90% diseases related to stress: Wellness expert Mickey Mehta

NEW DELHI: Celebrity fitness trainer and wellness expert Mickey Mehta doesn’t like to use the term “holistic healing” anymore. Instead, he advocates “integrative healing”. “When you say holistic, allopathic doctors run away,” he laughed, speaking at a panel (Beauty and Choice: Food, Wellness and Well Being). “But when you say integrative, it means taking everything together,” says Mehta, stressing on the importance of focusing as much on mental, emotional, and spiritual health as on the physical.
Mehta’s co-panelists – gastroenterologist Dr Ashwani Chopra, and Bosnian wellness expert Vesna Jacob, made a case for healing as opposed to just treating a disease. “One conitues to be amazed by the advances of modern science in the field of chronic, degenerative diseases. But 90% diseases related to stress. They can’t be extracted with a scalpel, examined under a microscope,” says Chopra.
Stresses, Jacob points out, come from the conflicts within us and these are capable of impacting health. “Health problems come from conflicts within us. You wish to do something, but cannot for some reason. You have two forces pulling you apart. Every second, we have choices. Multiply that with the years of your life, the manifestation is chaos. As long as you have unresolved issues and conflicts within you, you will not find yourself on the path to a complete wellness,” says Jacob.
While eating right is crucial, Mehta feels that “real nutrition is free”. “Sunshine is important. It makes body efficient enough to absorb nutrition. Rhythmic breathing and good sleep nourish the body,” says Mehta. That's not too big a price for good health.