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To many, this is no more than common sense. If we do not feel right, suspect that we have underlying health issues or think there may be some harm that will come from living in a healthy way, we may simply table the decision to begin. Only a fool would do otherwise, so we think. (Yet what will we be doing in the meantime that is supposedly so much better?)

Of course, many who are in this predicament defer to their doctor. This person's judgment is thought to be superior, because of training and perhaps a recent battery of tests. Therefore, whether we are able to proceed with a healthy lifestyle or not is generally left to his or her discretion.

In today's world, such precautionary behavior is considered mature. It is expected of adults and is generally praised by friends and relatives. Deciding to proceed on a course of health action without this counsel is deemed dangerous and generally called "head-strong." 

Perhaps if we have just recovered from a serious operation, we should make certain that our present state will indeed warrant the strain of daily exercise even if this means merely walking around the block after dinner. Clearly recovery from a recent severe knee injury could make walking not only painful but ultimately injurious. Then too, vitamin consumption could be problematic, if one is taking certain prescription drugs. For instance, too much Vitamin C could cause diarrhea if taken in massive of quantities. That could escalate the effectiveness of  the latest stool softener. Furthermore, a low fat low carbohydrate diet could be problematic, if is necessary to maintain a certain calorie level for recovery from atrophy for instance.

While caution in these areas may seem excessive, it is possible that an untimely start for a fitness lifestyle could negatively impact the expected effect of more traditional procedures. This is the  presumed reason that we are not allowed to do anything except eat the provided meals and remain in our beds when being treated in a hospital scenario. Perhaps this is best. After all, the procedures done in a hospital are in fact standardized, carrying with them various expectations based upon certain actions. Introducing a random variable (especially of the vitamin or herbal variety) into the equation could alter the outcome.

The trouble is that anything other than what the MD knows is thought to be bad. Sadly they, for the most part, know nothing about herbs and vitamins, which they think are a waste of money. That is why they insist upon the brown bag disclosure.This is the container which is filled with all of the herbs and vitamins being taken, Of course, It is assumed that these will need to be left at the MDs office if ongoing therapy is to be agreed to.

To be consistent with standard wisdom, it should be advised that this MD inspection be gone through if we feel that an MD's help is truly warranted. That is only fair. They need to know what they are dealing with if they are going to do what they do. But, it also should be cautioned that going to the MD is generally not our independent decision alone.That is to say, we almost automatically make an appointment instead of rigorously asking ourselves whether we should. Why is this? Are we that convinced of our inability to assess our own healthiness, that we have to check with some more knowledgeable individual?

Again, if we have just recovered from major surgery that may be best. At this point our critical faculties may be at their lowest and we may not know the full extent of what we have been thorough. But is this, in fact, where we are at on the very day that we decide to start a fitness lifestyle.

More than likely, it is not. Few of us have just recovered from major surgery. Consequently, we really may be guilty of hiding behind supposed conventional wisdom to justify our own resistance to doing something entirely different This is normal, as change is hard on people. It is especially so when one trades the standard American lifestyle (of grocery store food, sedentary habits) for a fitness lifestyle (of regular exercise, proper diet and supplementation.)

Whence, asking if we are healthy enough to be fit is little other than rhetorical. That is because we ought to know if we really need an MD's advice. That is to say, if we have not spent a few days agonizing over "what ails us,"  we have not "done our homework." It must be remembered that we (even if its only our insurance companies) pay their bills, not they who regulate our lives. Besides, too few MDs practice the very things that will make us the healthiest , namely a fitness lifestyle. Therefore, how could they possibly know if that were best for us?

To paraphrase an ancient author "Render unto the MD the things that are the MD's and unto yourself those that are yours." That may be a bald statement in today's America, but it may also need to be said far more than once.