Solutions to Health and Healthcare (published in Health & Wellness Magazine - June 2009)
As we necessarily revamp healthcare, remembering fundamental truths is essential. Heart disease is not an inexorable progression leading to heart attack, stroke, or multi-infarct dementia – it is, primarily, poor nutrition. Cancer is not a monster that inevitably leads to a tortuous death if not caught at the earliest stages – it can be a blessed signal to correct a life out of balance. Alzheimer’s dementia is not an inevitable part of the aging process – it is largely preventable.
The reality is simple enough – heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s are almost exclusively scourges of recent centuries, not primarily because we are living longer, but because we have adopted nutrition and lifestyles that clash with our evolved biology.
Heart disease is reversible. A patient, who experienced angina after each meal, eliminated it in a matter of weeks – primarily with a specific nutritional program. Another coronary patient who struggled with cholesterol in the 300s, unable to tolerate statin cholesterol medicine, after six months on this program is now 33 pounds lighter, cholesterol is 142, and he walks up to 14 miles. Another, who had experienced many heart attacks, came to our office after her last one. I told her she had a choice – she could choose to have coronary heart disease or choose not to. She is choosing not to; in six weeks, she is down 19 pounds and is feeling the best in years. In time, her arteries can return to normal.
Cancer usually means life has been unbalanced. If you understand this and change, not only could you survive the cancer – you could live a fuller, more energetic, and perhaps longer life than otherwise. It is learning about nutrition – returning to our plant-based roots. It is reconnecting with nature – flowers, creatures, and the musical vibrations that make us click. It is living a life fully focused on achieving your vision for a better world, nurturing a garden, connecting with and cultivating friends and supportive family. It is journaling, sharing with groups, and getting sweaty exercise. It’s avoiding chemicals, drinking clean water, maintaining an attractive house, and loving. It is learning what organs are out of balance, what nutrients are deficient or in excess, which ones support relaxation, immunity, and vitality. It is about extensive, regular blood monitoring and thorough new tissue analysis when needed to respond to tumor evolution.
Alzheimer’s prevention is about understanding nutrition, lifestyle, genetics, hormones, blood, and optimizing levels of vital nutrients. While perhaps not preventable in every case, it should be preventable or delayed most of the time. We have often reversed early cognitive issues.
Our healthcare crisis will not be solved by financing more procedures, more medicine, and a vast array of specialists. It will be solved by national policies and primary care that teach and emphasize nutrition, a balanced life, and spirituality, complemented by safe life-replenishing interventions, and through single-payer care for all.
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