[FUNDAMENTALS OF ROOT CAUSE MEDICINE]
The Root Cause for >95% of chronic disease is a mismatch between your modern environment and your ancestral evolutionary niche.
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You are sick because you are mal-adapted to industrial food products, agro-industrial toxins, cubicle 9-5s, and a constant lack of outdoor exercise.
You are leading a quite life of sedentary, inflamed, endocrine-disrupted, overfed desperation.
But it doesn't have to be this way. If you can:
- remove these mal-adaptive environmental exposures
AND
- emulate your pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer state
Your body will heal itself.
Put differently, your body trends towards optimal health in the absence of evolutionarily inappropriate exposures/ behaviors.
Simply said, not easily implemented.
Restoring your evolutionary niche requires:
- eliminating processed foods (seed oils/carbs/sugar)
- removing intake of synthetic chemicals (xeno-estrogens, herbicides, etc. )
- eat a heavily animal food diet (incl. fat + organs)
- daily natural intermittent stressors (fasting, temp, sunlight, physical exertion, danger)
- tight-knit social circles typical of hunter-gatherer band
- ??acceptance of one's mortal place in the universe??
The reason why fasting heals
The reason why metabolic and auto-immune diseases go into remission on a strict carnivore diet
The reason why sun exposure is healthy (@SolBrah)
The reason why intense resistance training is beneficial
Is because thousands of generations of humans before us were perfectly adapted to an environment where these were the norm.
As @Mangan150 would say, 'Sun, Steak, Steel'.
Put even more simply, straying from our roots made us sick.
Collectively, we have to re-enact aspects of our original evolutionary state in order to re-discover health.
@CarnivoreMD calls this The Remembering.
I think that's a good way to think about it.
As for Medicine?
By the Root Cause logic, medicating the symptoms or epiphenomena of disease is obviously misguided.
Nothing additive (i.e. medications) can substitute for the removal of the noxious insult - this is via negativa (h/t @nntaleb) and simple logic.
Your diabetic boomer uncle isn't suffering from a metformin or lipitor deficiency (h/t @SBakerMD).
He is suffering from chronic carbohydrate toxicity and the consequences of a lifetime ingestion of highly oxidized poly-unsaturated seed oils.
The solution to illness caused by an evolutionary-inconsistent environment can only be to correct that for environment.
Not by layering on prescriptions
Not waiting for a knee to bust to fix it
Not by putting statins, antihypertensives or any other med in the drinking water
Once other MDs understand this point, the giant shaking edifice of modern pharmaceutical-based medicine comes crashing down.
Not only does it become unnecessary, but actively harmful to medicate before exploring, counseling and addressing Root Causes.
This is #RootCauseMedicine that the world needs today.
This is the 10-20 year future that will inevitably arrive.
This is the future that a small number of us are striving to build.
Thankfully, you don't need a person in a white coat with a stethoscope. You, yourself, can begin the journey to reclaim your ancestral health and safeguard your longevity*
*(unless you are heavily medicated, in which case see your doctor. This is not medical advice).
Most of you can begin healing TODAY.
I've given you the blueprint.
The Rest Is Up to You...
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