Category Archives: salutogenesis

The Aesthetic of Health

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Nathan Daley

In retaliation to the rapidly growing Quantified Self movement, which uses self-monitoring technology to data mine correlations between behavior and physiological or subjective parameters, I would like to confidently assert right here and now that health is not a quantitative … Continue reading →

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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 →

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A Unified General Theory of Health Part 2: The Origin of Health

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Nathan Daley

Nathan Daley, MD, MPH The Origin of Health The short answer to “what is the origin of health?” is interaction.   Interaction here refers to the movement, exchange, or reciprocity of information.  Information here refers to patterns of material and energy, … Continue reading →

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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 →

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Electromagnetic Radiation, Chronobiology, and Sleep: For Optimal Health

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Nathan Daley

Electromagnetic Radiation, Chronobiology, and Sleep: For Optimal Health © 2011 Nathan Daley, MD, MPH Health Implications: Consider how you would feel if you restricted the oxygen in the air you breathe, deprived yourself of fluids, or limited your access to … Continue reading →

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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 →

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A Unified General Theory of Health Part 1: the definition of health

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Nathan Daley

©2011, Nathan Daley, MD, MPH Why focus on health and not disease and dysfunction?  The main reason is that all disease, dysfunction, and most other major challenges in the world are the consequence of impaired health.  Of course, one must … Continue reading →

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