Medical Nutrition to Replace Statins?

Attention: Chef Gunnar Thopmson of Elderberry House, Chateau du Sureau outside of Yosemite Park. (Could someone tell me how to pronounce this? ) Anyway, nice talk with Gunnar about healthy eating and food choices and the importance of dirt to kitchen time of raw or unprocessed vegetables and fruits. The diets that exemplify this concept are the Pan Asian and the Mediterranean Diets or PAM. Gunnar is the Executive Chef at Elderberry, and his food preparation is world class.

We all like an occasional gourmet meal, but Gunnar is most interested in teaching healthy food preparation as an art, and he has cooking classes throughout the week.

But the real information is that what we eat impacts our vascular health (endothelial layer of our arteries). And our vascular health impacts our brain, eyes, coronary arteries, and kidneys: all organs that degenerate over time as a function of what and how we eat and exercise (or don't). The end result are coronary arterial stents or radiation for cancers.

What is indeed interesting is how food choices we make interact with our DNA, a vibrant, intelligent life force in all of us adjusting to physiological demands second by second in our body. Two interesting talks recently focused the pioneering research of the Leaky Gut Syndrome and its relationship to autoimmune diseases and depression, as well as the glycohelix secretive membrane within arteries that may be the REAL health issue in vascular disease (not cholesterol and all the other stuff). Medical Nutrition just maybe the science to replace cholesterol drugs, and all the other stuff we are prescribed to synthetically regulate something we do not really understand nor how to treat most effectively: endothelial inflammation and oxidation.

Commentary: Back to basics is food preparation, the what and how. As Gunnar is the only world class chef I know, I am challenging him to teach us how to bring the PAM diet into our lives. As our new platform at Wellness.com comes on line, we can have videos and real time teaching opportunities.

I invite the wellness community to collaborate and/or get involved. Don McGee