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“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”— Thomas A. Edison🌿“No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means.”— Maimonides (commonly attributed)🌿“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use; when diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”— Ayurvedic proverb🌿“Medicine and food share a common origin.”— Traditional Chinese medicine saying🌿“Food is medicine is not only an idea whose time has come; it is absolutely essential.”— Dr Dariush Mozaffarian🌿“Nature is the true healer. The physician is only nature's assistant.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided in nature; the challenge of science is to find it.”— Attributed to Paracelsus🌿“Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”— Leonardo da Vinci🌿“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”— Attributed to Voltaire🌿“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”— Benjamin Franklin🌿“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise — not too little and not too much — we would have found the safest way to health.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise.”— Hippocrates, On Regimen🌿“Health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life.”— WHO Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion🌿“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”— Sir William Osler🌿“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being — not merely the absence of disease.”— WHO Constitution🌿“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin🌿“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”— Michael Pollan🌿“Do not eat anything your great-grandmother would not recognise as food.”— Michael Pollan🌿“Diet-related diseases produce crushing health and economic burdens.”— Dr Dariush Mozaffarian🌿“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”— Sir William Osler🌿“Good food is a right, not a privilege.”— Alice Waters🌿“Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“Leave your drugs in the chemist's pot if you can heal the patient with food.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.”— Thomas A. Edison🌿“No illness which can be treated by diet should be treated by any other means.”— Maimonides (commonly attributed)🌿“When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use; when diet is correct, medicine is of no need.”— Ayurvedic proverb🌿“Medicine and food share a common origin.”— Traditional Chinese medicine saying🌿“Food is medicine is not only an idea whose time has come; it is absolutely essential.”— Dr Dariush Mozaffarian🌿“Nature is the true healer. The physician is only nature's assistant.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“All that man needs for health and healing has been provided in nature; the challenge of science is to find it.”— Attributed to Paracelsus🌿“Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.”— Leonardo da Vinci🌿“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”— Attributed to Voltaire🌿“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”— Benjamin Franklin🌿“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise — not too little and not too much — we would have found the safest way to health.”— Attributed to Hippocrates🌿“Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise.”— Hippocrates, On Regimen🌿“Health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life.”— WHO Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion🌿“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”— Sir William Osler🌿“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being — not merely the absence of disease.”— WHO Constitution🌿“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin🌿“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”— Michael Pollan🌿“Do not eat anything your great-grandmother would not recognise as food.”— Michael Pollan🌿“Diet-related diseases produce crushing health and economic burdens.”— Dr Dariush Mozaffarian🌿“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.”— Sir William Osler🌿“Good food is a right, not a privilege.”— Alice Waters🌿
Prevent · Protect · Heal
Elevate · CONNECT

🤝 CONNECT — Confidence · Connection · Intimacy

44 traits in this pillar, each entered in your own words. Choose the sentence that sounds like you; the page names the strength to build, the free practice, the aid that fits and when a doctor comes first.

Confidence 15

“I doubt myself even when I know I can do it.”Amplify Self-Belief · Confidence
Amplify
“I feel, deep down, that I'm not good enough.”Amplify Self-Worth · Confidence
Amplify
“I can't say no or stand up for what I need.”Amplify Assertiveness · Confidence
Amplify
“I say yes to everyone, even when I'm already stretched thin.”Amplify Boundaries · Confidence
Practice · free
“I hold back from asking, in case the answer is no.”Amplify Courage · Confidence
Practice · free
“I feel my success is luck and someone will find me out.”Amplify Self-Belief · Confidence
Practice · free
“I am harder on myself than I would ever be on anyone.”Soften Self-Kindness · Confidence
Soften
“I keep polishing things and never feel ready to finish.”Soften Good-Enough · Confidence
Soften
“I often feel there is something wrong with me, so I hide.”Amplify Self-Worth · Confidence
Practice · free
“I find it hard to decide or act without someone else.”Amplify Independence · Confidence
Practice · free
“I scroll and end up feeling everyone is doing better than me.”Soften Contentment · Confidence
Practice · free
“I spend a lot of time worrying about how I look.”Soften Body Ease · Confidence
Doctor first
“I am usually sure I'm right, and people stop speaking up.”Soften Humility · Confidence
Doctor first
“I have huge, certain plans that others don't seem to see.”Steady Grounded Vision · Confidence
Doctor first
“I feel my mood rise and fall with my likes.”Soften Inner Approval · Confidence
Practice · free

Connection 24

“I often miss what people mean and conversations feel clumsy.”Amplify Social Ease · Connection
Practice · free
“I go quiet and stiff around people I don't know.”Amplify Warmth · Connection
Amplify
“I worry a lot about being judged when I'm around people.”Soften Social Calm · Connection
Soften
“I have been shutting everyone out and staying away lately.”Amplify Reconnection · Connection
Doctor first
“I feel like I have no one I can really talk to.”Amplify Belonging · Connection
Practice · free
“I am happiest alone and rarely reach out to anyone.”Amplify Support Circle · Connection
Practice · free
“I need a lot of reassurance that people still care about me.”Steady Inner Security · Connection
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“I often suspect my partner and want to know where they are.”Soften Trust · Connection
Doctor first
“I like things done my way and struggle when others decide.”Soften Flexibility · Connection
Practice · free
“I sometimes steer people with half-truths to get what I want.”Amplify Straight Dealing · Connection
Practice · free
“I find myself telling small lies even when the truth would do.”Amplify Honesty · Connection
Practice · free
“I end up sharing other people's private stories.”Amplify Discretion · Connection
Practice · free
“I often don't notice when I've hurt someone's feelings.”Amplify Empathy · Connection
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“I feel distant from my family, even when we're together.”Amplify Closeness · Connection
Practice · free
“I mostly think about what I need before anyone else.”Amplify Generosity · Connection
Practice · free
“I feel I need people to notice and admire me.”Soften Quiet Confidence · Connection
Practice · free
“I say exactly what I think and people end up hurt.”Amplify Tact · Connection
Practice · free
“I talk over people before they've finished their point.”Amplify Listening · Connection
Amplify
“I find it hard to stop once I start talking.”Soften Conversational Balance · Connection
Doctor first
“I keep quiet about problems just to keep the peace.”Amplify Honest Courage · Connection
Practice · free
“I find it very hard to trust anyone at all.”Soften Openness · Connection
Doctor first
“I struggle to look people in the eye when we talk.”Amplify Presence · Connection
Amplify
“I pull away whenever someone starts getting close to me.”Amplify Intimacy · Connection
Practice · free
“I come across as rude to people without meaning to.”Amplify Courtesy · Connection
Practice · free
When to see a doctor. Farmicine is wellness education, not medical advice. If a symptom is new, severe, persistent, or you take prescription medicine, are pregnant or care for a child, speak with a doctor first.