Dr. Jeffrey D. Rediger’s Pillars of Spontaneous Healing

“In his best-selling book ‘Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life,’ Rediger points to many of these factors to explain cases of spontaneous healing. He’s careful to note that he adopted stringent criteria for the cases he studied. He only studied cases where there had been a clear medical diagnosis and cure that could not be explained by external factors like the patient’s taking experimental medicine. It is from these cases that he formulated his four pillars of healing and well-being.

The first pillar is nutrition. Rediger argues that the typical American diet is filled with high quantities of refined sugars and enriched flours which are toxic to the human body.

The second pillar asks people to strengthen their immune systems; due to poor nutrition and stress, many people endure chronic inflammation, which weakens their immune responses.

The third pillar focuses on minimizing chronic stress. 

And the fourth and most important pillar is the factor which motivates people to abide by the other three pillars: prioritizing one’s health. Rediger calls this ‘healing our identity, healing our false beliefs.’ He notes that people

often run around serving others while neglecting their own well-being. ‘It takes an illness for them to wake up and realize that they…need to focus on what creates life and authentic well-being for them,’ he explains.

Rediger feels fortunate to be able to help map out the terrain of self-healing but believes there is still much more to learn. His research has shown him that the various disciplines

concerned with well-being need to be ‘shaped around what it means to create a human life where one can experience their value, and not feel like they’re alone.’ He hopes others in his field will take an interest in spontaneous healing, too.”