Building Health Like A Home
The Health and Home Analogy. One of my favorites!
Have you ever seen a house that looked beautiful on the outside - fresh paint, modern lighting, pinterest-worthy decor - only to learn the plumbing wasn’t installed properly and it was built on a cracked foundation?
That’s what can happen when we approach our health the same way.
When we focus on the external fixes like workouts alone, the next best supplement and quick fix diet trends - we aren’t focusing most on building a solid foundation. And just like a house built out of order, that kind of strategy eventually crumbles to the ground.
At the root of the foundation of our wellness is metabolic health. Our metabolism is the blueprint of the body’s home and the system that powers every room, outlet and appliance. This is so far from simply calories and/or weight loss. Metabolic health is the foundation for:
Consistent energy throughout the day
Hormonal balance
Healthy blood sugar levels
Mental clarity and mood stability
Longevity and vitality as you age
And so much more!
When your metabolism functions properly, your body runs efficiently - burning fuel, balancing hormones, cleaning up old, dead cells that no longer serve a purpose and lowering inflammation. But when metabolic health breaks down or becomes disrupted due to lifestyle factors, our environment or years of chronic stress, overtraining and underfueling - cracks start to show and in comes: fatigue, brain fog, stubborn weight gain, poor sleep, anxiety, early signs of insulin resistance and even chronic disease.
That’s why building the health foundation in the right order matters so much!
Think about it. If you install the hardwood floors before you fix the foundation of a house, you’ll eventually have to rip them up and start over. In health, the same principle applies. If you try to just lose weight before addressing gut health, detoxification, blood sugar and stress, it may work for a little while - but eventually, the method backfires and you have to start again.
The most crucial thing to understand about health is this…
The body has an order of operations.
And when you skip ahead, you’re asking it to do advanced work without the stability to sustain it. This is one of the main reasons why so many women feel stuck, exhausted or frustrated. Not necessarily because they’re doing all the wrong things, but because they’re doing things in the wrong order, without a clear cut blueprint that shows exactly what serves their unique physiology.
Remember. Longevity is BUILT - not bought. When it comes to health and our long-term well-being, there are no shortcuts. You can’t supplement your way out of a weak foundation or out-exercise a dysregulated nervous system. Longevity comes from building a body and a brain that feels safe, stable and supported - inside and out.
Doing things in the right order creates sustainability.
Doing them out of order creates more stress and less results.
You only get one home (body) to live in. And it’s the one you carry with you every single day.
So before you chase the next quick fix, pause and ask yourself…
“Am I building my health at the root? From the ground up?
Or am I skipping the stable foundation just to grasp at a quick fix?”