Disease Prevention

The fabulous Dr. Mercola has been a great influence on my health practice. Here is a review of his recommendations for disease prevention.

What are the underlying causes of most, if not all, disease? I strongly believe it boils down to three basics of equal importance:

Your emotional and mental state
Making poor fuel (food) choices
Lack of physical activity (exercise)

All of my advice essentially falls under one of these three basic necessities for optimal health.

Dr. Mercola believes that you can VIRTUALLY ELIMINATE your risk of cancer and chronic disease, and radically improve your chances of recovering from cancer, if you currently have it, by following these relatively simple risk reduction strategies.

You won’t read or hear much about them because they have not been formally "proven" yet by conservative researchers. However, did you know that 85 percent of therapies currently recommended by conventional medicine have never been formally proven either?!

There are twelve simple strategies that you can easily adopt to improve your health right now, whether you are ill or not.

Here are the twelve strategies and, over the next twelve posts, I will elaborate on each one of them:

1. Reduce or eliminate your processed food, sugar and grain carbohydrate intake

2. Control your fasting insulin and leptin levels.

3. Normalize your ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats.

4. Get regular exercise.

5. Normalize your vitamin D levels and vitamin A levels.

6. Get regular, good sleep.

7. Eat according to your nutritional type.

8. Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and air pollution.

9. Limit your exposure to and provide protection for yourself from information carrying radio waves produced by cell phone towers, base stations, phones and WiFi stations.

10. Avoid frying or charbroiling your food.

11. The CDC states that 85 percent of disease is caused by emotions. Have a tool to permanently reprogram the neurological short-circuiting that can activate cancer genes.

12. Eat at least one-third of your food raw.

Stay tuned for a more in-depth look at each of these strategies over the next twelve posts. In the meantime, consider how you can begin to adopt some or all of these strategies into your own life...