Dr. Cathie Lippman has practiced Environmental and Preventive Medicine in Beverly Hills for 20 years. Environmental Medicine regards illness as possibly being a result of sensitivities to foods or chemicals or some other aspect of the environment.

Dr. Lippman’s extensive knowledge and understanding of the whole person, including psychological, nutritional, and physiological influences, as well as environmental factors, make her uniquely qualified to examine how these various influences affect the patient. Her special approach enables her to prioritize the actions one should take to regain health.

On our radio show last week, Dr Lippman discussed how healthy diets may be genetically determined. She was very common sense in her approach to medicine - "listen to your body and help it to play the orchestra music it was intended to produce, rather than a cacophony of discordant notes which are part of old age."

We discussed Thomas Edison's vision for medicine being more preventive than palliative. He could not understand why the medical establishment continued to persist in treating diseases with drugs, when it was obvious to him that disease was caused by biological imbalances which drugs can do nothing to correct. He best stated his opinion on these matters in one of his writings when he said: "The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease."

We discussed anti aging foods, especially vegetables of the rainbow colors, which contain special nutrients. The largest group of these anti aging foods are the ones that contain antioxidants. Antioxidants are molecules that clear away free radicals, damaging particles that damage body cells and accelerate aging. Free radicals are always being produced in our bodies, so antioxidants are constantly needed to remove the free radicals before they have a chance to do damage. Many foods, particularly fruits, vegetables, and whole grains contain antioxidants, while a few are astonishingly high in these beneficial anti-aging food molecules. Three of the best are blueberries, red kidney beans, and cranberries.

A root soup was suggested, especially to keep one from becoming ill.

We thank Dr Lippman for her wisdom and we enjoyed the discourse.

Tune-in next Friday for another addition of Only Natures Finest Show, hosted by Dr. Ken Jones.

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