Have you ever been so pissed off that you wanted to become angry and violent?  I admit, I’m human and feel the same way sometimes.  Lately I’ve been turning my feelings towards my patients, of all people!  Here we are in society, thinking that the Doctor is a gentle, loving, caring human being that has no real “negative” emotions whatsoever. 

The reason behind the diseases of civilization: We've stopped moving, we watch advertisements for products that we don't need and that make us even sicker, and we feel incomplete and depressed when we compare our reality to "the american dream" that isn't real, and happens to be an illusion.

News flash:  Nothing can be further from the truth.  We’re just as judgmental.  We like a lot of the people we work with… we even love some of them.   We also hate the people we work with too.  I live in a family of doctors of all varieties, from dentists to cardiologists, to neuro-radiologists, to General Practitioners, and then there’s the black sheep—me.  Every time we get together we swap stories (of course leaving names out) of interesting cases. 

Most of the time we sit back in awe of the thought process and belief systems of our patients.  Lately, as I research to find tools and lifestyle changes to make people well, rather than just cover up their symptoms, my frustration and anger has been steadily on the rise. 

I feel that I have been lying to people.  Not exactly LYING, per se, but not telling them the full story about why they’re even there in the first place.  Every time I have an opportunity to tell the truth about someone’s health even when it’s as plain and simple as the light of day, the fear of a reprimand due to a board regulation, or the “morals and ethics” of my colleagues stops me.

I’m working on resolving that one.  This blog entry is also about me facing that fear, as it is about you getting healthier.

Please watch this video.  It is actually NOT A JOKE, but a true story.  Special thanks to my colleague, Dr. Stephanie Galanis for introducing this to me.

I’m willing to bet money that some of you I bet actually marked down the name and location of this place because it’s somewhere you would like to visit.  I’m not going to lie.  I do too.  But it’s not to go for a meal.  It’s to shake the hand of the creator of the concept.  He’s a genius.  He understands human nature, the same way drug companies and cigarette companies do.  People will go for the short term gain of the “high” created by using products and won’t worry about the long-term cost to their health. 

When we take a pill, we KNOW it’s not dealing with the cause—it just makes us more comfortable in our illusion that everything will be fine as long as I don’t feel any pain RIGHT NOW.

When we smoke a cigarette, we KNOW it’s going to kill us, but satisfying our nicotine pang is more important NOW.

When we watch that video, we look at the condition of the people who dine at restaurants like that but we need our sugar and fat fix NOW.

We’re all the same, and that’s why he created this burger joint.  And news cameras and “angry” bloggers like me will only make them more successful.  I’m of the opinion that if you can create, communicate, and deliver a perceived value, then you deserve success.  From one entrepeneur to another, that’s genius.  I want to take the owner out for lunch (at an establishment that serves real food) and shake his hand and learn from him, because I believe I have something of value as well that will save people’s lives—simply my understanding of what the body requires for health, in movement, in food choices, and in our thoughts.  Even though we are at opposing ends of the game, we can still respect how each other plays.

Want to know how to get heart disease, diabetes and cancer?  Go to places like that 2-3 times a week for 30 years.  Drink soda pop instead of water.  The only vegetables you ingest should be in the form of French fries, and the only fruits you get should come in flavors for ice cream (ex.mango, strawberry, and raspberry flavors).  We instinctively know this to be true, ya ya ya, but… there’s another factor that we don’t really consider– a factor that has just as much to play as the way you eat and move.  More on this later.  

I saw a patient last week who came in for me to “fix” his upper back pain.  He was diabetic, and on “metformin”, a wonder drug that helps stabilize blood sugar levels.  GREAT SUCCESS!

He was obese, didn’t exercise, obviously didn’t look like he got any raw whole foods in his diet, and his job was particularly stressful.  Now he wants me to fix a back problem that was caused by a lack of proper movement, exercise, and a lack of proper function in his spine (his last adjustment was 7 years ago and he gets the pain on and off).

When I asked him about his diabetes, he had the nerve to tell me that his “disease” he caught was genetic.  I was sympathetic to him up to that point. 

Hidden belief system:  It runs in my family, there’s nothing I can do about it.  My choices don’t matter.

I’m here to tell you that you’ve been lied to.  I’m going to go out on a limb here, and risk ridicule and criticism and tell you that your GENES ARE UNDER YOUR CONTROL.  The genes to produce diabetes might exist, as they exist within all of us if we keep going to eat in places like the Heart Attack Grill… but our LIFESTYLE is what switches those genes on or off to produce the results.  If you don’t believe me, just watch the show “Super Size Me” where a guy goes and eats nothing but McDonalds for 30 days and does all the blood work before and after to prove that a healthy individual can develop pathology just by what he puts into his body and by stopping moving.  His mood, depression and anxiety levels were also affected by his lifestyle.  Try proving to HIM that his mind and body are separate.  His lifestyle switched on his “illness physiology” genes.  He was healthy prior to that experiment!  Guess what… after it was done, he switched his lifestyle back, and his genes expressed health again.  Your body’s natural state is that of health.  It’s CRAVING healthy lifestyle habits to switch the healthy genes back on.  It craves it so much that it keeps producing illness so we can go back to the right way of living like our hunter/gather ancestors did.

