coNvErsatioNs WitH briaN clEMENt briaN clEMENt , Ph . d ., is director of the Hippocrates Health Institute , a comprehensive wellness center based in West Palm Beach , Florida . Hippocrates Health Institute is known for its food-based approach to wellness , focusing on a diet of raw food to rejuvenate the body from within . Clement is the author of Living Food for Optimum Health , a guidebook to the Hippocrates approach first published in 1998 . Born and raised in New Jersey , Clement became director of the Hippocrates Health Institute in 1987 . Since then , Clement has traveled and lectured around the world and authored several books .
Pulse : How would you summarize Living Foods for Optimum Health to someone who hasn ’ t read it ?
Brian Clement : Living Foods for Optimum Health is a concise guide for the reader to simply understand what we have learned and tested at the Institute now for over 60 years . As science and technology improves , we consistently remain at the cutting edge so that we afford all of our readers and participants the best options to maintain longevity and health and even to reverse maladies . Well-being is not solo or static . From the way we eat to our thoughts , each and every piece of the puzzle manifests either abundant well-being or a crippling disorder . Today , we are the sickest people on earth . In the
U . S . we consume 50 percent of all of the pharma drugs produced . Yet we only make up 4 percent of the global population . We spend several times more money on healthcare than any other nation and the results are dismal . Hippocrates Health Institute has the answer , yet most people are not ready to take the essential steps required . People would rather blame their genes or bad luck for their disease and premature ageing than to give up the noxious wastes they call “ food .” Everyone can do it once you have enough respect and self-love to truly want to heal .
P : Living Foods for Optimum Health talks about how physical health informs mental health . How does this connection works ? c : Our minds are the captain of our thoughts , actions and the reality we create . We manifest our lives through our attitudes . This is why every guest who comes to Hippocrates is offered individual and group sessions with therapists . Physical health affects mental health . What we put into our bodies for nourishment has a profound effect . We have seen it over the decades of doing what we do . We know that by changing your mind you can change your life .
P : What is a living food , and what makes it different from other kinds of food ? c : The difference between raw , plant-based food and living food is that a living food is literally growing at the time you consume it . These are sprouted nuts , seeds , grains and beans . As many Ivy League institutions teach , the phyto-
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