Category Archives: Complexity

The Aesthetic of Health

Posted on May 3, 2013 by

In retaliation to the rapidly growing Quantified Self movement, which uses self-monitoring technology to data mine correlations between behavior and physiological or subjective parameters, I would like to confidently assert right here and now that health is not a quantitative … Continue reading →

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Genetically Modified Organisms and Health: the scientific basis for real concern

Posted on March 18, 2013 by

For a pdf version with references, click here. by Nathan Daley, MD, MPH. OMG, GMOs! You might ask, “why all the fuss about agricultural genetically modified organisms (GMOs)?” After all, regulatory agencies have approved these technologies for widespread application and … Continue reading →

Posted in Co-Evoluation or Holistic Evolution, Complexity, developmental systems, Ecological Medicine, Ecology, Ecosystem Health, Food sensitivity, genetically modified organisms GMOs, Health, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Nutrition and Diet, Pesticides, Science | Leave a comment

I wish you enough

Posted on February 6, 2013 by

- Author : Bob Perks Recently, I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport as the daughter’s departure had been announced. Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said: “I love … Continue reading →

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A Unified General Theory of Health Part 2: The Origin of Health

Posted on January 6, 2012 by

Nathan Daley, MD, MPH The Origin of Health The short answer to “what is the origin of health?” is interaction.   Interaction here refers to the movement, exchange, or reciprocity of information.  Information here refers to patterns of material and energy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Co-Evoluation or Holistic Evolution, Complexity, Cybernetics, Ecological Embodiment, Ecological Medicine, Ecology, Ecosystem Health, Health, hologenesis, Holos, Mind, Philosophy, salutogenesis, Science, Uncategorized, Ways of Knowing, Wisdom

Health-Oriented Medicine: Beyond Disease Prevention and Toward True Health

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

Nathan Daley, MD, MPH Here’s your disease Every person alive today will likely receive one or more of the 68,000 possible diagnoses available in modern medicine.  Worse yet, most of these diagnoses will have been preceded by years or decades … Continue reading →

Posted in Complexity, Ecological Medicine, General, Health, Health Oriented Medicine, hologenesis, Holos, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Philosophy, salutogenesis, Science

NUTRITION: Eating for optimal health and holos

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

NUTRITION: Eating for optimal health and holos ©2011, Nathan Daley, MD, MPH There may be nothing more perplexing than how humankind has managed to make eating so dysfunctional. Over the course of human history, we’ve managed turn labor-free, resource-free, naturally … Continue reading →

Posted in Co-Evoluation or Holistic Evolution, Complexity, Ecological Medicine, Ecology, Ecosystem Health, General, Health, hologenesis, Holos, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Nutrition and Diet, salutogenesis, Science, Ways of Knowing, Wisdom

A Unified General Theory of Health Part 1: the definition of health

Posted on May 3, 2011 by

©2011, Nathan Daley, MD, MPH Why focus on health and not disease and dysfunction?  The main reason is that all disease, dysfunction, and most other major challenges in the world are the consequence of impaired health.  Of course, one must … Continue reading →

Posted in Ayurveda and Ayurvedic Medicine, Co-Evoluation or Holistic Evolution, Complexity, Ecological Medicine, Ecology, Ecosystem Health, Health, hologenesis, Holos, Integrative Preventive Medicine, Philosophy, salutogenesis, Science, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wisdom

Holistic Evolution, Ecology, and Health

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Upon the organization of the most primitive form of life on earth, there began interactions between life and environment which have since never ceased.  The two domains of organism and environment where hardly independent, but instead continuously and mutually influenced … Continue reading →

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The Way of EcoHolos: More than science and philosophy

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

The cause of anything, good or bad, when examined openly and deeply, becomes a tangle of interconnections, extending spherically across all scales, dissolving all boundaries, until it disappears into everything and nothing, out into the universe. This system has no … Continue reading →

Posted in Complexity, Ontology, Philosophy, Science, Self-Realization or Self-Actualization, Ways of Knowing, Wisdom

Mind-Body-Earth: a primer on finding true health

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

(this post can be downloaded as a PDF under articles and media) To become whole again, to heal and find true health, we must re-connect our mind to our body and our body to our earth. Gaia: the living earth … Continue reading →

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