Traditional or Alternative Healthcare...Basic Beliefs

Basic Beliefs:

Traditional Healthcare

The AMA teaches medical doctors that the body is part of an evolutionary process. Therefore, some organs are simply left overs from evolution. As a result, these left over organs can be removed without significant loss.

Traditional healthcare proceeds as if the food we eat, toxins we ingest, poisons we use on lawns and in homes have no effect on our health. This is not in line with Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine saying, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” Unfortunately, the air you breathe and the amount of water you drink are also not considered relevant to health issues. Natural food is considered a fad. Even the best food supplements are considered unnecessary and possibly harmful. Patients are often told they do not need vitamins or minerals other than what is in their food even when they eat most of their meals at fast food restaurants.

Alternative or Natural Healthcare

Alternative and Natural healthcare teaches that the proper functions of the body should be respected. All of the organs are necessary and serve a valuable purpose. The organs are all interrelated and needed for whole-body health.

Natural healthcare considers what we eat and assimilate to be crucial to our health. This is in line with Hippocrates saying, “Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.” Man made, highly processed, and chemical foods do not meet the needs of the body and can be toxic. Daily supplements are especially necessary when fast food restaurants are providing most of your meals.

Focus:

Traditional Healthcare

Offers crisis management of symptoms as disease develops. Treatments consist of chemical drugs, poisonous radiation, and surgery. As disease states progress, concern for long and short term side-effects decreases. Traditional methods are not oriented toward prevention or causes. A significant part of the focus is on profit for the hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. In countries like Iceland, Australia, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, Japan and Ireland where universal healthcare makes healthcare free or very close to it for all of its citizens, profit is not a part of the focus. One can only wonder if that is part of why these countries have significantly higher Lancet Healthcare Access and Quality Indexes.

Alternative or Natural Healthcare

Prevention is the main form of disease defense. Finding the causes of the ailments, and removing them by detoxification, proper nutritional balance and allowing the body’s energy to flow correctly is the primary focus of treatments. Natural foods, herbs and supplements are used for healing. There are no toxic side effects.

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