People ask us all of the time, "What can I take for....., Can I take this for......" But, that simply is not the way Chinese medicine works, which, is the complexity as well as the simplicity of this ancient medical art.

Our diet is not concrete, it has basic parameters, but we individualize it with each person we treat based on their individual circumstances. Because we developed our protocols from the very beginning, our dietary input came from raw clinical observation year after year. The goal of our dietary recommendations is gradient. We withhold many foods in the earlier stages, and as the person goes through treatment, we start adding foods back in. The goal in the end is to have a full diet minus the big offenders-sugar, alcohol, fungal and foods.

The past week, in speaking to patients we have had over the years, I am reminded of something that I myself went through years ago early on in my health journey. I had lost what I viewed as my healthy body from an early age, and it was then when I met my first very real health challenge that I began to understand the vast amount of grey that exists between the black and white of health and illness. I was quite young and had once been very trusting of the professional, the doctors, the surgeons, the medical profession in general.

How many times have you heard, "we don't know what this is exactly. All of your blood tests show normal", or, "these things just happen sometimes, we don't know why", or "these things happen from stress, maybe if you take an antidepressant, it will help control your emotions".