Why you may not be as healthy as you think

If I were to ask you if you were healthy, you would answer based on how you’re currently feeling.

So if you weren’t coughing, sneezing, dizzy or have a headache, you would probably say you were quite healthy. But having symptoms to an illness isn’t necessarily the only way to measure your health. There are many other ways our bodies try to tell us that something is wrong that, frankly, we ignore.

Health is measured in numerous ways, and doesn’t just fall on the presence of symptoms. Instead of relying on symptoms to determine your health, look at some of these signs of how your body is trying to tell you that you’re unhealthy.

Poor sleep or always tiredr
Our sleeping patterns usually are never associated with being healthy or not. We generally tend to link it to our daily lives and how things are going. But how we sleep, or how awake we feel throughout the day, can actually reveal how healthy we are.

When we are stressed, our bodies pump out cortisol. Usually by the time we are ready to sleep, cortisol levels should drop so that we are relaxed. When you can’t sleep, it could be a sign that your cortisol levels are remaining high and keeping your body in a “fight or flight” stage. Lack of sleep has been associated with weakening the immune system, so you become sick more often. If you don’t think that your irregular sleep patterns aren’t a sign of poor health, think again.

Likewise, if you are constantly tired, this isn’t a reflection of simply being busy. When you’re tired, it reveals that your body is “burned out.” Whether from activity, from stress, or simply by trying to function properly, tiredness is a sign of poor health. Pinpointing why exactly you’re tired is your first step to feeling better. Maybe your body is toxic from poor food choices, or you’re overexerting yourself trying to do too much, or you could have a thyroid problem. All of these are viable causes for tiredness and improving any of these areas can get you back on the right track to better health.

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