Viscious Cycle of Healthcare Mentality

Allopathic medicine or allopathy is a health care system in which medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals are licensed to practice and treat symptoms of ailments and diseases. Treatment protocols generally address the symptoms of particular issues, often regardless of the root cause of the condition. For example, treating chronic headaches with pharmaceuticals, rather than a change in lifestyle factors such as stress or poor diet. Obesity might be treated with Lap-band gastric surgery to restrict the size of the stomach rather than the individual adjusting their diet.

Allopathic medicine came to dominate health care over the span of the nineteenth century. This new scientific path to health was attributed to the increase of university medical training to guarantee practitioners were experts in the science of medicine. Consequently, the laboratory became the desired venue for medical research.

Doctors and medical professionals saw their social status increase as they established their own associations to set rules and standards regarding who they felt could or should not be allowed to practice health care methods. As the American Medical Association (AMA) formed in 1847, it gained its influence in society, as healers of various medical models, such as osteopaths, chiropractors, herbalists and midwives were discredited as not being “based on science”. The first chiropractic organization was the American Chiropractic Association (ACA), and was founded in 1905.

The American Medical Association is an extremely powerful organization with its political influences as well as vast financial resources. The association and many of its members previously (and maybe currently) did not want to give away patients to other methods that the public sees as more effective, cheaper, less invasive and sometimes easier to obtain. For example, up until 1976, the AMA labeled chiropractic as unethical and unscientific and conspired to destroy chiropractic medicine. A lawsuit in this year revealed that the AMA’s intent was to decrease competition for financial reasons rather than to protect the public from unethical practitioners.¹

During the proceedings it was shown that the AMA attempted to:

Undermine Chiropractic schools
Undercut insurance programs for Chiropractic patients
Conceal evidence of the effectiveness of Chiropractic care
Subvert government inquires into the effectiveness of Chiropractic
Promote other activities that would control the monopoly that the AMA had on health care²

To have CAM practitioners and their methods become more integrated within the US healthcare system, things need to change with how the AMA recognizes these other healthcare systems.

Allopathic medicine is the most common healthcare model in the United States. Other names for allopathic medicine are:

Western medicine
biomedicine
mainstream medicine
conventional medicine
orthodox medicine

Typical treatments consist of:

medications
surgery
radiation
chemotherapy
other therapies and procedures

Other approaches to health care are sometimes called complementary alternative medicine (CAM), integrative medicine or alternate medicine. Western and alternative approaches often disregard any integration with one another. However, some more open-minded practitioners of Western allopathic medicine are beginning to integrate alternative and complementary methods along with their treatment protocols. These include:

homeopathy
naturopathy
chiropractic care
Chinese medicine
ayurveda

Many people have grown weary of the amount of time, money and effort they spend at their allopathic doctors with little or no improvement of their chronic or occasional conditions. However, the US system of biomedicine does seem quite miraculous when it comes to treating trauma such as re-attaching a severed limb, re-setting of broken bones, reconstructive surgery, diagnostics and other immediate types of injuries. However, chronic issues like lower back pain and sciatica, allergies and headaches being treated entirely with pharmaceuticals have lost some recent market share to CAM options such as exercise, herbs and lifestyle changes.

¹https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/chiropractics-fight-survival/2011-06

²https://chiro.org/Wilk/

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Some Covid-19 Measures Might Actually Make You More At Risk

There is a Vicious Cycle of Covid-19 and Lifestyle Consequences

Some of the measures being taken, are actually increasing the risks of becoming ill.

In response to the Covid-19 virus,
many individuals are putting themselves more at risk of illness by restraining from exercising, socializing, relieving stress, etc.

Isolating from others

Emotional mood swings of depression, anger & anxiety activate stress response producing excess cortisol, affecting organ function.

Staying indoors

Lack of fresh air and sunlight affect overall metabolism. Lack of vitamin D3 (from sunlight & foods) affects bone mass and chemical balance, affecting organ function.

Less physical activity

Less physical activity affects muscle tone and strength, consequently lowering bone mass while leading to osteopenia, osteoporosis. Increase in weight stresses organ functions, joint strength as well as self-esteem.

Lowered immune system

Immune system becomes compromised from stress, chemical imbalances and sedentary lifestyle leading individuals to have comorbidities and consequently increasing their risk of acquiring disease and illness.

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Get out of the house, call family/friends, eat healthier foods, stay active and avoid stress. Don’t wait to get sick or rely on a vaccine to keep you healthy – get proactive now.

Be well, be wise and stay healthy!

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Is Our Health Really a Priority in the US?

Ask any citizen in the US if their health and their family’s is a priority and the response will be something like, “well of course our health is my top priority!” “And we are the healthiest country in the world!” Ehhh…no, not true for both statements based upon data from supposedly reputable news outlets. View the charts at the bottom.

In reality how many Americans exercise on a regular basis? How many manage their nutrition by monitoring their sugar, salt, trans fat, alcohol, etc. intake? Or what about managing stress and emotional health? Not many.

Americans might say or think that we are very health conscious but the statistics show that we really are not. The US ranked 35th in the world in 2019 from a report from Bloomberg. Meanwhile Forbes ranked the US #1 worldwide for the amount of money spent on healthcare in 2018. Made obvious from the data is that investing more money in healthcare, doesn’t make a country or the person healthier. If someone has great healthcare coverage but eats junk food everyday, doesn’t exercise regularly and has a negative outlook, they will probably experience health issues sooner than later.

Our actions support the facts that we don’t truly put exercise, nutrition and stress as high priorities deserving more action than conversation. Healthy living and habits are a choice, or a mindset that we as Americans as a whole, fail terribly at practicing. True is true.

When the research is done, we can also determine that the leading causes of death in the US are all very much influenced by our diet, our sedentary lifestyle (lack of exercise and excessive sitting) and our attitudes towards managing stress or lack thereof. Heart disease, cancer, diabetes and respiratory issues (all leading causes of death by far) can all be much less if we made it a priority to do so.

Which brings us to another issue. Our media in the US, love it or hate it, usually focuses mostly on reporting deaths relative to terrorism and homicide. So far this year has been the doom and gloom of Covid19. The media, the government and healthcare leaders fail to promote personal responsibility for the individuals’ own actions and how that can affect on a much broader level the health of our nation. Instead there is a strong focus on wearing masks and social distancing as a way to make an unhealthy nation, somehow immune to disease and illnesses that affect most those that have health issues to begin with.

Even typically healthy people do get sick. Athletes and health enthusiast can get sick too. Nobody gets a free ride, but why don’t we start to look at the root causes for our health issues, instead of looking to politics or others to blame for our own personal accountability. We are where we are, because of our choices. We need to own this. Blaming others will not make us healthier.

Get moving more, eat healthier foods and try to stress less. These are the keys to a healthier nation.

Be well, stay healthy, be wise.

Healthiest Countries 2019-Bloomberg