Health & Wellness
20 Ways to Detox Your Home...
Many of us have done a detox in order to eliminate internal toxins from our body, but how many of us do anything about the toxins in our own homes? Common
The Healing Round Table...
If you’re a patient who has incorporated complementary and alternative medicine into your health care regimen, you may have bumped up against some resista
Talk with Trudie Styler at ABC about Gluten...
A couple of weeks ago I did a talk with the amazing Trudie Styler at ABC Carpet and Home. We talked about a wide variety of topics including organic farmin
The Five Healing Benefits of Breath...
What’s your relationship like to your breath? Do you have one? There are days that go by when I think I take about two full breaths. Sound familiar? I
Be a Smart Mouth
How to Safely Maximize Oral Health...
It’s time we had a serious discussion about your mouth and what you’re doing to it to promote its health. Are you harming you body without even realizin
What Vitamins Do What...
The benefits of various vitamins, or nutritional supplements, are mentioned almost every day in the news. But with all the reports it can be confusing to kn
Dr. Terry Wahls: Minding Your Mitochondria...
Dr. Terry Wahls learned how to properly fuel her body. Using the lessons she learned at the subcellular level, she used diet to cure her MS and get out of he
Taking a Stand Against Animal Cruelty:
It’s Easier Than You Th
We are a nation of animal lovers: Fully 97 percent of us tell pollsters that we believe animals should be protected from abuse. But, are we willing to do an
African Chill Mix...
As many of you know, I am a huge African Music fan. I grew up in South Africa surrounded by the rhythms and beat of Africa and it’s in my blood. Mo
Question Authority.…
When It Comes To Health And Fitness Informa
Authoritative organizations may not be your best source of advice. As a health journalist, I rely a great deal on expert opinions and authoritative resource
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I believe that there is a continuum between optimal health and disease. And what I see in my practice everyday is how different grades of sub-optimal functioning can appear at any point along it. For example, before your car’s brake pads give in and your brakes fail, years of wear and tear have been slowly eroding the pads. The same thing happens with our health. Before we develop a disease, or even symptoms, there have usually been months or years of progressive “wearing down” of optimal functioning. Our body has a large reserve, which it uses to maintain health, but it can be depleted or worn down over time. Only then do we experience disease, it doesn’t just happen out of the blue.
To use a natural metaphor, when a plant is sick or not doing well, it is crucial to look at the environment within which the plant is growing – what is the quality of the soil, is it getting enough nutrients, does it have enough sun or water, are roots or bugs from other plants impinging on its growth. This is exactly how I see our health and my role as a physician is to improve, promote and boost the bodies natural healing ability. This fosters immunity and resilience to illness, allowing us to truly blossom and experience good health.
My method is simple but effective: I remove what may be harming the body or preventing healing while at the same time replenishing it with what is needed. Unfortunately, most doctors do not see the health this way as we are trained to treat symptoms of disease as opposed to learning what keeps people healthy. We are taught crisis care medicine in hospitals and how to take care of acutely ill patients. But most of us are not sick enough to be in hospital and we have chronic conditions that are not dealt with well by this medical model. So we need to use Western Medicine wisely and appropriately, which often means looking beyond it, for solutions to our chronic and ongoing health problems.
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