The medicine of the future will no longer be remedial, it will be preventive; not based on drugs but on the best diet for health. This document explores the issue: What is Optimum Nutrition? The subject of nutrition is massively wide and deep. There is so much to know and so many seemingly contradictory theories on the subject of nutrition and its relationship with human physiology and mental function. | NUTRITION MEDICINE OF THE FUTURE The medicine of the future will no longer be remedial it will be preventive not based on drugs but on the best diet for health. This document explores the issue What is Optimum Nutrition By Peter Shepherd shepherd@ Tools for Transformation Online Nutritional Resources Books for Health 2 NUTRITION MEDICINE OF THE FUTURE The subject of nutrition is massively wide and deep. There is so much to know and so many seemingly contradictory theories on the subject of nutrition and its relationship with human physiology and mental function. Most people even or perhaps especially when partly informed by means of articles on the subject in magazines etc. find they are confused. The purpose of this site is to provide a clear explanation of the basic principles of nutrition and its effect upon your health. Tomorrow s Medicine 2500 years ago Hippocrates the Father of Medicine said to his students Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food . Moses Maimonides the great 12th century physician repeated the Hippocratic statement when he said No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means . In essence Hippocrates and Maimonides were insisting that their students practice nutrient therapy. This type of medical therapy is being used by doctors today but only by a minority. It is more likely to be applied by nutritionists who have studied the specialist subject of nutrition in depth. There is little training in nutrition at medical schools and unless a doctor has pursued the study of nutrition out of choice he or she is unlikely to be sufficiently informed to advise about optimum nutrition. In 1968 one of the great minds of this century twice Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling coined the term Orthomolecular Nutrition. Orthomolecular is literally pertaining to the right molecule . Pauling proposed that by giving the body the right molecules optimum nutrition most disease would be eradicated. This Web .
