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The Proactive Health Trends Indicator or PHTI is a way of quantitating your natural capacity for health and wellness. The PHTI reflects what your future health status will be if you keep everything about your life the same. The PHTI was created with the philosophy that we must never take good health for granted. Instead, we must be intentional about defending time for healthy living. We must track the most important information and we must focus on practical and actionable small steps today.
Within the Proactive Health Trends Indicator, there are four trends with characteristics that can be standardized. It is important to understand that health is not an unchangeable status. We are always either trending toward or trending away from ideals.
While none of us claims to have the goal of illness, when we are not proactive in protecting our capacity for health and wellness, we can fall into the criteria that leads to an illness state. Illness is present whenever we feel unwell, discontent with our sense of ourselves, or regular follow up in a medical office is needed to improve a health metric.
PreIllness happens when we take well-being for granted. We rely on being young at heart rather than embracing the truth of physiologic aging. We stop paying attention. This leads to an in-between state that doesn’t quite warrant medical attention but isn’t our best selves either. PreIllness is the trend that occurs just before we must seek regular medical attention to prevent further decline.
Most of us should desire health. Healthy people maintain their weight, protect healthy bones, enjoy good food and people, and thrive in life. The healthy body is able to feel energetic and the healthy mind feels secure, playful, and hopeful. Health results from a set of mini habits that prevent disease. More than the absence of problems, good health is a reward for activating the body’s natural programming for homeostasis by investing enough time in the prime components of well-being.
Fitness is a trend that confers additional benefits beyond health such as longevity, quick thinking, and a positive mood on most days. Beyond an athletic mindset, strength, and endurance, Fitness means thriving professionally and personally through great relationships.