“Our body is one system!”
"My Body's 100-Year User Manual": A Lifetime Guide
"Doctor Who Educates! Lee Dong-hwan TV" Director Lee Dong-hwan shares how to become the true master of a "winning body."

A guide to our body's health, 'to use it wisely and sparingly', as our bodies wear out from use.

Dr. Lee Dong-hwan, a family medicine specialist well-known for his popular health care channel, "Doctor Who Educates! Lee Dong-hwan TV," has published a new book, "The Body That Wins."
Starting from the invisible microscopic world within our bodies, this book covers the operating principles of each major organ, related diseases, and everything related to eating, sleeping, breathing, and moving.


The body is a 'system' made up of various organs, bones, muscles, brain, etc. that form a network.
Pain occurs not when something is wrong with one part of the body, but when the relationship between these parts is not normal.
Simply put, if there is a problem with the intestines, the intestines should be examined first, but it should not be considered as a problem 'only' in the intestines.
When you have trouble breathing, you may think of a lung problem, but your lungs are never the only cause.
Because our bodies are not machines that can be replaced with replacement parts.
Just by properly understanding the organically functioning system called our 'body' and understanding its principles, we can protect ourselves from diseases and viruses.
You can become the true owner of a ‘winning body.’


The "Winning Body" starts here.
Let's use our bodies as 'knowingly' and 'savingly' as possible, as we will be using them for the next 50 years or more.
By properly understanding my body and noticing the signals it sends me.
This book contains ten thousand stories about how to create a 'body that can overcome' viruses, diseases, and aging.

As we age, we begin to experience more and more pain in various places.
When I was young, there was nothing wrong with me, but when I turned 40 or 50, I often wondered if there was any place that didn't hurt.
Blood sugar and cholesterol levels start to deviate from the normal range, and the body always feels heavy and tired, but sleep is difficult.
So, I stock up on nutritional supplements that are said to be good and take them consistently.
Sometimes I believe TV programs and try taking different supplements.
But the problem is that it only makes you feel better for a little while and doesn't really make you feel better.
What could be the reason? Was it because the supplements weren't effective? Or because I wasn't exercising? Or because I wasn't getting enough sleep? Or because work or my children were giving me headaches? The answer is "all of them."
And there's more.
The fact is that we don't know our bodies very well.
Because we do not properly understand the functions of our body, we do not know what we need, and we do not pay attention to the rescue calls our body sends us, which leads to illness.

---From "We don't know our bodies well, that's why they hurt"

Why does microinflammation occur? When our body's cells are injured or damaged, they need to clear away dead cells.
This process is a small inflammatory reaction that inevitably occurs.
Therefore, the more frequently cells are damaged, the more likely microinflammation occurs.
(…) Vascular diseases are also ultimately related to microinflammation.
It is known that high levels of bad cholesterol are associated with increased risk of vascular disease.
However, cholesterol itself does not block blood vessels.
Pure cholesterol circulates through the blood vessels and is used as a raw material for various hormones.
The problem starts when free radicals oxidize cholesterol.
(That free radical again!) Oxidized cholesterol gets deposited under the blood vessel walls, and that's where micro-inflammatory reactions begin.
This inflammatory response does not cause pain, swelling, or fever like the typical inflammation we know.
Inflammation begins to develop beneath the blood vessel wall without any symptoms, eventually causing small tears in the blood vessel wall.
To heal the wound, platelets stick to the blood vessel walls and form a blood clot, which ultimately causes 'atherosclerosis', which hardens the blood vessels.

---From "The Microscopic World That Affects Health: Cells and Microinflammation"

Symptoms that usually appear when you have adrenal fatigue are as follows:
It's very difficult to wake up in the morning.
Of course, waking up in the morning is difficult for anyone, especially if you tend to sleep in a lot.
However, even people who simply sleep in the morning will feel alert and physically awake within about 30 minutes to an hour once they get up and move around.
However, in the case of adrenal fatigue, you feel like you are not awake and your body feels heavy.
This is because, 30 minutes after waking up in the morning, the adrenal glands, which should normally secrete cortisol, have weakened their function.
Also, if you have adrenal fatigue, your body always feels heavy.


