The Missing Link In Medicine

Too often we settle for a lesser quality of life because we don’t realize we can actually feel better. We have all become accustomed to believing that if our blood work and lab tests are normal, then we must be fine. We start to hear ourselves say "it’s just aging," or "it’s my hormones," or some other reasonable cause of our not feeling healthy and vital. We strongly believe and have ample evidence to show that this unfortunate trade-off is no longer appropriate or necessary.

Interestingly, there is a whole spectrum of health that covers a broad range from vibrant health to severe illness and finally, of course, to death. The challenge is that traditional medicine focuses primarily on only a portion of this spectrum. In fact, traditional western medicine is designed to recognize only the difference between being not sick and being sick, or health vs. disease. Why should we care? Because this traditional approach leaves a large gap between vibrant health and the onset of overt disease. In a way, we could say that our healthcare system is really more a sick-care system meaning most of the wonderful tools of traditional healthcare are aimed at treating sickness. Unfortunately this leaves the gap already mentioned, in which far too many people fall. A gap characterized by a large number of nagging, pernicious, and most uncomfortable symptoms for which there are few, if any, good and effective traditional remedies.

So now for the good news! Nutritional therapies offer myriad possibilities for working with this gap. As depicted in the diagram below, nutritional therapies can often offer lasting healing and relief for such symptoms as digestion problems, fatigue, low energy, excessive weight, hormonal imbalances, sugar cravings, mood swings, sore joints, etc. Read more: anti-inflammatory diet and detoxification.

After all it was the father of medicine, Hippocrates, who said "let food be your medicine and medicine be your food." The first level of medicine is, in fact, what we eat. The passion we have in working with people around these issues comes from the joy we see on their faces when they make changes that have major effects in how they feel, simply by changing what they eat.