If you don’t believe me and think I’m nuts for saying our genes are under our control, watch THIS video by Dr. Bruce Lipton, Phd. He’s a highly respected researcher from Stanford School of Medicine who has scientifically proven that our genes are entirely under our own control, simply by switching our perceptions.  I don’t want you to take it from me.  Take it from someone who is way smarter than me and you combined.  I encourage you to take the time to watch it.  He explains it in a way for the lay person to understand.  The implications of what he is saying will revolutionize how we look at our health, and the information he is sharing is the irrefutable proof that hasn’t yet made it into medical textbooks, but will be there within the next few years.  He is the catalyst for me to take my career to the next level and spread the truth about why we get sick in the first place:  OUR PERCEPTIONS AND BELIEFS. (3 part series– watch it when you have time and it will blow you away)

Almost my entire family on my father’s side is on cholesterol medication.  It’s “runs in my family”.  Can I tell you what else runs in my family?  Completely stopping exercise during adult life.  Eating an abundance of sweets and rice. (even though Persian food does have a lot of healthy components to it when you lower the amount of rice).

The most important one of all:  The “Rahmany trait” that all the cousins get together and laugh and joke about at family get-togethers:  Fear.  An insane amount of fear.  Fear of “what will other people think about me”.  Fear of what will the rest of the family think.  Fear of not getting enough appreciation or recognition from the family.  The “what ifs” that rule our lives.  Any middle eastern or asian family who has the same value system will be able to relate to mine.  Apparently my family is not alone.  The more we hold onto our fears that take up time and space in our minds, the sicker we get.  I have the research to back that one up too.  A lot of doctors would say I am a high risk to get a stroke simply because my grandfather died of one, and my family has high cholesterol.  I disagree with that one whole heartedly.  I think the greatest risk factor for my “inevitable” heart disease is because I adopted the “what if’s” from them.

I guess I have been acting on that trait by not telling people the truth of all this before when I first discovered it 5 years ago—how our beliefs are the root cause of all chronic illness.  I’ve been holding onto it that long, and in my own way, I’m slowly developing heart disease myself.  After all, what is fear but an illusion and misperception?  If you don’t accept me for what I say, and think that I’m a quack for saying this, is my life in any real danger?  The question is WHAT’S THE THING THAT’S CAUSING ME TO REALLY CARE?

That’s what I mean when I say I’m working on it.  The truth of this is more important to me than your opinion after I say it. When I say that when we are treating these disorders with medications rather than getting to the real cause, we are committing medical malpractice, I can say that with certainty now, thanks to solid MEDICAL research.  I’m saying we should be looking deeper than that.

“But Dr. Nima, if I get cancer, are you saying its because of my negative thinking?” This is the question I often get in my stress and health seminars.  I like this question, because it means I’ve struck a nerve and got people thinking.

It’s a bit more complicated than that, but in a nutshell, the rules and beliefs that you hold onto with all your might are the source of your greatest stresses when this neutral universe we live in goes by its own laws and breaks your rules.  What happens to you then?

Imagine I hold a belief that everyone should be prioritize the things I think are important (like prioritizing your health and eating right, exercising, getting your adjustments and dealing with your resentment buttons as they come up).  When met with people who do the opposite of all these things (as I do every single day), depending on how hard I hold onto these beliefs, I will emotionally react.  Amplify this by 20-30 years of holding onto this belief and I could easily run into heart disease.  I’m not talking about “new age” stuff here.  This is science.  Argue with me all you want.  I have been feeling resentful every single day in my practice lately because I’m met with people with belief systems incongruent with health.  My own beliefs that they should be living the same beliefs as me have been stressing the hell out of me.  My patients are not the cause!  I am!  (Aha moment there for me) 

As soon as I recognized that the stress created by my expectations of other people are slowly killing me (my wife even recognized it), that’s when I started doing more teaching and writing.  I hold seminars about this truth every month, and I even started a “Life skills for a stressful world” course that helps people overcome the fears and belief systems that are making them sick, keeping them from attracting wealth, and destroying their relationships.  The course is saving my life, too.

So this blog is just as much for me, as it is for you.  If I don’t make the entire world aware of the truth about health, then I probably will end up like my patients with chronic problems.  Those with chronic degenerative diseases are the ones who hold onto their beliefs and fears the strongest, and it runs their life so much that it affects their choices in how they eat, move, and think.   You try to help someone who comes to you for help, but refuses to change the belief system that caused it.  Imagine what that’s like.  It’s maddening.  That’s why I’m here writing.   You can consider this blog a big part of my “Cancer Prevention Strategy”.

Please understand:

What I’m saying is that if you get cancer, other than taking a good look at your diet and increasing the raw fruits and vegetable content, supplements, increasing your exercise,

This is ONE way of dealing with it....

 and putting all sorts of chemicals in your body, I would take a good look at what guilts, fears, and resentments you are holding on to, because they have contributed just as much, if not MORE to your dis-order than anything else.

And if we look at the major killers of civilized countries– heart disease, diabetes and cancer as unwanted, evil horrible things that we need to eliminate, we’re not getting the message that the body is giving us—and the disease will NEVER leave our bodies, no matter how many pills you throw at it… If you cut it out of your body, it grows back.  Scrape the plaque off the walls of the arteries– it grows back.  The lesson it’s giving us is to take a good look at how we eat, move, and think and make the changes to living a life that we KNOW a healthy organism needs.  What better way to tell you that you’re off track with your life than by making you extremely uncomfortable?

Or if we really want to be crazy—how about start living that lifestyle NOW rather than wait for a message from the body?  Like brushing the teeth BEFORE the cavity sets in?  Exercising BEFORE you start getting heart attacks?  Get your adjustments BEFORE the degeneration sets in?  Crazy concept, I know.  Controversial as hell.

The most revolutionary idea in today, one that I’m putting out there, that will no doubt get me in trouble, after my “Jerry McGuire Memo Moment” is that your health is entirely under your control, with how you eat and move, and those two aspects are controlled by how you think and what you believe.  I’m up against a system that wants to convince you that it’s all in your genetics and all about evil germs that are running rampant in our world.  I share my research with you because I know in my heart that if I don’t get over my fear of sharing the research with you, my heart will not be able to handle it.

Bring it on. 

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