Do We Really Need Doctors? : Part 3

Not long ago, about a few months back, I attended a so called health talk, conducted by a doctor, a general practitioner, to the organization which I'm currently employed. I didn't expect much, just feeling a bit excited, walked in to the training room, and off goes the presentation. The doctor, who looks like he is in early 60's, but in fact, he is only late 40's. Accelerated biological aging perhaps? The session started off with exercise topic, and this 'old chap', presented as if he is a certifed personal trainer, or C.S.C.S. clearly, he is clueless about exercise science or musculoskeletal science. He does not know a single stuff about exercise! I mean seriously!

I pretended to be a dumb random audience, raised my hand and asked, "Does jogging increased bone density effectively?" he answered YES. What an answer! Next, he presented on nutrition, diet and foods. Well, apart from giving out tons of misinformation and does not know what he is talking about, he was telling the audience to avoid saturated fats, even coconut oil saturated fats!! I almost wanted to walk in front a slap this old chap but that's going to cause a scene and wouldn't look good at all. Worst of all, he recommend whoever attended the health talk, to consume commercial vegetable oils! Oh my GOD! Since when M.B.B.S or a GP qualified to be a nutrition advisor or dietitian? Since when studying M.B.B.S has any course or subjects on nutritional science or food nutrition? Conventional doctors DON'T study nutrition or anything to do with diets or exercise! Well, perhaps just couple hours of super basic lesson on carbs, protein and fats. Wake up folks! Most people think conventional doctors are GOD and they know everything about health. That's just stupid and absurd. Statistics show that doctors died earlier then general population, at average age of 56 years old? Most doctors look out of shape and fat. Don't believe? Observe and look around in any hospitals or clinics at any time at all. 

I was stressed out after attending that health talk. Apart from one of the most lack of knowledge doctors I ever came to witness in person, it was by far, the worst health talk I ever attended. I still remember he mentioned, "This is the best health program which everyone should follow". Wonder why cardiovascular disease is still the highest cause of death in Malaysia? There's your answer folks. He is one of the many conventional doctors who mislead and misfed health information to people like us, and there is no doubt at all, why general population health status are declining, and all of us are getting sicker and fatter. 

Alright. I just had to get it off my chest and rant a little bit. Let's continue with what we left off in the last post. Today, let's discuss about the 'doctor' inside of us, who will tell us, if we are eating the right foods or committing nutritional sins. Now, The human body has evolved over millions of years, just like every other living creature on planet earth. Not surprisingly, disease epidemics occur much less frequently among animals living in the wild (except those that are induced by man through environmental poisoning). One major difference between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom is that animals don’t read diet books, they eat their natural diet. 

Nature is full of examples that show us why modern dietary recommendations can’t be right for the human animal. We're told, for example, that eating red meat and animal fats clogs the arteries and brings about heart disease, but I've yet to hear of wild, carnivorous animals dying of heart disease the way we humans do. While so called nutritional experts debate over what is the best diet for humans, they, and their audience, have become obese, sick and diseased dining on their suggestions!

The fact is, we’ve moved far away from our natural diet and begun to eat what I call garbage foods. Quite similiar to SAD (Standard American Diet), primarily it is crap! What exactly is SAD or garbage foods? Simple carbs, refined foods, processed foods, additives and preservatives. It's the opposite of organic whole foods. General population and even professional athletes are habitually eating way to much processed foods, refined flour and sugar.

Now, before we proceed further, let's go back to the basics of 'You Are What You Eat'. The foundation of healthy whole foods, starts in the soil itself. The closed organic cycle, there is humus or organic soil and microorganisms, are the foundation of which the plants grow. Healthy soil, produces healthy plants. Healthy soil and plants, produces healthy animals. And since men eats animals and plants, it is obvious then, that men's health not only dependant on health of animals and plants, but the soil which they came from. Does this make any sense to any of you? 

