When Diet and Exercise Are Not Enough: Really?

If you’re like me, you’ve kinna haddit with the actor-playing-doctor on T.V. ads casting doubt about whether, “diet and exercise alone are enough” to deal with ill health caused BTW, by our stressful lifestyles, poor diet and lack of exercise.

Kinna haddit because s/he’s lying in an effort to get people to sign up for a lifetime prescription to a drug that has more side effects–some of them more deadly than what they’re supposed to be “curing”–than I had pimples as a kid.

Now it doesn’t really matter what specific drug or adaptive lifestyle disorder we’re talking about here because they ALL come about in large part due to a toxic environment, crappy diet and exercise regimen. What about mental disorders you might be wondering? Yeah, same deal: Conservatively, 80% of these disorders and illnesses clear up when people clean up their diets/environments and begin to exercise–each and every day.

Well, what about the other 20% and HEY! what about genetics? For the remaining 20% a little more digging and experimentation is required. That’s the, “taking responsibility” part. 

And when that’s done?...Yeah–and again–80% respond beautifully as well. 97% of a genetic “predisposition” to any specific condition requires–you guessed it: A crappy diet, toxic environment and poor exercise habits to activate those genes.

So what am I saying, that we can’t trust doctors and the drugs that seem to be everywhere we look? No...I’m saying that we all need to begin to trust the wisdom of our own bodies and feed them with clean, sufficient, nutrient dense and pure foods while doing our personal bests to clean up our micro-environments and participating in reasonable mindfulness and exercise practices on a regular basis. That’s enough.

This is a capitalistic culture. It’s about supply and demand. When more people discover that clean environments, diet and exercise along with good cognitive skills are enough, the lying actors and dangerous drugs they push will join the ranks of commercials for things like cigarettes–we will no longer allow it. 

And as a result, present day doctors of all stripes will first and foremost do what Thomas Edison’s doctor of the future will do:

“The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of [dis-ease and] disease.” 

Really.

Dr. Herby Bell is a chiropractor, Recovery Coach, owner and director of Recovery Health Care, an integrated approach to wellness and addiction treatment in Redwood City, California. For more information please call 650 474 2121 or email:herbybell@me.com