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This is Part One of a two-part series on ‘The Last Four Doctors’.

As a Holistic Health Practitioner, I regularly use the concept of the ‘Four Doctors’ by Paul Chek, to help clients improve their health. If you follow this plan, then these will be the last four doctors you’ll ever need and say goodbye to the doctor’s office for good!

You see, when it comes to health there are no magic bullets or magic pills. Billions of dollars are spent each year by people in pain or suffering from illness. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

It’s important to understand that disease is an environmentally driven condition. Disease manifests in the body due to our lifestyle.

We can never treat the disease but we must treat the person that has the disease. Treating the disease is an allopathic approach to medicine. Treating the person is the holistic approach and gets to the root cause of the problem.

The four doctors are known as Dr Quiet, Dr Diet, Dr Movement and Dr Happiness. We shall focus on the first two physicians for this article.

The chief physician is Dr Quiet. In basic eastern medical philosophy there is the fundamental rule of Yin and Yang.

The entire universe is built out of these two forces and they are essential for bringing everything into balance.

Yin in the human body is digestion, elimination, tissue repair and recovery. Yang is the fight or flight response, getting things done and exercising.

Sleep is very yin and it’s essential we get enough quality sleep. If we have too much yang, then we’ll have problems sleeping.

If this sounds like you, then you have too much yang, or stress, in your body.

Most people who are tired drink more coffee and get more sugar to keep going. This is a downward spiral. Only getting more yin through sleep, meditation or energising exercises like yoga, Qi Gong or Tai Chi will resolve this chronic fatigue.

The next doctor is Dr Diet. The food we eat and the water we drink, are the building blocks of life.

We are made up 70 per cent water and the 10 billion reactions that take place in the body every second are water dependent.

If the central nervous system is only one per cent dehydrated, it can cause significant psychological disorders. Many people take drugs for mood swings, depression and behavioural disorders, but are never screened for dehydration.

In fact, 99 per cent of the population is dehydrated and prescribing psychotropic drugs is all too common.

Remember, you are what you eat. We must eat good food for a good body. The human body turns over about two million red blood cells per second, the epidermis changes every three days and bones build every three weeks.

So, would you rather be made of healthy, whole organic food or junk food and soda?

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