Lifestyle Medicine: Treatments with the\nhelp of nature<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I remember thinking to myself: why do\nmost doctors not live longer and healthier lives than the rest of the\npopulation? Shouldn’t they know better than anyone how to do that?\nHow to look after themselves better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the past 50 years researchers and\npioneering doctors have begun to analyze why it is that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are populations wherein the life\nexpectancy is higher than in the western world, and where there are\nmore people who live to over 100 years old than here in the west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Populations in which the average\ncentenarian makes their very first visit to the doctor after they are\n90 years old!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Populations in which the dogma, that we\nget sick as we get old, collapses….<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because these people live in a natural\nway and keep themselves healthy in a natural way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In those parts of the world the cost of\nmedical care is much lower, whilst in the western world, depsite\nhaving ever more doctors, medicines, operations, etc, we can predict\nthat the generation below us, our children, will die before us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is very sad, but there is hope:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is estimated that if our chronically\nill people (those with high blood pressure, diabetes, angina,\nrheumatism, certain cancers, and many other things) went to live in\nthose same parts of the world, called \u201cBlue Zones\u201d by National\nGeographic, then 80% of those chronically ill people would manage to\nreduce or even cure their illnesses, just by living in the same way\nthat the Blue Zone populations live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The study of this field is called\nlifestyle medicine, and this area of medicine teaches us to go back\nto living in a natural way, so that we can return in a natural way\nto being healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lifestyle medicine is a new field in\nmedicine; in the USA it is already recognized as an independent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
specialism. Although it is part of\nconventional medicine, i.e. based on evidence and on science, it also\nbelongs to complementary or alternative medicine. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because it is based on clinical studies and it uses the following nature-based things as therapies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n