Welcome to “Healing From Within” with host Sheryl Glick a Reiki energy practitioner and author of The Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love which shares stories of spiritual awareness, communication, miracles, and ways to discover and utilize intuition, as a guide for your personal well being, healing and productive life journey. Sheryl is delighted to welcome Roberto Tostado M.D. author of wtf* is wrong with our health offering a rebel physicians manifesto for reversing disease and increasing smiles and of course our goal should be to lighten up, reduce stress, and bring more joy and happiness into our everyday life.As listeners of “Healing From Within” are well aware Sheryl and her guests share intimate stories and insights into the metaphysical scientific and spiritual aspects of life to gain greater awareness of true healing on all levels mind body and spirit, so we can create and manifest through our thoughts actions and higher consciousness, a happier healthier productive life experience. Through self-investigation and self-mastery of our emotions, we begin to explore the magnificent inner landscape of our being and ourselves and the world more accurately.In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Dr. Roberto Tostado who has been practicing medicine for over 26 years is Board Certified in Regenerative and Anti-aging Medicine, also a fellow of Nutritional And Digestive Medicine from the American Academy of Anti-Aging medicine is a new breed of doctors pioneering an integrative approach to wellness. Dr. Tostado shares the simple powerful idea that good food is medicine and will offer suggestions to improve our health awareness, learn about detoxification, encourage the elimination of processed foods and foster vitality and a revitalized energy of health.When Roberto is asked to think back to his childhood and remember a person place or event that might have foreshadowed the path he would pursue in adulthood as often Sheryl feels the plan is already within the child’s mind and heart and their life destiny which becomes clearer to them and others in time and he tells of growing up in East Los Angeles which posed many challenges, including poverty, gang violence and intimidation, limited resources in public education, and the general stigma of failure in the community. Graduation from high school was daunting enough for students in Boyle Heights, acceptance to college and completing a four-year degree even rarer. But these odds never discouraged me, for Roberto always had sensed that he had a destiny of service. He didn’t allow the circumstances of his environment to become deterrents. In a way, he rebelled against his inheritance and became a rebel with a cause. He describes himself as perhaps self-conscious as a kid, wearing glasses before he started school, and a bit chubby. He was studious, shy, and socially awkward and couldn’t say that he fit into any particular social group in elementary school, but teachers noticed that he read well and had me tested for ‘gifted’ status. He passed the examinations and was promoted to third grade after finishing the first grade. As if things weren’t awkward enough, he was placed in a class with older kids, while I was the same uber-shy bookworm. Throughout his life, Sheryl would find himself in some kind of uncomfortable circumstances that contributed to becoming a maverick. Sheryl has a somewhat similar story as she was in the SP in Junior High School going from the 7th grade to the 9th grade and also graduated college early so she was always with older people. Roberto also tells us that many people in his family had health problems and he was committed to finding ways to live a healthier life and to help them.Dr. Tostado tells us he came from a broken community littered with street drugs, only to enter a medical community advocating prescription drugs, and generating a broken community of disease. Drugs were also present on campus once he entered middle school.
