How to Make Disease Disappear

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So when I met Dotti, I said, “Dotti, you’ve got a problem with your blood sugar. Dotti, for the last few years your body is becoming more and more intolerant to certain foods. At the moment, Dotti, your body does not tolerate refined or processed carbs or sugar at all.” She’s got to cut them out. Just one of these alone, type 2 diabetes is costing the UK 20 billion pounds every single year and I’m standing here before you’re saying it, I can make these diseases disappear. One particularly beneficial bacterium is Akkermansia muciniphila, which feeds on onions, garlic, leeks, artichokes, yams, bananas, Brussels sprouts, etc. So 15 years ago, I qualified for medical school and I was wearing — I was full of enthusiasm, full of passion, ready to go out and help people. But I felt like there was something missing, I started as a specialist, I moved from being a specialist to becoming a generalist or GP. And I always got this nagging sense that I was just managing disease or simply suppressing people symptoms. Chronic diseases claim the lives of nearly 41 million people worldwide each year, accounting for seven out of ten global deaths. Among these deaths, approximately 17 million are classified as premature, occurring at younger ages than expected.

We are given a five-minute kitchen workout complete with illustrations. This includes 5-10 squats, 5-10 calf raises, 5-10 press-ups (if like me you’re not strong enough to do them on the floor, you can begin by doing them against a wall and then a kitchen worktop), 5-10 triceps dips and 5-10 lunges. Rangan doesn’t just tell us what to do, he walks the walk himself. The book is crammed with photos of the handsome doctor doing the various activities he advises us to do, relaxing on a park bench, buying fresh vegetables at the market and taking a brisk walk, for example. A physician dedicated to finding the root cause of ill health rather than simply suppressing symptoms with drugs, Dr. Chatterjee passionately advocates and follows a philosophy that lifestyle and nutrition are first-line medicine and the cornerstone of good health. Drawing on cutting edge research and his own experiences as a doctor, he argues that the secret to preventing disease and achieving wellness revolves around four critical pillars: food, relaxation, sleep, and movement. By making small, incremental changes in each of these key areas, you can create and maintain good health - and alleviate and prevent illness. As Dr. Chatterjee, reveals we can reverse and make disease disappear without a complete overhaul of our lifestyle. My afterthoughts on finishing the book are that I learned so much about the body and how specific things sleep, stress, whitecarbs, etc effect it.Just over a year ago I got the opportunity to make a series of documentaries for BBC1, where I got to showcase this style of medicine. Let me tell you about one of the patients. A 35-year-old, Dotti, a lovely lady but she was struggling with her health – weight problems, joint problems, sleep problems. Despite Dotti’s best efforts, she was unable to make sustainable changes. SoI went into Dotti’s house and on the first week I did some blood tests and I diagnosed her with type-2 diabetes. 6 weeks later when I left Dotti’s house, she no longer had type-2 diabetes – you see her disease had disappeared.

We are informed about our microbiome, i.e. the “bugs”, as he calls them, that live in our gut. An ideal microbiome is a diverse one, and the more diverse our eating, the more diverse our gut bugs. These love plant-based fibre. Broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables are especially loved by these bugs. They are beneficial for the immune system and sooth inflammation. A physician dedicated to finding the root cause of ill health rather than simply suppressing symptoms with drugs, Dr. Chatterjee passionately advocates and follows a philosophy that lifestyle and nutrition are first-line medicine and the cornerstone of good health. Drawing on cutting edge research and his own experiences as a doctor, he argues that the secret to preventing disease and achieving wellness revolves around four critical pillars: food, relaxation, sleep, and movement. By making small, incremental changes in each of these key areas, you can create and maintain good health—and alleviate and prevent illness. As Dr. Chatterjee, reveals we can reverse and make disease disappear without a complete overhaul of our lifestyle.An inspiring collection of relatively simple health interventions that are said to make a huge difference in many people's lives. I like that they all pretty much seem attainable, even the exercise ones, which otherwise are probably the ones I'd find the most daunting. But Dr. Chatterjee sets out some simple goals and suggestions that make you want to give it a try. He also doesn't promote any one certain diet, but rather the principles of eating whole, non-processed foods as much as possible, and de-normalizing sugar. This is basic stuff, but sometimes we need to hear it from a source that seems legit and can explain why. See, when I met Dotti, she was up here, she had a disease. You see, you can think of it a little bit like a fire that’s been burning in Dotti’s body for years; it’s getting bigger, it’s getting bigger, it’s finally raging out of control at that point. I can say hey Dotti, you have a disease and I told her that you do have a disease. But what caused it in the first place? Based on cutting-edge research and fascinating case studies from real patients,How to Make Disease Disappearis a practical and revolutionary path to avoiding disease and embracing the health we all deserve.” Acclaimed functional medicine doctor Rangan Chatterjee writes, “The good news is that I can make these diseases disappear. That’s right. This probably sounds like an extraordinary claim, but the reason I can make them disappear is that they’re an illusion. These diseases are not the inevitable result of aging. They are not simply our genetic fate or our destiny. We do not have to suffer needlessly. The truth is these diseases don’t really exist, at least not in the way we think they do.” Here is the full transcript of Rangan Chatterjee’s TEDx Talk presentation: How to Make Diseases Disappear at TEDxLiverpool conference.

Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential doctors in the UK and wants to change how medicine will be practised in years to come. He has been called a pioneer and is changing the way that we look at illness. He is known for finding the root cause of people's problems and he highlighted his methods in the ground-breaking BBC television show, Doctor in the House, which has been shown in over 70 countries around the world. In 2017, he was placed 8th in the Pulse Power 50 list for influential GPs.

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Prioritize mindfulness meditation - do it for 10 minutes every night as the first step of my bedtime routine. A professor in San Francisco, Professor Bredesen was actually demonstrating that you can cure dementia. He’s shown that you can reverse cognitive decline in his patients with dementia; and how is he doing that? One thing he’s not doing, he is not saying, well all these patients in my office have got dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, what is the cure? He’s going the other way; he’s saying with all these patients, let’s say ten patients in my office, he’s trying to work out what have been the triggers for the last 20 years that have ended up with these patients expressing themselves as dementia and he identifies them and he corrects every single one of them. And when he does that guess what’s happening, they are reversing their symptoms, they are no longer being classified as having dementia. It’s a brand new way of looking at disease. It’s looking at what is causing this disease in this individual patient is totally different. In broad strokes, Dr Chatterjee wants to help you eat, sleep, and move (preferably outdoors). He talks about the benefit of morning sunlight, the harm of evening screen light, and the need for full and complete sleep in a dark atmosphere (at least as often as you can). He talks about how when exercise is a chore, performed indoors in a gym, that many people may be doing more harm to their overall health than good. He talks about the need to balance how you move (not simply focusing on the "mirror muscles"), and how weight training can change the relationship between your muscles in unhealthy ways. I have definitely been converted and am now starting an alarming number of my sentences with, 'according to the four pillar plan...'. Take longer 2-min walking breaks every 30 minutes during my working hours. Wherever possible during virtual meetings or commercials, walk around. Aim for 10,000 steps, even if it's mostly aspirational.

I didn’t go hell for leather in the gym - this is not what this book is about! Dr Chatterjee encourages you to move (a wee bit more, everyday) everyone can do that right? The thing we have to understand is that acute disease and chronic disease are two different things. Acute disease is something we’re pretty good at as doctors, it’s quite simple – you have something like a pneumonia, that’s a severe lung infection, so in your lung you have the over-growth of some bugs, typically a type of bacteria. We identify the bacteria, we give you a treatment, typically an anti-biotic and it kills the bacteria. The bacteria die and ‘hey presto’ you no longer have your pneumonia. The problem is we apply that same thinking to chronic disease and it simply doesn’t work because chronic disease doesn’t just happen. You don’t just wake up with chronic disease one day. And there’s many different causes of chronic disease. By the time we give you that diagnosis things have been going wrong for a long, long time. As regards the five portions of vegetables we should strive to eat each day, these should ideally be of five different colours. Dr. Chatterjee is one of my new heroes, since he is both transforming the lives of thousands of people for the better and also showing us how the doctors of the future need to be – they need to get away from prescribing medicine, which is harmful in the long run, and begin to teach people how to heal themselves by improving their lifestyle. As Rangan states, “the practice of medicine will also need to evolve”. My biggest takeaway on the science front was that when we get stressed, our bodies make extra cortisol, and to do that they have to steal ingredients that would otherwise be used to make other super important things like hormones. (Something I also learned about in Lara Briden's book on women's health.) No wonder reducing stress is so important. I always thought that was just sort of a feel-good, soft, catch-all suggestion, so it was interesting to read the details.

So what factors is he looking at? He’s looking at their diet; he is looking at their stress levels, their sleep quality, their physical activity level, their exposure to environmental toxins etc etc etc, as they start to sound a little bit familiar. See, what if all these seemingly separate diseases actually out there share common root causes. See, we need to update our thinking: our genetics are not our destiny, our genes load the gun but it’s our environment that pulls the trigger; all these factors here, these are the factors that basically interact with your genes and determine how your genes are expressed whether you want an optimal health, whether you have a disease, whether you are somewhere in between. Collectively as a society I genuinely believe we can do better and we have to do better. It seems daunting at first, but Dr Chatterjee guides you gently through it all with plenty of reassurance that if you don't feel up to changing everything now, that's OK, just work on what you can today and build up to more tomorrow. They are mostly such small suggestions (such as drinking more water, not looking at your phone last thing at night, doing a few short bursts of exercise etc) that there's no way most people wouldn't be able to implement at least some of them. I am really taken with the book and Chatterjee's whole philosophy on medicine, that you can't always just throw pills at a problem -- there are things you can do to help yourself, preferably before there even is a problem. The book is extremely readable since we are told about what Rangan himself does and are also presented with edifying case histories. So I started reading about this vitamin deficiency, and as I started reading, I started to learn a lot of science, a lot of science that I did not learn in medical school… a lot of science that made a lot of sense to me. SoI started applying the science, first of all with my son and I saw the amazing benefits. SoI started applying it with my patients and do you know what happened? People started getting better, really better – you see I learnt how to resolve the root cause of their problems, rather than simply suppressing their symptoms. PDF / EPUB File Name: How_to_Make_Disease_Disappear_-_Rangan_Chatterjee.pdf, How_to_Make_Disease_Disappear_-_Rangan_Chatterjee.epub