Category Archives: General

I wish you enough

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Nathan Daley

– Author : Bob Perks Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said: “I love … Continue reading →

Posted in beauty, Complexity, death and dying, General, Health, Life, meaning, Wisdom | 1 Comment

A Gluten for Punishment: the whole grain assault on health.

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Nathan Daley

Nathan Daley, MD, MPH For a pdf version with references, see Articles and Media From Few to You This newsletter will examine some of the evidence which underlies the ongoing transition in recognizing adverse health effects from grains as being … Continue reading →

Posted in food preferences and aversions, Food sensitivity, General, Gluten, Health, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Nutrition and Diet | 3 Comments

Digitally Engineered Disease: the content of discontent

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Nathan Daley

Digitally Engineered Disease: the content of discontent Nathan Daley, MD, MPH *see “articles and media” section for pdf version with references. A Not-So-Hidden Health Threat There is an already pervasive and rapidly expanding force of disease that no doubt affects … Continue reading →

Posted in developmental systems, Ecological Medicine, Ecology, Electromagnetic Radiation, General, Health, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Sleep, Stress and Anxiety | 1 Comment

ecoHolos Book Preview: Authors Introduction to “ecoHolos: a cosmology of health”

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Nathan Daley

Why Health? Throughout college, I learned about the human organism largely by reading descriptions and studying illustrations of its genetic, biochemical, and cellular features. This information, the scientific foundation to understanding life on earth, had been assembled piece by piece … Continue reading →

Posted in death and dying, Ecological Medicine, General, Health, Health Oriented Medicine, hologenesis, Holos, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Life, meaning, perception, Philosophy, salutogenesis, Science, Ways of Knowing | 1 Comment

Health-Oriented Medicine: Beyond Disease Prevention and Toward True Health

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Nathan Daley

Nathan Daley, MD, MPH Here’s your disease Every person alive today will likely receive one or more of the 68,000 possible diagnoses available in modern medicine.  Worse yet, most of these diagnoses will have been preceded by years or decades … Continue reading →

Posted in Complexity, Ecological Medicine, General, Health, Health Oriented Medicine, hologenesis, Holos, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Philosophy, salutogenesis, Science | 1 Comment

NUTRITION: Eating for optimal health and holos

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Nathan Daley

NUTRITION: Eating for optimal health and holos ©2011, Nathan Daley, MD, MPH There may be nothing more perplexing than how humankind has managed to make eating so dysfunctional. Over the course of human history, we’ve managed turn labor-free, resource-free, naturally … Continue reading →

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Movement, Physical Activity, and Exercise: A Basic Guide for Optimal Health and Performance

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Nathan Daley

Movement, Physical Activity, and Exercise: A Basic Guide for Optimal Health and Performance © 2011 Nathan Daley, M.D., M.P.H.             Movement is life!  If organisms do not continually orient themselves in their environment or move in search of food, water, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ecological Medicine, Ecology, Ecosystem Health, Exercise, General, Health, hologenesis, Holos, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Movement, Physical Activity, salutogenesis, Science | Leave a comment

AIR: A Guide to Air Quality and Health

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Nathan Daley

AIR: A Guide to Air Quality and Health © Nathan Daley, MD, MPH Approximating Natural Ecology: 1. Fresh, unpolluted air: This is hard to accomplish if one lives in an urban environment. If needed, use filters in the home and … Continue reading →

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WATER: A Guide to Water and Health

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Nathan Daley

©2011, Nathan Daley, MD, MPH  The human body consists of 60-80% water, depending upon age and hydration status.  This water is continuously replaced largely by the water we drink and less so from the food we eat.  The rate of … Continue reading →

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The Surface of Holistic Individual Human Ecology for Holos: a brief and practical summary

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Nathan Daley

©2011, Nathan Daley, MD, MPH Individual ecology can only be arbitrarily divided as all human-environment interactions are overlapping, interconnected, and interdependent. Ecology can be divided infinitely or not at all. Here it has been divided into 5 divisions which can … Continue reading →

Posted in AIR, Chronobiology, Ecological Medicine, Ecology, Ecosystem Health, Electromagnetic Radiation, Exercise, General, Health, hologenesis, Holos, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Movement, Nutrition and Diet, Physical Activity, salutogenesis, Science, Sleep, WATER | Leave a comment

Mind-Body-Earth: a primer on finding true health

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Nathan Daley

(this post can be downloaded as a PDF under articles and media) To become whole again, to heal and find true health, we must re-connect our mind to our body and our body to our earth. Gaia: the living earth … Continue reading →

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