1. A Renewed Mind
- This Truth does not depend on your religious affiliation or anything. The entire Personal Development Industry is based on the staggering implications of this one historical event, yet they largely deny the Source of ‘The Secret’. If total complete, true health is what you desire, you’ve got everything to gain by listening up real close.



- What you believe about your health determines the state of health you experience.



- You’ve got to believe that God has already healed you, and you’ve got to gratefully receive this healing. This keeps you health conscious, see. Then back up your faith with the rest of the pillars below. Faith MUST be accompanied by ACTION, see, else you’re wasting your time. If you don’t receive God’s gift of healing don’t blame him if you stay sick.

This action starts from your mind – what do you think about? Do you focus on illness and symptoms, or do you focus on the fact that ‘By His stripes I AM healed’? Whatever you focus on becomes your reality. That’s why the very first pillar of a healthy lifestyle starts with a living, active faith/belief in what God has done for you and now offers you freely. Focus on this and you will see it come to pass in your life. When you focus on what God has done for you and on receive it by faith and gratitude, you CANNOT suffer from depression, anxiety (He gives perfect peace) or any mental illness – it’s just not possible. Stress management becomes a doddle.



This is more than just ‘Positive Mental Attitude’, folks! This is the mindset that gives your self esteem and self confidence a turbo boost. Focus on the who God says you are and what He’s done for you. That mindset is incredible. Then back it up with more action as below.

Action also continues with your words – how do you speak? In Mark 11:23 we are told to have faith in God, speak to the mountain and tell it to move and it will move. In another place it says ‘whose report will you believe’? When the doctor tells you you have cancer or diabetes or any other disease, right at that moment when you hear the diagnosis you have the CHOICE to believe his report and live in fear (thus sealing your early death) or to believe God’s report (I am healed), think it, speak it the go ahead and follow the advice you’re given by your doc and you will beat the sucker. I can testify from my experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011 that this this Truth really works to set you FREE from sickness and disease.

Action most definitely continues with the rest of the 8 pillars, so see below.

2. Adequate Hydration
- You must drink enough water for your body size, each day, in order to function optimally.

- Dehydration causes many symptoms such as headaches, body and joint pain, heart burn, etc. Don’t treat these symptoms with drugs – treat them with water! If you’re well hydrated (see below) and you’ve still got the symptoms then go see a Doctor.

- Drink (33ml x your body weight in kg) of water each day. More if you exercise or drink anything that dehydrates you eg caffeine-containing drinks, alcohol, etc.




3. Adequate Nutrition
- You must eat the right types of healthy carbohydrates, healthy fats, healthy proteins, in a proportion that depends on your ‘metabolic type‘. No one ‘diet’ fits all.

- Adequate nutrition shall be your medicine, as Hippocrates wisely said all those years ago. Nutritional medicine is true Preventive Medicine.

- You must also take high quality, comprehensive, complete and balanced nutritional supplements daily, to provide optimal levels of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants for your cells.

- According to 2 reviews published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in June 2002, “…it appears prudent for all adults to take nutritional supplements.”

- So start eating a healthy balanced diet, PLUS take high quality nutritional supplements daily.

- What constitutes a healthy balanced diet? What are healthy carbs, proteins and fats? Sign up for the FREE Health & Success newsletter at www.doctorkem.com to find out!

4. Adequate Physical Activity and Posture
- You must exercise regularly, and your exercise program must include aerobics, strength training and flexibility exercise.

- At least 30 minutes of aerobic exercise at least 3 times a week, strength training with weights for at least 20 minutes every other day (check out my health blog for pictures of 6 simple strength training exercises you can do at home), stretching for flexibility daily.

- If you are strapped for time, you could achieve an equally or more effective workout, by practising High Intensity Interval Training (where you work out at your fastest possible rate for a minute, then slow down for 2 minutes, and repeat the cycle up to 8 times – or you maintain your speed of movement but increase the intensity or resistance you’re working against)…or you could invest in ‘Acceleration Training’ with a vibration plate: with this piece of equipment you can achieve in 10 minutes what you’d normally achieve in a 45 minute workout…

- Whatever you choose to do, start today, don’t delay! Discipline will bridge the gap between your dreams and their realisation so get that butt moving!

- You must maintain correct posture at all times as well. Images of examples of good posture are found on my health blog over at www.doctorkem.com.

- To get you started on regular exercise, here’s my 12-Week-Jumpstart-To-Exercise post.




5. Adequate Oxygenation
- You must breathe well enough to ensure your cells have enough oxygen for you to function optimally. Many other benefits of being well oxygenated (see FREE newsletter when you sign up!)

- This includes deep breathing exercises and laughter.

- Now you know why laughter is like medicine! So find reasons to laugh each day.

- Do daily deep breathing exercises. An example is described on my health blog.




6. Adequate Sunlight
- Vitamin D is now known to do more than just give you strong bones and teeth: it affects the functioning of most every cell in your body, and boosts your immunity, therefore a host of illnesses occur when your levels are lower than normal. Certainly if you feel ‘tired all the time’, get your doctor to add this to the other blood tests they’re doing to see if low levels are contributing to your symptoms.

- Pregnant women also MUST have their Vitamin D levels checked as low levels have not only been associated with hypertension in pregnancy, but are also known to lead to deficiency in the baby, with sometimes serious health consequences for the baby.

- You must ensure you have optimal levels of Vitamin D (ask your doctor to test for ’serum (25, OH) Vitamin D’ levels. If insufficient, you need to be taking 2000IU of high quality vitamin D3 (colecalciferol) daily; or if deficient, you need to start off taking 10000IU of Vitamin D3 daily, then go have your blood levels tested again after a month on the supplements to make sure your level’s improving.)




7. Adequate Rest
- You must get enough sleep each night. A lot of your body’s restorative and growth processes take place while you sleep. Certain hormones are released at night while you sleep, to aid in the said processes.

- Just as a point of interest, inadequate sleep has been linked with weight gain among other health risks…

-’Experts’ seem to agree that 6-7 hours of sleep minimum per night, are enough for most adults. Go with what your body asks of you.




8. Support: Receive support, Give support
- Studies show that being part of a support system helps you maintain a good habit. Studies also show that people in a stable relationship are generally healthier than those who are not. Also, a strong support system is invaluable in the event that you receive devastating news from the doctor – you don’t need sympathy in such an event, you need encouragement and empowerment, which the right type of support group can give you, and which you can give to your friends in their time of need.

-’Support’ could be in form of a spouse/partner, friends, coaching group, Personal coach, church fellowship, etc.

- You must be plugged into a proactively support system if you are to establish, build and maintain 8 strong Pillars for your Healthy Life. Isolation is bad for your health! You’ve got to have at least someone you can confide in and offload/share your burdens with. ‘No man is an island’ may be cliche, but it’s true. We were not created to be loners. And disease (either mental or physical) ALWAYS results when we go against the way God designed us to function, as a general principle…

- You should also seek out ways to be a source of support to others. Give of your time, talents, money, to those in need. This is a powerful therapeutic habit. Certainly does wonders for you if you suffer from depression: it’s hard to feel depressed if you’re focused on others and what you can do for them…(this mindset ties in with the first pillar, however the taking action bit of it is under Pillar 8.). Seek ways to bless others and you too will be blessed: it’s an undeniable and irrefutable spiritual law.

If you find yourself feeling unwell, go through the above 8 pillars and honestly ask yourself where you’ve gone wrong. Contact me if you need help in working through this.