Food as Preventative Medicine

What is Preventative Medicine?


People get sick, they go to the Doctor and they get prescribed medicine to make them less sick or better.  This has been the accepted approach to health for so long that we accept it as natural.  But, what if there was another way?  A way where people rarely got sick?

This is called preventative medicine; an approach which uses natural methods to prevent  illness and malady in the body from developing in the first place. 


Food to Prevent Disease.


The most available and simple source of preventative medicine is food.  I love this quote from Indian Ayurvedic Historian Charaka Samhita,

'Without a proper diet, medicines are of no use: with a proper diet, medicines are not necessary.'  

This simple truth sums up the issue and displays that with a complete nutritional profile, the body has all the vitamins and minerals it needs to synergistically release health into the body and prevent malfunction or malady on a cellular level - a simple machine which we abuse so knowingly.

I often use the analogy of the arcade game where you bash the funny faces down with a hammer and they pop up somewhere else.  With western medicine we use pharmaceutical medicines to push down the symptoms while the cellular dysfunction remains and the cause (often diet and lifestyle) is not addressed.  The symptom may disappear but like a 'not so funny' face, it may reappear somewhere else.

I am not suggesting there is no place for western medicine and it can be incredibly good at fixing bones and ridding tissues of aggressive infection.  Western testing and treatments are sometimes the only and the best way to treat particular problems and conditions and I certainly don't want to suggest avoiding seeking a doctors advice.  But, addressing diet and lifestyle to avoid illness is within our power today, to protect ourselves in the future!

None of us can know, or in some cases prevent, our predispositions to certain illness or disease, but by living the best we can, we can at least know that we did our best to prevent dysfunction in the body.  We can change the way our genes are expressed by living whole and pure, so it is always worth switching to a healthy way of life.

 If you want to know more about protecting your body with food, read through my posts and find helpful tips and ideas to start living better. 

Josie.



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