In general, a pill therapy should not be the main goal, but a transitional solution. Pills are not a substitute for the actual treatment, which is addressing the cause of your condition. Pills most of the time do not treat the cause of the problem. Imagine you stop taking your blood pressure medication (which I don’t recommend), your blood pressure will go back up again. We didn’t cure anything with the pill. So we must remember, the disease is not the deficiency of a pill! Just because you were prescribed a medicine does not mean that you are sick because you lack that medicine. Other reasons led you there! And when your tests show that a vitamin is low, it does not mean that you are missing the tablet or capsule with that vitamin. You are missing the right diet that will provide you with that vitamin and all the other essential vitamins! If you do not understand this, it is not only your doctors’ fault, if perhaps they did not make it clear to you, but also your own fault. Because you are primarily responsible for your health.

The cause of your problem must be found and treated. Remember that chronic disease is caused, either by nutritional deficiencies or by various toxicities. Sometimes by the combination of the two. If the boat got a hol, the main goal should not be to empty the water it collects, but to find the hole and plug it! Don’t waste your money unnecessarily on dietary supplements, the solution to your problem is not this or the other pill, but addressing the root cause. That should be the only goal!

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Most of the widespread chronic diseases in our world today can be prevented or even reversed and put into remission, a state where the patient does not need the drugs anymore. And this is possible through a complete change of lifestyle. This has created a new field in medicine, called lifestyle medicine.

It is therefore a new paradigm in healthcare, one that combines the best of conventional treatments, such as drugs and surgery, with the power of integrated lifestyle changes.

All healthcare professionals are faced with high levels of frustration when dealing with chronic diseases. We all get depressed when our patients’ conditions get worse over the years and we have to constantly intensify the treatment. Medications do not always help and if they do, they mostly only temporarily control the problem and most of the time we are forced to follow an escalation of treatment, which means more medication, with more side effects.

Lifestyle medicine has as its primary method for treating chronic conditions, therapeutic lifestyle interventions. It achieves this by targeting patients with evidence-based behaviour change strategies and can help them acquire permanent habits in key areas, like diet, exercise, sleep, smoking cessation.

Since these have led us to the chronic condition. These and not the ‘bad’ genes that we can’t change anyway. These are what we’re going to change, I’m order to treat once and for all our conditions.

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