You have a symptom, we have a drug to turn it off! That’s the basis of the bulk of today’s drug culture. It used to be the drug pushers on the playground that we worried about, but what’s been growing is the unchecked dispensing of unfriendly chemicals into our systems in an attempt to turn off the cries for help that our bodies are sending out.
What’s a symptom? It’s a biological, biochemical response of the body, informing us that something isn’t right. You could compare it to the red light on your dash telling you that if you don’t do something to correct an imbalance, you’ll have a greater problem to deal with.
The utilization of a drug to mask what’s really wrong is what I call the American Death Ritual. By not addressing the true emergency, we’re actually allowing the damage to continue and become far worse.
Drug companies have sales people or detailers who go to doctors offices to teach doctors what drugs should be used for what conditions. Unfortunately, in most medical universities, medical students don’t get educated in the normal healthy function of the body. Instead, the focus is on disease. This is why going to a traditional doctor when you’re healthy will really stump most of them. They’re focused on what kind of drug to give for the condition the patient is suffering.
I’ve yet to see what could be considered a drug deficiency disease. Elevated cholesterol isn’t a statin deficiency. Acid indigestion isn’t a deficiency of proton pump inhibitors, and high blood pressure isn’t due to a deficiency of ACE inhibitor drugs.
I’ve seen patients with increasing hemoglobin A1C levels where their doctor didn’t give helpful information on how to improve blood sugar, but only told them that when the numbers get high enough they would implement insulin. This is a good example of not understanding what constitutes health, only how to put a drug bandaid on the ailing patient.
Drugging symptoms is the easy way out, and can give the patient a false sense of having the condition cured. Unfortunately, what’s ignored continues to be working against the person. There’s a reason drug companies divulge the potential side effects of their drugs. The FDA has required them to tell you what the potential side effects are. Many are caused by overloading the body’s ability to clear these drugs. Others are caused by interference in other biological pathways. Many are due to the continued activity of the underlying condition which never got addressed in the first place.
The most common causes of disease range from deficiency of essential nutrients required for proper function, to the consumption of elements hostile to the body. This can even include the consumption of too much of a good thing. When we examine many nutritional supplements, the elevated potency of these essential nutrients is due to synthetics. This often leaves out critical co-factors, and offsets the benefits desired.
Foods, grown in good soil, free of pesticides and herbicides, harvested in a timely manner, and consumed with all nutrients intact have the greatest potential of fulfilling the nutritional requirements of cellular function without overloading the system. The difference between a needed food and a drug is that foods restore, energize, and engage metabolism. Drugs inhibit cellular function. More properly put, a drug turns off the signaling of our body that something is wrong.
I have a smoke detector in my camper which is so sensitive that it goes off when I’m cooking breakfast. I have a choice of either removing the smoke detector or not making breakfast. If I knew how to reduce the sensitivity of the smoke detector, I’d not have to mess with it. Our system can become over sensitive if nutrition is withheld. Taking a drug is removing the smoke detector.
Our bodies are brilliant and can re-calibrate those sensitivities when the proper nutrition is in place. The drug never fixes the problem, and when the drug is stopped, the problem remains. It’s not uncommon to hear the patient relate that their physician has told them they would require blood pressure medication for the rest of their lives. Obviously, the cause has been totally ignored.
I’ve made it a habit of looking at patients from the standpoint of needing to know the source of their symptoms instead of just what turns them off. Just like a traffic light, your symptoms are there to protect you from serious injury. Ignore them and you’ll continue to experience further health challenges. Identify the cause, fill the need, and you can experience a far more abundant life. To quote Dr Royal Lee, “ One of the biggest tragedies of civilization is the precedence of chemical therapy over nutrition. It’s a substitution of artificial therapy over nature, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poisons trying to correct the reactions of starvation.”
What’s a symptom? It’s a biological, biochemical response of the body, informing us that something isn’t right. You could compare it to the red light on your dash telling you that if you don’t do something to correct an imbalance, you’ll have a greater problem to deal with.
The utilization of a drug to mask what’s really wrong is what I call the American Death Ritual. By not addressing the true emergency, we’re actually allowing the damage to continue and become far worse.
Drug companies have sales people or detailers who go to doctors offices to teach doctors what drugs should be used for what conditions. Unfortunately, in most medical universities, medical students don’t get educated in the normal healthy function of the body. Instead, the focus is on disease. This is why going to a traditional doctor when you’re healthy will really stump most of them. They’re focused on what kind of drug to give for the condition the patient is suffering.
I’ve yet to see what could be considered a drug deficiency disease. Elevated cholesterol isn’t a statin deficiency. Acid indigestion isn’t a deficiency of proton pump inhibitors, and high blood pressure isn’t due to a deficiency of ACE inhibitor drugs.
I’ve seen patients with increasing hemoglobin A1C levels where their doctor didn’t give helpful information on how to improve blood sugar, but only told them that when the numbers get high enough they would implement insulin. This is a good example of not understanding what constitutes health, only how to put a drug bandaid on the ailing patient.
Drugging symptoms is the easy way out, and can give the patient a false sense of having the condition cured. Unfortunately, what’s ignored continues to be working against the person. There’s a reason drug companies divulge the potential side effects of their drugs. The FDA has required them to tell you what the potential side effects are. Many are caused by overloading the body’s ability to clear these drugs. Others are caused by interference in other biological pathways. Many are due to the continued activity of the underlying condition which never got addressed in the first place.
The most common causes of disease range from deficiency of essential nutrients required for proper function, to the consumption of elements hostile to the body. This can even include the consumption of too much of a good thing. When we examine many nutritional supplements, the elevated potency of these essential nutrients is due to synthetics. This often leaves out critical co-factors, and offsets the benefits desired.
Foods, grown in good soil, free of pesticides and herbicides, harvested in a timely manner, and consumed with all nutrients intact have the greatest potential of fulfilling the nutritional requirements of cellular function without overloading the system. The difference between a needed food and a drug is that foods restore, energize, and engage metabolism. Drugs inhibit cellular function. More properly put, a drug turns off the signaling of our body that something is wrong.
I have a smoke detector in my camper which is so sensitive that it goes off when I’m cooking breakfast. I have a choice of either removing the smoke detector or not making breakfast. If I knew how to reduce the sensitivity of the smoke detector, I’d not have to mess with it. Our system can become over sensitive if nutrition is withheld. Taking a drug is removing the smoke detector.
Our bodies are brilliant and can re-calibrate those sensitivities when the proper nutrition is in place. The drug never fixes the problem, and when the drug is stopped, the problem remains. It’s not uncommon to hear the patient relate that their physician has told them they would require blood pressure medication for the rest of their lives. Obviously, the cause has been totally ignored.
I’ve made it a habit of looking at patients from the standpoint of needing to know the source of their symptoms instead of just what turns them off. Just like a traffic light, your symptoms are there to protect you from serious injury. Ignore them and you’ll continue to experience further health challenges. Identify the cause, fill the need, and you can experience a far more abundant life. To quote Dr Royal Lee, “ One of the biggest tragedies of civilization is the precedence of chemical therapy over nutrition. It’s a substitution of artificial therapy over nature, of poisons over food, in which we are feeding people poisons trying to correct the reactions of starvation.”
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