Recent studies on satisfaction and purpose in life by Martela, Laitinen, and Hakulinen (2024) have concluded that these concepts may have a significant impact on a person’s longevity, suggesting that more factors contribute to a person’s health than perhaps previously thought. This idea is the crux behind concepts like holistic health, where you can combine various factors to find a better “you”.
However, if you’re asking, “What is holistic health?”, we’re here to help.
Below, we elaborate on the core elements of health behind this medical philosophy, explaining each of the concept’s five core elements and how they work together to help you with:
So, read on to get the help you need, wherever it is needed the most in your holistic lifestyle.
At Modern Holistic Health, we believe that holistic health is a crucial factor in identifying the root cause of issues. In short, it is an approach to ensuring one’s well-being that doesn’t focus solely on one area of a person’s life, such as a set of symptoms or their emotional state. Instead, we understand that each of these things can overlap and affect one another.
As such, we tend to describe a person’s complete “self” to understand what could be causing them to have problems, which involves five key areas:
Each of these synergizes to create a concept that defines who you are and what you need from life to achieve fulfillment. Failing to be healthy in any of these areas will not only impact that specific area of the body but could also drive issues in the others, depending on various factors.
As such, we believe that by viewing a person’s life as a complete whole, we can help them take action to prevent their well-being from faltering and to achieve long-term health.
We utilize various natural therapies, prioritizing them over prescriptions when safe, to ensure we harness the body’s natural processes and avoid unbalancing any of them, thereby causing more serious problems. Here at Modern Holistic Health, we also utilize the latest wearable tracking technology to help guide your progress in real-time, providing you with immediate feedback on your progress at any time.
Balancing each of these factors can help address many problems that one may face. For example, poor sleep and appetite can easily link, whereas social loneliness may cause anxiety or other mental health conditions.
Having a five-pillar plan to ensure you are healthy in all these areas helps you avoid being overwhelmed by any one of them.
The following is a summary of what they all are and what one can do to affect them.
Learning about your physical body doesn’t only involve focusing on your metabolic status. Instead, it can also impact your flexibility when it comes to choosing a safer diet, such as switching between carbs and fats for fuel in an attempt to control weight gain.
Some of the core elements in this area include:
Changing any of these may include journaling about changes you make in any of these areas. If we identify nutrient gaps and food sensitivities with this information, for example, we can then help you make changes to suit your needs.
At Modern Holistic Health, we may perform lab testing and then follow up with a telehealth appointment to discuss our findings and how they may be impacting your body. We take to heart that 89% of Americans have been satisfied with telehealth visits, according to CHG Healthcare, and learned from them to ensure that our own appointments are as impactful as possible.
If you do not wish to engage in lab testing or prefer more direct feedback, we may consider using wearable metrics to inform our testing methods. However, our goal is always to have the best information available to make informed decisions.
Some of the methods we may use to affect your physical health include:
While we will likely recommend only one change at a time to help track how much each one affects you, they could potentially all give you a much healthier outlook.
This area of holistic health focuses on how the brain informs you of how you feel, and how you can undergo various kinds of help to change your patterns of thinking for the better. For example, by using stress-reduction or emotional stability processes to help guide your attitudes or prevent you from having specific harmful thoughts. Speak with one of our experts to get the complete information on what exactly we can do for you in the long term.
All of these aspects of a person’s mind can often be complex, too, and we are only beginning to understand the myriad of ways that the brain performs its processes. By mapping a client’s thought processes and how they tend to impact their eating habits or interactions with others, for example, we can start to make recommendations on how they conduct themselves.
With recent studies concluding that mindfulness training can cut perceived-stress scores, it can have a significant impact on how a person responds to areas in life, such as:
When you work with Modern Holistic Health, we will perform tests to check for specific neurotransmitters or chemicals that indicate your brain is functioning in a particular way. We can then use this information to focus our recommendations moving forward.
Social isolation was recently found by US News to have a direct impact on the body’s makeup, affecting how well it can protect itself from strokes. Simply spending time with loved ones and the results of that interaction are a potent tool, and forming high-quality connections can give your health a substantial boost that you can carry forward in your life.
While it can often be harder to find ways to interact with others in 2025, online groups have emerged to fill that gap. As such, there are more ways than ever to find a set of peers with whom you can find a new connection.
Even something as simple as laughter can decrease cortisol levels, according to the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences, boosting both circulation and oxygen intake for the better. As such, positive experiences with other people can lead to a boost in the physical form, as well as ensure that the mind is supplied with the energy it needs to process concepts more easily.
As mentioned before, having a clearer sense of purpose in life can often predict a person’s longer life expectancy. While many people associate spirituality with literal religions, that is not always the case. Instead, spirituality is more about the concept of feeling connected to something larger than oneself, meaning:
Modern holistic health incorporates this concept into our coaching efforts, integrating health-related interventions with an individual’s belief systems. In doing this, we avoid dogmatic processes and can instead tailor our efforts to a person’s unique life view, making it much more likely that we can help them.
If we find that a person is missing this sense of value or purpose, we understand that this can then have a ripple effect, causing problems in other areas of their life. So, we will work on discussing this issue during future engagements to see if we can help someone reassess their values and find a way to reward themselves for making better decisions in their life.
The EPA now believes we spend around 90% of our time indoors, suggesting that the air quality in our homes can be just as important, if not more so, than that outside. As such, we may well question you about the internal environment of your home when investigating the cause of any issue you may have.
Methods of personal help we might recommend include:
What is holistic health? It’s a way we can help you discover the best version of yourself that you can be. At the same time, having five clear elements of your life can help you by providing a clear checklist of changes you can make, one at a time, to achieve it.
Modern Holistic Health utilizes these tools to enable you to take action that helps you achieve a better mind-body balance. Book an appointment to begin the process and discover how we can assist you.
