Get Healthy or Get Dead
Rebuild Your Health. Reclaim Your Independence.
A practical guide for navigating modern health challenges and reclaiming ownership of your well-being.
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Why I Wrote This Book
After more than two decades working in hospitals, operating rooms, trauma centers, and intensive care units, I saw firsthand what happens when people wait until a health crisis forces them to act.
The healthcare system is designed to respond to emergencies. It is far less effective at helping people build the habits, knowledge, and resilience needed to prevent them.
Get Healthy or Get Dead was written to bridge that gap.
Inside, you'll find practical insights on nutrition, movement, recovery, stress management, and personal responsibility—tools that can help you make informed decisions and become an active participant in your own health journey.
The Book
Readers are challenged to look beyond symptom management and take a deeper look at the lifestyle, environmental, and metabolic factors influencing their health. The book provides a practical framework for building resilience in an increasingly unhealthy world.
The Workbook
The companion workbook was created to help readers put those ideas into practice. Through guided exercises, reflection prompts, health assessments, and action planning tools, the workbook transforms concepts into a personalized roadmap for change.
Meet Kristina Morros
I'm a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Functional Health Coach, author, and competitive paddle athlete who believes health is built through action—not handed to us by a healthcare system.
For more than twenty years, I worked in hospitals, trauma centers, intensive care units, and operating rooms, caring for people at some of the most critical moments of their lives. That experience taught me the value of modern medicine, but it also revealed a hard truth: many of the chronic health challenges people face today are rooted in the everyday choices made long before they become patients.
My work now focuses on helping people take ownership of their health through practical strategies that improve energy, resilience, recovery, performance, and long-term well-being.
When I'm not coaching clients or writing, you'll likely find me training on the water, competing in paddleboard races, or exploring new ways to optimize health and human performance. The same principles I teach—nutrition, movement, recovery, mindset, and accountability—are the ones I use every day in my own life.
Whether you're looking to improve your health, enhance your performance, or simply create a stronger foundation for the years ahead, my goal is to help you build a plan that works in the real world and supports the life you want to live.
Turn Knowledge Into Action
Get Healthy or Get Dead provides the foundation for understanding the principles of better health, nutrition, recovery, and personal responsibility. At Paddle Performance Health, I help individuals put those principles into practice through personalized health coaching, functional health strategies, and performance-focused wellness programs.
Whether your goal is to improve energy, support healthy aging, optimize athletic performance, or build long-term resilience, coaching provides a structured approach tailored to your unique needs and goals.