How to Make Disease Disappear by Rangan Chatterjee is a holistic four pillar plan revealing how you can prevent and even reverse disease. The author is a British physician, author, podcaster, and television personality. He is best known for his TV show, Doctor in the House, and is the resident doctor on BBC One’s Breakfast Show and a regular commentator on BBC Radio.

This book will show you how to discover a path to sustainable, long-term health. His approach is aimed at finding the root cause of ill health rather than suppressing symptoms with drugs. Dr. Chatterjee advocates progressive medicine which takes a 360 degree approach to health and seeks to determine how the body’s systems can work together to reduce the risk of chronic disease. Progressive medicine seeks to find he root cause of diseases and treat the whole person. He has observed that the majority of his patients don’t need a pill, they need a lifestyle prescription.

The book provides an easy to follow protocol with practical steps. Here are the four pillars with practical strategies as outlined in the book:

Relax
Me-Time Every Day
The Screen-Free Sabbath
Keep a Gratitude Journal
Practice Stillness Daily
Reclaim Your Dining Table

Eat
De-normalize Sugar
A New Definition of “Five a Day”
Introduce Daily Micro-fasts
Drink More Water
Unprocess Your Diet

Move
Walk More
Become Stronger
Begin Regular High-Intensity Interval Training
Movement Snacking
Wake Up Your Sleepy Glutes

Sleep
Create an Environment of Absolute Darkness
Embrace Morning Light
Create a Bedtime Routine
Manage Your Commotion
Enjoy Your Caffeine Before Noon

A lifestyle that embodies these four pillars is the cornerstone of good health. As you make small, incremental changes in each of these key areas, you can create a healthy lifestyle to help ward off illness. How to Make Disease Disappear is an inspiring and easy-to-follow guide to better health and wholeness.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

Rick

Associate Pastor – Discipleship.  The Church at LifePark

Professor of Discipleship, Columbia International University

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