You've Got To Be Healthy To Take Your Medicine.

By now, I'm sure we have all seen the pharmaceutical drug ads on television and in magazines touting the benefits of their medicine. However, at the end of those ads they go on to list the common side effects of their medication, which are often dangerous and would seem to outweigh its potential benefit.

I am referring to such medications as:
Nexium
Lipitor
Paxil
Lamasil
Imitrex
Wellbutrin
Cellebrex

I wonder how the use of such prescribed "magic bullets" square with the dictum attributed to Hippocrates in "doing no harm" to the patient. When viewing these pharmaceutical commercials, I often conclude that the treatment seems more debilitating than the original problem. That's why I say you have to be really healthy to take your medicine.

Doctors are good at diagnosing disease and they are trained to treat people when they become ill. But have you ever asked yourself: Who can help me to avoid becoming ill in the first place? Who are the prevention experts?

It is commonly said that 85-95 percent of all illness is related to our lifestyle and personal habits. You would think that lifestyle and personal habits are something that we can control. But do we? It seems that many of us are incapable of changing those lifestyle issues even when it is for our own good. And when those lifestyle choices inevitably lead to illness, we are only left with the hope that the doctor's "magic bullet" can make us healthy once more.

Why is it easier for us to believe in another man's "magic bullet" rather than taking personal responsibility for our own health? It is my guess that only 1-5 percent of the population will take the more challenging path of personal initiative to educate and reform their behaviors concerning prevention and self-care.

The lifestyle choices we make and the nutrition we take are important topics in this context of prevention and self-care. A famous scientist once said,

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature. The living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the Mother-of-all-Life. When correctly used, herbs promote the elimination of waste matter and poisons from the system, by simple natural means. They support nature in its fight against disease, while chemicals, not being assimilable, add to the accumulation of morbid matter and only simulate improvement by 'suppressing' the symptoms."
-Thomas Edison

I encourage you to be among the 1 to 5 percent who want to be in control of their own health and not entrust it to others. Keep up with future posts to this blog on your RSS Reader by subscribing to its RSS feed on the Sidebar under Feed Frenzy. Until next time, Live Well and Be Healthy.

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Nexium | Lipitor | Paxil | Lamasil | Imitrex | Wellbutrin | Celebrex | Thomas Edison