For thousands of years, nutrition has been employed as the
primary approach to prevent and treat illness. The first
giants of medicine, such as Hippocrates and Maimonides,
extol food as the most important tool in healing. As
medication and technology have only come to the forefront
over the past fifty years, they have nearly replaced
nutrition as the mainstay of medical care to the point that
physicians get nearly no education in nutrition over the
course of their medical training. However, medication often
provides a temporary band-aid rather than a cure. While
technology and medication at times may be necessary, I have
seen that nutrition is central in addressing the underlying
issues necessary to achieve healing.
