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From the Executive Director – Fall 2022
Dear Members and Friends,
Our community of natural and ancestral health advocates maintains a steadfast belief and commitment to empowering personal health – sharing knowledge and guidance that would reduce America’s epidemic of metabolic syndrome, which leads to type 2 diabetes, stroke, and cardiovascular disease. I’ve just returned from two gatherings of remarkable physicians, researchers, and human-health innovators – today’s pioneers – at the Ancestral Health Symposium at UCLA, and the Symposium for Metabolic Health in San Diego. In both cases, the media was absent, and thus most of the information and viewpoints shared will not reach the public sphere to help address societal problems and influence political action anytime soon.
Sadly, public discourse focused on empowering personal health remains absent in the airwaves today. It seems that any discussion of health that embraces an evolutionary perspective, encompassing topics such as diet, physical activity, and adequate sleep, seems to disinterest the mainstream media. Some would claim that the influence of big pharma and the modern medical complex is to blame. While this may be self-evident, I don’t believe it’s helpful to diminish the value of allopathic medicine or its practitioners who provide important and valuable health support, especially in the case of acute care.
Instead, I believe that those of us fortunate enough to have access to the valuable health knowledge from Price-Pottenger, and other trustworthy natural health organizations, have a social responsibility to respectfully share this information with our communities. While we are working hard to enlarge the Price-Pottenger megaphone, with your involvement, we could truly create a movement.
Speaking of movements, during the KetoCon conference in July, I was fortunate to interview Harvard psychiatrist Christopher Palmer, MD, for this issue of the Journal, to discuss metabolic health and its influence on psychological well-being. Dr. Palmer is appropriately attracting a lot of attention lately due to his theory, based on research and extensive clinical practice, that improving metabolic health markers can improve psychiatric patient outcomes, even in treatment-resistant cases. What’s more, Dr. Palmer theorizes that addiction and Alzheimer’s are related to metabolic disorders.
In another must-read feature in this issue, researchers at The Cornucopia Institute provide important information to guide your beverage choices in “Plant-Based Beverages: What You Need to Know about Non-Milk Alternatives.” Additionally, an article by traumatic brain injury survivor and author Cavin Balaster exposes an unseen nutrition crisis for patients on feeding tubes in hospitals and elder care facilities. We are also excited to share recipes from a new contributor, Dr. Anna Cabeca, aka The Girlfriend Doctor. You’ll find our research collection article, “The Systemic Causes of Dental Caries,” by Royal Lee, DDS, on page 27, and our In the News section at the back of the issue.
You are an integral part of our community, and we are grateful that you’re alongside us on our journey to improve the health of everyone. If our vision and information are supporting you and helping to empower your journey, please consider supporting our work by donating today.
Wishing you health and joy,
Steven J. Schindler
Executive Director
[email protected]
Published in the Price-Pottenger Journal of Health & Healing
Fall 2022 | Volume 46, Number 3
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