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Many different elements come together to cause modern chronic diseases (such as cancer, MS, chronic fatigue, etc.). PBM founder Dr. Thomas Rau illustrates this with the metaphor of a “disease barrel”: when enough toxic circumstances or substances fill up the organism, it can no longer perform the functions that keep it healthy. The “barrel” overflows, and disease results. PBM seeks to identify and eliminate things that add to the barrel. Often, these factors are parts of our lives that we take for granted: what we eat, the root canal we had ten years ago, stress that secretly took its toll on us. We all have the capacity to get well. To do so, however, we must address the factors that make us sick.