The Holistic Approach
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:
Specialties
Digestive wellness
Food allergies & intolerance
Chronic Disease
Diet and Detoxification
Cancer
Fibromyalgia
Autism
Should we fight symptoms or cause?
When it comes to chronic disease the difference between conventional medicine and holistic could not be further away. Your medical Dr is not trained in nutrition and his approach is to use pharmaceutical drugs or surgery to fight symptoms of dis-ease. The holistic approach is to seek to address the cause of the symptoms by balancing the environment within the body. Typically using nutrition and lifestyle.
So for example if a person is suffering much pain due to inflammation, the Dr will see the inflammation and give an anti-inflammatory drug. The Holistic practitioner will see the same inflammation and ask what is causing the inflammation. Let's say it is an allergy, the holistic approach would be to stop the inflammation by removing the thing the body was allergic to. However he wouldn't stop there he would ask why are you allergic to this food/chemical and then seek to fix the digestion issue at its root. This is true healing.
Throughout history until modern times it has been understood that food is the critical element in our health. More specifically the nutrients that are in food and that they are the tools for our body to function.
I'm English and we have been called limey's because our sailors discovered that scurvy, which up till that time, was killing many of them, was stopped and even reversed by eating limes. It turns out it was a vitamin C deficiency. So English sailors began taking limes on all long voyages.
These lessons of disease being caused by nutritional deficiencies have long been forgotten under the new medical system that claims only pharmaceutical drugs can cure and have pushed laws to say curing with anything other than pharmaceutical drugs is illegal.
Now the answer to virtually every disease is said to be a drug by conventional medicine. As a result we have huge numbers of people who are on drugs for life never getting better simply attempting to manage symptoms and slowly getting worse. Usually suffering side effects from the prescribed drugs, sometimes even death.
It doesn't have to be this way but it requires us making different choices.