Innovative course on food as medicine introduced by Dr. Mark Hyman of UltraWellness to bring natural healing foods & nutritional science to healthcare
04.04.2008
According to researches conducted recently, there is no magical treatment to cure heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, allergies, or any other chronic illnesses. But the fact is that natural curative foods could be the most effective medicine for treating, curing, and reversing all most all chronic diseases.
Mark Hyman, M.D. of UltraWellness will present this matter in detail on the history of nutrition and medicine at a course in Baltimore called ‘Food as Medicine.’ Conducted by the Center for Mind Body Medicine, this course will surely play a significant role in bringing nutritional science to healthcare professionals in a digestible, sensible and hands-on format.
Dr. Hyman said that his aim is to help his patients to cure their diseases and he has no commitment to any kind of treatment. But time after time, he discovered that the natural healing foods is the main medicine for curing chronic diseases and natural healing foods will be very dominant, fastest acting, and most dramatic to give better results.
This course comprises some peculiar topics that the majority of healthcare practitioners never learn in medical school. The topics include the systematic basis of nutrition as a therapeutic tool, how to take natural healing foods in a sustainable method and how the physical condition of the planet has affected the health of our food and bodies directly.
Based on the basic dogmas of Functional Medicine, the "Food as Medicine" course explores the role of stress, nutrition, the health of our gut, hormone balance and the importance of detoxification and food. Health practitioners can use the practical tools on daily basis with their patients. UltraWellness deals with the nutritional approaches of practitioners for conditions like cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, ADD, asthma, allergies, autoimmune diseases, adrenal, thyroid, fibromyalgia and neurodegenerative problems. "The UltraMetabolism Cookbook" is served during the course and practitioners can use this as a source for meals.
Based on the rising field of functional medicine, UltraWellness - lifelong health and vitality- deals with the health problems by balancing the 7 fundamental organic procedures that govern health. The treatment will be done by finding the factors that causes imbalance and providing the essential things to reinstate the balance. Once the balance is restored the body facilitates healing by its natural intelligence. Mark Hyman, M.D, the co-founder of UltraWellness, is an appreciated medical consultant, New York Times best-selling author, lecturer, practicing physician and a genius in the promising field of functional medicine.
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