What is Wellness?

A new generation of health trends that everyone should know!

What is Wellness?

with Female Doctor Sara Petch Prateungset. Assistant Director, BDMS Wellness Clinic

What is Wellness?

    Wellness is a holistic health care for both body and mind, focusing on prevention before disease occurs, and adjusting lifestyle with modern medical technology to take care of health at the same time. Wellness is not only about good health, but also about many other dimensions such as physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, social, environmental, and can also reduce the occurrence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Wellness healthcare is different from traditional hospital treatments or health care. How?

• Wellness healthcare focuses on prevention rather than cure, unlike traditional medicine that focuses on treating diseases. It focuses on protecting the body to be healthy.
• Wellness health care is the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle or a healthy and happy daily life in a sustainable manner. It's not just a treatment to feel better. 
• Wellness is a continuous holistic health care, not only occasional treatment to recover from illnesses and diseases, but also integrates health care into daily life so that everyone can have sustainable good health.

Who is Wellness suitable for, or what group of people is it particularly suitable for?

    Wellness care is suitable for everyone, all genders, and ages, because each age has different health problems, such as: 

• Childhood There are allergy problems. Vitamin deficiency
• Working people often have problems with brain care and freshness.
• Age 40 – 50 years old onwards should prevent the occurrence of various diseases from the deterioration of the body.

How can the benefits of wellness help reduce the occurrence of diseases or prevent the development of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs)?

    In Thailand, 77% of deaths from chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are caused by wrong lifestyle habits such as poor eating, not exercising, stress, and not getting enough sleep. Smoking, drinking alcohol Wellness health care is a holistic health care that focuses on behavior modification. Exercise, weight control to be within the standard by using medical technology to help solve problems more accurately. Therefore, it can reduce the incidence of communicable diseases. Therefore, it can be said that Wellness can help prevent illness and in some cases can stop the chronic symptoms of certain non-communicable diseases. So that we can be healthier every day.  

If you want to start taking care of your wellness, how do you start? 

    Dr. Saroipetch recommends consulting a doctor who is skilled in wellness care at a medical institution that is accredited and proven by scientific evidence, along with a team of expert doctors who provide advice on how to start taking care of your health in simple ways such as adjusting your eating habits, staying, sleeping, and sleeping hygienically. 

The doctor would like to reiterate that "good health starts with us."

Educational article by Female Doctor Saroi Petch Prateungset.

Assistant Director, BDMS Wellness Clinic