Chatterjee, reveals we can reverse and make disease disappear without a complete overhaul of our lifestyle.

Now that I’ve read the book and started implementation, I have to ask myself why I didn’t do it before. He’s showing that you can reverse cognitive decline in his patients with dementia and how is he doing that?

A physician dedicated to finding the root cause of ill health rather than simply suppressing symptoms with drugs, Dr. He is the Number 1 selling health author in the UK - each of his 5 books are Sunday Times Bestsellers in the UK and international bestsellers across the globe. That night he had 2 lumbar punctures because they thought he might have meningitis – he stayed in a foreign hospital for 3 days. These complaints are all downstream signals that things—usually more than one—are going wrong upstream. He is known for finding the root cause of people's problems by taking a 360-degree approach to health, which was highlighted in his groundbreaking BBC One TV show, Doctor in the House.

You don’t just wake up some day suffering from one; by the time we give you the diagnosis, things have already been going wrong for a long, long time.In some people, one night’s sleep deprivation can give you as much insulin-resistance as 6 months on a junk food diet. What actually transpired was, my son had a low level of calcium in his blood that was caused by a low level of vitamin D.

In some, losing one night of sleep can trigger as much insulin resistance as six months on a junk food diet. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. As you become a more seasoned and accustomed drinker, you need more and more alcohol to have the same effect, and that’s what’s going on with insulin. We need to update our thinking, our genetics are not our destiny, our genes load the gun but it’s our environment that pulls the trigger, all these factors here – these are the factors that interact with your genes and determine how your genes are expressed; whether you are in optimal health, whether you have a disease or whether you are somewhere in between. Chatterjee passionately advocates and follows a philosophy that lifestyle and nutrition are first-line medicine and the cornerstone of good health.Well one thing he’s not doing, he’s not saying – well all these patients in my office have got dementia, Alzheimer’s disease – what is the cure? He is known for finding the root cause of people's health problems and he highlighted his methods in the ground-breaking BBC television show, Doctor in the House, which has been shown in over 70 countries around the world. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Well he’s looking at their diet, he’s looking at their stress levels, their sleep quality, their physical activity levels, their exposure to environmental toxins, etc.

I don’t give two hoots if there’s a study to show reducing our exposure to social media makes us less stressed. This book brings a global recipe in the different areas of the daily life of people who promote health. This is the US version of The 4 Pillar Plan where the publisher there changed the title for that market. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. No he’s going the other way, he’s saying with all these patients, let’s say 10 patients in my office, he’s trying to work out what have been the triggers for the last 20 years that have ended up with this patient expressing themselves as dementia?As you move up that curve you are becoming more and more insulin-resistant, that means you need more and more insulin to do the same job. But my confusion in that moment was nothing compared with the shock I felt when I did finally discover the root cause of what happened.