The Silver Lining in Chronic Disease

The Silver Lining in Chronic Disease: Many conditions and diseases, including obesity, heart disease and cancer, could perform useful and perhaps even essential roles. They could reflect the body’s attempts to resolve imbalances which could lead to fatal outcomes if left unchecked. This is evidenced by a variety of processes that take place in fat cells, cardiovascular plaque and tutors which eliminate toxic substances and produce essential nutrients.

Understanding these processes provides insight into root causes of chronic disease, and promotes the concept of holistic treatments that work with the body rather than battling against it.

Stephanie Seneff PhD is an Honorary Board Member of the Weston A. Price Foundation. She is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She has a Batchelor’s degree from MIT in biology with a minor in food and nutrition, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, also from MIT.Throughout her career, Dr. Seneff has conducted research in diverse areas, including human auditory modeling, spoken dialogue systems, natural language processing, information retrieval and summarization, and computational biology.

She has published nearly 200 refereed articles in technical journals and conferences on these subjects, and has been invited to give several keynote speeches.Dr. Seneff has recently become interested in the effect of drugs and diet on health and nutrition, and she has written several essays on the web articulating her view on these topics. She is currently developing spoken dialogue systems to support intelligent search and summarization of vaccine adverse reaction reports and user-provided reviews of drug side effects.She is the first author of three papers published in 2011 in medical journals on theories proposing that a high-carbohydrate diet contributes to the metabolic syndrome, to Alzheimer’s disease, and to autism.