Processed foods, table sugar, commercial milk, refined flour and also white rice, are categorized as non whole foods. These foods are non organic food source. Most primitive tribes and population DO NOT even know what toothbrush is, and these mentioned foods, is unknown to them. Tooth decay, is essentially a disease in the human body. When we allow food processing go to its extreme, today we have a huge problem with obesity, particularly industrialized countries. Certain poorer countries such as Tahiti and Fiji and even Russia, u can notice a lower rates of 'overweight and obese' people and far less diseases compared with industrialized nations. How could a high-tech and medically advanced country such as USA have much worst disease rates then these poorer countries? Hillariously, we have corporate leaders such as McDonalds taking the role in leaders in nutrition! And guess what, there are tons of kids who think that Ronald McDonald knows more about nutrition then their mothers! 

Any of you consult any dietitian, nutritionist or even 'doctors-wannabe-nutritionist', ask them to take off their shirt and that would make you realize if they would be your nutrition teachers. As I mentioned before, do not take health advise from someone's gut who look like shit! I may be blunt but ask yourself, would you take health or nutrition advise from a dietitian or doctor who is fat and out of shape, who look sick and aging? 

If you eat tons of junk or processed foods, or what is similiar to standard american diet, you can find yourself running into a number of common symptoms. They include:

       

Short-term symptoms:

• Headaches

• Anxiety

• Difficulty concentrating

• Skin problems, such as acne

• Get hungry quickly

• Tired, but ‘wired’

• Nervous Energy

• Energy Highs and Lows

• Emotional distress Long-term symptoms

• Depression

• Headaches

• Neck/shoulder/lower back pain

• Weakened Immune system

• Constipation

• Pimples

• Diabetes

• Cancer and other life-threatening diseases!

The simple explanation for all of these problems is that we just aren't built to eat the kind of diet that has become typical for the average people like us. It’s like trying to run your gas-powered car on diesel fuel. Your car won’t run for long, if at all! We need to rediscover our natural eating habits and this is where your 'integrated' doctor plays a major role.

If you consider our potential to be healthy, vital and loving as 10 out of 10 on a scale of 0 to 10, then the healthiest and most loving people in the world represent our ultimate potential. Once your vitality score drops below 7 due to over-exposure to any one or more of the common bio-drainers (listed below), you’ll soon start to suffer from a number of symptoms, including fungal infections such as dandruff, jock itch, athlete’s foot, vaginal yeast infections and even benign prostate hypertrophy. And, if you continue to allow the bio-drainers to exist in your life, you’ll be opening yourself to parasitic infection.

- Over worked

- Under/Over exercise

- Financial Stress

- Processed Foods

- Table Sugar, Commercial milk, refined flour, white rice

- Poor Water quality

- Skipping meals or 'dieting'

- Neuro Stimulant abuse

- Inability to receive and give love

- Family relationship stressors

- Work relationship stressors

Simply listening to your 'integrated' doctor can eliminate many of these challenges. So, let’s get better acquainted with your first doctor. In the wild, if you were to feed the diet of a giraffe to a lion or vice versa, you’d end up with bloated, tired, sick animals. The fact is that this description fits many people around the world today. The simple cure for many of our ailments is to eat according to our nature. Eat according to what we have evolved to consume for thousands and thousands of years. You can call it primal pattern eating, or dine like a caveman. 

Metabolism is usually divided into two categories: catabolism (yang) breaks down organic matter, for example through digestion and anabolism (yin) uses energy to construct components of cells such as proteins and fats. Your metabolism converts the raw materials of food to energy so that you can enjoy living. It determines which foods and drinks are nutritious and which are empty. The speed of metabolism, your metabolic rate, influences how much food you will require and how easily available it is. 

