The body regenerates because life works to live and stay in balance. Dr. Deepak Chopra, in his book Quantum Healing, explains that our bodies are actually designed and programmed for health. The human body is controlled by a network of intelligence and is itself the greatest healer known.

“Miracle drugs” come from medical science’s efforts to replicate the body’s own functions. Western medicine took the route of substituting synthetic chemicals for those made by the body, whereas the Eastern path attempts to bolster the body’s own chemical-producing factories, such as the glands, to produce change.

How the body regenerates is complex. By sending balanced nutrition to the cells and cleaning out toxins, the body works at its optimum. Quality organic regenerative vitamins, minerals and herbs nutritiously supplement your regular diet. This nutrition allows the cells (who know how) to regenerate the body to the best of their ability.

Holistic practitioners believe that if you cleanse, nourish and balance the body it will stay well. They give herbal formulas without side effects, unlike allopathic (drug-centered) medicine. Instead of cutting open the body and taking out key organs, they do chiropractic or acupuncture. The key is thinking about how best to restore balance. They try to mimic the body’s natural system of creating balance when the body cannot do it by itself.

For example, when you eat, the body uses its vast internal intelligence system to sift through all the food you eat looking for the best available nutritional building blocks. Familiar foods like coffee, soft drinks and french fries, limit your body’s energy and nutrition resources. When these foods are replaced with high quality foods, that actively nourish, balance and cleanse the body, and regeneration takes place naturally. Why? Because your body is not depleting its energy to hold the line against the negative effects of unhealthy foods. By adding organic herbs, vitamins or minerals foods to an already healthy diet, your body will quickly begin working more efficiently and at a higher energy level.

Sun Tsu-mo, a famous physician of the Tang Dynasty, believed diet was paramount to maintaining health. He said, “A truly good physician first finds out the cause of the illness, and having found that, he first tries to cure it by food. Only when food fails does he prescribe medication.” Of course, treating serious illness and disease should be left to trained medical practitioners, but preserving health is everyone’s job and opportunity.

By providing your body the necessary whole foods, you encourage it to function in the natural, healthy, and energetic way it was designed. Most herbal formulas, in and of themselves, cure nothing. Holistic practitioners feel that it is always your body, fed the right foods and in the proper mental state, that heals itself.