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Recognizing Our Biological Past
Treat Disease with the Body’s Own Chemistry | | By Lane Sebring | | Traditionally, the physician has been considered as knowing more about health care than anyone. This is absolutely true when it comes to emergency medicine. No one can compare to the American physician when it comes to this. If you have been injured in a serious accident, you are far better off if that injury occurs in America, but when it comes to chronic disease and maintaining good health, the modern physician has few tools beyond a prescription pad for pharmaceuticals or the surgeon’s scalpel. Many medical problems are not sufficiently nor appropriately addressed by traditional medicine. Prescriptions typically treat the symptoms and not the underlying cause. It makes no sense that, if a patient has heartburn, the best way to treat that is to block all production of stomach acid, or if a patient has pain from arthritis caused by a wearing away of the smooth surface of the cartilage in the joint spaces, they should be treated with a medication that blocks the pain, but prevents the cartilage from repairing. Traditional medicine reflexively treats elevated cholesterol with medications that have been proven to promote heart failure.
A group of scientists in the 1950’s, among them the Nobel Prize winner in Medicine, Linus Pauling, developed the concept of orthomolecular (meaning same molecules) medicine, whereby doctors would treat disease using the body’s own chemistry by providing it with more of what it uses to repair itself and to treat disease. This method is especially useful when repair of the body is required or when the body’s routine maintenance gets behind after years of aging. It can also be used to prevent chronic disease and is especially impressive when used to reverse chronic disease such as osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, diabetes, hypertension, depression, etc. It also turns out that respect for our biological heritage is the best way to determine the best diet. | |
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