How long has it been since your health issues started? How much money have you already spent in your search for relief? Are you well, or barely coping? In an ideal world, hospitals and pharmacies would provide acute care to deal with accidents and acute infections - the emergency room medicine we perfected in military conflicts can deal with catastrophic health problems quite well. Speaking of accidents, doctors know how to properly fix a broken bone, they may give you painkillers (covering symptoms), but first they put your limb in a cast to protect and stabilize the bones while they heal (addressing the cause).

approved, safe, and without consequences. Our government, regulatory agencies, and pharmaceutical industry are very closely interconnected. The government agencies are now dependent on the pharmaceutical companies to fund them. The approval of new drugs is no longer independent, it is bought and paid for. You ask your doctor about the advertised product, and he quotes to you what his pharmaceutical rep told him - the promises, selected testimonials, and hope for a Quick Fix. The false hope of the Quick Fix is one of the worst things a person in pain can receive.

You believe the doctor, s/he is the licensed professional who swore the Hippocratic Oath! It is their duty to help, their mission! They know, because they have gone to school, because there is an MD beside their name. This is where you need to reconsider your thinking. We are living in an information age and thanks to the Internet, you have access to most of the knowledge of the world. Scientific research is a quickly growing field. New studies are being added every day, and your doctor cannot possibly read it all. The balance of power is shifting - you can now know as much about your options as your health professional. So, ask yourself, who has more commitment to your health, you, or your doctor?

According to Dr. Davis: “The growth in medical information means that the education your doctor received during medical school and training is dusty, moth-ridden, and obsolete. Information doubled every 50 years in 1950, every 7 years in 1980, and every 3.5 years in 2010. If current trends continue, it will double every 73 days by 2020. And information growth is not just within medicine but also in other areas that impact human health, such as toxicology, due to the proliferation of industrial toxins in the environment that disrupt endocrine health and increase risk for cancer, or environmental science and urban planning, since city noise, smog, congestion, and stress all affect various aspects of health. No living human can keep up with the information load and hope to provide up-to-date health care, no matter how smart, how hardworking, how fancy their equipment, or how many operating rooms they have.” (Undoctored, 2017)

This literally means that you have access to the same information as your medical provider. To get well, against the odds of rising toxicity, you really must get informed through independent sources, and invest in researching the best options yourself. We are not suggesting that you should treat yourself based on any random information you find online - you must understand the perspective and bias of the publisher. Many websites promote the narrow perspective of the company that wants to sell you on their view of the world, to promote their product. The irony is not lost on us - we do offer solutions that offer an alternative to standard medical care. We have done our best to compile the most current information for you, so at the very least you have a clear starting point.

Understand that your doctor is the salesperson in the drug distribution industry. You are not getting income from your treatment, s/he does. They are being educated by the pharmaceutical companies, influenced to sell you their products, expected and incentivized to display their posters and fliers in the waiting room for bored, sad, sick, and vulnerable patients to read while they are waiting to spend money on another appointment to get a prescription for a drug that does not address the root cause of their health problem.

The truth that people in this system are not willing to admit is that doctors often don’t know how to help. It is not that they don’t really want to, but when it comes to chronic inflammatory disease, they very often have no idea. Medical schools don’t dedicate enough time to educate their students about prevention or nutrition; they teach them to treat with pharmaceutical medications and surgeries. They are not teaching the functional approach that leads to Root Cause Resolution. They teach diagnosis and treatment through prescription or surgery.

Research is emerging about many modern diseases and their complex causes that are beyond the reach of the medical myth of the Silver Bullet, the One Thing that can make the illness go away. One thing is certain - none of the pain is caused by a deficiency of Ibuprofen or Xanax. It is challenging for medical professionals to keep up with all the new research and evidence (if they try to keep their education up to date). Unless you visit a highly educated specialist, your doctor probably has only a general idea about your specific issue. Nutritional therapists are often ridiculed for not being doctors, but they may know more about your specific needs than many medical professionals. And that is a shame, considering how high of a pedestal we put our doctors on, isn’t it?