mitral valvular heart disease

Can chronic disease be reversed?

Absolutely.

Today I will introduce you to my friend and colleague, Dr. Dean Ornish. Thirty years ago, he boldly made the radical proposal, heart disease, cancer and other chronic diseases can be reversed with diet and lifestyle changes.

This is vice versa - not only prevented or treated.

In his groundbreaking book, Reversing Heart Disease, Dr. Ornish explains how this is possible: Do you eat a high-quality diet, regular physical activity will receive, manage stress, and connect to a community - and you can actually unclog your arteries .

In fact, he proved that his program is better than traditional approaches such as drugs or surgery - and without dangerous side effects.

Now Dr. Ornish has a new, more compelling book, the spectrum - and it is filled with scientific details on why the program works and how it's your own.

What is the secret?

Nutrigenomics.

This is the name for the way that food talks to your genes and check your health. If your genes are good, you're healthy. Disease occurs when your genes are bad.

And the quality of the food you eat has a major impact on your health.

It plays a role, whether you eat whole real foods or processed, high sugar, fat and food, for example.

In the spectrum, Dr. Ornish, you will learn how and why decisions such as these can make a difference whether we are healthy or sick.

But it is not one-size-fits-all approach.

Dr. Ornish believes - as I did - that the future of medicine is personalized medicine. And in the spectrum, he explains how your genes and your health needs by giving your diet and lifestyle.

If you have a 25-year-old athlete with no family heart disease, would your approach differs from a 65-year-old man, the type-2-diabetes and two heart attacks.

He also shows us that there is a spectrum of possibilities for a healthy and feeling great. There are no "good" or "bad" food - it's the way we eat and live that counts.

Dr. Ornish is on all of the confusion from food, and learn the truth that our genes were fed a diet of whole unprocessed foods.

A pioneering Pioneer

He did not know it, but Dr. Ornish was the first researcher and practitioner of functional medicine, more than 30 years.

He was the first person to suggest that addressing the causes of the disease not only prevent disease, but he returns - and more effectively than conventional treatment.

That is exactly what functional medicine. It is a system that is the underlying causes of illness by understanding the interaction between genes and environment.

And it is what Dr. Ornish talks about in the spectrum.

His "road map" for good health, shows us how the energy, lose weight, improve mood, feel your own life meaning and purpose, and even better sex.

It is a recipe for you the best feeling.

I have much respect for Dr. Ornish. He wanted his program accessible to everyone, but for this to happen, there must be reimbursed by insurance.

So he asked Medicare to fund a demonstration project on the basis of medical research in the field he is already severe in the major medical journals.

But it was not so simple.

She told him that before they would make the project, he needed approval, that it is safe.

Of course, Dr. Ornish lifestyle is much safer than the heart surgery or angioplasty, or drugs with severe adverse side effects - and much less expensive.

But he needed a letter from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute say that it was safe to eat fruit and vegetables, walk, meditate and quit smoking!

But he persevered and his program is now approved. Dr. Ornish is the creation of an international cooperation in research on the grain even more understanding about why food is the best medicine.

And his book is not only helpful, it is pleasant.

He shares his story with wit and humor, great intelligence, and many of the instruments for the successful implementation of his ideas.

These tools include clear nutritional counseling, guided meditations by his wife Anne (with an additional disc), an exercise prescription, and over 100 beautiful, delicious life-giving recipes from a master chef.

I urge you to take your hands on the Spectrum now and see what you think. It really is life changing.