What it is:

An eye-opening alternative view of coronary heart disease that contradicts the conventional diet heart hypothesis. 

Health benefits:

With each passing year, we seem more and more resigned to giving over responsibility for our own health outcomes to those who have certain letters behind their names! I recall a former client, a family doctor, who bowed out of a traditional medical practice.  Why? Because he could no longer make peace with the model of spending 13 minutes with a patient before having to diagnose and prescribe treatment….Treatment which typically included a prescription for a pharmaceutical, a procedure or surgery. 

With that model of health care, is it any surprise to learn that Americans’ health outcomes have deteriorated while prescribed pharmaceuticals and procedures proliferate?

Put Your Heart in your Mouth makes a compelling case that common sense approaches to health can make a difference….A whole real food diet, mitigating and removing toxic exposures from our environments, and better lifestyle choices.  This book helped me to understand that I was in the driver’s seat when it came to my health!  I decided to take full responsibility for my own health and no longer rely on 13 minutes with an M.D. and a prescription to create my healthiest version of me!       

How I use it:

As a reference to help clients understand what atherosclerosis is and how it happens.  To help people understand that toxic elements present in what we eat, put on our bodies, and find prevalent in our environments find their way into the bloodstream and wreak havoc on our blood vessels.  And finally, are whole food sources such as saturated fats which provide essential fatty necessary for the proper functioning of the body really to blame?

How I found it:

This book was required reading for my coursework to become a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) through the Nutritional Therapy Association (NTA).         

Check out a comprehensive book review here.

Why I use it:

Experience has taught me how important it is to look at the underlying incentive structure for precepts that drive consumer behavior, especially in the realm of health products and services.  I have seen many examples where the profit motive has driven treatment options and common-sense approaches have been stigmatized.  Yet I’ve been surprised to learn how effective common-sense approaches can be to support and restore health.  Put Your Heart in your Mouth showed me just how true that can be. It serves as a reminder that there is no replacement for healthy lifestyle choices and making sure we mitigate toxic exposure whenever and wherever we can! 

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