If you delay your meal even a little, you will experience severe hunger and hypoglycemia.
When you sit down and stand up, your blood pressure suddenly drops, causing you to feel dizzy and have blackouts. This also worsens the symptoms of orthostatic hypotension.
As motivation for everything decreases, it is easy to become depressed, and in the case of women, premenstrual syndrome becomes more severe, they become sensitive, and they become easily angry.
Even though I sleep, I don't feel like I've slept well and I'm tired from the morning, so I have to drink morning coffee and get through the morning with the help of caffeine.
After lunch, I feel more tired and need another cup of coffee to get through the afternoon.
Then, around 6 PM when I get off work, I feel a brief surge of energy and a boost of vitality, but after dinner, I become tired again.
---From "The Body Network's Automatic System, Hormones"

In the United States, there is a campaign called 'FAST', which is an abbreviation for these symptoms, to help detect strokes quickly.
F is the first letter of face, and it checks the condition of the facial muscles when you say “Smile like this.”
A is the first letter of arms.
“Raise your arms,” he says, checking to see if your arms and legs feel weak.
S checks the pronunciation status by trying to have a conversation with the first letter of speech.
The last T stands for 'time to act,' meaning if you suspect any of these symptoms, go to the emergency room immediately.
The reason why we are even using abbreviations for this campaign is because statistics show that half of the cases where people have these symptoms do not recognize that they are early symptoms of a stroke.
These symptoms can come and go, making it more difficult to diagnose on your own.
According to statistics, two out of three people who visit the hospital for a stroke do so at the behest of someone other than themselves.
Therefore, it is very important to have people around you check for symptoms.

---From "The Brain, Our Body's Control Tower"

In relation to fasting, there is a concept called 'autophagy' that is unfamiliar but essential to know.
Autophagy is the process by which cells break down components or organelles that are no longer needed and recycle them as energy sources.
It is a combination of the Greek words 'auto' meaning 'self' and 'phagy' meaning 'predation', and means 'eating oneself'.
That is, the protein waste floating around in the cells is recycled back into an energy source.
It is thanks to autophagy that our cells can produce energy to some extent even when the supply of nutrients is cut off during fasting.


Although research on this autophagy process began a long time ago, the person who elucidated the precise autophagy process of autophagy was Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan.
This is a well-proven theory, as the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded for this topic.
Autophagy, which acts as a cellular cleaner, is constantly occurring in our bodies.
Our bodies constantly break down damaged and aged proteins and organelles to maintain health.
And a certain amount is recycled elsewhere.
In particular, it normally occurs at a very low level to maintain homeostasis in our body, but it becomes more active in stressful situations.

---From "Eating well and drinking properly, self-discipline"

If you take several nutritional supplements, there may be cases where the ingredients in the multivitamin overlap with those in the supplement, such as magnesium or vitamin B, that you take separately.
Is this okay? In fact, many people wonder about this overlapping nutritional profile.
What you probably know is the 'Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA)'.
Because we are so obsessed with the recommended intake, we often think that there is a problem if we exceed the recommended intake.
However, the opinion of the nutritionists who determined this recommended amount is that you must eat 'at least' this much to avoid deficiency.
Simply put, it is the minimum amount that does not cause deficiency.
There is a separate recommended amount for optimizing cell function.
This is the 'adequate intake amount (ODA)'.
So there is a huge difference between RDA and ODA in nutrient intake.
For example, the RDA for vitamin B1 is about 1 mg, but the ODA is about 50 to 100 mg.
Vitamin B1 is said to be safe to consume in large quantities, and is actually a dose that helps maintain proper cell function.

---From "Supporters to Prevent Disease, Nutrients"