Doctors Reveal How They Heal Their Autoimmune Disease
Mark Hyman
Apr 1, 2024
Mindsip insights from this episode:
Connect with your body to facilitate healing
You can only heal something you are connected to, so a crucial step in recovery is to stop being afraid of your body's uncomfortable sensations and instead inhabit it and listen to its messages.
Challenge bias against lifestyle in research funding
Major funding bodies like the NIH often give scathing reviews to diet and lifestyle studies, viewing them through a pharmaceutical-centric lens and believing people are incapable of following such protocols.
Adopt a systems approach to create holistic health
Studying one intervention at a time, like diet without exercise, is like trying to grow a plant with only nitrogen but no water or sunlight; creating health requires supporting the entire system at once.
Incorporate organ meats for superior nutrient density
Organ meats like liver are shockingly more nutrient-dense than almost any other food, containing massive amounts of B vitamins, minerals, and mitochondrial nutrients like CoQ10.
Consume nine cups of vegetables daily for optimal health
The Wahls Protocol recommends a daily intake of nine cups of vegetables, specifically broken down into three cups of leafy greens, three cups of sulfur-rich vegetables, and three cups of deeply colored ones.
Develop intuition by silencing analytical mind and connecting with sensations
Intuition is not a mystical gift but a skill that can be practiced and developed, much like music or art, by silencing the analytical mind and connecting with your body's sensations.
Reduce gluten intake to prevent cavities and enamel defects
A diet high in gluten can cause gut inflammation that manifests in surprising ways, such as causing enamel defects and numerous cavities, even in children with good dental hygiene.
Recognize functional doctors as inflamologists to address chronic disease
Functional medicine practitioners can be thought of as 'inflamologists' because they focus on treating inflammation as the root cause of chronic disease, which conventional medicine often doesn't recognize as a treatable condition itself.
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