In Search of Balance
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- 2016
- 74 min
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The 'Net of Indra';
the metaphor of Indra's
jeweled net asks us
to envision
a vast net that,
at each juncture
there lies a jewel;
each jewel reflects
all the other jewels
in this
cosmic matrix.
Every jewel represents
an individual life form,
atom, cell or unit
of consciousness.
Each jewel, in turn,
is intrinsically
and intimately connected
to all the others.
Thus, a change in one gem is
reflected in all the others.
Hundreds of thousands of people
have died unnecessary deaths.
The question is, why?
Most of what I treat in my
office is chronic disease.
We are living
in an environment.
Our bodies are ill-prepared
for a lot of disease results,
probably about half of disease
you see in the hospitals
is due to living
in an environment
we are not prepared for.
But perhaps the most
startling part is that
many of these chronic diseases
could have been prevented.
Chronic disease
is all the ailments from
heart disease, diabetes,
to depression,
that are just chipping away
at our quality of life.
Make rounds in
a modern hospital
with me in the
medical ward sometime
and just make a note of
each patient as you go through
which of these patients
would actually be there
if they had lived in
the natural environment
compared with our
modern environment.
These chronic diseases
seem to be moving ever
further town
in the age bracket
seeing more-and-more children
with diabetes and heart
disease, morbid obesity.
Experts call it
'Diabesity.'
Over the past decade childhood
cases of type 2 diabetes
have increased ten-fold because
modern people specifically
in the developed rich
countries are trigger happy,
attacking their own tissues
like attacking the brain so then
you have multiple sclerosis.
All of these are situations
where the immune system
should not be doing,
and in developing countries
it doesn't do these things.
the rich developed countries
which is causing
our immune systems
lose the control
mechanisms
that normally stop them
from behaving irresponsibly.
The medical profession is
now actually the third leading
cause of death
in the United States.
People didn't understand
why when we get antibiotics
it causes many problems,
not only that but each cell
in our body has mitochondria
that has been
before bacteria.
So bacteria is the fabric
of all the living systems.
So we did so many mistake
on our gut bacteria.
As we have less-and-less
infectious disease
we have more-and-more
chronic disease,
but even conditions like
multiple sclerosis
and depression had our thought
had some microbial involvement.
And so it may be, as we have
conquered infectious disease,
some of the strategies
like antibiotics
have been either eliminating
beneficial microbes
or providing the growth
of harmful microbes
that are contributing to these
chronic diseases in ways
that we are just beginning
to understand.
Most of it relates
back to our lifestyle.
So to the foods
that we are eating,
with lots of sugar
and very low nutrient,
to the fact that we experience
a huge amount of stress
and that we are disconnected
from our communities.
I am starting to discover
also to the fact
that we are disconnected
from the natural world.
We gradually killing
ourselves off.
People have to start realizing
that we are connected,
I mean, including the creatures
of the earth, including plants,
the land, at some point it
will come back and bite us
if we don't start
changing our ways.
Actually it's starting
to bite us already.
I love to garden
without gloves.
My name is Dr. Daphne Miller
and I am a family doctor
and a nutrition explorer.
-- and, I feel like
I wear gloves enough
in my medical
practice,
and why should I have
to wear them in my garden
where everything
is so wonderful
and where there
is a kind of microbes
that I want to be
connected to, so --
Agroecology is the
science that provides
the basic ecological
principles for how to study,
design and manage agrosystems
that are both productive
and natural
resource-conservative
and that are
culturally-sensitive,
socially-just and
economically viable.
We can get
behind that, right.
Agroecology goes beyond
a one-dimensional view
of agroecosystems.
At the heart of the agroecology
strategy is the idea
that an agroecosystem
should mimic the functioning
of local ecosystems.
But the word 'health'
has not come up once yet.
The key agroecological
strategy in designing
a sustainable agricultural
is to reincorporate diversity
into the agricultural fields
and surrounding landscapes.
No, no, no
health here, okay!
I am pleased to introduce
our next speaker,
Ms. Daphne Miller.
She will be talking about
diverse farming system,
diverse diets.
She is a family
physician, a writer,
and associate professor in the
Department of Family Medicine
at the University of
California, San Francisco.
I wanted also to add this
sentence which I like myself,
Ms. Miller approaches
medicine with idea
that opportunities
for health
only in the medical system
but in such unexpected
places such as home kitchens,
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