CANADIAN PHYSIQUE ALLIANCE JANUARY Magazine | Page 84

The only way to truly measure how your
health may be doing is through testing.
Routine bloodwork to determine organ
health, vitamin and mineral
deficiencies, gut health and many more
markers can be crucial to ensuring you
are in the best possible physical health.
It is not wise to think, “Well, that stuff
happens to other people, not me.” If
this is your mindset, you may be lucky
and this could be the case, but you
don’t want to be wrong and one day it is
too late. Of course, we can mitigate a
lot of the negative stressors that are in
our daily life through proper nutrition,
exercise, supplementation and lifestyle
protocols, but this is never a
guarantee. 
MENTAL HEALTH
Now that we chatted about physical
health, let’s talk about the other side of
the coin which works in correlation with
our body. That is our mental health.
Mental health has gotten a lot more
awareness over the last decade as it
was a very “under the rug” subject prior
to this. Many people deal with mental
health illnesses and it is reported that
34% of high school students in Ontario
report a moderate to severe level of
psychological stress such as anxiety or
depression.