Foundations of Health

Course overview

We are hampered by a medical paradigm that focuses downstream on symptoms and diagnoses, not upstream on causes and mechanisms. We are becoming seemingly more aware that the primary driving factor for the early onset of chronic diseases is LIFESTYLE. Aging accelerates the risk of all chronic diseases, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, dementia, autoimmune and many more. Our annual health care expenditures are around $4 trillion, most of which are for age-related diseases. Aging has long been considered a normal process. We think disease and frailty are inevitable parts of life. There is a scientific revolution happening today that is forcing us to change our entire view of health and disease. Science today sees aging as a treatable disease. By addressing its root causes we can not only increase our health span and live longer but prevent and even reverse chronic diseases. Your body is a self healing organism when it is put in the right environment. So, how do we create health? How do we optimize function? How do we reverse dysfunction caused by the normal ravages of our modern world where most of us eat toxic food, sit most of the day, live in a sea of toxic industrial chemicals, slather cancer-causing products on to our skin, where the stress of our lives and society drives our thoughts, emotions and actions which are seizing our free will without us even realizing it? The principles and practices you learn in this course will have remarkable benefits in your life and in the lives of the people you care for.