THINKING Outside the Pill Box: A consumer’s guide to integrative medicine and comprehensive wellnessMainstream medicine in America focuses on symptoms rather than causes of chronic illness and poor health. Medical education is influenced to a great extent by pharmaceutical companies and focuses our attention dangerously onto drug therapies. Conventional medicine practice has been failing miserably to control or treat the chronic disease entities afflicting our population in the modern era. Integrative medicine concepts and practice offer people much safer and often more effective options for achieving and maintaining health, as well as combating most forms of chronic disease. The keys include understanding what it really takes to promote human health in a broad sense and what the underlying causes of chronic disease truly are. Thinking Outside the Pill Box contains an explanation of how our medical system came to be so defective and ineffectual, a thorough look at the important factors influencing human health, and an in-depth discussion of many common underlying causes of chronic illness in the modern world. It is designed as a self-help book for both the reader and their future generations. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Problems with Health Care Delivery | 66 |
Chapter 3 Problems with Medical Education and Philosophy | 82 |
Chapter 4 Problems With Medical Providers Habits And Attitudes | 116 |
Chapter 14 When We Should Eat | 358 |
Chapter 15 How Much We Should Eat | 360 |
Chapter 16 Exercise | 366 |
Chapter 17 Nourishing the Mind and Spirit | 382 |
Chapter 18 Air and Breathing | 400 |
Chapter 19 Sleep | 414 |
Chapter 20 Summary of Section III | 424 |
Section IV Addressing the Underlying Causes of Illness | 432 |
Chapter 5 The Failings of Our Society | 154 |
Chapter 6 Problems on an Individual Level | 178 |
Section III Nourishing the Body and Mind | 214 |
FatsLipids | 218 |
Proteins | 234 |
Sugar and Carbohydrates | 242 |
Vitamins | 256 |
Minerals | 270 |
Chapter 8 Water | 308 |
Chapter 9 Salt and Electrolytes | 316 |
Chapter 10 What Food Is Not Supposed to Provide | 326 |
Chapter 11 Devitalized Foods | 334 |
Chapter 12 What We Are Supposed to Eat | 338 |
Chapter 13 Super Foods | 346 |
Chapter 1 Genetics and Epigenetics Congenital problems | 434 |
Chapter 2 Nutritional Causes of Illness | 446 |
Chapter 3 Hormonal Deficiency and Imbalance | 466 |
Chapter 4 Environmental Toxicity | 558 |
Chapter 5 Allergy and Autoimmunity | 626 |
Chapter 6 Infection Immune Deficiency and Imbalance | 672 |
Chapter 7 Intestinal Dysbiosis | 712 |
Chapter 8 Structural and Anatomical Abnormalities | 730 |
Chapter 9 Psychology Energetics and Spirituality | 742 |
Chapter 10 Specific Medical Problems | 750 |
Section V Summary | 764 |
Closing remarks Epilogue | 776 |
References | 778 |
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