As the year rapidly ends, I want to thank you, my patients, who have taught me much about love and tolerance for pain and suffering. I see you going through your challenges, and this makes me realize how my challenges pale compared to yours. I have learned much from you, and I want to share some of these tips with all of you.

Little Changes Can Yield Big Results. 

There is a field of study in mathematics and physics called Chaos Theory. It is a work-in-progress understanding that seemingly chaotic complex systems can arise from underlying patterns, interconnections, constant feedback loops, and repetitions. Disease and sickness, especially chronic ones, appear to be messy, with many symptoms and multiple systems involved. But a lot of these chronic illnesses and suffering can be traced back to minor initial conditions that steered us off course, especially in our lifestyle. After many years of being off-course, we have moved far away from good health. Sometimes, we need to make quick wholesale changes to yank us back from the sickness pool. But most of the time, we can make minor tweaks to our lifestyles to reap significant benefits years later. The minor tweaks can be getting to bed half an hour earlier, stopping eating that sweet dessert every night before bedtime, cutting drinking from daily to every three days, or walking a few extra steps per day instead of driving a car. We do not need to wait for the new year to arrive to make that small step of positive change. If we develop a habit of regularly tweaking our lifestyle to include more small positive changes, we will become healthier quickly.