Posts Tagged ‘Alternative medicine’

Complimentary Medicine

Complimentary methods of healing work. The emphasis must be on combining the best of both worlds to make health care relevant. I have been known to complain about the status quo of our healthcare system and lifestyle.

There are plenty of websites that do that very well. Included are Mike Adams of Natural News fame, Dr. Byron Richards, Dr. Mercola, and a number of others. They are also solution oriented. The public already knows there are problems with modern medicine. Some know that our food supply is dangerous. 

I also am very solution oriented, from all the years in the world of both alternative and complementary medicine. The difference is that we will be working with the health care providers that are open to new ideas. I have seen some of the miraculous healing that come about from both alternative and complimentary medicine.

People have gotten their lives back thanks to these methods. Now.I will be bringing you the best in alternative and complementary healing. These will be ones that will help solve some of the problems that our society is facing due to our lifestyle which includes our food choices, and pharmaceutical dependency.

My greatest hope is that we proceed to incorporate some of the best modalities into our medical practices. At the end of the day we will not be able to defeat allopathic medicine Perhaps that shouldn’t be the goal. Getting them on the right road may be something that is in the future. Incorporating some new modalities with a different prospective is what is needed.

We offer the medical professionals out there a way to expand their practice, and serve their patients better.

Cancer’s Growth Depends on its Neighborhood

“Think of it as this kid in a bad neighborhood,” said Dr. Susan Love, a breast cancer surgeon and president of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation “You can take the kid out of the neighborhood and put him in a different environment and he will behave totally differently.”

“It’s exciting,” Dr. Love added. “What it means, if all this environmental stuff is right, is that we should be able to reverse cancer without having to kill cells. This could open up a whole new way of thinking about cancer that would be much less assaultive.”

Alternative Notions

This is what the alternative community has said time and again about this condition. The internal terrain is the neighborhood. Change the terrain and you change the outcome. By the time mainstream medicine catches up many lives will be lost on top of the ones already lost.

According to alternative medicine cancer is reversible, and according to those that used holistic methods it is reversible. They themselves have done it and now are broadcasting the news.

Methods

From using a plant based diets and juicing to using some cutting edge natural products that are being manufactured as supplements. These are not the days where the testimonials were suspect. The people who healed themselves have become spokespersons, authors and speakers. They have the diagnosis and scans to back up their claims. They will all tell you Cancer’s growth depends on its neighborhood.

Even thought the methods may vary they all point to a change of lifestyle. The rational is if the lifestyle brought about the condition, then to do what you always done and expect different results is not too bright.

All these methods take time, work, and support. The individuals that embarked on this path realized that their lives were in their hands. They trusted their instincts, and did their homework.

Outcome

The people that were able to forge ahead with this are now on the lecture circuit, to encourage others. The fear factor is what blinds people to the possibilities. Most websites have a disclaimer that states to talk to your healthcare provider. There seems to be a general consensus that there is danger in not seeking their counsel. That may be true, but the reverse is also true. There is danger in seeking their counsel; they have knowledge that is limited.

Blindly they recommend the same old treatments even if they have a dismal record. Your job is to do as much research as you can and then draw your own conclusions.

The outcome depends on you to a large extent. A good patient doesn’t always get a good outcome. There is always a choice to use either one or combine both; the decision is crucial. Only you can change the neighborhood.

While western medicine plays catch-up you can lose your battle with life threatening illnesses. Slash your chance of becoming a statistic. 

The Achilles’ Heel of Health Care

Big Pharma’s stranglehold may be a simplistic answer to a complex problem. It is a good starting point. Flushing out the reasons that standard care does little to alleviate and combat disease is a multi-pronged task. Western medicine adheres to a prescription mentality, without addressing the underlying causes. The biggest problem is one of arrogance. I call it the closed minded approach.

Troubleshooting

“Troubleshooting is the process of isolating the specific cause or causes of the symptom.” “The problem is initially described as symptoms of malfunction, and troubleshooting is the process of determining the cause of these symptoms.” This is from Wikipedia.

In medicine they do search for the condition, but forget to determine the cause. Yes, you heard me. When you tell someone they have diabetes, cancer, heart disease, the real cause is not known to the average medical professional. The more they isolate a condition without looking at the whole person the bigger the danger. This is a myopic approach.

Yet, it is abundantly clear that it can be in large part attributed to lifestyle. Everything that affects one system will have consequences through out the body. Nothing in our physical makeup is isolated. All systems are activated by their interplay with each other.

Why You Should Not Be Satisfied with Standard Care

The standard American diet leads to abnormalities, which usually leads to arterial dysfunction and occlusion. This way of eating is also implicated in a whole host of conditions. The way Medicine is practiced does not seem to be working for a vast majority of people.

Medical intervention using standard drugs is a beguiling approach that seems simple, though costly. The residual risks to this approach are enormous. Connecting the treatments to conditions that develop days, weeks, and years later is supported by powerful research. Most diseases are initiated by inflammation, nutritional deficiency, environmental factors, and stress. These occur in combination, and combined have a unique ability to stress the system.

The Better Approach

Alternative healers have for years offered some good approaches. There is a new revolution way of thinking. Thanks to the Internet all this information can be shared. There have been powerful advances in the understanding of natural prevention and treatment. Naturally occurring chemical agents are showing promise. Vegetable extracts have been shown to be powerful in both preventing and arresting disease.

There is persuasive evidence from large population based studies, that vegetables dramatically reduce risks, and combats disease. We know that insulin, and abdominal fat is correlated to our lifestyle. What is not as widely known is diabetics have a higher cancer rate. Every condition is multi-faceted, and that is why a single targeted treatment for a condition will not help the body become well.

Fighting Back

We are lead to believe that the problem developed primarily from risk factors such as either unfavorable genes, or abnormalities that exist in our bodies.

The American Association for Cancer Research has highlighted the following papers for the news media. I am listing just a few, but I hope everyone gets the idea, these studies don’t touch the surface of what nutrition can do for you.

– Hops Compound May Prevent Prostate Cancer

– Antioxidant Compound Reduced Incidence of Colorectal Metachronous Adenomas

– Exercise Reduces Death Rate in Prostate Cancer Patients

– Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

– Coffee Consumption Associated with Reduced Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

– Pistachios May Reduce Lung Cancer Risk

The fact is they are missing the boat, most of the important research by integrative and so called alternative healers has show there are thousands of compounds that work synergistic to preserve our health.

In the entire field of medicine evidence-based dietary solutions are both unknown and ignored. Optimal health is dose related and determined on a day to day basis. It is desirable to consume nutrient dense food that will significantly impact your health for the better