The Logic and Vision of Doug Graham

This recent interview of Dr. Graham is a pretty good overview of his perspective on the essentials. He is also a long time professional athletic trainer, and his perspectives on physical activity are also invaluable, but not touched on here.

--"It's the food" --

I am reminded of a funny but slightly sad anecdote. There is an increasing contingent of well known medical doctors that have come to prominence as a virtue of their unusually high rates of success in healing most of the diseases that afflict contemporary developed world humans, which are (briefly) cardiovascular diseases (heart attack, high blood pressure, stroke), diabetes, auto immune disorders, disorders of the digestive tract and other organs of elimination, and strides are even being made in treatment of the most stubborn of these diseases, cancer.

These doctors of high success rates are frequently in attendance at medical science conferences, where doctors and researchers are working hard on figuring out the mechanisms of these modern diseases, but without significant progress. "It's very complicated!" they say, and it's true biology is tremendously complex. Consequently the standard of care for patients with these diseases is lifetime prescriptions for "incurable" diseases.

But these doctors, the ones having outsized success treating these "incurable" conditions, are in these conference rooms (literally and figuratively), raising their hands and saying "it's the food". They may as well have not said anything, no one is listening. But they do keep saying because they have seen it to be so obviously true in their own practices, over and over, ad infinitum.

The bottom line is health is not all that amenable to technological solutions, and via "the unconscious desire for immortality" we have been over complicating all things regarding health. But it's really not all that complicated, nor is it hard to do...if only we knew where to begin.

Doug Graham's perspective has been remarkably helpful to me in learning "what to do" to create health. I can't say I do it perfectly, but it remains my "north star" and I've noticed over and over the closer I hue toward "north" the better I feel, the more energy I have, and the more balanced are my emotions.