Food is medicine. Drugs are also medicine. Food and drugs each have a vital role to play in our life. When we are in good health we need only food medicine. This provides our body cells with vital energy and building blocks nutrients. When we contract ill health then we need the life saving drugs but in low, effective and safe doses. Drugs are poisons. They are chemicals and high doses may destroy the body cells, tissues and organs.
Hippocrates in about 460 BC declared that ‘Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food’. He is generally considered as the father of modern medicine. He recognized that nature created man and also prescribed the appropriate fuel to be used to obtain optimal performance. Every manufacturer prescribes the fuel to be used in the equipment for optimal performance. Natural whole foods is what is prescribed. Vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts. If we compare the kind of medicine we practice nowadays and what Hippocrates described then, you find that we are absolutely lost. The medicine we are practicing now is totally different. We are druging people for life who are basically suffering from lifestyle diseases. These ailments root cause is malnourishment due to processing of foods and adding unnatural additives. There is more emphasis on druging and surgery. The food medicine aspect which should be the domain of nutritional medicine has been relegated to the periphery. Nutritional medicine practice does not even take centre stage in the practice of medicine. Our current health workers are poorly trained on nutritional medicine. The only nutrition people cover is the older basic nutrition to help people not get kwashiorkor, pellagra and marasmas etc. These were the nutritional deficiency in those olden historical days. The foods consumed at that time and now are totally different. Currently we are a new generation that is becoming a victim of technological advancements. We are the victims of processed and modified foods. We suffer from a plethora of diseases commonly referred to as lifestyle and stressful diseases. These were rarely heard of in the older days when technology was still in it’s infancy. Therefore our people are suffering from a different nutritional deficiency as opposed to the days of kwashiorkor. I would like to declare here that most people are suffering from malnutrition due to eating processed foods and living in stressful situations. Fiber and other vital nutrients are removed during processing as wastes. These are then use to make feeds for our animals and pets. No wonder our pets and animals are much healthier than we. What we refer to as lifestyle diseases are actually the new malnutrition of this advanced technological age. Therefore we need to go back to the teaching of nutritional medicine and teach our people how not to be victims of lifestyle diseases – new malnutrition. Diet change to what nature previously prescribed to man has been found to dissolve most lifestyle diseases. Drugging people with lifestyle diseases will only suppress the symptoms but not address the root cause which is chronic malnutrition. They then have to be drugged for life while continuing to feed on nutrtional deficient diets that are very expensive. The processed food they are addicted to is the same that is still promoting and sustaining the existence of their medical condition.
Food Medicine – Nature’s Pharmacy
Drug Medicine- Man’s Pharmacy
Food medicine supplies your body with all the building blocks and spare kits required to prevent, halt or even reverse disease. Vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates, minerals, phytonutrients, fats and oils are all derived from whole foods. They are rich in antioxidants that neutralise free radicals that damage body cells leading to disease. On a daily basis your body requires nutrients for energy and repair. If you lack antioxidants then you’ll become highly oxidized and be in a state called oxidative stress. In this state you may suffer from inflammatory syndrome. This is the basic foundation of most lifestyle diseases including arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, AIDS etc.
Your body is a product of the earth. Plants have roots in the soil and feeds on it. Therefore the full plants have various nutrient blocks for your body in the roots, barks, leaves, flowers, seeds, fruits etc.
Your body comes with an inbuilt state of the spiritual art of a self diagnostic unit, self repairing unit and a self regenerating unit. These units only require you to ensure that at all times there is harmony between the mind, body, spirit and soul to operate optimally. Harmony creates health while discord results in disease. You are the driver in your life. What you think and eat can interfere with the harmony or discord in your four part system- mind, body, spirit and soul. At all times you are harvesting the fruits of your past thoughts and lifestyle. These are your life inputs in the game of your life. The disease or health you have today is the harvest of your past thinking and lifestyle. If you are not happy with your present situation you and only you have the power to alter it in your life tomorrow. Renew your mind! What you plant in the present moment NOW is what you shall reap multiplied tomorrow. Garbage in garbage out. That’s basically how our lives work. Master your life.
Drug medicine is a product of mans knowledge about the biochemical processes within the body. Man has learnt how to disrupt various body responses and thus switch off disturbing symptoms. Disease symptoms are natural body reaction processes. Some underlying discord in your body triggers some compensating mechanism that may either lead to high blood pressure, diabetes, hear disease, cancer, arthritis, impotence, pain, inflammation etc symptoms. Drugs are capable of interfering or suppressing these body processes helping you lead a near normal life. They are life saving and work faster. However, the only handicap is that they normally act as band aids unless say antibiotics which destroys the invading organism. If you stop taking your drugs, unless the underlying root cause has been addressed, the disease symptoms will be back. That’s why those who suffer from arthritis, diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure, heart problems have to take medication for life. The drugs aren’t and cannot resolve the root cause of their condition.
Complementary therapy is a way of utilising both the good in food medicine and drug medicine. Drug medicine are super in health emergencies. High blood pressure or sugar can be lowered in minutes. Food medicine works slowly in a holistic manner to balance and create harmony in the whole body. This is a plus if you want to cure your condition. The drugging system does not cure but arrest the dangerous life threatening processes going on in the body. Food medicine focusses in the restoration of harmony and vibrant health in the body. Drug medicine disrupts the body processes that are transmiting symptoms of the underlying disease hence calms those signals. However they don’t address the underlying root causes.
I believe that the complementary approach to healing is the best alternative. We arrest the situation and obtain some normalcy through drugging. In the meantime we address the root cause of the condition we are drugging through food medicine. We help the self diagnostic, repair and regeneration systems with the food nutrients to carry out repair work.
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