I hope you are having a beautiful day. This is Ayn Cates Sullivan, one of the SuperPower Up! Hosts, and you are listening to Wisdom of the Ages. So, I was realizing on the way to the recording studio today how important it was for me many years ago to make the connection between my health, and medicine and the divine. We think of these things as separate, but really they’re not. They’re very, very connected. So today we’re going to explore the science behind true medicine for the body, mind and spirit. And I’d like to begin with a wisdom quote by Dr. Mitch Fleisher.
“All true healing is self-healing and the true physician heals not only with their hands but with their heart to support self-healing.” So, I’d like to introduce one of my very favorite people on the planet. He’s a true reservoir of wisdom. Dr. Mitch Fleisher is an MD with over 40 years of clinical experience. He is a double board-certified family physician specializing in anti-aging and regenerative medicine, homeopathy, nutritional and botanical medicine, peptide therapy, chelation and bio oxidative therapy, and natural hormone replacement therapy.
That’s quite a lot, but there’s a lot to this man. He attended Stanford University School of Medicine and the Medical College of Virginia. I’m particularly impressed with his alternative Alternative DrMCare Natural Medical Self-Care Protocols. And that’s the long way of saying you can go online and check him out. And I think there are about 200 per protocols you can look up if you have issues you’re dealing with. So, I’m excited to introduce you to Mitch Fleisher. We’re going to explore true medicine for the body, mind, and spirit. So, Dr. Mitch Fleisher, welcome.
Oh, thank you very much sister Ayn. Very good to speak to you. Happy Thanksgiving.
Well, thank you. Thank you. I’m always thankful to speak to you. So, let’s just start. So, Dr. Mitch Fleisher, what is the true medicine for the body, mind and spirit?
Well Ayn, true medicine involves healing of the entire human being. You can’t just treat one part and expect to get a wholeness. So when a physician looks at all the symptoms in the body, all the symptoms in the mind, and all the symptoms on the emotional, mental, spiritual levels, then they’re seeing the whole person. And we want to use a panoply, a whole bunch of different therapies that are suited to the unique patient. So true medicine also needs to be individualized. That is, there’s no cookbook approach. You have to look at each person and the uniqueness of that person, and all the symptoms and the physical, mental, emotional levels.
And when you understand that whole of that person, then you know what therapies to apply uniquely to them to stimulate their own body’s ability to heal itself.
So that sounds really different than, oh, you have diabetes, so therefore you need insulin. Suddenly this changes and we’re treating the entire person.
Exactly.
Okay.
Of course, you do, with someone with… There’s different kinds of diabetes, but if you have a particular ailment, of course you want to give the body what it needs to restore balance, and in diabetes they may be lacking insulin, the ability, like type one. Or they may just be in a state where their insulin isn’t working, so you need to use other things to help them. So, you have to find out what’s uniquely going on with a given individual and then provide them the healing tools that they need to restore their overall health and wellbeing.
The ultimate goal of healing, of true medicine is freedom from limitation in the physical, mental and emotional parts of our being. That’s the idea, so that all of us are free to be able to experience life to the fullest.
That’s beautiful. I love that statement. We have to be free. Somehow in our physical self and our emotional self and our psychological self, and somehow also tapped into our spiritual self too it seems. So, I mean, would you say that there’s a spiritual component to medicine?
Absolutely, and this has been recognized by native healers and different systems of medicine for thousands of years, like in Ayurvedic medicine, which is the oldest system of medicine in the world. That’s, Ayurveda means the way of health, been around for over 6,000 years. They understood that in order to bring someone into balance, you had to provide proper nutrition, and exercise, and things of that nature to support the physical body, which is the temple of the spirit.
You had to have certain emotional practices that opened your heart to others into the world, and to yourself, to express yourself, but you also had to deal with the spiritual and to have a connection to the divine. Sweet, true healing of the self involves nourishing all the levels of our being. That is nourishment for the physical body, nourishment for the emotional body, nourishment for the mental body and for the spiritual body. And then, the whole person is nourishing and can maintain balance and health and wellbeing.
This is critically important and that’s why you have this whole new field called integrative medicine, where we’re looking at the physical and mental, and emotional, and spiritual, and how to understand the whole person, a given in a given individual case, and then provide them what they need to restore balance and health.
I’m just loving this. I’m hearing words from a doctor such as nurturing, spirituality and self-care, uniqueness. This is just really beautiful. So where-
Well, it’s personal experience, I mean, going through a lot of healing myself. I first got introduced to a holistic approach to medicine when I was 17, when my girlfriend at the time gave me a book by a naturopathic physician, which was on a naturopathic herbal medicine. And it just blew my mind that there was so much to it. I came up from a family of physicians, my grandfather, both uncles were doctors. My great-great-grandfather was a physician to the Tsar of Russia, one of the only Jewish physicians.
So, I came from that history, and I recognized at an early age that there was more than just conventional allopathic pharmaceutical medicine. That was just one small segment of this large spectrum of healing out there. From herbal medicine, naturopathic medicine, Ayurvedic medicine, homeopathic medicine, and what have you. And so, in order to truly heal and understand someone, you had to understand all aspects of their being. The physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and how it all tied together, because we are in essence… One of my favorite authors, Wayne Dwyer, has a wonderful quote that we’re not just physical beings having an occasional spiritual experience. We’re spiritual beings having a human experience. And that’s true, especially from the integrative, holistic, homeopathic perspective. We see everything as a continuum.
That’s beautiful. That’s so beautiful.
Yeah.
That’s absolutely beautiful. Can you tell people where they can get in touch with you? What’s your website?
My website. It’s an easy one to remember. That’s www.cirm1.org, and it’ll give you an idea of who we are, what we do, and the services that we offer that provide this sort of triad of care, body, mind and spirit.
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