All Roads Lead to Wellness

There is a time and place for western medicine.

Western medicine is truly a marvel - and the western medical advances that are made every day are incredible feats of humanity. They’ve prolonged life, they’ve saved life where otherwise there was no hope, and it’s prevented the spread of horrible disease.

However, we can’t make this the first and last stop on our health journey. We need other options.

The whole concept of ‘medicine’ really should be considered from the beginning of when people started using earth-given remedies for ailments. We call this ‘holistic’ or ‘eastern’ medicine now, but for far longer than westernized medicine has been around, there have been plants and animals that humans have used the parts for, respectively, for healing sick people. This is true medicine.

Western Medicine, now, has become such a monopolized, political, capitalistic entity, and holistic approaches have been bastardized as ‘unscientific’, ‘quakery’, ‘unsafe’, and ‘non-FDA regulated’. These are just trigger words to incite fear in an individual so that the big Pharma companies can keep you coming back to rely on them for health.

If medicine is doing such a good job, then why do more and more people need to take it?

Let’s take for instance a statin. A statin drug is meant to lower cholesterol, which is a fat that is produced by the liver. We make cholesterol in our bodies as it is the structural backbone for hormones and neurotransmitters - you know, those chemical messengers that our body systems use to talk and signal to each other.

But, we’ve been told that cholesterol is the cause of heart disease and after all, heart disease is the number one killer of men and women over the age of 30 in America. 1 in 2 Americans is on a statin. This idea of cholesterol being the enemy of heart health emerged shortly after the USDA gave us recommendations about eating more carbohydrates and less animal products. That was more than 40 years ago.

Yet, Heart Disease climbs every year and remains as the #1 killer of men and women.

So, is the statin really working? Or, are we so accustomed to doing whatever we want that we take the medicine to slow the process because we just can’t wrap our heads around actually eating what the body needs instead of what it wants?

What if we just - had a doctor that could decipher our labs, test comprehensively enough to see the story the body is telling us, and start coaching us on changing our lifestyle habits while using minimal supplementation to get us to our goals?

Sounds like … natural, normal, holistic, ORIGINAL medicine.

And I like the sound of that.