Evolutionary Medicine
Since Hippocrates, it has been recognized that the body has self-healing powers (vis medicatrix naturae). Modern evolutionary medicine identifies them with physiologically based self-treatments that provide the body with prophylactic, healing, or restorative capabilities against injuries, infections and physiological disruption. Examples include:
- Immune responses
- Fever
- Sickness behavior
- Nausea
- Morning sickness
- Diarrhea
- Hypoferremia
- Depression
- Pain
These evolved self-treatments deployed by the body are experienced by humans as unpleasant and unwanted illness symptoms.
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