Guru Dharma Singh Khalsa - Food as Medicine: How to Use Diet, Vitamins, Juices, and Herbs for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life

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This book is lovingly dedicated to Yogi Bhajan and his wife, Bibiji Inderjit Kaur, who were kind enough to share their vast knowledge on using food as medicine.

What a beautiful day for an epiphany. Here I am on a seventeen-mile mountain bike ride at an altitude of 6,700 feet in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The air Im breathing in this pristine environment is clear and cool. Its a fresh, warm, early summer afternoon, and along with some new friends I am relishing a bit of free time at one of the most enlightening medical conferences Ive ever attended. The event is devoted to using food to prevent and heal illness, and I feel so inspired that I cant wait to get back to Tucson to begin writing. I want very much to share all this new and exciting information with you, such as

• how cancer can be prevented and reversed using food.
• how heart disease can be treated using specific foods and nutrients.
• how Alzheimers disease can be prevented and treated with food and nutrients.
• how food can cure chronic fatigue.
• how diet and vitamins can restore emotional energy.

It turns out that every major ailment has a specific natural food prescription that can reverse its course. This is the cutting edge of medicine.

The Buddha wrote:

Dont chase after the past, Dont seek the future.

The past is gone.

The future hasnt come yet.

See clearly on the spot That object which is now.

In my work as a physician specializing in integrative medicine, I have used nutrition as part of my practice for many years. This type of medicine, as you may know, is the emerging field that blends the best of conventional Western science with ancient healing therapies such as yoga, meditation, nutrition, herbal medicines, and acupuncture. Because I use both Eastern and Western medicine, many of my patients have made unexpected recoveries from illnesses they had been struggling with for many years. Some of them have considered their recoveries to be miraculous, but I see only the natural outcome of good science and good sense. The one thing I have come to believe while participating in these recoveries with my patientswhom I call my healing partnersis that your body has the ability to heal itself if you just give it a chance. Using food as medicine gives my patients the greatest chance of all to heal.

One of the chief reasons my program has been so successful is that it treats each person as a unique being. If you come to see me, I take into consideration your biochemical uniqueness and then design a program to restore you to maximum physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. When that happenswhen you once again attain a healing balance in your body, mind, and spiritit certainly feels miraculous. It is the answer to your deepest prayer.

The practical use of modern nutritional principles, which I will present in this book, will allow you to activate your own natural inner healing force and bring you back into a balanced state. Since no two patients are alike, no two require exactly the same therapy. When a patient comes to me for pain, fatigue, memory loss, cancer recovery, high blood pressure, or some other ailment, I always have my nutritionist, Luz-Elena Shearer, R.D., M.S., meet with us. Working together, my patient, the patients family, Luz, and I construct a perfect dietary prescription based on patient needs and preferences. Only rarely do two patients receive the same diet. I will present the information in this book so that you will be able to create a unique healing experience for yourself.

What I learned at the conference in Wyoming brought my knowledge and ability to help heal to a higher level. I learned the latest information on preventing and healing illness at the cellular level by using food to maintain genetic integrity. If you have been following the news about the human genome project, you are probably aware of the great advances it promises. One day, drugs or therapies will fight illness by treating our genes. But I believe we can do that right now by using food as our form of genetic therapy. My program will act on your body, your brain, your mind, and your spirit. It will also touch you on your deepest inner level: your soul. After all, mind, body, and spirit are united; they are one. True healing requires we affect them all. This is the future of medicineand here we are together at this precious moment.

Perhaps you are one of the many people today who are aware of the deep spiritual awakening occurring on the planet. You can see it in the latest best-selling books and seminars. Some of the most popular speakers of our day, such as my colleagues Dr. Deepak Chopra and Debbie Ford, bring a spiritual slant to everything they say and do. Take a look at Oprah Winfreys show, the most popular program on daytime television, which has showcased many influential new authors and spokespersons for the benefits of a spiritual lifestyle. Each Oprah program ends with a segment called Touching Spirit, which is very popular and empowering to the members of her audience. It stirs them at a deep level.

This kind of elevation in consciousness recently touched one of my healing partners, a forty-year-old woman named Jane, who had spent a lot of time searching for help in dealing with her serious case of chronic fatigue syndrome. Jane had visited some of the most highly regarded physicians in America but had made little progress. One renowned doctor saw her for fifteen minutes, glanced at her chart in a cursory way, and told her that he wasnt optimistic about her recovery. Despite that unpleasant experience, she kept searching for a cureor at least someone who believed in her ability to heal. Finally, she was referred to me. Working together, Jane and I designed a program that returned her to wellness.