I see hundreds of patients every week. I’ve been in private practice for over 26 years. In all this time, and having seen all these patients, I have heard of just about every ailment, condition, disease, and health concern known. Every single day, patients come into my office and tell me about a new condition they were told they have or a disease their family member was diagnosed with.
When your health is affected, it doesn’t matter what the disease is called or what your doctors have named your condition. Whatever it is that you have is affecting your health, thus affecting your daily living, thus affecting your quality of life. People like to think of disease in terms of severity, but the truth is, whatever health condition you are struggling with, it is the most important condition… because it is affecting you.
Medical doctors love to give a name to what ails you. They ask questions about your symptoms, runs tests to gather information, and do procedures to collect data. The goal… to give a diagnosis. Diagnosis is defined as “the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.” Once identified and given a name, the doctor will then follow what’s called “standard of care,” which is the treatment guideline that is accepted as appropriate and responsible by the medical community as a whole.
Essentially, doctors run tests to be able to give whatever ails you a name. They then do whatever is medically accepted as appropriate in terms of the next step. This may be to run more lab tests (i.e. additional bloodwork, stool sample), order a procedure (i.e. a biopsy, an ultrasound), or, most commonly, prescribe a drug.
It would be irresponsible for me to suggest that you never see a medical doctor, avoid all medical testing, or that medical diagnosis and treatment are worthless. It is often appropriate, helpful, and even life-saving. But a majority of the doctoring being done these days ends with patients being given a name for what ails them and a pill to take.
Three big problems with this all-too-common scenario. First, very seldom is any attention given to the cause of the problem. Second, the pills usually prescribed do not correct the condition, but merely manage the symptoms (and almost always come with adverse side effects). And third, due to the heavy influence of the pharmaceutical industry making our healthcare system extremely pill-oriented, along with medical doctors being unable to stray from what has been deemed “standard of care,” safer, more natural, and often much more effective treatment or solutions are avoided.
I feel I write about this a lot, but the problem continues to get worse, not better. And if you are unaware of the shortcomings of our medical system (and there are plenty), you will continue to take more and more pills, get more and more frustrated, and will continue to get sicker and sicker.
The bottom line is that however you choose to utilize medical care, meaning rely entirely on it, avoid it completely, or end up somewhere in between, you must know that no matter what they call your condition, whatever name they give it, it all boils down to the fact that your body is not functioning properly. It is either deficient in something or toxic with something. Therefore, the only true solution is to create sufficiency where there is deficiency, and purity where there is toxicity. With over 200 types of cancer, more than 165 subsets of autoimmune disease, tens of thousands of bacteria and viruses, more than 400 neurological disorders, and over 200 types of headaches, naming your specific condition very precisely can have value and will excite your doctor, but if the end result is you simply taking a pill for the rest of your life and living with this named condition, true health can never be achieved.
Don’t fall into the trap of just diagnosis and treatment. Your goal MUST be disease and condition-free, to be optimally healthy…to be truly well.
