The busy clinic and the infectious diseases consult service have conspired to effectively keep me away from my blog the last 2 weeks. I am back yet blogging out of my infectious diseases comfort zone.
It is true, modern medicine is not generally focused on wellness.
The film Heal, on mind body medicine, is intriguing. The trailer is above. Many of the narratives contained therein are powerful. I certainly cannot imagine any significant harm from meditation, mindfulness and healthy diets. In fact, I try to practice all of this daily.
Critically lacking is a substantive research model to support mind body medicine as either alternatives or important complements to allopathic medicine, particularly for chronic illness. High quality evidence would possibly impact adoption and promotion of wellness activities.
If wellness is the goal, and mind body medicine is the principal driver, this would most likely impact health via prevention. Diminished stress, better diets, lower cholesterol and decreasing obesity would decrease chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and arthritis.
That would be huge.
The film is worth watching.
