Most chronic diseases are caused by an unhealthy diet and lifestyle. The human body wants to be healthy so most of these diseases are reversible through an intensive effort to improve the patient’s diet and lifestyle.
These sections will provide details in a lifestyle approach to reversing the following chronic diseases: Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia, Gastric Reflux, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Constipation, most Autoimmune Diseases, and Cognitive Decline.
Methods for increasing a patient’s chance for cancer remission will be presented along with methods for healthy aging. Specific information will be given to allow patients at your hospital to embark on lifestyle medicine programs.
Dr. Joseph Scherger’s career in family medicine has spanned 40 years. His training also included a Masters in Public Health where he studied nutrition at the University of Washington. He has always included preventive medicine and wellness in his medical practice. He is physically active with running, one of many choices for being in good shape. Until 2013 he followed the nutrition guidelines promoted by leading organizations such as the American Heart Association.
In 2013 he expanded his knowledge in nutrition by reading the books of physician leaders such as William Davis and David Perlmutter. One of his partners in practice (and now his personal physician) Hessam Mahdavi introduced him to Functional Medicine, a focus on treating the causes of disease rather than just treating disease with drugs and procedures. Following this new knowledge and approach, Dr. Scherger greatly improved his own health and the health of many of his patients.
This book is that story, loaded with information and scientific references that validate this exciting new approach to nutrition and good health. This revised and expanded edition updates the information by one year and adds useful information such as Superfoods and Supplements. We live in a toxic food environment yet healthy foods are readily available. Dr. Scherger will help you make the choices that will result in your becoming lean and fit.
The body wants to be healthy. Evolution has given us multiple mechanisms to repair and restore our body from injuries and illnesses. However, if we repeatedly and continuously damage our body we will overwhelm our repair-and-restore mechanisms and develop a chronic illness.
This book is about restoring health and reversing chronic diseases using healthy nutrition and lifestyle methods. Giving drugs for chronic disease is usually just treating the symptoms or – worst case –simply providing palliative care for chronic diseases. Chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease are not a life sentence.
Almost all chronic diseases are reversible! That is not something physicians are trained to do. Physicians are trained to manage chronic diseases, not reverse them.