Today, there are several different systems that look at identifying one’s unique metabolism based upon genetics. Some use questionnaires, others use a combination of questionnaires and lab tests or at-home physiological challenge tests and markers to measure blood sugar handling. There are also now a number of companies that test your genetics to identify genetic markers, such as 'the fat gene'. Most often they take the information from the assessments and imply that you are predisposed to this, so you must eat that. In most instances, what results is a diet, a diet that you are supposed to stick to a diet that is right for you. Does that sound familiar?

Once you understand how internal stressors such as menstrual cycles or emotional stress and external stressors such as weather, exercise, or rushing to meet a deadline influence your body’s needs for plant or animal based nutrients, you are a primal pattern eater. As a primal pattern eater, you don’t need to follow diets or prescriptions, rather you honor your body’s requirements from meal to meal. It’s really that simple and is highly effective.

Your 'integrated' doctor who knows about diet better then anyone does, knows that as a science, looking at genetics can become very complex but he wants you to know that the basic concepts are beautifully effectual at a fundamental level. The ratio of foods we need to eat is based primarily on our genetics. Our racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as the regions from which our root races emerged have heavily influence our genetics. 

For example, the Inuit live primarily in Polar Regions where it is very cold. So cold, in fact, that very little plant life grows for much of the year. As a result, an Inuit diet is primarily a Polar type, about 90% eyes foods and only about 10% no-eyes foods. What I meant was 90% protein-fat, and 10% carbs diet. That’s probably not a diet that modern nutritionists would recommend to anyone, yet Inuit that eat according to their traditional diets are very healthy and relatively disease free.

If we now look to a warmer region of the world, such as the Australian outback, we find inland Aboriginals who eat a diet literally the inverse of the Inuit. These Aborigines eat about 90% no-eyes or plant foods and only about 10% eyes or animal foods and so I would consider them Equator types. This ratio of no-eyes to eyes has been with them for thousands of years because big game or fish are simply not available to them.

So, we can see that different peoples evolved to be healthy by time of the Second World War, so for most of human history, our cold weather ancestors couldn’t get fresh vegetables except during the growing season. If tribes from winter-like regions of the world didn't live a nomadic lifestyle, following animals to eat based on availability and variety, they would simply have perished and the remains of their gene pool would be found only in fossils.

Now, let me share with you, 3 different types of primal pattern which are discovered and found.

Polar Types: People whose gene pool emanated primarily from regions of the earth in which the ground froze during the winter and therefore had to sustain themselves on animal foods or eyes foods. These people typically eat a diet of greater than 60% animal foods and the rest on plant or no-eyes foods. Typically for natives in this area of the world, no-eyes foods (including nuts and seeds, root vegetables, berries and fruits) are eaten only when they are available.

Equator Types: Those people from the equatorial regions of the planet typically ate diets of greater than 60% plant foods (variety) and ate eyes foods depending on their availability. Think of a region like Hawaii where there is plenty of warmth and water year-round and access to a variety of vegetables and fruits food selection would seldom be limited. These regions of the planet often lack large game animal, but because these tropical areas often provide access to a great deal of water, available eyes foods for natives in these regions frequently consist largely of varieties of fish and shellfish.

Variable Types: The previous two primal pattern eaters are drawn from the more extreme poles of temperature. But the earth can’t be divided into purely winter/summer zones. There are transitional regions between the warm and cold regions. These areas around the planet have less harsh winters and have greater availability and variety of animal foods and plant foods. People in these regions typically do well on a variable diet of about half plant foods and half animal foods.

Today, we have so much intercultural marriage and childrearing that it isn’t at all unlikely to have someone with North American Native American (Polar Type) blood from one parent, and Polynesian and/or inland indigenous native blood (Equator Type) from the other parent. The result can be any one of the primal pattern eating types because as you know, some children take on traits more predominantly of one parent or the other and those traits vary. For example, you may have your mother’s eyes and your dad’s hunger for big juicy steaks. That is why I said that awareness is essential when following a primal pattern eating plan.

Stay tuned as I discuss more about these 3 primal pattern types as well as why water and organic foods is so crucial for us.