Preparing for our future health
What is Body Super?
We’re all familiar with the financial concept of Superannuation – making small financial contributions to our future wealth, regularly and confidently across decades of our working life, knowing that we’re fulfilling the crucial purpose of preparing for our later years when we might not generate much of an income, but will still need money to live and support our lifestyles. The “Super” bit is the kicker in this situation – what we put in now, potentially compounds over time, so that the more we put in, and the earlier in life we do it, the more interest we’re rewarded with down the track. It’s a compelling equation.
For our health, it’s much the same. We have a window of time, when we have a good chance to “earn” our health. Our middle decades, say 30-60 years of age, offer us our best opportunity to Superannuation our future health in readiness for the last few decades of life. What we put into our health over these years, can vastly change how well our body holds up when we’re older. Think ease of movement, keeping up with our activities, our grandchildren, travel, adventure, or even just washing, dressing and feeding ourselves each day – accumulating strain, injury and dysfunction over time can do crippling things to our imagined future. The biggest problem is that often by the time our experience of pain, illness or restricted function has affected our life in a significant way, remedying that pain or illness, easing our suffering and restriction, can be too difficult for the body to achieve.
Body Super is all about looking after ourselves now, rather than trying to fix and reverse things later. And just like wealth, dependable health takes time to grow. Feeling well later and moving well later, takes small, regular contributions to feeling well and moving well now. A compelling equation, where our contribution to feeling good now also helps us live life to the fullest later on.
It’s a simple message, a theme here at Caloundra Osteo that we share with our patients, through our care and advice within our various fields of expertise. Health is an individual thing, complex in all its elements of mind, body and soul. Body Super is an invitation for us to tune into our future health and imagine how we want to feel, imagine how we want to be living our life when we’re older, and discover things we can do now that will help make it all possible.