Healing with Nutrition

People and many doctors are beginning to wake up to the fact that what we eat significantly effects our health. Unfortunately most family doctors get less than 40 hours of nutritional training in medical schools and what they are taught is mostly wrong. What they are taught is based on shoddy studies and influenced by the major funding those schools receive from pharmaceutical and food manufacturing corporations. I'm not going to bash doctors here. 

As stated by Dr. Ken D. Berry "Your doctor, at some point, had to possess intelligence and curiosity, or he would not be your doctor today. The path through college, medical school, residency, and medical practice is a very demanding, tricky road. As a result, not everyone can travel it. At some earlier point in his life, your doctor was an energetic, eager-to-learn, ready-to-try-new-things student who couldn’t wait to learn everything possible and apply it to improving the health of his patients. What has happened to him since then? How did your doctor go from being an eager, curious learner, to a stuck-in-a-rut, bored, burned-out individual who just spent a whopping three minutes with you for your medical visit? That is a complicated question, and it varies from doctor to doctor."

"There is too much paperwork to read, millions of words of federal regulations to follow, employees to manage, bills to pay, and likely a family at home begging for more of his time. The weight of such things can stifle even the most brilliant and motivated mind. Instead of looking for the best way, a doctor often resorts to accepting the least bad way or is forced to comply with the state-mandated way of doing things. Primary care doctors are usually too busy to even think of doing any research or considering different or better ways of doing things. Being a doctor, business owner, and parent and doing each job well is more than most mere mortals can manage. Therefore, expecting a doctor to keep up with all the latest research so he can have independent thoughts about his patients’ conditions is just too much to ask."

Berry, MD, Ken D. . Lies My Doctor Told Me Second Edition: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health. Victory Belt Publishing.

This is why most family doctors and even specialists haven't taken the time to look at the latest studies on nutrition, diet, cholesterol, etc. Often when they do look at new studies they only read the conclusions which often don't match with the details of the actual study. Many studies used to support the current nutritional dogma are based on epidemiolocal studies which are statistical studies showing often erroneous correlations. This isn't real evidence of cause and effect done in a controlled manner. Yet these studies are passed off as scientific fact. Only RCT (Randomized Control Trials) studies can be considered as real proof of cause and effect, and this requires an unbiased researcher not married to pre conceived ideas.

Current nutritional dogma tells patients to cut back on red meat and animal fats in favour of plant proteins, vegetable oils, grains, vegetable, fruits, etc. Food manufactures label highly processed foods as heart healthy with added vitamins, etc. In reality this is the exactly opposite of what we should be putting in our bodies. Doctors will insist that animal sourced meat and fat will cause heart disease, cancer and all kinds of other scary conditions. They insist we need the vitamins and nutrients found in plants. They are either ignorant of the science or they don't care. Less than 4% of the vitamins and nutrients are bioavailable to humans in their raw for cooked forms. With fermentation this percentage can be improved but natural meat and fat has everything we need and it can all be utilized by the human body. For more detail go to the Autoimmune Remission page where I get into the fine details, or you can watch the video below.