We can then move toward Maximum Health – the very best health we can achieve given present health challenges. Dr. Michael Borger is a well-known Family Practice Physician, Medical Educator, and Thought Leader in medical theory and practice. During 42 years in Family Practice patient care, Dr. Borger taught scores of medical students – who took this knowledge into their medical careers. Board Certified in Family Practice Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment, he rendered care in Family Practice and Emergency Room. He helped thousands of patients overcome injuries and manage disease. What did he learn through all that experience? Dr. Michael Borger teaches that SELF-REFERRAL is how the body compares current body conditions with the ideal and makes changes to create health. SELF-REFERRAL maintains ideal body conditions in a dynamic changing environment. If this is true, then why doesn’t the body just stay healthy? The Stress of life is the driving force causing disruption of the body’s SELF-REFERRAL, as initially described by research scientist Hans Selye - and verified by decades of medical research. That is why Stress is clearly the enemy of SELF-REFERRAL - and is likely to be the cause of most - if not all - disease. Dr. Michael Borger engaged in a forty-two-year search to understand why the demands of modern life are causing a mass breakdown in human health. He calls this problem the Adaptation Crisis because it is clearly caused by the high-tech, culture-that-never-sleeps environment we now live in. All this impacts our health, and we must find ways to better cope with it. Modern Medicine moves patients away from disease and toward health. But Self-Referral/Maximum Health offers a whole new toolkit. We can easily improve medical care through regular use of meditation to counteract Stress, advanced lifestyle intervention with Ayurveda, and use of Self-Referral Manual Therapy to treat painful musculoskeletal conditions. Dr. Michael Borger’s ideas come into focus as he publishes Self-Referral/Maximum Health. This paradigm-changing book places Self-Referral – the body’s ability to govern itself – at the center of both health and disease. Maximum Health is the best health anyone can attain while meeting existing health challenges – and he shows you exactly how to move toward Maximum Health.