Get in the Game to Win

I was able to get out and play some tennis today, and that reminded me of my past because I haven’t been able to play as much tennis and practice tennis. So, I practiced during the match, although I’m getting better. But you know, I could be a whole lot better if I was practicing on a weekly basis instead of practicing during the actual match. Therefore, my team lost, so it reminded me of what my mentor said, “you can’t expect to be able to just jump into the game, jump into the match, and just start performing like wild and win the game.”

Especially if you’ve been sitting on the sidelines all this time. And so that’s what reminded me, you know, sometimes patients have, you know, not just patients but all of us. We have the wrong expectations; we haven’t been working on our health every single day. We haven’t been exercising.

When you go to seek help, like when you go to our clinic to achieve integrative health, we help you change your diet. We help you change your lifestyle and some people expect to see results just like yesterday. They expect to see results like instantly. But the thing is, they’ve spent their last five to ten years doing nothing and not just doing nothing, they’ve spent the last five to ten years actually doing stuff that’s actually detrimental to their health.

They expect that if you make this one change, if they come and make this one change, their health will immediately improve. They’re going to get all their desired health; they’re going to have high quality health instantly, and that’s not going to happen if you’ve been on the sidelines for years. You can’t expect to just jump into the game and start winning right. You have to put in the work. People put in the work.

Michael Jordan put in the work. He put in more work than any NBA player, any basketball player ever. And that’s the right, that’s why he’s the greatest of all time, and so you know, it’s the same with our health. If you haven’t put in the work for the past five years, you can’t expect to see a big change, a quick change in your health in just a few weeks.

You know you have to, you know, sometimes it’s just common sense, but when it comes to our health, for some reason, the world expects quick fixes. It’s like, “okay, I’ve been eating sugar my whole life; I’ve been eating donuts; I’ve been eating pizza; I’ve been eating junk food; and I’ve got diabetes” and “okay, I’ve been taking medication; it’s not helping me reverse my diabetes” but “now I’m taking more and more medications and my diabetes is getting worse.” “I’m pumping more insulin and it’s like, okay, I’m going to get help.”

Whether you go to a nutritionist or whether you come to our clinic to achieve integrative health, we help you change your diet. We do some acupuncture. We do some herbs; we do some nutrition. And instantly, you think that your blood sugar, your diabetes, is going to go away the next day.

Well, it’s not going to happen. I’m sorry, I wish it could, but that’s not how the body works. You spent years damaging your body. It’s going to take a while.

If you can reverse it, it may take a few years to reverse all the damage that you’ve done. Sometimes the damage is so severe that you can’t reverse it. So, it’s having the right expectations when it comes to your own health, it does not. I mean, our bodies are resilient, which is phenomenal, but at the same time.

When you damage it, you can’t expect it to just change to heal itself overnight, especially when you haven’t done anything to help stimulate it to heal itself. But here’s the good part. There is a way. There is a solution to achieve integrative health.

We are specialists at helping people restore their organ function so that their body can start healing itself again. They can reverse a lot of chronic degenerative disorders by themselves, but it does take time. If you expect that, you know that it’s going to take a few weeks. It isn’t okay, it’s, I’m sorry, that’s not how the body works.

I wish it was. I wish there was some magic needle, some magic herb that we could give our patients and then everything just reverses right like a magic wand. But it isn’t going to happen, and so the sooner you come to grips with that and understand that you’ve been on the sideline. You haven’t been in the game with your health; you’ve been on the sidelines for five to ten years. 

You need to get into the game and you need to do it on a daily basis. It is going to take time, but here’s the thing: we can help you shorten that time because we have the tools, processes, and protocols. If you need that help, give us a call. Let’s get back into the game of health, of your health.

Not anybody else’s game. Your game. Let’s get back into that, your game, which is your health, and let’s start changing things around. Alright, it’s going to take a lot of work, but we’re going to be here every step of the way to help you through it.

-Jimmy Yen