Food has always played a very important role with health. When feasting relative to a celebration, a person’s social status and wealth are associated with success. To carry extra weight was once seen as a sign of prosperity. Now being overweight and obese is seen as an unhealthy epidemic. With food more readily available, food access is less of a problem, but food nutrition is more of a problem than ever being that we end up seeing food end as waste or waist issues. At the other end of the spectrum, the intentional restriction of food is seen as showing discipline and purity when looking at fasting. With certain cultures, you would be sent out into the wilderness with no provisions to survive on your own wits as a rite of passage. You would then come back as part of a vision quest having clarity for your future intentions. Religions and virtually every culture includes periods of restricted eating or fasting. This healthy practice has mostly been eliminated or considered unnecessary. The reality is that a disciplined fast is very healthy for your body.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, made a statement around 400 BC that has withstood the test of time – “Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food.” As a pharmacist, I have always had respect for those words. I grew up on a farm having had a pasture for raising cattle, a chicken yard and coop for chickens, gardens for raising vegetables and fruits, a vineyard for grapes(that included a harvest for winemaking), and an orchard with several tree varieties of fruits. For the most part, it was an organic model for producing food. Good health starts with whole fresh food created naturally.

Nowadays there is GMO food that allows for the commercial utilization of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides. Animals are given antibiotics not only to treat but also prevent infections. Those same antibiotics can also change the animal biome to gain weight faster without adding more feed. Knowing that many pharmaceuticals were derived from plants, and until the twentieth century, the pharmacist was at the frontline for providing treatments, that model has changed. No longer can they afford the time to assist with natural herbs and spices that were dried or in compounded pills, ointments and tinctures.

To take this principle one step further is a quote given by Hippocrates, “All disease begins in the gut”. Most people cannot visualize how you can develop heart, vascular, organ, psychological, autoimmune, and other diseases if the origin is the gut. How could such a saying given over 2500 years ago have relevance today? Except for communicable diseases and infections, this second quotation by Hippocrates show incredible insight. The exception to that statement is infectious disease. Sanitation, hygienic practices, then the invention of antibiotics and antibacterials improved longevity and the quality of life by reducing infectious disease. Then soon after came the adoption of vaccines to augment the patient’s chance to help prevent infections.

The incidence of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease in almost every category is on the rise. These disease categories have the impact to accelerate aging and shorten our lives. Potent synthetic medicines can intervene but typically do not reverse the disease or produce true remission. Obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, Alzheimer’s, and mental disease can be inflammatory in nature. Foods can be inflammatory or cause oxidative stress( that can add to the problem of gut dysbiosis) reducing the health of the gut lining, mucous layer and microbiome balance).

But it is now becoming evident that there are inflammatory diseases that have origins in the gut. While not the solution in itself, healthy food can be what repairs the gut lining, being anti-inflammatory and an antioxidant to assist in healing the rest of the body Over 80% of the body’s immune system is contained in the gut. Autoimmune diseases have a gateway to impacting the body at least part by having a weakened gut immune system and a leaky gut. Food in the form of macronutrients, micronutrients and phytonutrients have a way to improve and prevent disease. How far the body can fight back depends on food, proper nutrition and lifestyle management. Thus, there is a choice – consider processed and altered food as bad medicine or looking at fresh, whole and properly prepared food as good medicine. Proper choices and discipline can make the difference.

Food has always played a very important role with health. When feasting relative to a celebration, a person’s social status and wealth are associated with success. To carry extra weight was once seen as a sign of prosperity. Now being overweight and obese is seen as an unhealthy epidemic. With food more readily available, food access is less of a problem, but food nutrition is more of a problem than ever being that we end up seeing food end as waste or waist issues. At the other end of the spectrum, the intentional restriction of food is seen as showing discipline and purity when looking at fasting. With certain cultures, you would be sent out into the wilderness with no provisions to survive on your own wits as a rite of passage. You would then come back as part of a vision quest having clarity for your future intentions. Religions and virtually every culture includes periods of restricted eating or fasting. This healthy practice has mostly been eliminated or considered unnecessary. The reality is that a disciplined fast is very healthy for your body.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, made a statement around 400 BC that has withstood the test of time – “Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food.” As a pharmacist, I have always had respect for those words. I grew up on a farm having had a pasture for raising cattle, a chicken yard and coop for chickens, gardens for raising vegetables and fruits, a vineyard for grapes(that included a harvest for winemaking), and an orchard with several tree varieties of fruits. For the most part, it was an organic model for producing food. Good health starts with whole fresh food created naturally.

