I love talking about health, health care and natural treatments.
When hearing about ulterior or underlying reasons for health problems and solutions, sometimes people will say they want to run it by their doctor. I think that is good. However they often say this as a way of saying they are not interested in taking charge of their health. They want their doctor to be in charge.
This is not meant to bash doctors. I have mostly worked with some of the best in the world. Incredible men and women in numerous fields of medicine. When I grow up, it is my hope to be even a little like them.
Even so, very few doctors are experienced in complimentary alternative medicine or CAM.
So, this got me to wondering, will those folks who have to run things by their doctor make an appointment to go and actually ask their doctor. Will they sit in the office for a few hours to get the answer. Even pay the office co-pay. I think not.
Perhaps they will run it by their doctor the next time they are in to see him. Here is something else you can ask him about.
Ask him if he has any idea of how anyone can fix the out of control health care system? Is there a cure. Are physicians applying the counsel to heal thy self or the system they are a part of.
You see, catastrophic illness is out of control. Both in the elderly and the very young.
I keep hearing of…
Heart disease
Type 2 Diabetes
Cancer
Crohn’s disease…
…and others serious diseases in our teen populations.
It is no secret that the US spends more on health care than anyone else at about $6000 per person. The United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and France are close behind spending to $2,000 to $3,000 per person and it is going up.
We keep hearing that close to 50 million Americans do not have health insurance because it is just too expensive.
To be fair, one break down of the numbers deducts college students, those in prison, those covered by medicaid and those not American citizens as totaling 44 million.
The real number by some estimates is 4 to 6 million. (Hmmm, where will the trillions of dollars go?)
Ok, Mark Twain had it right when he said there are three kinds of liars. Liars, (Darn) liars, and statisticians.
Even so, it has been reported that $1500 of a new car price difference of a US car over a Japanese produced car is for health care.
Lets say your in good health, self employed and have a 10,000 dollar deductible per person per year. It can still cost close to $400 per month.
Unlike a car payment that eventually goes away, this keeps getting ever higher.
If health care is nationalized, we will pay more in taxes. We would not want the pharmaceutical stake holders going second or third homeless even losing an island or two. This though some can barely keep their first home.
There is another problem in addition to providing health care from teens to old age with diseases that used to afflict the older ones of our population. That is we are living much older. 75 is fast becoming the new 65.
One patient I assessed was 100 and seemingly in great health for her age. I can not remember but it seems she even knew who the president was as part of my assessment.
There are only two solutions. Government subsidized health care is not one of them.
One solution that will allow us to beat the system is to take control of our health. This may be a bitter pill. Eating right, exercising, eliminating junk foods and supplementing our diets with foods or nutrients to prevent disease and conditions.
There are simple steps we can take. We need not invest in 600 to 700 dollars of vitamins per month to accomplish this either. A few basic ones, different ones depending on the disease process. Mostly, trying to avoid what is bad.
Of course, boosting the glutathione is high on my list. It is not the only one though. Spices like cinnamon and herbs like garlic are also very important too (by the way, they also boost your GSH too) as they do numerous good things for life.
Fresh clean water is important. Berries and cherries when they are in season.
Even a daily mile walk or what ever you will do are all are important parts of a healthy life.