From Dr, Gundry, renown heart surgeon now holistic researcher and supplement developer along with Dr. Fuhrman, Dr Lee,* and a whole school of integrative health practitioners who study the art and function of wellness, it all comes down to the gut. Gut health directly communicates with the brain as the first level of maintains homeostasis.
Our whole well being is dependent on the communication of all of the systems of the body for harmonious functionality. Gut health is based on good food, good metabolism, environmental toxins and primarily good communication between the bodily systems.
Typical allopathic medicine engineered by the Rockefeller/big pharma historical affiliation has pushed alternative and integrative better self care medicine out of the limelight for ways to maintain health and prevent disease. Post WWll chemical warfare was turned into big agricultural and pharmaceutical products in order to create a quick abundance of food for the world recovering population.
It sounded good at the time but no one knew the effects of X-ray, pesticides and fertilizers would eventually not only destroy those “bugs, insects and weeds,” but the whole trickledown process to our own guts. Our rash greed for control over nature rather than working with nature is destroying our planet and all of the beings in it.
Please look at the article on how Monsanto ruined our holiday meals let alone our everyday food supply included via the link provided (Read article here.)
Also, eyes are being opened and AMA protocol is being questioned by the real scientific community that feels a responsibility to question scientific “findings” by all so called respected sources.
The book pictured here, you may have heard about is written by Dr. Casey Means and her brother, a former medical lobbyist for many professional allopathic companies. They both worked together to reveal the inadequacies and sometimes the outcomes of sometimes deliberate withholding of information by our medical health system.
Studies by Monsanto (now Bayer) go back to the Nazi led experiments in concentration camps and still continues under the guise of approved yet not fully tested approaches used today. These studies have been used for everything from the development of the birth control pill to the vaccines we use today on humans and animals.
Allopathic medicine is used for emergency, chronic disease and definitely has its place when you break a leg or are in an accident.
BUT…
Self care and self education has been pushed aside to favor patentable medicine.
Part of the reason I became a health coach as I described in my video below, was because of the personal experience I witnessed as my parents both suffered from ill health in their lives.
Symptoms (that are most often downplayed and ignored) are attempts that the body is making to tell the body early enough to find out the source of the lack of communication between the body’s systems. This is how Functional Medicine not necessarily allopathic medicine works.
This is a time to reawaken your curiosity and reacquaint yourself with Mother Nature to see how cultures in our past around the world worked WITH Mother Nature not trying to destroy it.
So in a small way, reawakening ancient knowledge about herbs and spices can help your body listen more closely to the systems of the body by cooking real unadulterated foods, not overly processed ones, and creating a mind body spirit practice in the community by supporting local farmers. Maybe you could even start growing a few herbs to appreciate and give gratitude for Mother Nature even more .
By the way, I make up herbal gift packages or baskets to send to your loved ones and friends who could use a non-sugar, artificial preservative, reinforcement for making a healing life for themselves.
Wouldn’t some of my in house bouillon and some Land & SEAsoning packets tucked in a mug be a nice gift to send to a friend in the hospital or nursing home?
In wellness, beauty & gratitude,
Kathleen
*I will share with you if you are interested, these sources of Functional Medicine I regularly subscribe to or listen to regularly. Just email me at Kathleen@midwestmermaidmuse.com