Your Money and Your Health

By Alice Lane

How does money impact your health? We know money can't always buy you health. If you have a problem it can help you fix the problem or the symptoms but can it buy you health? First you have to determine what the definition of health is for your life. Health is defined by Wikipedia as "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Using that as the definition for this article, let's begin to see which part of it money can help with or hinder.

Let's say you go to a Manhattan Illinois hospital to see about buying health. First they may think you are a little infirm but we won't even open that topic yet. What they would probably do is put you through a series of tests to see how physically healthy you are. What your heart rate is, your blood pressure, do some blood work to see how your cholesterol is, ask your some questions about your family and maybe do some more extensive tests if there is a history of a major disease like heart disease or cancer in the family. They may put you through some physical tests to get your heart rate up and ask you a series of questions about your physical activities on a weekly basis. If you don't tell the truth here it may throw the doctor off a little in his or her diagnosis. Let's say your tests all fall into the normal category. Is that good enough? Let's say you want to run a marathon now. Is there more the doctors can check or do you now go to a trainer. Or better yet you look for a place where money really can make a difference. You might be able to find a very specific training facility in the Illinois healthcare system that monitors your training with all sorts of technology to make sure you are in peak condition.

Other places where money can help is to find doctors and facilities that monitor every aspect of your body. They may actually look at your blood to see how it stands up to healthy blood. They can work with you on your mental outlook on the world if you are not happy with how you see it. There are people who will help you with your social life also. Once you define what your perfect life will look like, there are plenty of people who are willing and may even be trained to help you. The truth is though that no matter how many specialists you see in hospitals in the Chicago area you own your health and no matter what you pay, you are the only one who can truly do the things you need to so that you can truly be healthy in your mind and body. Money can help and if you don't have much money you may worry about it and then it can hurt. But no matter how much money you do or don't have, it is possible to be healthy in body, mind and spirit if you are willing to work at it.

Even by going to a Manhattan Illinois hospital to be checked out or if you find a specialist in the Illinois healthcare system - you own your health and none of the hospitals in the Chicago area can do it for you.

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