I find it interesting to hear about a person’s “stuff” or their health conditions. Not to be condescending, but being on the front lines of Alternative Health Care, I seem to readily tune into these conversations. Recently I was on a red-eye flight from Portland, OR to Minneapolis. I was looking forward to sleeping most of the way. The lady behind me ruined this idea. She began talking to the person next to her about her condition(s). She was very specific about these and didn’t finish her narration until the pilot announced we were on final approach, 2 1/2 hours later!. I couldn’t believe that one person could have so many maladies. Non-stop hours of it…
I began to think about it and of course realized that we’re oriented towards a sick care system in his country rather than a true Health Care System. And the manual that lists the diseases that can afflict the human body is now over 14,000 diseases long.
Included in this doctor’s bible are conditions such as “childbirth”, now classified as an abnormal condition of the human body and classics such as “failed back surgery”.
It seems that having a classified disease or disorder is a chic thing to have, especially if you have been anointed with several ongoing conditions simultaneously.
The nature of these illnesses has changed since I was a youngster. Used to be that most people had what I call “horizontal diseases”: A person was stricken with a myriad of symptoms that knocked them off of their feet and put them flat on their back in bed or more commonly, in a hospital (therefore “horizontal diseases” , ie, lying in a hospital bed, sometimes for weeks). As a matter of fact, when I was growing up, they couldn’t build hospitals fast enough.
Now the complexion of diseases/disorders has changed. We’re now experiencing “something” daily; we’re all walking around with it. Thus the name “vertical diseases”, you’re upright, mobile and still feeling crummy.
Conditions such as
• Fibromyalgia • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome • PMS • Acid Reflux • Numerous Stress Syndromes • And more
...are now prevalent and are filling up doctor’s waiting rooms across the country.
As a matter of fact, the most common complaint any patient has for their doctor is
“Doctor, I don’t feel well, I don’t feel myself. I am tired all of the time and yet I don’t sleep well…”
Modern medicine gets high marks when it comes to repairing the body from accidents, hip replacements and even sometimes treating an infection.
But they get a “D-minus” when it comes to treating these vertical diseases.
You simply can’t drug any of these problems away.
Why?
First off, many of these conditions do not display abnormal medical tests or x-rays. In fact there are NO tests available that would even diagnose conditions such as fibromyalgia, chronic tiredness or so- called “chemical imbalances”.
(Yet the diagnosis’ continue to be churned out and the prescription drug treatments are at all-time highs).
MD’s look for pathology, which are abnormal changes detectible in the human body. These usually show up on tests or scans of the body.
Alternative Health doctors such as myself, look for changes in function, which eventually leads to pathology or disease. These functional changes can be minute in nature and no blood test in the world would detect them.
An example would be acid reflux. Over 20 million of you experience this on a daily basis.
Most MD’s have the viewpoint that you’re secreting too much stomach acid so the solution is to “shut it down”. Therefore, we’re given the “purple pill”, the “pink stuff” and the antacids that are too numerous to list.
In all of my career, which spans nearly 30 years, I’ve never seen any test that indicates you’re deficient in the “purple pill” and the like.
In fact, acid reflux is NOT DUE TO A LACK OF ANTACIDS IN YOUR BODY OR ACID-PUMP INHIBITORS. Big Pharma, who spend billions of dollars per MONTH advertising this on the 6 o'clock news, with cute cartoonish ads, would like you to believe that this is the cause/effect.
Most antacids indicate, right on their labels (if you indeed have 2x vision to read the small print), that they should not be used for more than 2 weeks straight. But most people I know eat these drugs more than they drink water…
As a matter of fact, for many of these acid-blockers, the FDA has approved their usage for a maximum of 12 weeks. I know people who have been on them for 12 years or more!
So, in this instance of acid reflux, what is the real “cause”?
Well, it could be that your body is not producing enough digestive enzymes to break the foods down and it is calling up the “reserves” (your stomach acid) to help the digestive process.
For every 10 years of life after you’re 20 years of age, for every decade, you lose up to 13% of your enzyme production capacity in your body. This is why when you’re let’s say 40 or over, you can’t eat the same foods (and get away with it) as when you’re 20.
Get the point?
So the solution is not swallow daily, apparently benign drugs that are actually so powerful they could really mess you up for good, but to simply add some digestive enzymes to your eating routine.
Simple?
Yes.
Effective?
You betch-ya as we say in Minn-e-so-ta!
The bottom line is that most health conditions are due to a lack of something intended on being in the body or having too much of something that shouldn’t be there in the first place.
And you don’t need a degree in medicine for the solutions to make sense to you. When you get the real data, you should be able to think with it.
So trust your knowingness and continue to visit my site frequently, so you yourself can have the information needed to make smart health decisions.