I’m about to tell you about a root of illness that’s so common that many doctors overlook it.

That’s because conventional thinking about how we get sick is completely wrong.

It completely ignores the real causes of disease.

But the truth is, a major root of poor health is found in and around your own body.

The only way to get at the root of disease is to understand how your environment -- your diet, stress, exercise, toxins in food, air, and water, radiation, and trauma -- interacts with your genes to determine your state of health or disease.

Your genes are fixed.  You can’t change them.

But you can change which genes get turned on or off, and how that affects your physiology -- by changing those environmental inputs.

You can move from disease to health, from illness to UltraWellness.

You see, every environmental input to your system --- from diet to toxins to stress -- determines the health of your “biological terrain.”

This isn’t just lip service. It’s backed by real science. 

And a growing number of researchers are beginning to agree.

For example, an article published in the Journal of the American Medical Association supported the idea.

In brief, it stated that promoting a healthy lifestyle is more beneficial than trying to find the latest drug or surgical treatment for chronic diseases.

So the answer is clear.

We simply need to look at what we put in and around our bodies every day.

Where do we start?

Ask yourself the same questions that I ask my patients.

How’s your diet, for example? What about stress? Have you been exposed to toxins or trauma? Are you getting the exercise your body needs?

The answers will help you identify areas of your life that could be causing disease -- and that you can start changing today.

It’s simple, really.

Getting to the root of the environmental influences on your health and your life is the first key to good health.

It’s the beginning of your path to UltraWellness -- something we all are capable of enjoying.

To your good health,
Mark Hyman, M.D.

(i) Eric B. Rimm; Meir J. Stampfer, Diet, Lifestyle, and Longevity—The Next Steps? JAMA, September 22/29, 2004; 292: 1490 - 1492.