Conventional Medicine Misunderstands the Fundamental Laws of Biology
February 18, 2012
Modern industrial medicine treats disease with medication or surgery. That’s what it is designed to do, and when it comes to emergency interventions it is still the best medicine in the world. When someone comes into the emergency room with a severed leg, conventional medicine treats the problem with incredible efficacy.
But when it comes to chronic illness, this approach simply doesn’t work.
Here’s why conventional medicine tends to break down in the face of chronic illnesses like diabesity …
Most medicine today is based on clear-cut, on-or-off, yes-or-no diagnoses that often miss the underlying causes and more subtle manifestations of illness. Most conventional doctors are taught that you have a disease or you don’t; you have diabetes or you don’t. There are no gray areas.
Practicing medicine this way is extremely misguided because it misses one of the most fundamental laws of physiology, biology, and disease: The continuum concept. There is a continuum from optimal health to hidden imbalance to serious dysfunction to disease. Anywhere along that continuum, we can intervene and reverse the process. The sooner we address it, the better.
For example, when it comes to diabesity most doctors just follow blood sugar, which actually rises very late in the disease process. If your blood sugar is 90 or 110, you don’t have diabetes. If it’s over 126, you do have diabetes. But these distinctions are completely arbitrary, and they do nothing to help treat impending problems. I remember one patient, Daren, who came to see me with mildly elevated blood sugar. I asked Daren if he had seen his doctor about this. He said yes. I then asked, “What did your doctor say?” Daren’s doctor had told him, “We are going to wait and watch until your blood sugar is more elevated, and then we are going to treat you with medication for diabetes.”
This attitude is absurd and harmful in the face of what we know about the problems that occur even in the absence of full-blown diabetes. Science is now showing us that many people with prediabetes never get diabetes, but they are at severe risk just the same. Prediabetes actually isn’t pre-anything, it’s a serious health condition and needs to be treated as early as possible.
More to the point, this approach of completely ignores more subtle clues from symptoms and signs of disease, which may highlight underlying metabolic imbalances (especially when complemented by further testing). These imbalances may be remedied by the appropriate treatment—treatment that is not focused on some disease, but instead works to remove those things that alter or damage our functioning, and provides those things that enhance, optimize, and normalize our functioning by balancing the system rather than treating the symptom. We need to treat the system, not the symptom; the patient, not the disease.
Consider the man in the emergency room with the severed leg again for a moment. For that person, identifying what severed the leg isn’t likely to make the difference between life and death. The symptom—the severed leg—must be treated if he is going to survive.
But that paradigm simply doesn’t hold true for health conditions like diabesity. This mechanistic model can be applied in some health crises, but it doesn’t work when it comes to chronic disease.
For more information about diabesity click here for a sneak peak of my new book The Blood Sugar Solution coming out on February 28th.
In the meantime, I’d like to hear from you …
Do you suffer from diabesity? What has your struggle been like?
Why do you think conventional medicine is so ineffective at treating this illness?
Please share your thoughts by leaving a comment below.
To your good health,
Mark Hyman, MD
Filed Under: Articles, UltraWellness Library Tagged With: Diabetes & Pre-diabetes
New Blood Thinner Boosts Heart Risk: Pradaxa!
February 15, 2012
New blood thinner boosts heart risk
January 31, 2012
Talk about missing the point!
Blood thinners are supposed to reduce the risk of the blood clots that can lead to a heart attack or stroke — but a new drug that’s intended to slash the risk of stroke can actually increase the odds of a heart attack.
That’s not a benefit — that’s trading one deadly risk for another.
The drug, called dabigatran but sold under the brand name Pradaxa, is most commonly given to atrial fibrillation patients, who have a higher risk of stroke to begin with.
It’s also the first in a series of new blood thinners specifically aimed at preventing strokes — but there were problems with it right out of the gate: Even in the studies used to get it approved, that heart risk kept popping up.
Now, a new analysis shows this wasn’t just a fluke, as the drug’s maker no doubt hoped, but a genuine threat that should have anyone thinking twice before popping these pills.
And get this: While the drug is supposed to slash the risk of stroke by a third, the new numbers show that it increases the risk of heart attack and acute coronary syndrome by pretty much the same amount — nearly a third — when compared to the older blood thinners as well as a placebo.
That’s not the only serious problem with Pradaxa. This drug hasn’t been on the market very long, but the FDA is already looking into reports of serious bleeding problems (being the FDA, however, you can bet that “look” is all they’ll do).
I’m sure this sounds like a win for warfarin and the older generation of blood thinners, but warfarin itself is so dangerous it’s actually been used for years as a rat poison — and patients who take it need to be closely watched, lest they end up like those rats.
