subject: There Is Help With Health - And You Can Take It Back! [print this page] Established Medicine and the Health Care System we have today is mainly concerned with symptoms. We get a cold or a headache we rush to the doctor and then take the prescribed pills. It seems so odd, at least to me, that so little attention is placed upon the true, deep-down cause for diseases. Man's diseases are, basically, handled in three ways:
1. Allopathic medicine: the usual method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself.
2. Holistic medicine: used to treat the whole person.
3. Orthomolecular medicine: An alternative, but very basic, system of medicine which prevents and promotes the body's curing of disease by using vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids, trace minerals, electrolytes, and other natural substances which the body needs to repair itself.
As to the first one: this describes the bast majority of what we see advertised on the main networks on TV. These are often contained in the "Ask your Doctor" type commercials which are so prevalent. This type of medicine is mainly masks the symptoms disease. Generally the diseases are "named" and "cClassified" and then a treatment is offered to handle the manifestations. (If you are interested you can download an excellent article, "the Disease Naming Game" - see below)
For a growing number, including my husband and I, we have no doubt that the most fundamental and effective means to handle our health is by holistic and orthomolecular methods.
My husband and I make some lifesyle changes which we have concluded are necessary to reduce the doctor's visits. Thought not totally easy, in every way, anyone can make these changes without much effort. By our applying these changes we have improved out health substantially:
1. For starters, we began eating mostly organic foods. Previously we did most of our shopping at the large discount places - buying the cheaper meats. Both of us, especially Ken, began to show signs of swelling, sometimes called edema. In our research we found that this was a result of the growth hormones which we were ingesting in our meats. Further, we found that the best source of protein is eating good healthy meat - and that these proteins are essential to health. That meat, we found, needed to be naturally grown - grass-fed and hormone-free. By making this change both of us leaned out, lost our edema and noticed big changes in the way we felt. One of the things I had to do was to find sources for our food. Again, Publix, I found, had a great variety of organic vegetables. This allowed us to ingest foods that were free of Hormones, pesticides and additives. We found a local farm that produces and sells grass fed beef and free range chickens. The Publix meat at the time we wrote this article is not grass fed. But it is better than the standard variety. There are other resources which you can find with a bit of research.
2. We began switching to cleaner and more organic shampoos, toothpaste, dish soap, laundry and body soaps. We did this because, in our research, we realized that our skin is the largest organ on the body and that anything we put ON or body is almost as much an effect upon us as what we put IN our bodies.
3. After seeking and trying many vitamins and other nutrients to make up for the lackings in everyday food we found (actually stumbled upon almost by accident) a group of researchers which had researched and created their own formulas (based on Nobel Prize winning scientific (and undisputed) research). This group has a story which is beyond belief and is unique to any that I have ever seen. When I read of the success of these folks and began my own research, I was sold that this was a way to really take responsibility for our own health. These folks had given up on standardized medicine - and for good reason. Their diseases had been named and they had been placed on medicine and surgery protocols that made them sicker. Eventually, they found one another and banded together to find solutions to their various health issues - and began to learn of the commonality of cause. My husband and I joined this group in 2007 and have considered it a life changing move. There is much more data regarding this group which you can find on our website.
We take our vitamins and supplements in powered form - mixed in water. his is the absolutely best way to fully absorb any supplementary ingredients. We began this in 2007 and have never found ANYTHING to compare.
Nobel Laureate winners such as Dr. Linus Pauling, Otto Warburg, Dr. Keith Brewer and others (including Louis Ignarro who found the direct link to high blood pressure and lack of N.O.) won their distinctive prices because what they found could not be disputed. It was, and still is today, true. The fact that it is undisputed mean much to us. You will not find AMA journals disputing it. The basis of their research is sound. Their research was, actually, the foundation of "Orthomolecular" medicine which is the study of health through nutrition at the cellular level. These protocols (and formulas) give the body what it needs to heal itself. We realized that becoming educated in this (not doing the research ourselves but learning from others who did) was the only way to take control over our own health.
After the 3 years taking these formulas (inexpensive and simple) we are leaner than ever, Ken's blood pressure has fallen well into normal ranges and we see evidence every day of how wonderful we feel. Actually, it almost becomes common place and we forget about it. No pains, no joint pains, non of the aging issues which creep into everyone's lives as their bodies loose the basic ingredients to health.
