I am searching for a new body. I am like many on that journey. My impetus for this search is the chronic pain that my husband feels.
My husband has been experiencing chronic pain for more than fifteen years. After experimenting with almost all treatment modalities from traditional Western medicine to unusual non-traditional practices, he has almost given up. With a vacation coming up that would be so much more enjoyable if we could, at least, reduced the level of pain that he feels every day. Enter the Hippocratic thought, “Let food be your medicine, and the medicine be your food.”
Navigating the nutritional forest to find a credible anti-inflammatory plan can feel like walking through the trees without a compass or a map.
After deciding on the path–let food be your medicine–for healing, I discovered some ground rules. They are, from Michael Pollan’s Food Rules: 1. Eat food; 2. Not too much; 3. Mainly plants.
Alberto Villoldo‘s book, Grow A New Body, found it’s way to my reading pile. Dr. Villoldo takes a holistic, grounded approach to use the body’s natural ability to heal through eating the right foods and being connected to your spirit.
And we started, we are working through the pre-work to set the body up to win. If nothing else, if the pain is not reduced, the program has improved our energy, elevated our mood, and reduced our brain fog. It is a win for us. We are finding that this eating practice is something that we want to continue.
Is this the only program we could have tried. No. I have three other cookbooks and, at least, two other lifestyle books that speak to the same philosophy and actions.