Normal vs. Average
You weigh yourself on the scales. You take the temperature of your child. A doctor takes your pulse and measures your blood pressure. These measurements are compared with hundreds of other people from which averages are obtained. Which begs the question, is average normal?Averages have a place, but they can distort reality and treat us as if we were mechanisms, like a wristwatch. Most watches don’t know when you’ve changed time zones. Or that daylight savings time has ended. In other words, your wristwatch doesn’t have the intelligence to adapt to the environment. But your body does.
That’s why we don’t see fevers, elevated blood pressure or other such findings as the problem. They’re just signs that the body is adapting to something. What’s really going on? Is this a recent problem? A lifestyle issue? The result of a new stress in your life?
We’re interested in you, not just your symptoms. Because what’s normal for you may not be normal for me.
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