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Welcome to another episode. Today in this episode, we’re going to go over the six root causes of disease. I’m so incredibly excited about this episode because a lot of people, when they get diagnosed with an illness or a condition, a lot of times they are trying to address the wrong thing and they miss these six incredibly potent root causes.

I want to talk about that today. Modern medicine is designed to manage symptoms and it’s designed to dull the body’s very intelligent communication system.

This is something that we have to think about if we are thinking about how to address healing for good, not how to simply manage symptoms or how to live with an ailment, a disease, or a condition for life. If we want to truly heal holistically and heal for good, we have to think about why the body is communicating with us the way that it is. So the body speaks to us, but we’ve been so disconnected that we don’t even understand the language of our bodies anymore or understand what our bodies are trying to say to us.

Instead, we have doctors and holistic practitioners who are taught to suppress what the body is expressing. Instead of asking what the body is trying to say, doctors use drugs and the common herbalist or holistic practitioner is using herbs as drugs. And this is a problem.

This is why so many people are unable to heal. They’re too busy trying to suppress symptoms. So we have to remember that symptoms are simply the body’s communication. Pain is communication. It’s the body’s language for imbalance.

When we silence symptoms without trying to understand them, we miss the true message on what our body is trying to communicate. We miss the true cry for help. We miss the needs that our bodies are trying to communicate with us because our bodies, again, are holistic ecosystems.

As a result, the imbalance will simply continue. We don’t do this herb for that symptom in ancestral medicine. This is the same thing as using a drug for a symptom. We are not trying to suppress symptoms here.

We are trying to listen to what the body is trying to communicate with us. This is not the way of the ancestral herbalist. Ancestral medicine teaches us to listen, not to mute. It teaches us to decode what the symptoms are saying, not to dismiss them or suppress them.

Our goal as practitioners, and even just as individuals, is to understand our bodies and our health. We want to listen and learn how to bring the body back into balance, the mind back into balance, and the spirit back into harmony as one holistic ecosystem.

Because when we do this, we have no choice but to have vitality and health.

So let’s talk about the six root causes of disease today.

Most people mistake the root causes because they think it’s surface level. They’re looking for a quick fix, a supplement, an herb, the next prescription, the next weight loss drug.

But when we don’t take time to figure out the root causes, the problem will always come back.

People don’t have an herb deficiency. They don’t have a drug deficiency. They are deficient in the fundamentals that create holistic balance within the body.

At IAM, we teach that all disease, physical, emotional, spiritual, can be traced back to six core root causes:

Food, digestion, hydration, stress and trauma, lifestyle and environment, and lack of movement.

When you understand these six pillars, you stop chasing symptoms and start addressing the root cause.

Let’s get into them.

1. Food
What we eat becomes the foundation of our health. It builds our blood, hormones, cells, and energy. When our diet is processed, toxic, and disconnected from nature, it creates inflammation, stagnation, and weakness.

Food is not just physical, it’s also mental, emotional, and energetic consumption. What you consume shapes your health.

2. Digestion
You are not what you eat, you are what you absorb, assimilate, and eliminate. Weak digestion blocks healing, even if you’re eating healthy.

Digestion is the root of nourishment and the center of health.

3. Hydration
Dehydration is a silent root cause of stagnation. It slows lymphatic flow, burdens the liver, and disrupts cellular communication.

True hydration includes minerals and electrolytes that support structure and flow throughout the body.

4. Stress and Trauma
Unresolved stress and trauma are major root causes of disease. They alter hormones, digestion, immunity, and sleep.

The body remembers what the mind suppresses. Until the nervous system feels safe, the body cannot heal.

5. Lifestyle and Environment
Your environment can be medicine or poison. Your routines, relationships, and surroundings directly impact your health.

It is impossible to heal in the same conditions that made you sick.

6. Lack of Movement
The body was designed to move. When it doesn’t, energy stagnates and stagnation breeds disease.

Movement supports detoxification, emotional flow, and connection to the present moment.

All six root causes interact with each other. When one is out of balance, the others follow.

Healing is not about pacifying symptoms. It’s about restoring connection within the body.

Every symptom is a teacher. Every imbalance has a story.

Your work is to trace that story back to its root and restore alignment at the source.