‘Modern Farming’ is the greatest misnomer of our times.  The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture released a study not long ago that showed between 1966 and 1996 there was a net loss of nutrient content in food harvests of 25%.  In translation, what this means is that even if you follow the food guidelines of 9 servings of vegetables and 4 of fruits a day you’re only getting 75% of the nutrition your grandparents ate. 

Now comes Dow & Monsanto.  Today’s food is riddled with pesticides, herbicides and toxins that are being sprayed in thousands of tons per year on American farmland.  And that’s just what is allowed by law.  What’s not allowed by law (DDT and others chemicals banned by the EPA in 1972 are still manufactured and shipped to third world countries like Mexico, Chile, and Peru) is used  to grow food abroad and shipped back to your local supermarket to complete what has come to be known as “the cycle of poison.”

Processed foods have become what people just consider normal food now.  Many families and individuals rely on prepackaged goods because there is simply not enough time to prepare meals.   And this is just the tip of the processed food iceberg; we have not even mentioned fast food drive thrus.  Processing food does three major NO-NO’s to food: uses heat, removes nutrients, and adds preservatives. 

Tissues and organs that have been damaged by the Standard American Diet (SAD) require concentrated organic whole food  nutrition to provide basic nutrients back to what amounts to a starving body.

‘Starving body’ does not refer to the emaciated people we see on the TV during times of famine.  Quite the opposite;  starving Americans are well fed on the macro-nutrients (carbohydrates, fats, and proteins), but sorely lacking the micronutrients (minerals, vitamins, enzymes, cofactors, and unknown synergists only found in live food).  In fact, the epidemic of obesity in America is due largely to the fact that we eat too many processed foods.


The Remedy

Organic whole food nutrition is the remedy in therapeutic nutrition because it is the only source of nutrients that the body can use to repair and regenerate damaged tissue.   Our current biochemistry was put together over 100,000 years ago as part of co-evolution with the plant kingdom.  Many “wanna-be Dr. Weil” integrative medicine docs seem to forget this fact when they recommend synthetic nutrition.    What’s missing in synthetic nutrition is the farm.  Most people do not understand that the starting materials for synthetic nutrition is coal tar.  Yes, you read it right!  Compounds put together in an organic laboratory can’t come close to the ones made naturally. 

Let’s just consider one: Vitamin C.  Surely, you’ve read the label on a bottle of Vitamin C and found the familar words ‘ascorbic acid’ standing in for Vitamin C.  Its so common, so accepted that you’d be surprised to discover that it is a cheap imposter for the real thing. Albert Szent-Gorgy, Nobel Prize 1930 for Vitamin C, called ascorbic acid a fraud.  He found his experiments could not be sucessfully completed with ascorbic acid.  So what is the true Vitamin C Complex?  It contains ascorbic acid, but it also has a copper-based enzyme called tyrosinase and two other protiens Gyorgy called J factor and P factor.

Yes, they may bear some biochemical similarity, but thats where superficial comparisons end.   What the farm contains that the laboratory lacks is the sun, the soil, and the beneficial microbes that reside there.  Without these three essential ingredients the plant cannot extract minerals from the soil and make them available to the animal kingdom.  If we go back to the Vitamin C Complex symbiotic microbes living on the roots of the plant fix the element copper and make it available to the plant. 

If whole food complexes represent the “real thing” in food; why would you accept anything less?  Its like buying a Gucci bag and then finding out that it was a Chinese knock-off you paid full price for.  That would make you indignant, but yet you don’t demand a higher standard for the products you put inside your body?  Something to consider!     

 Beets ramp up the livers ability to detoxify

The Assessment

There are a lot of people spending significant sums of money on supplements and are getting advice on what to take from the clerk at GNC.   This is no way to effectively get at the core nutritional issues that need to be addressed.

Dr. Olejak asseses the need for therapeutic nutrition using four methods.

• BioMeridian Assessment 

• Toxicity Questionnaire

• Symptom Survey Form

• Comprehensive Oral History
  
  

There may be no more important part of the doctor-patient relationship than asking important questions and listening.  It is a well known fact that the way medicine is practiced today there is just not enough time to learn what a person needs in a 7 minute interaction.  At the Delmar Wellness Center, Dr. Olejak will ask pertinent questions about your health and drill down with follow-up questions to discover the source of  health problems. 

It has been said that treatment without a comprehensive oral history is the practice of veterinary medicine.  I couldn't agree more!

The problem with profit driven medicine is that it is an insurance-dictated industry beholden to stockholders -- where the patient is not the first priority.  At the Delmar Wellness Center we have only on constituency; our patients.

Eric Schlosser discusses his book  Fast Food Nation

“In Defense of Food”: Author, Journalist Michael Pollan on Nutrition, Food Science, and the American Diet (interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now)

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