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Dr. Lee on Foundational Nutrition

What’s the difference between Foundational nutrition and the current allopathic model of disease and pathology? Foundational nutrition looks to maintain health, by looking at the foundational issues of function. Then, we use a nutritional approach with diet, lifestyle and whole food supplementation as an intervention. So what does that mean? Foundational nutrition focuses on looking […]

Coronavirus Part 2

Dr. Lee became acutely aware of how important a strong immune system is, as a 23-year-old soldier during World War I. He experienced the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, which hit the military of both sides of the ocean, infecting over 50 million people in just over two years, and killing over 500,000. The Spanish […]

Coronavirus

Download the Patient Handout Here In the 1950s, Dr. Lee wrote several articles which pointed out that if your immune system was weak due to diet and lifestyle, you are especially susceptible to viruses like the Coronavirus. He was criticized because he emphasized that the body’s immune response hinges on what we eat. “In recent […]

Food For Thought with Dr. Lee

If something is described as providing Food For Thought, it’s worth seriously considering. Dr. Lee made his infamous statement that Food Is Therapeutic, and you might think that statement is so painfully correct that you would assume it couldn’t be questioned. Think about the simplicity of that statement and how strong his belief was. He […]

An Aspirin a Day Can Keep the Doctor Away?

Food for Thought, 9/19/19 We have all heard the recommendation and claims that “an aspirin a day can keep the doctor away”, stop those aches and pains, and prevent a stroke or heart attack. “Aspirin interferes with your blood’s clotting action. A blood clot can form and block the artery. This prevents blood flow to […]

Dr. Lee on The Selection Of Foods, (Part 2)

Dr. Lee on THE SELECTION OF FOODS through the eyes of John Courtney. (Part 2) Patient Handout: THE-SELECTION-OF-FOODS-Part-2-PDF Download In Part 1 of this article, we talked about how the low fat diet is getting a new boost without truly sharing the whole picture. Could this be what upset Dr. Lee and his friends? People are led to […]

Dr. Lee on The Selection of Foods

Dr. Lee on THE SELECTION OF FOODS through the eyes of John Courtney. (Part 1) Patient Handout: THE-SELECTION-OF-FOODS-Part-1-PDFDownload John Courtney was one of Dr. Lee’s closest friends and confidants, so after this week’s news headlines on low-fat diets, I thought this was the perfect time to look at Dr. Lee’s vision on the foods we […]

Food Combining with Dr. Page & Dr. Lee

As I spent the last two weeks of 2018 on the index and appendices of Dr. Kaslow’s long-awaited blood chemistry manual, I found myself getting excited about an old concept that is so obvious! This final section on Dr. Page’s Food Combining reaffirms Dr. Lee’s attitude That Food is Therapeutic. Two of our early mentors gave […]

Fasting & Cleansing

Food For Thought 12/04/18.  Every year at this time, I find myself looking forward to the holidays with its family get-togethers, festive spirit and all the things I shouldn’t eat. I was a little horrified, though when I went to Costco three days before Halloween and they were already selling Christmas! The kids hadn’t even […]

Halloween Hangover?

Food For Thought, 11/13/2018 “Sugar and spice and everything nice- that’s what little girls are made of. Snips and Snails and puppy dog tails- that’s what little boys are made of.” What a great poem for Halloween, but it isn’t quite true anymore, as I found out by trying to have a Halloween like I […]