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Resurrectin g Hippocrates: Food as Medicine Meets Modern Science “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” ― Hippocrates
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What Is Food? That without which we can not live(the molecular fabric and embedded Intelligence of our body is woven from food) Sacred/sacre n (to make holy) Holy/whole/health/heal What Is Medicine? Etymology : Latin ars medicina, meaning the art of healing. Asclepius, Greek god of medicine.
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Are pharmaceuticals medicine? Etymology : "Pharmaceutical" derives from the Greek The term "pharmakos" later became the term "pharmakeus" which refers to "a drug, spell-giving potion, druggist, poisoner, by extension a magician or a sorcerer."
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Food As Information “to put form into” Calories Macro/Micronutrients “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are” ~ Brillat-Savarin
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The Protein Folding Mystery Levinthal Paradox: There is not enough time in the universe to allow for a polypeptide to pass through all the degrees of freedom available to it to reach its native folded state.
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Whole Food vs. Isolate Vitamin C is not reducible to Its chemical backbone Vs. whole food (food state) Whole food is bound to lipids, sugars and proteins
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The “nutraceutical” model Monochemical/isolated Palliative Modeled after similar economics and placebo dynamic. Reductionism/positivism/myopi a
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Food As Information Epigenetics/nutrigenomics Conformational diseases E.g. Cystic fibrosis; CFTR gene product misfolded; corrected/rescued with Curcumin/Genistein/Resveratrol
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Food Farmacy The body dialogs between food, producing metabolites, and widely orchestrated chemistries, enabling it to absorb or neglect to absorb a wide range of compounds, as needed. SNPs are not a ‘death sentence.’ E.g. gluten-digesting bacteria and 5-MTHF is produced via bacteria in gut. Angiosperm-mammal coevolution
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Food As Information: Dialog Gut Brain Axis Co-Evolutionary (broccoli/intestine) Food ‘pharmacy’ 5-MTHF via biotransformation The metabolome
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Food As Information: Dialog Gut Brain Axis Co-Evolutionary (broccoli/intestine) Food ‘pharmacy’ 5-MTHF via biotransformation The metabolome
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Tissue Regeneration via Nutrition Heart Brain Skin Lung Liver Germline Immortality/LUCA
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Cephalic (Placebo-Nocebo) Commensalism Taste/Oral/Cortical Band Deficiency/Plenitude Phenomological Orthorexia vs. Being Present (the nutritional value of pleasure and guiltlessness)
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