In this video, Dr. Hanan Selim, an award‑winning author and health thought leader, introduces the concept of "chronic biodestruction" – a hidden accumulation of environmental and emotional factors that undermine health yet remain undetected by standard labs and diagnostics. She critiques the conventional focus on drugs and therapies, arguing that the true root cause of chronic disease lies in these chronic biodestructors. Drawing from her own medical journey—developing precancerous cells, endometriosis, and significant weight gain—she illustrates how these hidden forces contributed to her health decline. Dr. Selim highlights specific emotional drivers such as love and belonging, security, growth, and self‑worth, linking them to physical ailments like back pain, headaches, and osteoporosis. She urges viewers to assess their own exposure to chronic biodestructors by completing a self‑check progress report survey, positioning early detection as a preventive strategy against future health crises.
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Hi, Dr. Hanan Selim here. I'm an award-winning author, international speaker, and recognized by the World Health Gurus as the most influential thought leader in health and wellness. And I want to talk to you about something that's very critical, very important to your health and well-being. It's chronic bio— disruption. And chronic biodestruction is this accumulation or compound of different things that might be in your environment that's affecting you under the radar, that you will not receive or find out on any lab work, any diagnostic tool. And those chronic biodestructors are what actually influenced in my own health. I was working on the Pharmaceuticals and Therapeutics Committee. There was always a question in the back of my mind, why are my patients who are coming in doing well on the therapies and the protocols that we give them, and yet come back with 6 months to a year to live, for example, in cancer, or coming back with gangrene, with diabetes patients needing amputation, or obese patients not being able to breathe and needing to go on a ventilator. And going on my own health journey of developing precancerous cells, endometriosis, and being 40 kg heavier than I was I realized that the issue and the problem was not the therapies or the drugs or the diet or the doctor's prescriptions. I realized that we're actually focusing on the wrong problem, and that's the root cause. The root cause is that which is the chronic biodestructors that are in your environment that compound and lead to something called chronic biodestruction that puts you on the path to chronic conditions, limiting your immune system, system and making you vulnerable to things like viruses and bacteria. So one of the things that I want to talk to you about today is something called emotional drivers, and these are one of the chronic biodestructors that can have havoc on your health and well-being. Things like love and belonging, security, growth and personal development, and so on and so forth. If I were to give you an example, one of the self-worth issues is actually having a direct effect on your skeletal system and having an effect on your backaches or your headaches and even might lead to serious conditions like osteoporosis. So I want you to find out now where you are or where you stand in having these chronic bio-disruptors and what phase you're at by taking the self-check progress report that I have available and find out where you can do and prevent these issues before you— before it happens and you're having a health catastrophe or a health crisis. So take the survey now and I'll see you on the other side. Take care.
