FOOD AS MEDICINE

Root causes of lifestyle diseases – Modern medicine has no clue about

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Today’s modern, chronic & lingering diseases have their root causes in functional imbalances. Their roots lie in nutritional deficiencies, unhealthy lifestyles, and eating habits, too much toxin load, changes in the microbiome, and excessive stress & anxiety. Modern medicine is good when it comes to bacterial infections, trauma, and surgeries. But it has no understanding and solutions to modern chronic diseases except somehow managing the symptoms and leaving root causes intact.

Epigenetics – ‘You are not a victim of your genes’

The medical science belief that genes determine our wellness & disease is woefully over-simplified. Though genes are fixed, gene expression is not. It modulates in a vibrant, dynamic fashion in response to your environment – dietary habits, lifestyle, toxin exposure, relationship, sleep, and stress levels. Stop believing ‘you are a victim of your genes’. You have a choice always.

Food influences your genes

Your food more than calories or nutrition is information. it talks to your genes –making them - start or stop disease, to gain weight or shed weight. Every single bite, changes and shifts your biochemistry, hormone balance, your microbiome, and gene expression.

What happens in your gut has a direct effect on your nervous system and causes mood swings, anxiety, depression, or happiness & joy. Food allergies or sensitivity causes leaky gut and inflammation and causes autoimmune conditions.

You are more a bacterium than a human

You have more bacterial cells than human cells, and 90% more bacterial genes compared to only 10% human genes. Your physical and mental well-being depends upon ‘the population and kind of relationship you have’ with your gut buddies. Their health depends upon what you feed them. If you don’t feed them properly, they start feeding on you. That’s how functional imbalances happen and result in disease.

Toxins are the culprits

Today, mankind is swimming in a sea of toxins. Even a fetus is born with around 250 chemicals in its system. Plastic, phthalates, and parabens are causing infertility, breast cancer, and brain damage. Detoxification requires a lot of nutrients, and a healthy digestive system, liver, gall bladder, and kidneys.

Sugar and trans fats are the silent killers

Compared to just 100 years back, Today we are eating 10 times more sugar, unhealthy fats, and 20% more calories while our movement have dropped by 80%. Metabolic dysfunction, insulin resistance, and a sedentary lifestyle are the root cause of all functional imbalances and chronic lingering diseases ailing mankind.

From seldom in stress to always in stress

Earlier mankind knew only mental or emotional stress. Today, we are stressed 24/7 and have so many forms of stress – Work stress, relationship stress, environmental and social stress. Our stress response – ‘the fight or flight mode’ is always on. Its first victim is digestion and immune function. Extreme stress can reduce stomach acid as much by 80 % causing indigestion, leaky gut, infections and inflammation, insulin resistance, diabetes, infertility, PCOS, high BP, and heart and brain damage.