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funding and setting theresearch agenda, developing treatments, withholding important data that contradicts their worldview, controlling medical education, “educating” doctors, and marketing to consumers.

    Other factors are our medical institutions and our financial reimbursement systems, which are founded on outdated ideas of separate diseases and medical specialties. Abandoning those ideas would threaten their economic viability and perhaps even their existence.
     
    And our medical training reinforces the illusion of separate body systems by training doctors in specialties and subspecialties—there are doctors for every inch of your body. But there are very few who understand how the whole body works as one complete ecosystem.

    Even when we see research or miracles in practice (dismissed as spontaneous remissions) that contradict our worldview, it is very difficult to integrate. It is ignored or brushed aside in favor of our current paradigm. In fourteenth-century Europe it would have been very hard to convince anyone that the world is round. It looks flat so it must be flat. Similarly, doctors today can’t see what is quickly becoming obvious.
     
    I recently presented a lecture at Harvard outlining the case of a boy who recovered from autism using the approach in
The UltraMind Solution.
I documented in great detail his story, and showed how when his abnormal tests and biology returned to normal, his brain and behavior stabilized, and he lost his diagnosis of autism.

    The pediatrician present explained away his recovery as an example of spontaneous remission. One of the other physicians at the lecture, who knew my work, said facetiously, “The only problem is that Dr. Hyman has twelve cases like this of ‘spontaneous remission’ in his practice.”

    Unfortunately, too many doctors have the same mind-set as that pediatrician: don’t confuse me with the facts. My mind is made up.

    Nevertheless, the recent discoveries about how behavior, mood, and mental functioning are linked to our biology are one of the greatest advances in twenty-first-century medicine. These discoveries are growing to meet other advances, which show how our thoughts, feelings, and life experiences literally shape our brain and influence our biology.
     
    Such research holds the answer to the epidemic of mood, behavior, attention, and memory problems that are rampant in today’s society.

    What I am suggesting in this book is a revolutionary new method for treating broken brains—“mental disorders” and “brain diseases”—that is based on cutting-edge science and medicine; one that marks a radical departure from classical psychiatry and neurology and the methods these fields typically use to treat their patients.
     
    The brain is not disconnected from the rest of the body as many practitioners of conventional medicine would have you believe, and the solution to the epidemic of broken brains is
not
found in more psychoactive medications or better therapy.

    The brain is mostly downstream from the real causes, which are found in the biology of your whole body. Brain problems or “disorders” are almost always systemic disorders, and the cure will be found outside the brain—in your body.
     
    My goal in writing
The UltraMind Solution
is to show you the new landscape of how brain function, mind, mood, and behavior are created by changes in your body and your biology. I want to show you how to use that information to cure or dramatically improve the rising tide of “broken brains,” including conditions like depression, anxiety, bipolar disease, psychosis, attention deficit disorder, autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, and more.

    Even if you don’t have one of these “diseases” and feel “fine,” feeling fine is less than what you could feel. You should and can feel alert, focused, happy, energetic, unstressed, and mentally sharp. That is, if you know how to care for your brain.
     
    That is what I will