Sickness, Wellness, Fitness: How Catalyst Improves Health
The Catalyst · Chris Cooper
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Show Notes
In the world of medical science, there are many widely-recognized "optimal ranges" that indicate health and wellness. But these numbers on doctors' charts require more than an easy one-time solution.
In the last episode of The Catalyst, Chris Cooper explained the importance of ensuring that your "healthspan" lasts as long as your lifespan. In this episode, he expands on the importance of fitness, and how the sickness-wellness-fitness continuum fits into your pursuit of a lengthened healthspan.
In recent years, newly developed pharmaceuticals and technology are being used to bring our metrics to optimal levels. While these might save your life once, they offer nothing to improve your healthspan or quality of living. The key? The pursuit of fitness.
So how can we jump the gap from sickness to wellness to fitness? Chris explains the importance of striving toward the fitness range of the arc and how anyone can do it to earn a longer and better life.
00:31 - Explaining the sickness-wellness-fitness continuum
01:05- Using metrics and optimal ranges to determine our place on the continuum
02:07 - Using fitness to improve these metrics
06:22 - The dangers of expanding lifespan without improving healthspan