"SELF STUDIES" offer you an opportunity to benefit from the latest research available from ISCD on the cause and prevention of various lifestyle-related diseases.

Each "Self Study" is based on findings from the Institute's medical anthropology research and has been tested for effectiveness in preliminary studies.

You will be asked to stop a particular lifestyle that we believe might be causing a particular disease.

There are no health risks to a healthy person in making these lifestyle changes, although you may want to ask your health care provider if you have any doubts.

Part of the challenge of a culturogenic disease is that it involves cultural practices that people have come to take for granted, without ever considering the impact those practices have on their health.

When unhealthy behaviors become considered “normal”, even researchers and medical doctors may overlook them. These professionals are members of their culture, too, equally blinded as anyone else to the damaging cultural practices in which they themselves may participate.

Consequently, ISCD’s lifestyle solutions to disease may sound strange to you at first. And your doctor may never have heard of them, since they refer to lifestyles and not to drugs or surgery.

Medical training does not adequately consider lifestyle. That is why there are so many diseases of allegedly “unknown” cause.

We believe that we now know the lifestyle causes of many “mystery” diseases. SELF STUDIES are your way to test our lifestyle solutions for yourself. It empowers you to take control over your health by discarding damaging lifestyles and adopting new, healthful ones. 

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