Are You a Landscaper or a Gardener?

By now you’re wondering what this has to do with health? Listening to people say that flowers and gardens aren’t worth the time, effort and cost sounds very much like the person who says they don’t want to take vitamins every day, don’t have the time to take a walk, can’t be bothered cooking for themselves. They avoid the necessity of tending to their health in favor of a maintenance-free lifestyle. Our health is now determined by how we choose to spend our time and our effort – tending our gardens or simply mowing the lawn.

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A Comparison of Your Medical Choices

Just about everything in our lives has limits and health care is no exception. So it’s important to match your views and beliefs about your health with your health care choices. The sad thing is that many people do not realize or believe that they have health choices. To help you with your choices, let me lay out the good, the bad and the ugly about health care options.

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The Why of Chronic Disease

There are more and more diseases that are simply "managed" but not resolved.  Everyone has someone in their family that is suffering with symptoms that may come and go, but never truly go away.  This is the bread and butter of pharmaceutical companies. Much of the research that is done, which is funded by pharmaceutical companies either directly or indirectly, is focused towards medications.  This doesn't truly help us understand the why of disease.

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The Saturation Point

I want to bring up the saturation point, a place that we never seem to reach when we are young, but somehow as the years go on, we wake up one day and find ourselves dreading watering the plants because it's just one thing too many to think about. Hopefully you have a friend, partner, family member, young cousin who could help, but when the saturation point exists within our own body, we can't just hand our symptoms off to a friend or family member. Our organs, glands, tissues and fluids have a limit in how much they can manage, how many of their functions they can accomplish and how much they can tolerate.

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How Galling the Gallbladder Can Be

More and more I'm seeing people walk into my office and sit down to tell me about the bloating, gas, constipation, fatigue, headaches and stomachaches they're experiencing. My first question is always the same ... "Do you experience any pain on the right side under your ribs?", to which so many people have the same response ... "Why yes, how did you know?" I know because what they're describing are symptoms of gallbladder distress.

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