A holistic approach

• Weight gain is normally not caused by diet.

• Chronic pain is normally not caused by damage.

• Chronic fatigue is becoming widespread

Communication between people is normally achieved through your senses eg sight, sound, smell and touch. These senses then communicate internally throughout the whole body using hormones and your nervous system. Or at least that’s what we used to think…

We now know that there are many more, older communication pathways through cell growth and their interconnection which tell parts or even the whole body when something isn’t right and repair is needed.

Weight gain, chronic fatigue, chronic pain and depression are often intertwined entities without proper explanation for their association.

Weight gain is typically not caused by food intake – as shown in multiple studies where diet fails to produce long-term weight loss. The same holds for depression, pain and fatigue as the success rate of therapies does not improve.

Chronic pain, fatigue and depression cause the biggest loss of life quality of all diseases, including different types of cancer.

Why? When the body is unable to repair itself, this triggers perpetual activity of mechanisms that in the long run produce symptoms.

So it is not the weight, fatigue, pain or depression that should be treated; they are just the signals drawing attention to the fact that something is wrong and needs attention. They are caused by long-term damage to vital organs and the failure of repair mechanisms, which have broken down due to evolution. 21st century humans face negative influences unknown to our ancestors.

These factors include stress, loneliness, toxins (food, water, air), vitamin and mineral deficiencies, lack of community and the constant external search for happiness.

The increasing specialisation and reductionist approach of modern medicine and focus on diagnoses takes us further away from resolution and health. It needs a holistic approach.