Discussion and book signing of recently released: Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food
I went to medical school hoping to get to the root of what makes people sick and to learn how to truly cure. But in medical school, I was discouraged from that goal. 
I was taught, for instance, that low back pain was a by-product of walking upright, and that our lumbar spines were simply too weak for us to be using them for anything other than crawling around on all fours. I also heard over and over that cancer and many common diseases were results of mistakes nature makes in duplicating our cellular DNA. The overarching theme was that nature was flawed and human beings were an intelligent but physically weak species. By the time I graduated, I’d been indoctrinated with the idea that disease and sickness are inevitable side effects of living, nothing could prevent them, and technological fixes were our only options.
But then I came to Hawaii. (more…)
