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The Revolutionary Program To Restore The Body's Natural Ability To Heal Itselfby Alejandro Junger, M.D. |
“At the most basic, obvious, and literal level, we are what we eat. Food provides the materials for the construction of our body’s architecture. Food becomes us.”DR. ALEJANDRO JUNGER |
BIG IDEA
Symptoms vs. Root Causes
FROM THE BOOK“When the leaves of a plant start looking sick, wise gardeners will dig out the root to take a look.
Even though it is buried in soil, hidden from view, gardeners know they must go to the root to find where most plant diseases begin. It does not surprise them that it was far away from the root, on the leaves, that the first symptoms appeared. They know that for the leaves to be healthy, they must receive nutrients from the roots, where they are absorbed from the soil. I learned this as a kid, watching the gardeners in my own backyard.”
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Brian's Notes
This is the lead paragraph to a chapter discussing the importance of looking for the CAUSES of our ailments rather than merely treating the SYMPTOMS.
Symptoms vs. root causes.
Modern medicine is nearly exclusively focused on dealing with the SYMPTOMS we experience when we’re not feeling well. Although the technological advances we’ve made are stunning and often life saving, there’s too much REACTION and not enough PROACTIVE prevention.
Here’s how Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn puts it in his GREAT book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (see Notes): “I still cherish the naive dream I had when I started this research. We have shown that the number one killer in Western civilization can be abolished, through consumption of a plant- based diet. But we can do much more. If the public adopted this approach to preventing disease, if, by the millions, Americans abandoned their toxic diets and learned a truly healthy approach to eating, we could largely limit all those diseases of nutritional extravagance— strokes, hypertension, obesity, osteoporosis, and adult-onset diabetes. Meanwhile, we would see a marked reduction in cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, rectum, uterus, and ovaries. Medicine could relinquish its primary focus on pills and procedures. Prevention, not desperate intervention, would become the order of the day.
Even I am not optimistic enough to believe that this could happen overnight—that the entire population of the United States would switch to a plant-based diet the moment its benefits are widely known. But we can get there. The first step is to educate the public, teaching the truth about what we know about nutrition and the ravages of the traditional Western diet.”
Here’s to going after the causes of disease via effective preventative measures rather than relaying on desperate intervention that treats the symptoms!!
Symptoms vs. root causes.
Modern medicine is nearly exclusively focused on dealing with the SYMPTOMS we experience when we’re not feeling well. Although the technological advances we’ve made are stunning and often life saving, there’s too much REACTION and not enough PROACTIVE prevention.
Here’s how Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn puts it in his GREAT book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (see Notes): “I still cherish the naive dream I had when I started this research. We have shown that the number one killer in Western civilization can be abolished, through consumption of a plant- based diet. But we can do much more. If the public adopted this approach to preventing disease, if, by the millions, Americans abandoned their toxic diets and learned a truly healthy approach to eating, we could largely limit all those diseases of nutritional extravagance— strokes, hypertension, obesity, osteoporosis, and adult-onset diabetes. Meanwhile, we would see a marked reduction in cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, rectum, uterus, and ovaries. Medicine could relinquish its primary focus on pills and procedures. Prevention, not desperate intervention, would become the order of the day.
Even I am not optimistic enough to believe that this could happen overnight—that the entire population of the United States would switch to a plant-based diet the moment its benefits are widely known. But we can get there. The first step is to educate the public, teaching the truth about what we know about nutrition and the ravages of the traditional Western diet.”
Here’s to going after the causes of disease via effective preventative measures rather than relaying on desperate intervention that treats the symptoms!!
Big Ideas
01: FAILING DETOX SYSTEMS
02: SYMPTOMS & ROOT CAUSES
03: MILK IS POISONING US
04: ATKINS: NOT A GOOD IDEA
05: QUANTUM TOXINS
“To kill the symptoms without changing the conditions that caused them is insulting to the body’s intelligence.”DR. ALEJANDRO JUNGER |
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