Are you confused - wandering in the wilderness of alternative and conventional medical information overload when it comes to your treatment options for chronic illness? You know that you want to try things other than conventional drugs, but you don’t know where to start. Start right here.
For many people, especially those influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, the solution for a chronic health problem is the next newest drug. The thinking behind pharmaceuticals is that we must pin down a specific mechanism in a specific body part or subsystem that is immediately responsible for our symptoms. The drug blocks that mechanism from expressing itself locally in the body part, and the symptom disappears. Right? Wrong.
Suppressing a symptom in one place just pushes the disturbance elsewhere in the body. The trouble with seeing your body as a car with separate and replaceable parts is that we as living beings are not mechanical collections of parts. Rather, we are indivisible, adaptive, changing living networks. Each part plays its own special role in the body, and blocking its activity - even if it is seemingly dysfunctional - puts the rest of the body at risk. Maybe not right away, but sooner or later.
Real holistic medicine recognizes that each person is a unique indivisible individual of interconnected, interdependent parts that need each other. Real holistic medical care works with each person’s unique, indivisible self to create and coordinate healthy balance and relationships within the body as a whole.
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