Herbal Docs Feb 2022 - The Tree of Disease🌳
Dr Adam Sayedi on meta-inflammation and Taoist philosophy. 5 changes to minimise chronic disease & disembodiment. ☯️
Good Evening Friends,
The tree of disorder is a theory to explain energy flow in humans and highlights that the delicate balance of stress and recovery is key to preserving our health.
Listen up.
I encourage you to google the ‘tree of disorder’ or ‘tree of disease’.
This is not common knowledge.
Join Dr Adam as he separates the wood from the trees, with a simple theory to understand disease.
Seeing the wood for the trees - To be unable to understand a situation clearly because you are too involved in it.
Tree of Disorder
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.
Thomas Edison
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1)Malnourishment
This can be represented by both macro and micronutrient depletion.
Micro Nutrient
Electrolytes (charged particles important for processes involved in healthy functions) e.g Potassium, Sodium, Calcium, Phosphate, Iodide, Iron, Zinc.
Vitamins - Vitamin D (healthy bone functioning), 8x B Vitamins (energy and metabolism) and vitamin C and Vitamin E (immunity regulators).
Macro Nutrients
Ensuring your diet contain sufficient amounts of proteins, carbohydrates, fat and fibres. Correct imbalance in Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids.
2)Inadequate Rest/Recuperation
Sleep quality, levels of rest and stillness (yoga, meditation) are important mediators to promote weight loss, ease recurring negative thoughts and boost libido and fertility.
3)Emotional Strain
Emotional trauma, energy drains and neglecting the spirit all perpetuate feelings of disconnection and purposeless which effect our emotions and cognition. The mind and body are so connected.
4) Inadequate Movement
A soul, spirit, or consciousness that has been disembodied, lacks a meaningful physical form. Disembodiment, where the body breaks down before the mind. We can limit this chance with movement and exercise.
5)Toxic Exposure
Easy ones, alcohol, drugs and smoking.
Also includes synthetic chemicals, heavy metals, electromagnetic fields, misinformation & social media.
Yin Yang Theory & Meta-Inflammation ☯️🌿
Ying Yang theory is a school philosophical which can teaches disciplines to achieve perfection through self-cultivation. Early Taoism drew its cosmological notions from the School of Yin-Yang (Naturalists). This religion sought to explore a system to keep human behaviour in accordance with the cycles of nature.
Each of these five root listed above contribute to quality of life, represented by burden of disease. The bodies delicate balance between stress and recuperative capacity is what drives metabolism shift and biochemical stress in our cells. This is meta-inflammation, the foundation of disease. The tree of disorder uses the Taoist theory of energy healing by balancing our Ying (stress) and Yang (recuperative) energies. This is my understanding of how it works.
Meta-inflammation affects the gut microbiome and our genetics predict disease outcomes. The pathways affected by meta-inflammation are listed below.
Glycemic Stress & Nutrient Depletion
Oxidative Stress & Mitochondrial DNA mutations.
Immune Dysfunction
Hormonal and Neurotransmitter Disruption
Digestive & Absorbative Imbalance
Toxic Excitatory Overload & Excretory Imbalance
Meta-inflammation is the catalyst which facilitates chronic disease.
Chronic stress impacts the recuperative capacity of our cells.
This delicate balance between stress and recuperation can be termed active and passive energy.
Or Ying and Yang.
Yin is everything that make us who we are.
Yin is passive energy that allows us to simply be.
Yin is represented as our recuperative capacity or physiological reserve.
We enhance our physiological reserves by de-stressing, practicing our hobbies and being true to ourselves ourselves.
Taoism cals this cultivating our Chi (life force).
Yang is active energy derived from the hustle and bustle of business, work and lifestyle. This contribute to physiological stress which reduces our physiological reserve. In severe cases this can lead to burnout.
The experience of pain: physical, mental or emotional is our body presenting us with feedback. The body creates pain as a resurgence or a longing for the Yin, to reduce stress, inflammation and bring us back into balance. This can come from the right work/life balance, a fulfilling relationship or reciprocity.
The aim is to cultivateChi energy (life force) by preserving our Yin (recuperative capacity) and control our Yang (biochemical stress)
Good life style habits, limit meta-inflammation and lead to fulfilling lifestyles of high quality, not limited by disease. The tree balances the active energy needed to survive with our longing for meaning and purpose. The theory can also help us control our thoughts, compulsions or addictions.
E.g - I need to drink coffee in the morning, I need to eat because its lunch time, I need to have a drink because that’s what I always do when I go out.
Discipline and self control gives us meaning allowing us to focus on our wider goals. By limiting the impact of our emotional whims and wishes with a disciplined lifestyle, addressing our root causes of energy imbalance, we can preserve our life force.
The level of our self care is a predictor of our health outcomes.
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Dr Adam Sayedi
The Herbal Docs
Nutrition, Lifestyle and Medicine.
NHS Doctor
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