The Worrying Future of Our Health Care: Part 1
Conventional medicine is often miraculous and life-saving, but we have all had terrible experiences including misdiagnoses, long wait times for care and often debilitating prescription side effects. But as long as we have the miracles, we will still turn to conventional medicine. But how much longer can our health care system continue to provide those miracles when it cannot even provide adequate regular care?
Read my three part series published in the summer of 2024 for a researched discussion of the challenges facing all of us with our health care.
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Enter the Next Zoonotic Virus: Nipah
The Nipah virus is the next zoonotic virus to emerge on the scene even though it has actually been around for more than 20 years in Singapore, Malaysia and India. But it’s time for us to start paying attention.
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What Does it Mean to Be Human?
Each day our health care system demonstrates that it views us as a machine. Emotions, thought processes, memory, even our very soul may make us a miracle, but we are still defined in mechanistic terms which simply reinforces and justifies more automation.
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Distraction is the Enemy of Health
It is in moments of solitude and silence that we receive knowledge about our lives, ideas about our future, realizations for our decision making and information about our health. So why do we ignore this most basic need?
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The Calcium Conundrum
Every woman that walks into the clinic has been told the same thing by their physician ... take more calcium. Particularly post-menopausal women have been programmed to think that calcium is the key to their bone health. In fact, that is far from the truth, so let’s talk about why osteopenia, osteoporosis and arthritis for that matter, seem to be in every woman’s health future. So when we talk about the bones needing lots of calcium, what exactly do the bones do with all that calcium? The answer is .... nothing.
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Choosing Our Time to Go
How different would our lives be if we chose to take time, long before we reach the end of our days?
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Are You Sick or Are You Simply Clearing?
Every day at our clinic, people walk in thinking they are sick when in reality their body is simply doing some housekeeping. How do you know the difference?
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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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Can You Extreme Coupon Your Way to Health?
The important point I would like to make about coupons is that they may save you money, they may even get you items for free, but they encourage our society to consume food and products that are not just unhealthy, they promote illness, disease and degeneration.
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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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