The Hippocratic Nutrition

"Food can be your medicine and your medicine your food": As much has been written and said about this keyword phrase of Hippocrates, the truth  remains poorly understood and very concentrated. The scientific rigor of this truth and practical application of principles of nutritional prevention and treatment fills the book “The Hippocratic Nutrition”. According to the author, health is in our  hands and the principles for its conservation is masterfully crafted in the dietary management of disease according to the Hippocratic understanding and neo-Hippocratic medicine. The way to apply these principles is the stakes of this book. The Hippocratic Nutrition is a comprehensive nutrition system based on the principles of the great Greek physician for the prevention and treatment through food, but also at the wisdom of Greek tradition. Thanks to its high efficiency, it is increasingly gaining international recognition in the area of ​​alternative, holistic healing. The nutrition system is based on the consumption of live, full, unprocessed food like fruits, vegetables, nuts and herbs and clearly defines what kind of food a person should avoid and what should eat. In the book, the writer analyzes how the intense intoxication from problematic food and contaminated environment leads our body to chronic inflammation. This is the basis for the development of almost every disease Diseases of ‘unknown’ cause, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases that tend to be epidemic in the modern world. So the mean for the prevention and treatment of these diseases should primarily be the elimination of conditions that cause inflammation. In contrary, the modern, mainstream health industry focus only to symptom relieves. Patients themselves, either because of human nature or because of lack of information, leave their lives in the hands of the pharmaceutical companies, refusing to take responsibility for their contribution to the preservation of health.