The Natural Advantage
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley October 11, 2024
Author Dr Jenny Brockis
Distributor: Major Street Publishing
ISBN: 9781923186194
Publisher: Major Street Publishing
Release Date: October 2024
Website: https://majorstreet.com.au/products/the-natural-advantage-br-i-small-by-dr-jenny-brockis-i-small
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The Natural Advantage is a no holds barred book of facts; facts about what is wrong with the modern lifestyle that is slowly but surely killing us and our children and what we can do, in a few simple steps, to make the change that is so very important.
Dr Jenny Brockis had slowly been falling out of love with her profession as a General Practitioner. So many of her patients were unwell with a wide and varied range of symptoms that simply did not seem to be responding to the recognised treatments and medications.
In a personal moment when she was told to either change her lifestyle or keep suffering the effects of a debilitation neck issue, she decided to take the advice of her health professional and start getting outside, getting into nature and slowly beginning to find her way back into good health.
This epiphany saw her undertake further study in what is now a growing field of Lifestyle Medicine where people are encouraged to get out into nature more, begin to reconnect with walking, becoming more aware of community and generally returning in a very small, but positive way to a world that once contained all of the natural advantages of remaining healthy. Interestingly it still does!
Before every aspect of life moved into the fast lane, children would play outside until dark, people would walk to catch the bus, engage in sport on the weekend and be engaged in one form of community group or other.
Now, with the rapid changes in daily life, the massive external pressures and the serious and definitive lack of time, people are making themselves ill. The facts and statistics don’t lie. The biggest and perhaps most serious issue in all of this is that children today, as young as five years of age are being diagnosed with serious stress issues. This would have to sound alarm bells if nothing else does that something is seriously wrong with our lifestyle.
Brockis advocates that getting outside, getting into community and making small but effective changes in your lifestyle, will make serious changes to your health and stress/distress levels. She carefully looks at every aspect of Reconnecting with Nature; Sight, Hearing Smell and Taste, Body, Mind and Soul.
She then looks at Natures Medicine: Air, Sunshine, Water, Earth and Animals which presents an unarguably sound way to work your way back to good health, by understanding what has gone wrong and what can be done simply, but not always easily, to rediscovering a fresh way towards regaining good health and happiness.
The Conclusion allows you to write Your Nature Prescription, which asks you work out what you want to achieve and when, then looks at how you can go about achieving these things, one small step at a time.
As she says small beginnings, lead to bigger impacts to absolutely boost your Natural Advantage. It will not fix everything but it will certainly help. You can’t do better than that.