Since I have switched to the Paleo diet I seldom get sick. And if I do I do not turn into a coughing snot factory. The symptoms are far less severe and more of a mild nuisance. 

I also got better in tuning in to my body's needs when recovering from a bug. Instinctively my body would crave and avoid certain foods.

We all accept that what we eat influences our health. Yet there is still  the general notion that the more serious a sickness the less important nutrition becomes and pills become more prominent. 

A niche of Western medicine, Functional Medicine, is trying to depart from the black and white view of health vs. sickness and nutrition vs medicine by not only treating the symptoms but also targeting the cause. That requires to see the bigger picture and move beyond mere maintenance of patients towards true recovery and healing. 

We have all encountered pill-trigger-happy doctors in Hong Kong. For minor ailments we get a barrage of pills and in some cases prematurely antibiotics. I'm trying to find more health practitioners in the territory who aside from being Paleo-friendly also focus on getting their patients healthy and have them stay healthy, not merely getting them back to the office again. One of those practitioners is Miles Price a Clinical Nutritionist at Life Clinic. As a supporter of ancestral health he invited me to his practice and I shamelessly used the opportunity to bombard him with questions.