Tag: disease

Is aging a disease that needs medical treatment?

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Is aging a disease that needs medical treatment? I have often told patients humorously; I walk into the bathroom in the morning and look up and say “who that old guy is and what he is doing in my bathroom?”  For the record, I am 63. For many who are in their ’60s and up, visiting the doctor is what we do to make sure we are healthy.  We get our blood taken, follow the suggestions and in many cases, we are advised about things such as blood pressure, and cholesterol and we may be given medication to manage it Read More »

Is pain a disease, an illness or a warning mechanism that something is wrong?

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Is pain a disease, an illness or a warning mechanism that something is wrong? Pain is feared by many of us and the healthcare system has created mechanisms to control it through medications, surgeries and medical procedures. Is pain a disease, an illness or a warning mechanism that something is wrong?   Can it be that the medical system has gotten it wrong for years resulting in opioid addiction, side effects and medical procedures that were costly and provided little benefit or may have been avoidable altogether? Medicine has classified pain as an illness which makes it possible to prescribe medications Read More »

Food as medicine; could this be the best way to avoid disease?

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Food as medicine; could this be the best way to avoid disease? Aging and pills have become a way of life for many Americans.   We take a pill for blood pressure, another one for cholesterol and yet another one for a dysfunctional thyroid gland. It is a fact that Americans take more pills than any other country according to Consumer Reports. We also pay the highest prices for those medications as well. Those who practice functional medicine take a holistic look at what went wrong with you.  They then find the common elements in your body’s systems and treat the Read More »

A doctors journey from disease mind set to health guru; a healthy return from the ravages of MS.

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A doctors journey from disease mind set to health guru; a healthy return from the ravages of MS. Most of us pay little attention to our health unless we one day find ourselves with a life threatening illness or some other malady that prevents us from living the way we want to. Lets face it, we often take health for granted until we have a problem that prevents us from doing what we want to do including interacting with our family and friends or living life to the fullest. Sometimes health problems can turn our lives upside down, preventing us Read More »