Indroduction
Lifestyle diseases
AKA Diseases of captivity
diseases of affluence etc.
“Diseases of affluence also happen in the lowest socio-economic groups, so its not about how much money we have. They correlate with habits of convenience and comfort.”
Hormesis is the big take home concept!
We modern westerners shield oursleves from discomfort,
The systems in our body designed to help us cope with discomfort never get challenged.
It all comes back to hormesis. If you don’t challenge the systems in your body in the way they were designed to be, you become de-conditioned and fragile.
De-conditioning results directly in the chronic lifestyle diseases.
Most of us have close friends or family who are in someway affected by lifestyle diseases such as:
Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, asthma, anxiety, back pain, chronic arthritis, cardiovascular disease and irritable bowel disease only to list a few.
De-conditioning results directly in the chronic diseases we recognise as lifestyle diseases.
In the next Lesson: How practitioners can make a difference.
-
Add a short summary or a list of helpful resources here.