Page 3 - Treating more than just symptoms

As many people reach their fifties, they start

developing more pain and more medical problems.

As evidence of this is the plethora of prescription

medicines that line their counter or fill their

medicine cabinet. After seeing their doctor, they are

given a pill for hypertension, arthritis, diabetes or

whatever problem the body seems to be currently

facing.

However, even though the prescribed

pharmaceuticals may help prevent the medical

problems from rapidly getting worse, they never

seem to bring you back to the state of health you

once had. As time passes, despite the

pharmaceutical intervention, your health and

general level of function decline. Have you ever

wondered why?

To understand this, we need to go back into

history. Until the twentieth century, one of the

leading causes of mortality was bacterial infections.

Many children did not survive childhood and the

average life span for a human being was

somewhere in the fifties at best. This changed with

the discovery of penicillin. Seen as a wonder drug,

penicillin could cure many bacterial infections.