Hi! Welcome to my blog! My name is Nancy Elizabeth Luz, a writer and artist at heart, but for most of my life a practicalist out of necessity.

I was always a pretty good student and was told by more than one (OK many) of my teachers even in grammar school to pursue writing as a career. I’ll load some of my grammar school papers soon saved from childhood and you’ll see why. Even I am surprised by them!

But having grown up with very traditional parents who held very traditional views on what constituted a ‘good’ job for a woman, pursuing a career in writing was not encouraged. Neither was going to college as there was ‘no money’ for that.

As you can imagine, having not been born with that infamous silver spoon, I needed a job right out of high school. But I refused to give up on college so put myself through nursing school full-time, while working part-time as a grocery store cashier. I moved in with my then fiancé Paul and we got married shortly after graduation.

Nursing was a natural segway into adulthood as looking back (despite dreading babysitting) I always seemed to be taking care of someone or watching out for my friends. I was the level-headed one, the Mary Tyler Moore of the teenage set, liked by all my friend’s parents. An avid reader all my life I loved the written word, the smell of an old book, the feel of the pages between my fingers. Quiet time was my haven and books the flight of my soul.

But nursing-me was who I had become — a Registered Nurse for my first 15 career-years, helping patients hands-on through their illnesses and injuries, working with other nurses, doctors, nutritionists, and physical therapists to make people whole again. But I eventually decided that I wanted to help people on a more global scale — a whole bunch at once — rather than one at a time.

So I fit night school into my work schedule and got my MBA in business and marketing, spending the remainder of my employee years working in various hospital management positions and eventually in health care IT.

In these roles and because of my persistent love of writing, I volunteered to write whatever was needed — white papers, marketing brochures, business collaterals including direct mail pieces and advertising copy, and several analytical business unit presentations for senior management. Please check out my LinkedIn Profile for more information about that.

In my MBA years as a Director and Manager in the acute care hospital setting I quickly learned what health care had become. A business, and big business it is. When I was a young nurse the patient was the focus — the reason we were all in it — some days up to our eyeballs in you can only imagine what!

Today, health-care-the-business is managed by insurance companies, health care provider profit margins, and the pharmaceutical industry (everyone should read Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies by Greg Critser). These players obscure what is truth in health and wellness with patients becoming lost in a sea of swirling marketing tactics and insurance regulations.

We have lost sight of the human aspect of care, ignoring those basic truths of health and wellness that we can personally control, without having to rely on prescription drugs and quick fixes that are too often temporary.

Common sense has lost its footing.

So, do we really need another blog to add to this swirling sea of ‘what’s best for you’?

Yes, I believe we do!

What makes The Biological Human different is its foundation. The information in this blog will only be shared after careful scrutiny. As a nurse/marketer I have learned over the years through direct experience how to apply strategic analysis to the business of health and wellness marketing and get to the truth, the information you and I are searching for.

I believe that body, mind, and spirit combined are who we are and each relies on the other for wholeness. Traditional healthcare, traditional western medicine ignores this Trilogy and compartmentalizes rather than unifies the human ‘being’. When one area suffers, the others suffer in turn. That is why The Biological Human was born.

Empowering Wholeness is my mission.

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