Bill Rawls MD - The Cellular Wellness Solution: Tap into Your Full Health Potential with the Science-Backed Power of Herbs

Unlocking Wellness

Copyright 2022 by Bill Rawls, MD

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Printed in the United States of America

First Printing, 2022

ISBN: 978-0-9823225-6-7

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Note to the reader:

Dr. Bill Rawls is the co-founder and Medical Director of Vital Plan, Inc., a holistic health and wellness company that offers herbal supplements, education, and support.

As the author of The Cellular Wellness Solution, Dr. Bill Rawls does not provide this material in his capacity as a licensed medical doctor. The information in this book should not be considered medical advice, diagnosis, treatment, or a substitute for the professional judgment of a qualified health care professional. All information provided in this book is solely for informational and educational purposes only. Your reliance upon any information provided in this book, including the use of any herbs, other botanicals, or other treatments, is solely at your own risk. Please consult a physician or other health care professional for advice regarding any medical condition or treatment thereof.

This book is dedicated to the many scientific researchers worldwide who have advanced our knowledge of the complex chemistry of herbs. Without their efforts, this book would not have been possible.

Foreword

By Joe & Terry Graedon

We have long been fascinated by natural approaches to healing. After all, Joes grandfather was a pharmacist who practiced at the turn of the 20th century. Many of the medicines he dispensed were herbal products he had compounded. By the time we attended graduate school, however, botanical remedies had fallen out of favor in mainstream medicine. Instead, doctors embraced drugs developed by the pharmaceutical industry and marketed as the primary way to address disease or illness. Unfortunately, they dont always work as well as patients expect. Perhaps we need a new paradigm for enjoying optimal health.

Over the last 40 years, we have had the honor of interviewing hundreds of health experts on our nationally syndicated public radio program, The Peoples Pharmacy. Scientists who study diet and nutrition, infectious disease experts, exercise physiologists, microbiologists, ecologists, and those knowledgeable in herbal medicine have all offered us insights. We have learned a great deal about the microbiome and its relationship to health and disease. Hopefully, so have our listeners. The insights we have gleaned on chronic health conditions from Dr. Bill Rawls and other experts have been valuable.

Now, Dr. Rawls has integrated all of these fields into an accessible guide to using herbal medicines to achieve optimal health. He has pulled together all of the critical factors that lead to chronic illness with a focus we have not encountered elsewhere. Better yet, he tells readers how to prevent, avoid or treat those causes.

The discussion of intracellular infections you will read about helps explain how infectious agents cause so much confusion, controversy, and challenge. Dr. Rawls helps us understand how the interactions between our immune systems and the microbes we live with can contribute to chronic conditions. But he also describes how we can support cellular wellness with herbal medicines.

A lot of writers pay lip service to the idea of identifying the underlying causes of illness, but relatively few offer a path to achieving and maintaining wellness. Dr. Rawls own experience as a patient as well as a healer informs his approach to overcoming chronic conditions such as those associated with Borrelia, Chlamydia, or Bartonella microbes. He knows well about the challenges and possibilities. Millions of people now suffering from long COVID pose a mystery to the medical profession, which has very little to offer them to aid recovery. Many of the principles that Dr. Rawls lays out in this book may have value for long haulers, although those studies are yet to be done.

The Cellular Wellness Solution is well-researched, supported by scientific evidence, and written clearly without jargon. While it will satisfy those who demand scientific underpinnings for recommendations, readers who have not studied chemistry, biology, or pharmacology will not find it too challenging. Each chapter concludes with a helpful summary of the points covered. Dr. Rawls guidelines are straightforward, and he provides readers with the criteria to judge which everyday herbs or antimicrobial herbs might be most beneficial for their use. His argument for utilizing herbs to cultivate wellness at the cellular level is clear and his descriptions of the specific herbs he recommends are extremely helpful. We are confident that you will find The Cellular Wellness Solution to be a most valuable addition to your health library so that you, too, can chart a path to cellular wellness.

Joe & Terry Graedon

Hosts of the nationally syndicated public radio program, The Peoples Pharmacy

Introduction

The first wealth is health.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

American philosopher, 1860

This well-known quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson is so powerful and true. Whether you are rich or poor, sick or in perfect health, the importance of wellness unifies us all. It is the foundation on which we build our lives and pursue our passions.

Good health is precious, perhaps more important than anything else in life. We all want to feel smarter about our health and empowered to make healthy decisions. Yet, wellness is surprisingly fragile and easily lost.

Reflexively, most people turn to the healthcare system to keep them well, but as a physician for over thirty years, Ive come to appreciate that its asking the system for more than it was designed for. Our healthcare system evolved to treat illness and injury, not to maintain wellness.

I grew up in a medical family. Relatives in three generations before me devoted their lives to compassionately treating the sick. Both my maternal grandfather and my father were physicians, so no matter if I was at home or visiting my grandparents, conversation flowed about patients and diseases. As a child, I heard and reheard family lore of both triumphs and tragedies.

One oft-told story was about my great-grandfather, a horse-and-buggy doctor in the early 1900s. He raced out one night and saved a little girls life by performing an emergency appendectomy on the familys kitchen table. He came home and died that same night of a heart condition assumed to be related to rheumatic heart disease (a heart condition that can occur after untreated strep throat or scarlet fever). Sadly, those were infections for which the medical system of that time had nothing to offer.

A generation later, my grandfather served as a general practitioner in a small North Carolina town. When I became old enough, I sometimes got to tag along with Granddad when he went on house calls. Tucked into his black bag were surgical tools to alleviate a range of acute maladies, such as boils, lacerations, and broken limbs. When childbirth was stalled, he had forceps to assist the delivery. His black bag also held pills and injectable drugs to ease the pain of injury and childbirth. Among those vials, he carried a new weapon against illness that my great-grandfather didnt have: penicillin. That gave my grandfather the ability to treat strep throat, which could have prevented the rheumatic heart disease that had likely taken his fathers life.