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Practitioner Corner:
From a Functional Medicine Perspective
Mark Hyman, M.D.
In his important new breakthrough book, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain By Healing Your Body First (Scribner, 2008), Dr. Hyman calls himself an “accidental psychiatrist,” a physician whose efforts to help people find and eliminate the causes of their physical disorders have led to the surprising discovery that his treatments often cure their mental problems as well.
Dr. Hyman, who is the founder and medical director of the UltraWellness Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, explains how problems of the brain, such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disease, attention deficit disorder (ADD), Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and mood swings can be prevented, improved, or even cured by his innovative program of diet, nutritional supplements, exercise, meditation, and lifestyle changes.
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Yellow's Green Corner:
Back To The Garden
in collaboration with the Earthrose Institute (www.earthrose.org)
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." That's the advice journalist and author Michael Pollan offers in his new book, In Defense of Food. This philosophy resonates with all of the current research addressing the diseases of our modern culture including diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and cancer.
What Pollan calls the “American diet” of refined white flour, polished rice, soy and corn oil, corn sweeteners, and corn-fed animal fats has now rampaged across world markets, threatening traditional diets and their cultures.
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