Redefining Medicine – Let’s Take A Serious Look At What The Score Is

If you look at the rising cost of healthcare and the way the nation’s health are going, you have to understand that this “plan” simply isn’t working. Obesity and childhood diabetes are reaching epidemic levels. Heart disease and cancer are ravaging our population. More and more people are getting chronically ill and our current healthcare system is ill-equipped to deal with this crisis.

Why? Well to start, according to the CDC, 90% of today’s illnesses come from stress…yeah stress. Sound familiar? Yeah, its the hectic pace of today’s lifestyles coupled with the top-down debt slavery model cleverly imposed by the Fed and big banks which has people freaking out. Most people are only a couple of months away from being out of their houses, getting their cars repossessed, and, frankly, having nowhere to really turn. Does that make you eat your words when your nasty boss says something disrespectful that you’d otherwise not tolerate? Of course it does.

Meditation has been relegated to another stress management technique in our culture and that’s a tragedy. True mediation means self analysis and honesty about our current situation. It requires us to understand the essence of our being and shows us how to see life differently. That’s not good for an enslaved population- stay asleep and take these pills we’ve got for you…that’ll solve all your problems.

If you look at the disease processes that are killing America, there is one commonality which remains consistent with all of them. They are all diseases of lifestyle. How we eat, exercise, sleep, and manage stress are the critical components in this. To maintain ourVitality, we need to have lifestyle under control.

Until we do so, there really isn’t any form of medical intervention that’s actually going to work to resolve this issue.  We can come up with expensive drugs that have side effects or costly surgeries which offset some of the damage, but, at the end of the day, it is our LIFESTYLEwhich begets our Vitality and it is the lack of Vitality which makes us sick.

Let’s delve into this because it is an argument which is the crux of our redefinition ofhealthcare. Our current medical model is a disease-based model. We kill bugs, we cut out lesions, we shut down systems that are overactive. It is great with trauma and microsurgery but, let’s face it…it has utterly FAILED in keeping our population healthy. By 2020, 20% of our GDP is going into this broken system with no foreseeable end in sight. It is an utter disaster.

But what do we see on TV? Sexy doctors sleeping with each-other in sit-coms. We have “House MD” diagnosing the 1 in a million weird diseases and hailing him as a hero while the system itself is an absolute failure. Don’t get me wrong here…HOUSE is doing his job but the show itself…propaganda people. The medical industry uses lots of this type of propaganda to keep people’s faith in their priests in white coats. Drug companies spend countless millions on ads trying to convince you that their products are the answer to your problems.

Here’s the rub. Most of the medical education in this country is sponsored by these drug companies. The well-intentioned kids going through medical school are so busy pulling all-nighters and being slaves to the fraternity-like system that they don’t have time to think. They come out being drug dealers for the Pharm industry by following their algorithms for care. Even if they realize something is wrong, they are so tied down with student loans that they have to suck it up and follow the money. You want patients? Good- follow our rules and we’ll refer them to you. You’ll have to see 60/day to make a living and you’ll be so tired when you get home from work that you’ll lack the Vitality to think about anything. In fact, from the start of their medical education, they are so beaten and robbed of their Vitality that they lose their point of reference to what true health really is.

So what is true health?

True health is the body’s resilience and Vitality working to offset disease. True health is the homeostatic mechanisms of this miraculous thing called life all working together to function well as a whole system. True health is the connection of mind, body, and spirit and a life that has meaning and purpose. Vitality comes from within. It is the by-product of a robust connection with the Life Force which emanates out of all us. This Life Force is found in plants, minerals, and natural substances that traditional doctors have been using for thousands of years effectively. It can be drawn from the breath and cultivated in practices like Qi Gong and Yoga.

I’m currently filming a Naturopathic doctor who treats the majority of an island population (with horrible diets) with 97% natural medicine at a fraction of the cost and is keeping the whole island healthy. He has health ministers from all over the world consulting with him on how to fix the failing medical systems in their countries. Long story short- the writing is on the wall. Natural medicine is both safe and effective and is exponentially cheaper than conventional medicine.

So here’s the switch- The fact that we call the broken system “Conventional Medicine” and all the natural systems “Alternative Medicine” is also a product of the broken system’s propaganda machine. It is time to redefine these terms and put things in their right place. I propose we call natural medicines (Naturopathy, Acupuncture, Homepathy, Chiropractic, real Osteopathy…) “NATURAL MEDICINE” and I propose we rename conventional medicine “DRUG MEDICINE”. Or how about real “Healthcare” vs. “Sickcare”?

It is time to redefine a broken system that has not served the population well. There’s still plenty of room for these interventions in trauma and acute care but, let’s be real here, the broken system has failed us in primary care. We will be bankrupted by the special interests and lobbies that propagate this lie if we don’t take matters into our own hands. Find a “NATURAL MEDICINE” doctor today and start working on getting your Vitality back. A healthy population is what makes America strong…not a horde of broken slaves.

Let’s wake up our citizenry.

This article was written by Pedram Shojai. To get more great advice from Diva Toolbox Media Diva Pedram Shojai, visit her website at: http://www.taoistpath.com