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Popular Erroneous
Medical Assumptions
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Our common sense of time as moving from past to present to future leads us to believe that physiological aging - and breakdown - is equally inexorable. This unfortunately fosters an insidious psychological resignation to the "inevitability" of sickness, as reflected in the popularity of all manner of drugs designed to normalize symptoms ranging from digestive and sleep disorders to headaches and arthritis. Many regular consumers of these invented products have long-ago ceased to imagine life without them. Drug stores thrive on this unexamined belief in biological deterioration.
Myth #1: Aging Is One-Way and Accelerates With Time.
Yet there are many centenarians that stay healthy, active, alert, and happy throughout their long lives; often with minimal medical intervention or reliance on Medicare or prescriptions. What do these people know that most of us don't? And what about the exceptional patients who have successfully overcome "terminal" cancer and other "incurable" diseases? Surely such unexpected medical reversals prove that healing and wellness are always possible.
By studying large populations over long periods of time, we now know that a person's biological (statistical) age does not necessarily equal their chronological age (years since birth). The difference is due to common risk factors, most of which are behavioral. Unfortunately, despite our historically increased life-expectancy (due to improved public health, sanitation, control of many contagious diseases with inoculations, and high-tech interventions), most Americans are overweight, toxic, and ailing most of the time. We die prematurely from preventable "lifestyle" illness, including the great killers, heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. Junk food, lack of exercise, stress, smoking, and drug and alcohol abuse are some of the main causes of these uniquely contemporary diseases.
On the other side of the bell curve are those with lower biological age (longer life-expectancies), who have managed to lead more natural, healthy lifestyles, despite the seductions of "civilization." Numerous longevity studies reveal that long-lived people in every culture have these key factors in common: community, spirituality, physical activity, creativity, low-fat, low-calorie natural diet, and natural herbal medicines. Statistically, vegetarians score younger in biological age, and live longer, healthier lives than carnivores. Religious affiliation and faith, and living in multi-generational families also tend to increase life-span and decrease disease.
Myth #2: When You're Sick, "Take Something."
Another dangerously unexamined common assumption is that if you're sick you should "take" something. Our very word the healing art, "medicine," has come to be synonymous with pills. From antacids to grandma's home remedy, we're conditioned to consume more, when often the problem itself is over-consumption, and the solution is to get empty and clean. When animals get sick, they naturally lose their appetite and stop eating. Therapeutic fasting is one of the oldest, yet currently under-appreciated self-healing practices known. By detoxifying, resting and repairing the organs and systems, a three-day juice fast can eliminate a wide range of systemic ailments and symptoms, and restore remarkable levels of energy. Systematic caloric restriction is currently the only clinical variable scientifically recognized to increase longevity in animals.
Myth #3: The Doctor Knows Best.
Popular nomenclature notwithstanding, "health care" isn't something you purchase and consume; it's what you do (or don't do) for yourself every day. Unfortunately, 21st-Century institutionalized medical authority - including the hospital, pharmaceutical and insurance industries- can be as much a health threat as a help. Doctors prescribe what drug salesmen push. Viox was just the most recent in a long history of "miracle drugs" with deadly "side-effects," a term coined by the drug companies as a euphemism for negative warning signs.
Actually, your body knows best what it needs, even if you're not used to consulting it. It reveals its tolerances intuitively, even if you ignore the messages. After your own intelligence and knowledge, doctors are one of many possible sources of information and assistance; but only you can heal you.
Myth #4: Health Insurance Insures Health.
Likewise, no institution can insure your health. The very term is a blinding misnomer. "Health insurance" companies are large profit-driven, stock-holder-accountable financial/legal entities that thrive on our collective fears of disease and death, and dole out as little compensation as possible when it is needed most. Citizens of most other industrialized countries where universal coverage prevails, find this bizarre. Given the stress involved in maintaining private insurance, it might better be termed "sickness insurance."
Only you can insure that you regain and/or maintain your health, by the choices and action you make every day, year after year. A health insurance policy may buy some peace of mind about money, but far better is to reduce your chances of needing it through pro-active, preventive self-care. When enough people realize this, both medical insurance and medical intervention will become less needed, and more affordable.
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Lonny Brown,
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Lonny J. Brown, HHC is the author of "Self-Actuated Healing" (Naturegraph, Publ.), and "Enlightenment In Our Time," (BookLocker.com/
LonnyBrown).
His writings on holistic health have appeared on AOL's Alternative Medicine Forum and in Alternative Health Practitioner, Yoga Journal, and many other progressive publications.
Lonny Brown teaches holistic health, mind/body healing, and stress reduction courses at hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the US. His Web site also features essays, tapes, books, and links to a variety of integrative health sources.
holistic.com/lonny
lonny@holistic.com
lonnybrown@aol.com
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