Squaring the Curve: Living Longer in the Wellness Zone

This book is about wellness. What it is. How to maintain it. How to recover it if it is gone. It is for those aspiring to wellness and seeking guidance on how to achieve it. A common belief is if you're not sick, you're healthy. Yet people who think they are healthy die from their first heart attack, suffer broken bones from stepping off a curb, and learn they have stage four lung cancer. Wellness is obviously something other than feeling healthy. This book asserts that wellness is cells that function properly. The body is comprised almost entirely of cells and connective tissues made by cells. Every cell has a master plan for its roles to perform and the tools to implement that plan. If every cell is functioning as designed, the body should be working perfectly. That seems to be the best description of wellness. Malfunctioning cells fail to carry out their roles. When enough cells malfunction, symptoms arise. There are things that we know about the body. There are things that we know we do not know. And there are things that we do not know what we do not know. I believe there are far more things we do not know than we know. The foundation of this book is on what we know about the body. Values of this book are often insights into what we do not know. Others may be interested in what I have learned. This is my attempt to share concepts and practices that I believe are important to maintain wellness.