ARE DOCTORS YIELDING NO HELP?

How many times have you been to the doctor for your health problems? If the answer is zero, then I would strongly advise you start there first. It is best for a medical professional to rule out serious conditions before you start treating yourself.

But, odds are you have already been to the doctor. Multiple doctors. Multiple doctors who have given you one of the following explanations:

1) Your condition is caused by stress

2) Its all in your head and everything is normal

3) Taking prescription drugs will alleviate your symptoms

4) You have acid reflux, heartburn, gas, or stomach pains because of explanation #1 or #2, and to mask the symptoms, we will use #3.

You get my point.

Most doctors have their hands full treating patients who have KNOWN illnesses. Patients who have a clear cut disease and whose physical health woes are visible. Therefore, it is much easier for them to pawn off your symptoms to stress or other psychological factors, because honestly, stress is the scapegoat of most unexplainable illnesses. Not to say that stress won’t make almost every condition worse. I totally believe that stress will complicate most every biological function. What I am saying is that stress is not the SOURCE of most ailments. Stress is simply the biggest "amplifier" to disease. You could constantly come up with new clever techniques to reduce stress and find a "happy place" or whatever, but without targeting the source of your problems, they will never fully go away. Having said that, rest assured that coping with and eliminating stress will greatly improve your recovery time.

Ok, so before I give you the impression that I have some sort of conspiracy theory about doctors, let me get off on the right foot. I think doctors are very intelligent. I think they have proven to excel in their particular field and deserve the respect that earned them their title. They have to know more about the human body than you and I will ever want to know. But therein lies the problem... They know a small amount about ALL disease states, instead of a large amount about any particular one. Also, how much do you think your doctor knows about the drugs he prescribes to you? I bet you that YOU know more than he does about most of the drugs you take! That's right, doctors know very little about the drugs they prescribe. It is the pharmacist who spends years studying the drugs that know all the side effects, interactions, and mechanisms of action of how they all work. If you asked most doctors today about Candida, they would probably dismiss the idea that it is more than just a disease for immuno-compromised people. Even my wife, who is a pharmacist, learned in her residency in the ICU department, that Candida infections are prevalent in patients whose immune systems are very weak. As you can see, most healthcare professionals only know what they learn in school and aren't open to other schools of thought. I bet if I told my gastroenterology or internal medicine doctor that I had a Candida related infection that was causing my gas, bloating, indigestion, etc. that she would just laugh at me. They would tell me that I was actually producing too much stomach acid and that is why I have these problems. She would then keep prescribing me drugs such as Nexium, Aciphex, or other acid reducing medications to treat the problem. Want to know why I say that? Because that is exactly what happened to me! But why? Don't doctors know that your body is supposed to make acids for digestion? Doesn't this tell them that there must be another SOURCE of the problem? And that is just it! Doctors have been taught to treat SYMPTOMS rather than SOURCES. So instead of teaching their patients to practice better health by living in a daily PROACTIVE maintenance mode, we have become the nation that relies on pharmaceutical drugs to fix our health issues. We think that we can live however we want and eat and drink anything because there will be some little pill to fix our ailments. It is my opinion that this REACTIVE way of thinking that has led to the massive amounts of healthcare problems that exist today. Just think of all the diseases that exist today, that did not exist 50 years ago. Some of them not even 20 years ago. There is always a reason for everything. The human body was designed to fight disease and therefore we must come to the conclusion that we are killing ourselves with what we put in our mouth. Some say death begins in the colon. I say it begins way before that....in the mouth.