The purpose of the book is to equip the reader with an the knowledge and perspective needed to understand how to assemble a healing program using diet and nutrition and other natural means. This book shows readers how to gain control over skin disorders as an alternative to suppressive pharmaceuticals used conventional dermatology and how to take one's own guided journey toward better health. Heal Your Skin emphasizes the shifts in mind-body interaction, food allergy, digestive and eliminative organ function, and other nutritional factors in restoring health.
The methods described can be used to alleviate conditions involving inflammation of all other organ systems of the body as well. With my emphasis on nutritional influence on the immune system, this book will help heal individuals with allergy, autoimmune diseases, and chronic inflammatory diseases which can result in chronic pain, premature aging, and obesity.
It is estimated that 22 million Americans have some form of autoimmune disease. Recent articles in highly respected peer reviewed medical journals suggest that environmental factors including food allergens, chemicals, infection, and stress lead to sensitization of one's immune system to their own body chemicals on the path to autoimmune disease. Furthermore, laboratory evidence of this sensitization is evident 5-10 years before irreversible disease occurs, and a huge portion of the population is in the early stages of developing autoimmune disorders. The methods described in this book are being shown to be able to avert these diseases of attack of the immune system on itself. The essence of this book is an outline of the ways to break this cycle of attack. It takes on the many levels of interaction between mind and body for both cause and solution, and the role of food allergy, organ function, and the nutritional factors which can restore the body to health.
In our modern life, we hardly notice that what we know as Medicine is built not only on science, but on a set of simplifications and assumptions. This Medicine is amalgamated with institutions, industries, legal and actuarial priorities into a lumpy, irregular hodgepodge. Hence, Modern Medicine, which has brought us so much progress in treating disease, is spotty in its ability to heal many conditions like chronic disorders. Breaking out of the bean-counter generated perspective, where each disease has a number, and that number determines the legally acceptable numbered treatments which apply, is what the book is designed to do for the reader.
This book throws off the shackles of conventional medical thinking while keeping the sense of the science behind the clinical practice, to give the reader both a guidebook and a working information space on which to take their own skin condition-guided journey toward better health. And in my own small way, I hope to shift the paradigm of Modern Medicine away from symptom suppression toward a truly holistic resolution of the underlying concert of issues.
Michael Pollan's book In Defense of Food elegantly and radically shifted the American zeitgeist about the interrelatedness of agro-business, eating, environmentalism, and health. Heal Your Skin, Heal Your Life has been published to educate the public to create a similarly radical shift in how we view the interrelatedness of the skin, eating, health, the insurance industry, the traditional medical establishment, and holistic health care. By doing so, we greatly expand the number of people who will be able to choose other options for treating their skin and chronic diseases.
My philosophy places real responsibility both on the individual to make better choices and for the government and industry to actually offer a healthier and less toxic environment and food supply. By helping individuals experience the reality of damaging environmental factors affecting both their skin and their lives, they not only have the opportunity to get better safely at a more fundamental level, but also see the importance of grappling with these issues on a local and global scale. Only a widespread consciousness of these factors can avert the growing environmental disaster we have been building. This book can help bring about the personal revolution to do your part in changing the world.
Heal Your Skin, Heal Your Life will be available in 2012
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