​The Big Shift: Change and the future of Medicine

        Millennials, Boomers and everyone in between are witnessing a joyful societal transformation: a huge shift in the collective dietary consciousness of an obese, sickly angry America. Changing their perception of today’s food, an awakening society is transcending weapons-grade food-like substances and returning to earth’s verdant garden; reconnecting to the benevolent source of all life. 

One of many secrets to successfully living is handling changes that come our way. Not set in behaviors that perpetuate disease. Even if we detest it, change is an inevitable part of life whether you’re willing or not. Sure, I get it, as we get older, we like things just as they are, thank you. I’m no different. It’s about giving a crap and realizing that we can still plant and fertilize the seeds of a quality late life by adopting a plant-based lifestyle of plant-food, exercise and a positive disposition. No curmudgeons allowed in this club.

The foundation of my Eat Right Now with Chef Wendell presentation was validated while moderating a panel of esteemed allopathic doctors from IU Medical School on the rapidly evolving field of Lifestyle Medicine: the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches, such as a predominantly whole food, plant-based diet, regular physical activity, adequate sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substance use, and other non-drug modalities, to prevent, treat, and, oftentimes, reverse the lifestyle-related, chronic disease that's all too prevalent… even in old age. Sound familiar?

The primitive, failed Standard American Diet (SAD) and food industry-policed, disease-creating, corporately biased Food Pyramid we were encouraged to follow throughout our lives, has caused endless, preventable suffering from chronic mental, physical, and spiritual dis-ease (JAMA). The SAD however, is being widely abandoned for compassionate, cell-nourishing, scientific dietary knowledge regarding the stewardship of our holy temple which quantum physics proves is indisputably connected to earth, galaxies, each other, and virtually all that is. 

God and I weep at statistics revealing America remains one of the unhealthiest countries in the World. We spend more on healthcare coverage than those who live in some of the world’s wealthiest nations. Yet, Americans have worse health compared to Australia, Canada, and Germany.

After 100 years, Americans are returning to the earthly garden of original wholeness and health our ancestors used for many millennia as food and medicine. Up until the Industrial Revolution, our ancestors used naturopathy: earth’s medicine. The Industrial Revolution uprooted us from God’s garden and tossed us like dirt clogs into the festering compost pile of nutritional unrighteousness, processed food, and illnesses of vitamin deficiency: malnutrition. Disease rates took off like they were shot from garden sprinklers. We’re created to express perfect health when connected to earth’s pharmacy, not pharma pills that hush symptoms: your temple’s way of signaling something’s wrong.

Bludgeoned, exploited, and malnourished. Our temple and Mother Earth desperately need our help. It’s our responsibility to co-create and a lifestyle that will leave her better for our grandchildren.
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My mission is to present readers with emerging truths; not indulge what clearly hasn’t worked. Small changes, even this late stage in the game, offer years of health, not years of sickness. Join the shift.

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