We’ve Been Thinking About Disease the Wrong Way

For most of our lives, we’ve been taught to treat symptoms as the enemy. A fever? Bring it down. Pain? Suppress it. Inflammation? Block it.

But what if this approach has had it backwards all along?

The truth is that there is only one disease, the body being pushed out of balance. And the symptoms we rush to suppress aren’t the problem. They are the body’s attempt to solve it.