The saying, “Let food be thy medicine” by Hippocrates, has been circulating around the globe for thousands of years, as a school of thought regarding the relationship of food and the body. Some people believe in the concept of food as medicine, while others cast it aside in favor of science and modern medicine. However, I believe we are coming to a point in time when food will once again be a legitimate form of healing, and used widely as the primary form of medicine.
Caryn O’Sullivan, INHC
FOOD FOR HEALING
As a food therapist and health coach, I have studied the relationship between food and the body, and how to use specific foods to promote healing within the body. As a former sufferer of adrenal fatigue, chronic inflammation, gut issues, migraines and more, I also have first-hand experience of how what you eat affects your body. After years of suffering with mystery conditions and borderline autoimmune symptoms, I (with the help of an amazing doctor) was
able to piece my life back together – and food was a big part of my healing.
Our culture today likes to break food down into separate micro and macro nutrients, paying attention more to the individual components of each food item, rather than looking at the bigger picture. We eat tomatoes for lycopene, because we are told it will fight free radicals in the body; oranges for vitamin C, and dairy for calcium. While understanding the benefits of food is certainly valuable, this scientific analysis of everything we eat has separated us from the complete picture of our food and how what we eat influences our health, mood, relationship with the earth, and with others.
Whether you are aware of it or not, everything you eat has an impact on your body – good or bad. Through the food that we eat, the body is instructed to promote healing and balance, or inflammation
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