| Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy | | | | knew what worked. When something worked, it was |
| food. - Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) | | | | written down and considered medical knowledge that |
| Many consumers mistakenly still think that their medical | | | | was passed on from generation to generation. |
| wellness should come from their traditional | | | | Scientists like Robert Hooke, in the seventeenth and |
| sickness-care providers such as doctors, hospitals, and | | | | eighteenth centuries, contributed to the development of |
| pharmaceutical companies. | | | | the optical microscope. Now for the first time in history, |
| But, the wellness revolution is going to be led by | | | | scientists could begin to discover the "why" behind |
| average people outside the "sickness industry" that are | | | | what worked in medicine. |
| self-educated. Thus, if you are to make your fortune in | | | | The ability to study at the cellular level allowed doctors |
| this industry you need to know the history of the | | | | to eliminate major diseases (e.g. smallpox, tuberculosis, |
| medical industry and the current state of scientific | | | | typhoid, polio) that had been the scourge of mankind. |
| knowledge when it comes to keeping our bodies | | | | Doctors and scientists became proud after such |
| healthy, fit, and youthful. | | | | success and started rejecting age-old treatments and |
| Did you know that Hippocrates is considered to be the | | | | cures that had accumulated over the millennia - simply |
| founder of modern medicine? And that the Hippocratic | | | | because they could not scientifically explain their |
| Oath is still recited by medical school graduates? | | | | function. |
| It is sad to see that medicine today has evolved far | | | | At the time, scientists mistakenly thought that cells |
| from the most important beliefs of its famous | | | | were the smallest or final building block of human |
| practitioner. | | | | anatomy. Then they discovered that virtually ALL |
| Hippocrates was the first physician focused on | | | | biochemical functions performed by proteins, vitamins, |
| preventing disease as well as treating disease. In all | | | | minerals, and nutritional supplements takes place on a |
| areas of medicine, he taught that the right types of | | | | molecular versus a cellular level. |
| nourishment and exercise were the keys to both | | | | I guess the medical industry shouldn't have thrown out |
| avoiding sickness and regaining health. This is the key | | | | those age-old medical texts after all. |
| difference between wellness and sickness medicine: | | | | With the dawn of the internet, average people like you |
| avoidance and prevention. | | | | and me are becoming more self-educated and leading |
| Most of medical history comprised of trial and error. | | | | the wellness revolution! |
| People did not know why something worked, they just | | | | |