The Adaptation Diet: The Complete Prescription for Reducing Stress Feeling Great and Protecting Yourself Against Obesity Diabetes and Heart Disease

Here for the first time, is an easy-to-follow approach to control the damaging impact of stress on health by changing what you eat. By reducing inflammation, food allergies, and blood sugar swings, The Adaptation Diet will help you lose weight and reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and premature aging.

Health can be defined as effectively adapting to stress and changing circumstances. Everyone knows stress has negative health consequences, especially if it continues over a long period of time. But what if a hidden stress occurred day after day causing damage from elevated cortisol, the main stress hormone? For many people, that is the case; the culprit is what they are eating.

A revolution has occurred in understanding what stress does to the body, especially the brain. Recent breakthroughs have clarified the changes that can occur in the midbrain, the area of the brain that directly controls stress-hormone secretions from biochemical stress. Concepts such as allostasis and allostatic load help explain why so many people have trouble recovering their health after stressful experiences and prolonged poor dietary habits. Adaptation and reduction of the damage from stress is not just about triggers such as emotional and social situations, but the subtle biochemical stress of poor diets and unhealthy lifestyles. Based on these recent breakthroughs, The Adaptation Diet uniquely provides the information needed to biochemically adapt, protecting against the health damaging effects of stress.

The Adaptation Diet takes you through a step-by-step guide to reduce inflammation, diminish the impact of food allergies, improve the detoxification process and identify if celiac disease or wheat intolerance is adding to your biochemical stress. It includes recipes, menus, and a straightforward plan for reducing cortisol, losing weight and slowing the aging process.

Charles A. Moss, MD, is a pioneer in the use of therapeutic nutrition in medicine. Since 1978 he has helped his patients regain health and manage their weight through dietary changes that reduce maladaptation (the long-term elevation of cortisol and other stress hormones that increases the risk for chronic disease). He has focused on nutritional therapy since his days in medical school in the late 1960s, when he embarked on a personal exploration of the effect of diet on health.

Over the past thirty years, through a combination of nutritional medical therapies, environmental medicine, and traditional acupuncture, he has successfully treated thousands of patients with the illnesses of maladaptation that include obesity, fatigue, chronic pain, headaches, allergies, digestive disorders, asthma, arthritis, anxiety, and depression.

Dr. Moss attended the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine and completed a residency in preventive medicine and family practice at the University of Arizona School of Medicine in 1978. While in Tucson he developed the first holistic health course in the United States for medical students and residents.

In 1978 he established one of the first holistic health medical clinics in the United States. The La Jolla Clinic of Integrative Medicine is the oldest practice of its kind in San Diego. His unique approach to stress induced and chronic medical problems has attracted patients from all over the United States, Mexico, and Europe. The clinic was the subject of the book Caring and Responsibility by June Lowenberg, PhD, published in 1989. She researched the groundbreaking methods that he employed as a model for holistic health practice. This book is used as a text in several universities in departments of health policy studies.

Dr. Moss utilizes traditional Five Element acupuncture in his practice. He studied with J. R. Worsley in England in the 1970s and was the first American physician to combine the Five Element system with other areas of holistic health practices. He was an instructor at the UCLA School of Medicine Medical Acupuncture for Physicians postgraduate program, and in 1988 founded the Five Element Acupuncture Physician Training Program, which has trained physicians from throughout the United States and several foreign countries.