Consider Taking Responsibility For Your Own Health
As we look at the functional medicine programs today, we see all the changes happening within the world in general and what an interesting time in history where you can look at life as a cup half empty or half full, depending on how you analyze and react to the new government attitude which is "Let Me Get Mine And Whatever Is Left Is Yours". This would be a good time to reconsider the growth of our next generation. A great opportunity for life changes, and those changes to be openly positive, by looking for ways to leave to our children and our grandchildren of the world a better place than that which we live. We can't help your mother if she has relinquished all her health responsibility to the medical professional. We should be extraordinarily concerned about it as it relates to the rising tide of chronic disease in our culture which is rising almost epidemically in certain parts of the country. An article published in 2005 New England Journal of Medicine to state the forthcoming in the United States for a generation of children born today will have the probability of living a shorter life span than either parent and at the time we're spending 50% more per capita on healthcare than the country was during World War II.
Today the United States has trauma facilities that are second to none, any where in the world however, regardless of what you hear on the news and regardless of what's promised to you, the medical facilities are not able to take care of the load of people that are coming into the system, like the baby boomers as far as the medical personnel available in the medical facilities. We are not doing enough in the area of health care to keep people out of the hospital, so the question comes back to how we build and how do we develop a system that will deliver better services with higher health outcomes for people that are chronically ill.
This is why functional medicine was born for a different model, a model focused on chronic disease care. We should all be concentrating on a self health care. A prevention and management system should be taught, to enable us to think differently about the origin of chronic disease and a process that focuses on the origin.
Some of you are alive right now as a consequence, not always all addicted to a prescription, that you go home and occasionally take the pills that your doctor prescribed. It is for you to make the changes so, you can imagine going into 2009 with a new vision that is, a world in which we the people economically incentivize ourselves in terms of benefits for medical savings account, and give yourself the reason for making these changes so that you don't need a pocket full of drugs. Find a way, and be proud to prioritize health as the number one singular thing that precious to each individual.
Type II diabetes in the 1960s, as conveyed by the medical school professors, had affected about 3% of the population throughout time and it would probably remain constant. As you know now that has changed so dramatically that over the last 15 years there are some regions of the country 15 to 20% of children have what used to be called adult onset diabetes became so prevalent, they have changed the name from adult-onset to type II (acquired). This differentiates it from the type you get in youth and this is another instance in which the drug manufactures have taken advantage. These other alternative drugs that are out there, promote that condition of extending people's lives when they have kidney failure in their 20s and 30s, and they lose 17 years on average of life expectancy.
There is no need for type II diabetes and it is a totally preventable illness. The only reason that we have all the dialogist clinics is that we have not prioritized health adequately and not change the way we think about the way we eat, and how we eat, we have not changed the way that restaurants provide food, we have not seen school lunch programs and on and on. We are undermining the vitality of our workforce, our youth, and now we have a national problem of the disease in which is going to lead to the kind of epic event that lead people and cultures to become unearthed. We need to be aware for this attack, and not leave the situation to be resolved by the drug companies. If the existing system remains and a new drug is approved this becomes a national issue of defense comparable to any other defense issue we have, if we don't defend our children with a quality regime and other current health issues, all these issues now become secondary.
In urology, which is the sub-spatiality focused on problems with the brain and Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and Lou Gehrig's, it has come to be recognized that there is a form of Alzheimer's that have been called type III diabetes, which is where the blood sugar problems, and the insulin deregulation, a hormone that controls blood sugar, is confused enough that it has effects upon your brain cell function, and is a contributor to the origin of neurofibrillary tangled in the thing that we call neurideck plaque in the brain. The body is not separated between organs. We don't drop your stomach off at your gastro neurologist, your heart off at your cardiologist, and your muscles off at your orthopedist. All of these systems are receiving signals and must coordinate. Most people are receiving the signals, but either ignore them or rely on the physician to interrupt. All of your systems are connected in the body and when they all get more inflammation, and those conditions relate to arthritis and heart disease and cancer inflammatory valve disease and it is thought that an estimate of 20% of people over 65 have diabetes and half of them do not know they have it.
As a person gets older and they start consuming refined carbohydrates because, again due to believing a fish brain chemistry ideas from the general public, they act like sheep jumping over a fence, even when the fence has been removed. I visit some older friends that have delayed their aging by a very healthy active life style. Some of them are very committed to eating healthy and thankfully eat green to brown and red colored plant life. They related an incident where they had observed a new member in the community consuming vast amounts of white bread white sugar and coffee and nothing green. The conversation about what she was eating terminated in her confessing that she was so confused that I can not think very clearly on my own. After a few months of talk and interacting with one another and to see what you think is going on when you're eating only sugar and white flour. This woman reported that once I started eating fresh, you can't believe that I've been waking up clear, I'm not forgetting my keys and have not locked myself out of my place. This situation is repeated around the country everyday, going for the next pill to manage the next problem not knowing the origin of the problem.
The government will not solve all the problems and the politicians will not take care of you. You or the people that pay taxes will be paying all medical bills. Most people have grown up with the idea that our health is our doctor's responsibility. Most people have the concept that they somehow leave their body in the doctor's office and then they leave emotionally and then return thinking somehow the body will feel somewhat better for them and that either the therapy or drugs or surgery or something will correct all the problems.
Just think of the many places in the world that that model has never really been demonstrated to be correct. When it comes to chronic disease if you look around the world at these pockets of longevity were people, live 90 to 100 years of age. Recognize that you are in control that you're not a victim and actually have the ability to control your own health if you work at it. Take charge right now. We are all creatures of choice, and we can choose products that make money for other people for which we pay the benefits or pay the culpable liability in our health.
This culture must wake up and take charge of your body, move away from eating high sugar and high salt and a high-fat foods and take charge of our own destiny.
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