Welcome to Natural MD Radio. I'm Dr. Aviva Rom.

30 years ago I was a hippie home birth, midwife, an herbalist, a pioneer on the cutting edge of natural medicine and natural living.

Now an internationally known Yale trained MD practicing integrative and functional medicine, I'm here to tell you the whole

truth about health. What you need to know to avoid unnecessary and potentially harmful treatments

when medical care is valuable, and what alternatives you can rely on.

My goal is to help you sort through fact and fiction about health and medicine, and be able to

make the most informed choices, so you can take back your health

with natural approaches whenever possible, which is most of the time. What if I told you your body's ability to heal is greater than anyone has ever permitted you to believe.

That would be a pretty surprising thing to hear a medical doctor say, wouldn't it?

But it's the stunning truth.

In fact, every fiber of our being is designed for self-heeling and

self-renewal to protect us and keep us strong. But somewhere along the line, each of us, or most of us at least, were taught not to believe this,

to look to the medical system for most of the answers to our health problems.

In fact, as a culture, we have confused health and health care, and there are two really different things.

In fact, most of getting and staying well has nothing to do with what happens in the doctor's office.

It's what happens every day of our lives.

It's every choice we make outside of the doctor's office.

What happens in the doctor's office is often tests that may catch a disease once it's already started

and often a lot of unnecessary over medication, over surgeries, over treatments that can often lead to more harm than good.

As a culture in general, we talk about getting more health care

to people, but what are we really talking about?

Are we getting more good food to people, more disease prevention,

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