The question we should be asking when confronted with an illness is… what is my body trying to say, and what is my body trying to do.
The rationale is this:
Your body is programmed and motivated to heal or in other words restore itself. This capability has evolved over not just your lifetime but for eons. We share this unique quality with a myriad of life forms. Unless you have studied human physiology in some detail, you probably cannot appreciate the biochemical, and mechanical events that take place when even the most minor paper cut occurs. Enough drama to fill an entire episode of 60 minutes happens flawlessly, brilliantly, and you hardly notice.
That example exists at one extreme end of a continuum that waxes so complex as to elude feeble understanding. If we only knew how fantastic our body is, and how capable of recovery.
So back to the naming….
We do like to name things, and somehow in the naming we think we understand. The truth is we have very little understanding when it comes to the very important question of “WHY.”
Why cancer, why heart disease, why arthritis, why Alzheimers? Should we not be obsessed with finding the contributing factors in order to eliminate them?
I think that one of the main reasons that I am a holistic physician, is that I appreciate the effects of toxic environmental factors, whose prevalence is global, and whose influence is unavoidable. We are immersed in a toxic soup. It is essential that doctors and those individuals providing health care and advice, be more curious and ask the important questions. Why is a good start.

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