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Dr. Ted Achacoso: Evolutionary Medicine, Health Optimization Medicine, and The Cell Danger Response

Smarter Not Harder

CHAPTER

The Importance of Statistics in Medicine

In illness medicine, what we usually regard as signs and symptoms of disease are actually adaptations of the human body in order to achieve its dynamic human status. So it's a very different way of looking at things rather than saying, okay, getting rid of these things is part of the healing process. We have to take a look at how we evolved as a species to see why we're pretty supposed to certain diseases," he says.

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