According to well know medical doctors Dr. Andre Weil and Dr. Dean Ornish, simple changes to your lifestyle can not only reduce the risk of certain diseases, it can cure many common illnesses and prevent others from occurring as well. This was the basis of a lecture the duo gave on Nov. 15 at the Trustees Theater in Savannah as part of Gulfstream’s Live Will/Be Well community education series. For more than three decades Dr. Ornish has promoted his lifestyle driven and holistic approach in helping people control and reverse coronary artery disease and other chronic illnesses. “The limitations of high technology medicine is becoming clearer…The treatments we use for high blood pressure, diabetes, prostate cancer and others, well they don’t work as well as we once thought,” Dr. Ornish told the audience. “Yet at the same time the simple choice we can make in changing our lifestyle work even better than we once realized.” Dr. Ornish explained that most doctors these days don’t have th
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