When I was 19, I wouldn’t have defined it as medicine, but I learned early on that food can make you sick and food can heal. One definition of medicine is “a compound or preparation used for the treatment or prevention of disease.” If you search “Food As Medicine,” there are a multitude of conversations about ways you can use food to prevent and treat disease. In addition, there are criticisms of this concept – that food really is in no way medicine and that we need pharmaceu