Family Health Choices
In the natural medicine system, disease is seen as the biological response to many possible factors, but the causes of the disease are the main issue, not the symptoms that the disease causes. Address the causes of chronic disease, and there’s no more reason for the disease to progress, or even persist. Analogously, in a line of stacked dominos that start to fall, the domino representing disease is almost the last one to fall, not the first; symptoms are at the end. Whether DNA is part of that sequence or not, the key is that chronic disease is a natural and logical response mechanism. If the last domino gets pushed and it falls, the problem is not that it has fallen, but instead why the first domino became off balance in the first place.
According to the Journal of The American Medical Association (Nov. 1996), more than 45 percent of Americans suffer from chronic conditions. The U.S. National Center for Health Statistics defines a chronic condition as one lasting three months or more. Information from medicinenet says that chronic diseases generally cannot be prevented by vaccines or cured by medication, nor do they just disappear.
If you feel responsible for keeping your family's health up to par, these statistics predict that you will be less than 55 percent effective if you rely on the current paradigm of conventional medicine. Is that acceptable for your family?
Family Health Choices: Preventing Chronic Disease
Not just genetics
Current perception in Medicine is that DNA is the source and controlling factor of our body's functions—all function being reduced down to this basic component. Enabled by technology, medical research looks microscopically at tiny pieces of our bodies—trying to gain access to what might be the elusive controlling factor of disease itself, DNA—at least in theory.
A different paradigm is found in the natural medicine system, which is largely practiced by doctors of chiropractic, acupuncturists, and other licensed practitioners. In the natural medicine system, the emphasis is on the interrelationship between the major organ systems in our body, and their integration by our nervous system: “the big picture.”
Very few chronic diseases are proven as truly genetic in nature. New research demonstrates that our genes are responsive to their environment. In other words, the environment around the genes can make the genes react. Therefore, chronic diseases that were previously thought of as “encoded in the genes” can be influenced by cellular environment. One of the cornerstones of the natural medicine system is the concept that a positive influence can be exerted over our own internal environment.
Domino effect
Conventional medicine is excellent at addressing and labeling the fallen domino (the diagnosis), but as we know, statistically, it is not very good at finding the first domino—45 percent of all Americans have chronic illness. That is where the natural medicine system can be used. It is outside of the medical paradigm, and it gives us, and our families a chance to be outside of the nation’s statistics for chronic disease. Each system has its role for your family’s health. One is not a replacement for the other, but for chronic conditions, now you can make a more informed choice.
Dr. Barry Lieberman, D.C. helps individuals concerned with chronic conditions, in Beverly Hills.
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