and surgeries only go so far. Did you know that the average life expectancy, or lifespan, has fallen for the first time in the U.S. nearly 3 years from almost 79 years old down to just over 76 years since January of 2020? There are many reasons for this, including of course the COVID pandemic and the rise of younger deaths from drug overdoses and violence. However, there is a correlation between the root causes of most premature deaths, and how someone treats their health throughout their life. It is no secret, for instance, that those who die from getting COVID-19 are primarily people with comorbidities (diseases), most often caused by obesity, which causes chronic inflammation, wreaking havoc on immune systems and slowing or impairing effective immune responses.

Recently, a new statistic has been recognized in the health industry, and it is called “healthspan”, which is how many years we remain in a healthy state, free from disease or disability. Often compared in tandem with the lifespan, the “Healthspan Gap” is the period in life where a healthy state gives way to morbidities and physical or mental disabilities until life ends. The goal is to have as long a healthspan as possible with as short a healthspan gap as possible. And hey, the longer the healthspan, the longer the lifespan! Currently and unfortunately, however, the average healthspan is only 66 years of age.

So what can be done to improve our overall quality of life?

The answer lies in an understanding of the roles and importance of our human body systems, how they are interdependent, and what we can do to keep them in peak performance and in harmony with each other to keep our total body in balance (homeostasis). At 3LIFE Wellness, we can help assess your current state and formulate a program that sets you on a path towards a high-quality long “healthspan”, no matter your age!

9 Body Systems You Can Improve for Better Health

Musculoskeletal

Our muscular and skeletal systems give our body its structure and allows it to function in motion, and is fused together with connective tissue. Our bones not only provide support, but also contains our marrow, the stem cell factory system for cellular creation that mixes with water to make our blood.
Circulatory

Also called the cardiovascular system, it is a system of organs that includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood which is circulated throughout the entire body, delivering vital nutrients and oxygen to all cells in the body and exchanging metabolic waste to be released by the body.
Respiratory

Don’t think your respiratory system is important? Try holding your breath. Oxygen, water, and other nutrients are invaluable to all human systems, as they are essential for cell energy development. Oxygen combines with nitrogen, carbon, & hydrogen to make proteins, the building blocks of cells, while also combining with hydrogen and carbon to create carbohydrates for energy production.
Digestive

The digestive system starts in the mouth with food ingestion, traveling through the stomach and intestines where enzymes and bacteria (gut microbiome) break down foods and fluids, absorbing nutrients for delivery by the circulatory system, while disposing of wastes.
Microbial

Did you know that along with the cells that make up our body, we also have a large, symbiotic community of microbes that live on and inside of us? It’s called our Microbiome, and they are just as important to our health as good cellular health. In fact, our gut bacteria have a direct connection to our nervous system, and are known to be a huge factor in our immune health.
Endocrine

The endocrine system is our body’s messaging system that creates and releases hormones through glands located in several areas of the body, regulatinging physiological and metabolic behaviors. The brain’s hypothalamus is the neural control center for the endocrine system.
Lymphatic

The Lymphatic system is a passive network of circulatory vessels and cell producing organs that help in the exchange of nutrients and white blood cells for immune support, waste filtering, fat absorption, and fluid balance through a fluid called Lymph. Our body’s movements help the flow of lymph.
Immune

The immune system is a complex network of organs, cells, and proteins that defend the body against infection from external pathogens (bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi), while protecting the body’s own cells, and facilitates the repair of damaged tissues. It remembers pathogens it has discovered so it can recognize and attack them quickly if they enter the body again.
Nervous

The Nervous System is our body’s electrochemical communication system. It runs our brain & body through sensory inputs & outputs along a vast connected system of peripheral and central neurons, and controls the body’s motions. It also provides us with the sensations of touch & pain, temperature, taste, smell, vision & hearing.