The author of this book is such a clever man. Through his rich medical practice for many years and a lot of in-depth research on the relationship between diet and self-healing, he put forward the conclusion that self-healing can be eaten. For a senior medical practitioner, this is very valuable, because there are still too many doctors who believe that people's self-healing ability can only be obtained through scalpels and drugs.
When a person is sick or accidentally injured, it is essential to take medicine, injection and operation if the condition gets worse. For example, acute appendicitis must be operated immediately, and you can't eat. At this time, if you don't cut off the inflamed and necrotic tissue immediately, you are likely to die.
Once the disease is controlled, the repair of postoperative wounds and the recovery of the body depend on diet, and drugs only play an auxiliary role like crutches. If you are sub-healthy, you don't need to take medicine, and you can achieve self-healing by adjusting your diet and lifestyle. The maintenance of physical health, such as the prevention of appendicitis, is only related to a good lifestyle and has nothing to do with medicine.
The author points out that the health barrier of human body is the body's natural defense system, and there are five warriors, namely angiogenesis, regeneration, microflora, DNA protection and immunity. The fighting capacity of these five warriors is guaranteed by a healthy diet. Regeneration and microbiology are easy to understand and use, while the other three are profound and need more research before they can be exported.
Regeneration is metabolism, that is, replacing old unhealthy tissues with new healthy body tissues, and stem cells called pluripotent cells are responsible for specific tasks. For example, it is well known that bone marrow transplantation is used to treat leukemia. When other people's bone marrow after successful matching is implanted into leukemia patients, stem cells will automatically generate new healthy white blood cells to replace cancerous white blood cells, thus defeating cancer.
To give a simpler example, for example, after a hand is accidentally cut, as long as it is not inflamed and does not tamper with the wound, stem cells will grow new tissue to replace the necrotic tissue, and the wound will heal automatically. As for why the body is metabolized and why stem cells are omnipotent, it is related to genes. Because it is profound, I won't say much. But one thing is clear: stem cells need a healthy diet to provide nutrition.
Microbiology is about the relationship between intestinal probiotics and human self-healing. The study of intestinal probiotics is a hot spot in the field of global health research. While reading this book, I also watched many videos, and finally got a general understanding. Simply put, the proportion of beneficial bacteria, harmless bacteria and harmful bacteria in intestinal bacteria and the diversity of flora have great influence on human health. The state of intestinal microflora largely determines the state of human self-healing ability. If intestinal microflora is to be beneficial to human body, it also needs a healthy diet to provide nutrition for it.
In the third part of this book, "Plan, Choose and Act to Make Food Work", the author introduces a simple 5X5X5 plan. But from my personal experience, this plan is not very practical. First of all, everyone knows to prescribe the right medicine, and eating is the same. Dietotherapy depends on physical fitness and food preparation, which is more general in the book. Secondly, the nutritional composition of ingredients will vary greatly in different regions and seasons, and the therapeutic effect will also vary greatly. The ingredients mentioned in the book and the ingredients bought by readers, even if they have the same name, may have very different nutritional components; Finally, although the 5X5X scheme is greatly simplified, it still takes energy to purchase, pretreat and cook, and there will be great nutritional loss due to frequent heating in the production process.
Summarize the contents of the book in one sentence: the reasons and methods of gaining self-healing power by dietotherapy come from scientific argumentation at the molecular level, and the method is 5X5X5 recipes.