Re: Re: Re: Future of Medicine

Posted by Hannah on 10/09/04 at 04:42 PM

How many people do you know that take care of themselves on a basic level? Most people ignore their daily headaches, constipation, muscle pain, and just take the drugs their docs give them. Many of them are heading towards atherosclerosis, diabetes, and cancer. Just give it another 10-20 years and most people will develop one of the above. Not only lifestyle comes into play here; those are the things you can control (which most people refuse to do on their own.) What about your genetics and miasms? Miasms are the tendencies towards HOW your symptoms will develop, i.e slowly or virulently. Then there is the environmental factor, which is moderately controllable. Like it or not, we are living in a more polluted world all the time, and that affects us physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Naturopathic physicians are trained to address you as a whole being, not as a disease. Would you weld your own car after having been in a high-speed accident? Would you rebuild your house from the ground up if a tornado took it down? I spent 6 years becoming an ND and haven\'t stopped studying since I graduated. There is always more to learn. I love my work and find it incredibly rewarding. I find in general that if people feel negative about life and themselves they will put down just about anything. That\'s because their luetic miasm needs treatment. Wake up and smell the coffee people, do you know how many people die yearly from mistakes made by MDs with prescription medication? Hundreds of thousands. How many people die a year from (usually self-prescribed) use of herbs? A few. If you need surgery, go see a surgeon. If you have let yourself get so sick and defeated emotionally that you wouldn\'t be alive without drugs, don\'t stop taking them. But I can help people recover from surgery, and I can treat depression, and I can help patients reduce their need for medication. I can\'t think of anything else I\'d rather do in life.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Future of Medicine	Jennifer	0	10/19/04 09:09 AM