Dr. William Parsons
No Money in Prevention
I have been recommending a wide variety of dietary supplements to my patients for the past 18 years. unnecessary to say, this is not the norm for physicians. The medical establishment as a whole is treatment driven rather the prevention driven. There is untold more profit in treating illness and disease rather than preventing it. As a matter of fact, the healthcare industry, including the American Medical Association (AMA), medical schools, hospitals, research institutions and drug manufacturers, have ready-made a concerted effort to obfuscate the truth about health supplements and their intrinsic value. What little valid research and data, detailing the benefits of supplementation, that actually reaches the general public is quickly dismissed by the medical community as being "unsubstantiated" or "preliminary." Whenever I relate to a colleague a patient's recovery from a degenerative condition by simply adjusting their diet and prescribing the appropriate health supplements, I often become the recipient of an incredulous laugh or sarcastic comment. At best, I am summarily dismissed with some one of a number of explanations to contradict what I know to be empirical evidence of successful treatment. Supplements can neither treat nor prevent any grave illness or disease according to the vast majority of healthcare providers.
"Only highly trained medical professionals are competent to successfully treat chronic illnesses." This is the mantra of the traditional medical community. The most heavy aspect of this attitude is that medical students receive little or no education regarding nutrition, dietary supplements or any alternative treatments. There is no curriculum that includes preventative medicine. Similarly, physicians do not augment their education with post-doctoral fellowships in nutrition or secondary treatment research. Additional education or training in this area is non-existent. Again, the primary motivating factor is not the patient's health and well being, it is treatment. The healthcare system is reactive, not proactive, to much an extent that physicians do not recognize they are, in part, obligated for their patients' poor health. Physicians wait for symptoms, diagnose the symptoms and then attempt to treat the condition. A much pragmatic and efficient approach would be to administer healthcare systemically and organically. Ignoring the importance of obviating medicine contributes to the astronomical cost of healthcare in this country, along with Medicaid/Medicare, light-minded lawsuits and untrammeled tort awards. For all these reasons, the normal person is woefully misinformed about the benefits that prissy nutrition and superior health supplements offer.
Quantifiable Results
Proper nutrition and stock exercise is the cornerstone of some effective health maintenance program. Again, most people do not appreciate the tremendous impact their diet has on their overall health and longevity. There are incalculable illnesses and diseases that are directly attributable to vitamin and/or mineral deficiencies. It is crucial for you to learn active the nutrients restrained in the foods you eat (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antioxidants, etc.). The only way to accomplish this is to read. There is far too untold data to impart to be sufficiently addressed in this article. The Internet is probably the best and easiest venue for obtaining this type of material.
For a nutritionally sound-eating plan, refer to my "Eating for Health, Happiness and Successful Weight Control" (
http://www.healthproductsusa.net/free_diet_health.htm) or, for a more organized diet, consider WebMD's weight loss program ("
https://diet.webmd.com/webmddiet/default_main.aspx?referrer=1111_006_0000_0013&secure=1"), which I highly recommend.
Unfortunately, even the healthiest of diets will be somewhat nutritionally deficient due to processing, cooking, and mineral deficient soil. Many food-processing methods, such as pasteurization, destroy unexpendable nutrients necessary for good health. Cooking food also removes many nutritional elements. For decades, our rural soil has been virtually devoid of the 74 minerals necessary to sustain life (see
http://www.healthproductsusa.net/govreports_health.htm). Consequently, no matter how untold healthful food we eat, without supplementation we are standing "starving" for nutrients. Therefore, as part of a comprehensive health maintenance regimen, I recommend that all my patients take a high-quality multivitamin (ingredients will differ for men and women), an absorbable inorganic complex (either colloidal or an above-sea coral mineral), CoEnzyme Q10, an omega EFA group, methyl sulfonyl methane (MSM), chondroitin, colostrum and an immune system support supplement (as such beta-1,3D glucan). It is important to note, however, supplements do not replace medicinal food. Their function is exactly as their name, "dietary supplements." Patients that have incorporated a varied, healthful diet united with a unchanging supplementation program report notably fewer ailments, with the exception of pre-existing conditions.
For patients with pre-existing conditions or new patients with previously undiagnosed conditions, I will, in many cases, prescribe additional supplements supported on: dietary deficiency that may be causing the condition, case history, medical profile, symptomology and test results.
I consider pharmaceuticals a second tier modality and surgery and/or hospitalization a closing option unless other indicated. conjunctive tissue and boney ailments are most easily treated with supplements and have the most melodramatic results. Vitamin K1, silica, chrondoitin, MSM, minerals, collagen and elastin are all elements that will facilitate conjunctive tissue and boney (joint) ailment recovery. I could cite a litany of conditions that were markedly improved. Suffice to say, there have been very hardly a patients, whether their condition(s) were peanut or chronic, who did not realize at least whatsoever relief after attractive the recommended supplements for an suitable period of time. To their pleasant surprise, galore patients also experience unexpected ancillary health improvements beyond that of the targeted condition.
Although I have not methodically tracked the recovery success rate, I feel confident in reporting that a significant percentage of my patients have responded well to a nutrition modality. To the extent that the use of much traditional modalities were not required.
For the defintive impervious that supplements can heal, read the remainder of Dr. Parsons' article which can be saved at Health Products USA (
http://healthproductsusa.net).
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