Like all blood thinners, warfarin can also cause serious bleeding problems, not to mention swelling, bruising, flu-like symptoms and more. It’s even been linked to gangrene.
It’s nuts to take those risks when there are completely natural options on the table — including ordinary fish oil, safe for men and mice alike.
Talk to your doc before making any changes, but a skilled naturopathic physician can wean you off risky meds and help you find the right amount of your safe alternative.
And you can leave the warfarin in the garage for the rats.
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TSA refuses new study on airport scanners
December 25, 2011
TSA refuses new study on airport scanners
It’s outright insane if you stop to think about it: In order to “protect” air passengers, the U.S. government is blasting them all with dangerous levels of radiation from full-body X-ray scanners. Not exactly how I like my “protection” — especially since the feds won’t provide any honest-to-goodness safety data on these machines.
Read the full story…
Natural hope for MS patients
December 9, 2011
Natural hope for MS patients
The mainstream “solutions” to multiple sclerosis can be even worse than the disease itself: Of all the dangerous meds MS patients are told to take, not a single one of them can stop or reverse the damage. One recently approved drug that does little more than boost walking speed is actually a bird poison.
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Junk Food Kills Sperm
December 9, 2011
It is well documented fact that junk foods cause serious harm to our body. It can cause insulin resistance leading to increased risk of weight gain, diabetes, cancer, heart attack, strokes and other debilitating diseases. These foods also contains estrogen that make men lose their manhood, and women experience various health problems having excessive estrogen in their blood stream. Girls get puberty at very young age.
Foods that are classified to produce flood of insulin in the body are: any starchy or sugary products including, breakfast cereal, white bread, pasta, pizza, whole grain, cakes, processed and fast and packaged foods, all kinds of pops, including energy drinks. Milk, meat, poultry, are treated with estrogen by farmers. Some of the processed foods and packaged foods not only contains deadly chemical preservatives, but also estrogen and high sodium content
Processed meats, such as beacon, sausage, hotdogs may increase serious risk of diabetes, cancer, heart attack and strokes; and premature aging and death.
Would You Believe: Babies Are Given Stomach Acid Meds
November 27, 2011
Babies being given stomach acid meds
It’s crazy to think doctors are diagnosing newborns with stomach acid disorders such as gastroesophageal reflux disease, aka GERD, in the first months of life — crazy, but it’s happening every day.
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Dangerous Vaccine Now Pushed On Boys as Well as Girls
November 26, 2011
Dangerous vaccine now pushed on boys as well as girls
I don’t care how you feel about vaccinations in general — but whether you love ‘em, hate ‘em, or just aren’t sure, there’s one needle out there that simply doesn’t belong anywhere near a child.
It is the dangerous HPV vaccine Gardasil being forced on girls in spite of thousands cases of damaging and even permanent deadly side effects: paralysis, nervous system disorders, blindness, speech problems, memory loss, and even cases of death
Read the full story…
ADHD Meds Reaching Dangerous New Highs
November 14, 2011
Unfortunately, the sale of deadly drugs Ritalin abd Adderall to treat children with Attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is dangerously skyrocketing. While the number younger kids taking these meds increased slowly and steadily the number of older kids on these drugs certainly skyrocketed.
These drugs have been linked to violence, bizarre behavior, and suicidal tendency. Some study indicates thta they might lead to bone fractures. If you have a child or a grandchild who have been told to have ADHD don’t turn to these deadly harmful drugs that may ruin their life. Instead, go to a doctor who can advise you to treat your child or grandchild with alternative and safe approach, such as proper diet and nutrition, natural supplements as well.
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Docs Told To Drug Unruly Toddlers
November 3, 2011
Docs told to drug unruly toddlers
Parents, watch your tots: There’s a new creep in the neighborhood, and it’s not the local perv. It’s the family doctor.
These drugs have serious side effects.
Read the full story…
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Pricey Heart Procedure Lining Doctors’ Pockets
September 30, 2011
Pricey Heart Procedure Lining Doctors’ Pockets
By Michael Jelinek on 09/30/2011
Cardiologists are rethinking their overuse of angioplasty – a procedure to unclog heart arteries. What’s behind it? Soaring health care costs. And fear that the FDA and insurance companies will soon clamp down on the costly treatment.
So doctors are doing their own research in an effort to self-regulate. And it could lead to less-invasive procedures for many patients.
For Further Ailments and alternative treatments visit Alternative Natural & Home Remedies, Herbal, Ayurvedic, Homeopathy, and Natural Cures
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