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WHAT'S
MISSING
FROM
MEDICINE

SARAY STANCIC, MD

WHAT'S
MISSING
FROM
MEDICINE

Six Lifestyle Changes to
OVERCOME CHRONIC ILLNESS

SARAY STANCIC, MD

Foreword by Dean Ornish, MD

Note: The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our
knowledge. This book is intended only as an informative guide for those
wishing to know more about health issues. In no way is this book intended to
replace, countermand, or conflict with the advice given to you by your own
physician. The ultimate decision concerning care should be made between you
and your doctor. We strongly recommend you follow his or her advice. Always
consult with your doctor before changing your diet or starting a new exercise
program. Information in this book is general and is offered with no guarantees
on the part of the authors or Hierophant Publishing. The author and publisher
disclaim all liability in connection with the use of this book. The names and
identifying details of people associated with events described in this book have
been changed. Any similarity to actual persons is coincidental.

Copyright 2021 by Saray Stancic

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this work in any
form whatsoever, without permission in writing from the publisher,
except for brief passages in connection with a review.

Cover design by Emma Smith

Cover photo by Emily Pellecchia

Illustrations by Nusrat Priya and Frame25 Productions

Print book interior design by Frame25 Productions

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020944801
ISBN: 978-1-950253-06-7

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For my husband, Ralph Pellecchia, whose unwavering love
has emboldened me to persevere and overcome adversity. I love you
and thank you for the miraculous gifts, our Emily and Nicholas .

I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith
in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told
how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent.
I go for anything new that might improve the past.

Clara Barton

Contents

Foreword

It's my pleasure to write this foreword to Dr. Saray Stancic's extraordinary book.

This is the era of lifestyle medicine: that is, using simple yet powerful lifestyle changes to reverse the progression of many of the most common chronic diseases as well as to help prevent these.

Lifestyle medicine is the most exciting movement today in health and healinga revolutionary tidal wave that hasn't yet even begun to crest.

For more than four decades, I have directed a series of randomized controlled trials and demonstration projects proving, for the first time, that lifestyle medicine can often help prevent and even reverse the progression of the most common chronic diseases. It can be undertaken in combination with drugs and surgery, or sometimes as an alternative to these.

And the only side effects are good ones!

These lifestyle changes include:

• A whole foods, plant-based diet (naturally low in fat and refined carbohydrates)
• Stress management techniques (including meditation)
• Moderate exercise (such as walking)
• Social support and community (love and intimacy)

In short: eat well, stress less, move more, love more. That's it.

My colleagues and I continue to be amazed and inspired that the more diseases we study and the more underlying biological mechanisms we research, the more new reasons and scientific evidence we have to explain why these simple lifestyle changes are so powerful, how trans-formative and far-ranging their effects can be, and how quickly people can show significant and measurable improvementsoften in just a few weeks or even less.

In our research, we use the latest high-tech, state-of-the-art scientific measures to prove the power of simple, low-cost and low-tech lifestyle interventions. Our studies have been published in the leading peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals and presented at the most well-respected physician conferences.

Our research is proving that many of the most common and debilitating chronic diseases and even much of the damages of aging at a cellular level may often be slowed, stopped, or possibly even reversed by this lifestyle medicine program. These include:

• Reversing even severe coronary heart disease
• Reversing type 2 diabetes
• Reversing early-stage prostate cancer
• Reversing high blood pressure
• Reversing elevated cholesterol levels
• Reversing obesity
• Reversing some types of early-stage dementia
• Reversing some autoimmune conditions, including arthritis
• Reversing emotional depression and anxiety

To this list we may now be able to add Dr. Saray Stancic's experience using lifestyle medicine to reverse the progression of multiple sclerosis. While this is an n of 1 study, not a randomized controlled trial, she shares in this book a powerful story of her healing journey.

Why is it that these same lifestyle changes may help prevent and even reverse the progression of such a wide range of chronic diseases?

Like most physicians, I was trained to view heart disease, diabetes, prostate cancer, and other chronic illnesses as being fundamentally different from each other. Different diagnoses, different diseases, different treatments.

But they're really not as different as they seem because they share many common origins and pathways.

We found that the same lifestyle changes described in this book can often reverse and thus help prevent the progression of a wide variety of the most common, costly, and disabling chronic diseases. Also, the more closely people adhered to this program, the more they improved in virtually every way we measured and the better they feltat any age! These findings are giving many people new hope and new choices.

Why is this true?

The reason these same lifestyle changes are beneficial in so many chronic diseases is that they each affect and share so many common underlying biological causes, mechanisms, and pathways.

One of the important implications of this new unifying theory is to stop seeing chronic diseases as being fundamentally different from each other and to begin viewing them as diverse manifestations and expressions of similar underlying mechanisms, all of which are powerfully affected by the lifestyle choices we make every dayfor better and for worse. (I describe this new unifying theory in more detail in our book, UnDo It! )

In other words, in many respects these are the same disease manifesting and masquerading in different forms. That is why the effects of lifestyle changes are not disease-specificbecause they affect all of these mechanisms.

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