Why Rhythm is Important to Your Health
Growing up white in Apartheid South Africa in the 50s and 60s, my exposure to African culture was through my maid and I was lucky enough to be introduced to the beautiful music and rhythms which are integral to African culture. Music was blaring from her radio all day, and this instilled in me a love for the rhythm and beats of African music. I became an avid lover of music, in particular world music, and music and rhythm became an essential part of my life. But it was only in the last ten years, after I had already been practicing medicine for twenty years, that I realized the importance of rhythm to health.
About ten years ago, I started seeing an increasing number of patients coming to me feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, depressed, achy, run down, older than their years, and generally feeling like they were running on empty. These patients were falling through the cracks of Western Medicine because they didn’t have a disease and were told it was just stress. I started calling these patients with these symptoms, Spent, because that’s how they felt….
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