Striving4Zen

 "I wasn't your typical pre-med student.    The first medical text-book I read was The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine
  which was written 5,000 years ago.    While at Cornell, I had some friends in nutrition school and one of them encouraged me
  to take a course that really changed my life.   It really opened me to the idea that food plays a roll in illness.
 
  It's still amazing to me in my practice, 30 years later, how big of a gap this is for most people.  Most don't realize that what they eat
  has an influence on how they feel, that their health is connected to their mouth and what goes in it.
 
  My experience in college reading books like Nutrition Against Disease, by Roger Williams, who is the father of a concept called
  Biotechnical Individuality enlightened me to the science of personalized medicine.
 
  This idea from Roger Williams taught me that we all have individual needs that require us to attend to those needs in order to be healthy.
  Medicine is not a one-size fits all solution.
 
  As I continued in my studies I read more books and took courses in nutrition that really developed a foundation to thoroughly comprehend
  how food plays an active roll in illness.
 
  So when I became seriously ill I started to use food as therapy.  I ate in a way that eliminated the food allergies I had.  I ate foods that were
  rich in anti-oxidants, were anti-inflammatory, and helped me detoxify from heavy metals and the mercury toxicity I had.
 
  What it allowed me to do was heal after I understood these new basic forces of illness.  I call these the 5 forces of illness and they are:
 
  1. Malnutrition
  2. Inflammation
  3. Impaired Metabolism
  4. Impaired Detoxification
  5. Oxidative Stress
 
  If you look at any chronic condition these 5 forces are at the root of it.  If we are able to address those elements and remove those problems
  we'll be able to finally bring balance to the body which is what I was able to do and have been doing for over 20 years in my medical
  practice.
 
  This science is really the key to unlocking permanent health.  Most people think that when we age, disease naturally happens.
 
  However, disease is NOT an inevitable part of aging.  Just because everyone around us is sick and overweight doesn't mean that we have to be
  too.
 
  After several years as co-medical director of the Canyon Ranch and tracking over 2,000 people's success I finally outlined how to stop
  these 5 forces of illnesses and bring balance into your body.

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Labels: 5 forces of illness, Balance Integration, living holistically, Mark Hyman, nutrition

# posted by Striving4Zen : 2/21/2008