It's All in the Gut - the Seat of Good Health

"All diseases begin in the gut." That's what Hippocrates said some 2500 years ago. Doctors take the Hippocratic oath, but how many doctors ever tell their patients what Hippocrates advised...?

A great majority of modern day health problems stem from ingesting the wrong foods, which diminishes the body's internal bacteria community, which then disrupts the body's digestive, immune, nervous, and endocrine systems.

Aside from bad food, other degraders of the gut include: oral contraceptives, vaccines, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, and poor pre-natal and post-natal care.

But just as bad food can weaken the gut and sicken the organism good food can just as surely rebuild the gut and restore the body to health.

It's that simple and that direct. The only problem is that doctors, generally speaking, are nutritional illiterates. Moreover, they make all their money not curing humans but managing disease by prescribing modern medicine's high-margin, low maintenance goods and services.

If you're suffering from a chronic ailment just remember that it more than likely started in your gut because harmful industrial foods are hard to avoid. But it's also in the gut where you can stop what ails you.

All you need is the willingness to embrace the right diet -and eschew the wrong "professional" advice.