True wellness isn’t just about diet and exercise—it’s a holistic journey encompassing every aspect of your wellbeing. The Seven Pillars of Wellness provide a robust framework for achieving balance between mind, body, and spirit. From nutrition and movement to emotional health and detoxification, these core principles help you build a resilient foundation for long-term vitality. In this guide, we’ll explore each pillar in-depth, offering practical steps to help you feel your best every day.
There are seven pillars of wellness that are crucial for a healthy immune system. The 7 Pillars of Wellness is my framework for moving you into full wellness and wellbeing. The seven pillars are:
- Sleep
- Movement
- Environment
- Nutrition
- Mindfulness
- Body Balance
- Supplementation
THE REJUV TRIPLE-R-PRINCIPLE
The seven pillars need to be reviewed holistically to remove your toxic load, rebuild your health, and move you into restored health and wellness. We call this the Rejuv Triple R Principle. It is the first thing we do with clients when they see me or one of our consultants.
- REMOVE the physical, emotional & environmental toxins that are making you unwell.
- REBUILD at a cellular level so that all your organs, muscles, bones and 11 body systems function harmoniously. This will allow you to achieve wellness and reach your goals.
- RESTORE the foundations of your health so you move into optimum long-term wellness.
This framework is an excellent tool for reviewing health. We've developed an online self-help quiz that anyone can complete.
YOUR FREE WELLNESS PROFILE
Based on this framework, we have developed a quiz that lets you assess your work. It takes 3-5 minutes to complete, and you will receive your personalised Wellness Profile.
Your Wellness Profile identifies the top three pillars that need your attention to improve your health and wellbeing significantly. Take the quiz to get your tailored recommendations. Then, keep reading to gain insights into all seven pillars.
The seven pillars need to be reviewed from a holistic perspective so you can:
- REMOVE the physical, emotional & environmental toxins that are making you unwell.
- REBUILD at a cellular level so that all your organs, muscles, bones and 11 body systems function harmoniously. This will allow you to achieve wellness and reach your goals.
- RESTORE the foundations of your health so you move into optimum long-term wellness.
OUR MAIN LINE OF DEFENCE AGAINST VIRUSES & PATHOGENS
Our immune systems are our primary defence against harmful pathogens in our environment. Infectious diseases are caused by pathogens, which include bacteria, fungi, protozoa, worms and viruses. Our immune system is influential in regulating the inflammatory responses that help our body heal damaged tissues and fight disease. Like all of the 11 systems of the body, the immune system works at optimum when in balance.
Sleep – The 1st of the Seven Pillars of Wellness
Poor quality or limited regular sleep is linked to poor immune function. A short season over a few weeks of reduced rest due to work and life demands will not be a problem if you have a healthy immune system. However, you must proactively address r, poor quality and a limited amount of sleep over months and yearly to support this wellness pillar. [ READ MORE ]
Movement – The 2nd Pillar of Wellness
Regular movement and exercise are great for your heart and your immune system. Balance is the key, as too little exercise and too much exercise due to free radical damage can reduce the immune system.
Exercise support of your immune system refers to both the systemic (whole-body cellular response) and mucosal (mucous lining of the respiratory tract) response to an infectious agent, which follows a bell curve, with optimum being in the middle. [ READ MORE ]
Environment – The 3rd Pillar of Wellness
As our 3rd of the Seven Pillars of Wellness, we always walk a patient through the subtle ways our environments make us more toxic. Most know of the big players, but many are unaware of the small daily rituals that increase the toxic load, leading to inflammation and disease.
This pillar is more important than ever with the current pandemic. The air we breathe, water we drink, hygiene, food quality, wifi & EMK exposure chemicals we may be putting on our skin due to non-organic skincare. All such toxins have a considerable impact on our immune systems. [ READ MORE ]
Nutrition – The 4th Pillar of Wellness
Now more than ever, in our current environment, it is vital to use food as medicine to support all of our 11 Body Systems, including our immune system. Our bodies need wholefood nutrition now more than ever, clean water married in with herbs, spices & herbal teas. [ NUTRITION - Food as Medicine ]
Mindfulness – The 5th Pillar of Wellness
Fear and stress tend to shut the immune system down, and the body goes into fight or flight, thinking that real physical danger is in front of you. This is why the 5th of the Seven Pillars of Wellness is Mindfulness.
This instinctive response is excellent when confronted by a tiger, but it can also lead to emotional stress that many people face. [ Embrace Mindfulness ]
We have discovered that mindfulness has a subset of seven pillars. The pillars must be balanced to live with joy, pe, and & contentment.
The Seven Pillars of Mindfulness are:
- Self-Love
- Spirituality
- Relationships
- Nature
- Trauma
- Vitality
- ProsI'lltyy
I'll unpack all of these in another blog post in the future.
Body Balance – The 6th of the Seven Pillars of Wellness
Our skeletal and muscular systems are pivotal to our health. Like the scaffolding of a house, they need to be built on rock and not sand to weather the storms of life. Your posture and skeletal systems also have to allow enough space for your organs to work effectively, thus supporting your overall health and immune system.
Supplementation – The 7th of the Seven Pillars of Wellness
Overfarming has decreased the nutritional value of the food we eat. Historically, farms and farmlands would have more space, and the soil would be given a rest every six or seven years, crops would alternate, and the ground would have time to rest and increase the nutritional value it could add to the particular crop. Supplementation gives you the nutritional support you might be missing.
Rejuv Nutrition was also our response to an increasingly synthetic supplement industry; all our supplements, including The Super EIixir, are wholefood-based. I've written a separate blog post listing the wholefood supplements you need to support your immune system. How can you buy and balance them yourself or as ready-to-go supplements?
Free Wellness Quiz to Reveal Your Wellness Profile
How would you rate your health on each one of the pillars today? Is it better or worse than six months ago?
- Take our Free Wellness Quiz online today!
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- An overactive immune system could cause a flare-up of imbalances, including Hashimoto's, Rheumatoid arthritis, Type 1 diabetes, Lupus, sinusitis, allergies, food sensitivities, and Inflammatory bowel disease.
- An under-active immune system may cause certain diseases to manifest, such as cancer, shingles, hepatitis, tuberculosis & HIV and/or the body can come under attack from a virus and find it very hard to recover.
- The 2001 paper by Parkandn & Co, published in the Lancet,001, conveys an overview of the immune system and how a suppressed immune system can lead to the diseases and imbalances mentioned above.