Nowadays there is GMO food that allows for the commercial utilization of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides. Animals are given antibiotics not only to treat but also prevent infections. Those same antibiotics can also change the animal biome to gain weight faster without adding more feed. Knowing that many pharmaceuticals were derived from plants, and until the twentieth century, the pharmacist was at the frontline for providing treatments, that model has changed. No longer can they afford the time to assist with natural herbs and spices that were dried or in compounded pills, ointments and tinctures.

To take this principle one step further is a quote given by Hippocrates, “All disease begins in the gut”. Most people cannot visualize how you can develop heart, vascular, organ, psychological, autoimmune, and other diseases if the origin is the gut. How could such a saying given over 2500 years ago have relevance today? Except for communicable diseases and infections, this second quotation by Hippocrates show incredible insight. The exception to that statement is infectious disease. Sanitation, hygienic practices, then the invention of antibiotics and antibacterials improved longevity and the quality of life by reducing infectious disease. Then soon after came the adoption of vaccines to augment the patient’s chance to help prevent infections.

The incidence of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease in almost every category is on the rise. These disease categories have the impact to accelerate aging and shorten our lives. Potent synthetic medicines can intervene but typically do not reverse the disease or produce true remission. Obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, Alzheimer’s, and mental disease can be inflammatory in nature. Foods can be inflammatory or cause oxidative stress( that can add to the problem of gut dysbiosis) reducing the health of the gut lining, mucous layer and microbiome balance).

But it is now becoming evident that there are inflammatory diseases that have origins in the gut. While not the solution in itself, healthy food can be what repairs the gut lining, being anti-inflammatory and an antioxidant to assist in healing the rest of the body Over 80% of the body’s immune system is contained in the gut. Autoimmune diseases have a gateway to impacting the body at least part by having a weakened gut immune system and a leaky gut. Food in the form of macronutrients, micronutrients and phytonutrients have a way to improve and prevent disease. How far the body can fight back depends on food, proper nutrition and lifestyle management. Thus, there is a choice – consider processed and altered food as bad medicine or looking at fresh, whole and properly prepared food as good medicine. Proper choices and discipline can make the difference.

Food has always played a very important role with health. When feasting relative to a celebration, a person’s social status and wealth are associated with success. To carry extra weight was once seen as a sign of prosperity. Now being overweight and obese is seen as an unhealthy epidemic. With food more readily available, food access is less of a problem, but food nutrition is more of a problem than ever being that we end up seeing food end as waste or waist issues. At the other end of the spectrum, the intentional restriction of food is seen as showing discipline and purity when looking at fasting. With certain cultures, you would be sent out into the wilderness with no provisions to survive on your own wits as a rite of passage. You would then come back as part of a vision quest having clarity for your future intentions. Religions and virtually every culture includes periods of restricted eating or fasting. This healthy practice has mostly been eliminated or considered unnecessary. The reality is that a disciplined fast is very healthy for your body.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, made a statement around 400 BC that has withstood the test of time – “Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food.” As a pharmacist, I have always had respect for those words. I grew up on a farm having had a pasture for raising cattle, a chicken yard and coop for chickens, gardens for raising vegetables and fruits, a vineyard for grapes(that included a harvest for winemaking), and an orchard with several tree varieties of fruits. For the most part, it was an organic model for producing food. Good health starts with whole fresh food created naturally.

Nowadays there is GMO food that allows for the commercial utilization of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides. Animals are given antibiotics not only to treat but also prevent infections. Those same antibiotics can also change the animal biome to gain weight faster without adding more feed. Knowing that many pharmaceuticals were derived from plants, and until the twentieth century, the pharmacist was at the frontline for providing treatments, that model has changed. No longer can they afford the time to assist with natural herbs and spices that were dried or in compounded pills, ointments and tinctures.

To take this principle one step further is a quote given by Hippocrates, “All disease begins in the gut”. Most people cannot visualize how you can develop heart, vascular, organ, psychological, autoimmune, and other diseases if the origin is the gut. How could such a saying given over 2500 years ago have relevance today? Except for communicable diseases and infections, this second quotation by Hippocrates show incredible insight. The exception to that statement is infectious disease. Sanitation, hygienic practices, then the invention of antibiotics and antibacterials improved longevity and the quality of life by reducing infectious disease. Then soon after came the adoption of vaccines to augment the patient’s chance to help prevent infections.

