Prologue

Comfortable Suffering

“Our genes are not our destiny. Our genes load the gun; but it’s our environment that pulls the trigger.”

- Dr. Rangan Chatterjee

When we are suffering from a non-communicable or chronic disease, modern medicine seeks to give us comfort. The result is that we comfortably suffer.

I wrote this book because it doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve learned that we each have the potential to have a more fulfilling, happier, and healthier life. We can unlock our body’s natural connection to sustainable weight loss and optimal health, and our lives on purpose. We don’t have to accept a life of comfortable suffering. Through intentional changes in lifestyle and nutrition, we have the power to positively influence our genes, prevent, and reverse chronic disease, increase our life spans, and improve the overall quality of our lives.

If you use the strategies that I offer within the pages of this book, you will likely lose a substantial amount of excess weight, but weight loss of itself is not the goal. The number one objective of this plan, is to keep the possibility of comfortable suffering, out your life.

So, what I offer you is not a diet book, but an invitation to add more years to your life, and more life to your years. Not through a quick fix, or a temporary resolution, but through a reasonable, and lasting, personalized nutritional & lifestyle plan.