Dale Partridge - The One Thing Chronically Sick People Want - Dale Partridge

In this episode, we discuss chronic illness and why it's important to have a conversation about chronic illness in our generation. Why is it important for us to talk about it? What are some of the most common chronic health conditions that affect us and why do we need to address them?

00:00:00.000 Why do you think, or why did you think it was important to have a series on chronic illness?

00:00:06.340 Yeah, so chronic illness is something that's plaguing more and more people today. I think

00:00:13.540 that I have some stats here. I think it's the 44% of older millennials born between 1981 and 1988,

00:00:20.680 which is us. You're 86? 85. 85. Okay, we're both 85. And, you know, that are in that category,

00:00:28.780 44% are having been diagnosed with at least one chronic health condition.

00:00:34.020 That means like our age range,

00:00:35.740 almost half and I would say arguably half because there's other studies that

00:00:39.960 have showed more right of the people in our age range have something going on.

00:00:44.920 Yep.

00:00:45.880 And, you know,

00:00:47.000 we all look at our grandparents who,

00:00:49.500 you know,

00:00:50.760 eat TV dinners and smoke cigarettes and live until their nineties.

00:00:54.600 And they're like food allergies,

00:00:56.880 you know,

00:00:57.340 what do you you know pansy you know or whatever right yeah and so uh another poll said 50 percent

00:01:04.500 of millennials have at least one food allergy right i mean look at our restaurant world you

00:01:10.860 know look at whole foods and sprouts yeah and you know i just i'm not kidding yesterday i just spent

00:01:18.660 $150 buying low histamine unaged beef from a farm in San Diego that essentially, well,

00:01:31.020 that's at least where their packing plant is, that sends out this, you know, specific

00:01:36.720 health. Very, very niche health condition. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They make meat for people that

00:01:45.840 struggle with mast cell activation syndrome, which most people don't even have to think about.

00:01:49.240 Yeah. Yeah. And, and, and so this is a weird world that we live in. Yeah. Um, I always remind

00:01:53.820 people that we are the only generation that grew up without organic food. I mean, every generation

00:02:00.160 before us, I mean, maybe sure the seventies and sixties were kind of brutal, but I mean,

00:02:04.640 organic didn't have to be a thing because everything that was edible was organic.

00:02:09.040 organic yeah yeah yeah and so this is we we are certainly eating the worst food yeah having the

00:02:15.840 worst clothing having the worst environments yes uh to live in in a toxicity levels than any other

00:02:24.900 generation so there's something going on here i think everybody knows like why is everybody that's

00:02:29.940 young sick yeah and some people talk about vaccines some people talk about you know air

00:02:35.360 pollution. Some people talk about the food products. Some people talk about the pharmaceutical

00:02:40.040 industry. Sure. Some people talk about air quality and environmental toxins and plastics. And so

00:02:47.300 there's a lot of factors. All play a part. All play a part. You know, so again, back to this

00:02:54.360 question, like why do I think it's important for us to have this conversation? There's two quotes

00:03:02.440 i want to share i don't know who said these quotes but everything is super important until

00:03:06.560 you're sick then you realize there was only one thing that was really important which is your

00:03:11.600 health now i know this is probably a secular quote so we know that that there's other things

00:03:16.880 that are important but you get the emphasis of the of the quote another one was quote a healthy

00:03:22.720 person wants a thousand things the sick person only wants one yeah last night i was um had the

00:03:31.860 privilege to pray over a member of our church. His mom is in the last days of her life. And I

00:03:41.680 got a chance to pray over her and she is dying of cancer and she was in the living room of

00:03:50.380 this church member's home and she can't talk really. She can open her eyes. She can maybe

00:03:56.200 whisper something. And I was praying over her and she was tearing up as she was praying. She's still

00:04:01.440 feeling she's still understanding but the thing that she really wants at that moment

00:04:07.620 is just the one thing is just to be healthy again yeah we all take that for granted we do and so

00:04:14.520 there is certainly a discussion to be had around the christian um you know i'm the last guy that's

00:04:22.960 going to go i'm the advocate for self-care okay like i'm not that guy but what i am going to say

00:04:28.460 is that I believe it's important

00:04:30.380 that we are stewarding our health

00:04:34.060 in a way that allows us to be productive

00:04:37.180 and fruitful for the kingdom of God.

00:04:39.660 I'm not the guy that's like,

00:04:41.440 go do the gym selfies

00:04:42.580 and make sure that you're like obsessive

00:04:44.760 about supplementation or, you know,

00:04:47.680 I'm not like the fitness genre dude either.

00:04:52.200 I'm not trying to, you know, look sexy.

00:04:55.500 You know, my wife already thinks I'm sexy.

00:04:57.300 So I'm trying to just get healthy and stay healthy.

Dale Partridge - August 30, 2023

The One Thing Chronically Sick People Want - Dale Partridge

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