Principle 3: Balancing Nutrition and Hormones

Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food, ‑ Hippocrates

Balancing nutrition and hormones is an important step in helping your body to heal. If you believe in a Creator, than you believe that the bountiful foods provided were designed for us… a gift from the Creator. If you believe in evolution, then our bodies co-evolved with those foods over millennia to optimize our survival. Either way, natural foods play a vital role in health. If your body is deficient in nutrients or hormones, it is out of balance and maintaining homeostasis is harder work. Your body will not have the energy or raw materials it needs to heal. Many imbalances have a high correlation with cancer.

The concept of ‘food as medicine’ seems to elude most doctors. Most med schools fail to meet the recommended goal of providing 25 hours of nutrition education to students. Even that would be woefully inadequate. Most physicians are not trained to counsel patients about nutrition. They seem to feel the only answers to our health problems lie in man’s invention of pharmaceuticals. Mind you, most of those pharmaceuticals are derived from natural substances.

There is no dispute that many of our man-made chemicals have a strong, causal link to cancer. Why, then, is it such a stretch to imagine that natural foods could play an important role in restoring the balance that our man-made chemicals have disrupted? Much of our best information comes from age-old lore handed down through generations and has not been tested using the scientific method. And, frankly, a lot of things that have been tested have produced conflicting results. Good for you? Bad for you? It’s very frustrating. No one has given me tablets from the mount with absolute truths. I’m just going to keep bringing you along with me on my path of exploration and hope it’s helpful.

Upcoming posts…

  • Testing & signs of deficiencies

  • Maximizing nutrition

  • The role of certain nutrients

  • Special diets to prevent and kill cancer

  • Food as medicine

  • Superfoods

  • Recipes