The incidence of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease in almost every category is on the rise. These disease categories have the impact to accelerate aging and shorten our lives. Potent synthetic medicines can intervene but typically do not reverse the disease or produce true remission. Obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, Alzheimer’s, and mental disease can be inflammatory in nature. Foods can be inflammatory or cause oxidative stress( that can add to the problem of gut dysbiosis) reducing the health of the gut lining, mucous layer and microbiome balance).

But it is now becoming evident that there are inflammatory diseases that have origins in the gut. While not the solution in itself, healthy food can be what repairs the gut lining, being anti-inflammatory and an antioxidant to assist in healing the rest of the body Over 80% of the body’s immune system is contained in the gut. Autoimmune diseases have a gateway to impacting the body at least part by having a weakened gut immune system and a leaky gut. Food in the form of macronutrients, micronutrients and phytonutrients have a way to improve and prevent disease. How far the body can fight back depends on food, proper nutrition and lifestyle management. Thus, there is a choice – consider processed and altered food as bad medicine or looking at fresh, whole and properly prepared food as good medicine. Proper choices and discipline can make the difference.

Food has always played a very important role with health. When feasting relative to a celebration, a person’s social status and wealth are associated with success. To carry extra weight was once seen as a sign of prosperity. Now being overweight and obese is seen as an unhealthy epidemic. With food more readily available, food access is less of a problem, but food nutrition is more of a problem than ever being that we end up seeing food end as waste or waist issues. At the other end of the spectrum, the intentional restriction of food is seen as showing discipline and purity when looking at fasting. With certain cultures, you would be sent out into the wilderness with no provisions to survive on your own wits as a rite of passage. You would then come back as part of a vision quest having clarity for your future intentions. Religions and virtually every culture includes periods of restricted eating or fasting. This healthy practice has mostly been eliminated or considered unnecessary. The reality is that a disciplined fast is very healthy for your body.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, made a statement around 400 BC that has withstood the test of time – “Let Food Be Thy Medicine and Medicine Be Thy Food.” As a pharmacist, I have always had respect for those words. I grew up on a farm having had a pasture for raising cattle, a chicken yard and coop for chickens, gardens for raising vegetables and fruits, a vineyard for grapes(that included a harvest for winemaking), and an orchard with several tree varieties of fruits. For the most part, it was an organic model for producing food. Good health starts with whole fresh food created naturally.

Nowadays there is GMO food that allows for the commercial utilization of herbicides, pesticides, fungicides. Animals are given antibiotics not only to treat but also prevent infections. Those same antibiotics can also change the animal biome to gain weight faster without adding more feed. Knowing that many pharmaceuticals were derived from plants, and until the twentieth century, the pharmacist was at the frontline for providing treatments, that model has changed. No longer can they afford the time to assist with natural herbs and spices that were dried or in compounded pills, ointments and tinctures.

To take this principle one step further is a quote given by Hippocrates, “All disease begins in the gut”. Most people cannot visualize how you can develop heart, vascular, organ, psychological, autoimmune, and other diseases if the origin is the gut. How could such a saying given over 2500 years ago have relevance today? Except for communicable diseases and infections, this second quotation by Hippocrates show incredible insight. The exception to that statement is infectious disease. Sanitation, hygienic practices, then the invention of antibiotics and antibacterials improved longevity and the quality of life by reducing infectious disease. Then soon after came the adoption of vaccines to augment the patient’s chance to help prevent infections.

The incidence of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune disease in almost every category is on the rise. These disease categories have the impact to accelerate aging and shorten our lives. Potent synthetic medicines can intervene but typically do not reverse the disease or produce true remission. Obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, hypertension, Alzheimer’s, and mental disease can be inflammatory in nature. Foods can be inflammatory or cause oxidative stress( that can add to the problem of gut dysbiosis) reducing the health of the gut lining, mucous layer and microbiome balance).

But it is now becoming evident that there are inflammatory diseases that have origins in the gut. While not the solution in itself, healthy food can be what repairs the gut lining, being anti-inflammatory and an antioxidant to assist in healing the rest of the body Over 80% of the body’s immune system is contained in the gut. Autoimmune diseases have a gateway to impacting the body at least part by having a weakened gut immune system and a leaky gut. Food in the form of macronutrients, micronutrients and phytonutrients have a way to improve and prevent disease. How far the body can fight back depends on food, proper nutrition and lifestyle management. Thus, there is a choice – consider processed and altered food as bad medicine or looking at fresh, whole and properly prepared food as good medicine. Proper choices and discipline can make the difference.