Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

If you eat too much food, if you eat too much sugar in starch, if you eat processed food,

if you don't have enough phytonutrient and antioxidant-rich foods,

you basically get this process called oxidation or rusting.

This is what happens when your skin wrinkles, when an apple turns brown and nuts turn rancid,

that's oxidation and that drives inflammation in your body.

Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimmann and that's Pharmacy of the F-F-A-R-M-A-C-Y.

And today, we're going to have a special episode on my new book, The Pagan Diet,

21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World.

Today's principle we're going to focus on is use food as your pharmacy. Wow, what a concept.

This is the foundation of the future of medicine. No joke here.

This is what we all will be doing in the future. Focusing?

Focusing, not just in a general way about how food is healthy for you,

but on a very specific, scientific method of applying food as medicine called functional medicine.

And we're going to talk about that today. And here's the issue.

Most people don't understand what food is. They think it's calories.

They think it's energy. They don't realize it's information.

That it's instructions. That it's code. That upgrades or downgrade your biological software with every single bite.

So what is in food anyway that does all this? How does it work?

And what does it do to your body in ways that can transform your health for good or bad?

So first of all, food is a whole array of molecules.

It influences every aspect of our biology. Literally every aspect.

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