Maintaining our health in today’s environment

We have created this blog in order to share information to the public as a health service to address health issues that many of us have.  It is our belief that simply relying on physicians to cure our ailments in today’s world environment is asking a lot from physicians whom are already overburdened, underpaid and trying to financially keep their businesses profitable.  The options out there for better health are many and we will talk about them.

One of the subject matters we will put a great deal of emphasis on is cancer.  It is just astonishing that cancer is still accelerating in numbers unthinkable 20 years ago.  They say that one out of every three men will have cancer within their lifetime and women suffer from breast cancer one in seven now.  How can this be?  We have spent trillions of dollars on research and we are making such small strides in a devastating disease that not just affects the patient, but friends and family also.  Every single person knows someone who either has cancer or had cancer.  What is this all about?  How could the United States still not have permanent cures for cancer?.  We have remissions, but cures?  Not many when you look at the overall cancer population.  Every city we drive into has huge, big cancer centers.

The multitude of diseases that people face in our society is a whole another issue.  People are really sick and getting sicker.  If a physician actually gives a physical to a patient that does not have an ailment, it is really rare.  We can classify obesity, diabetes, auto-immune diseases, viral infections, bacterial infections, heart attacks, infertility, the list goes on and on.  What is really troubling is our youth today is not well.  Their nutrition is poor, exercise almost non existent and colds, flu, childhood disease on the rise.

Yes, we have come up with some amazing technology for diagnosing disease and drugs to treat them.  We have so many drugs on the market it is difficult to name them all.  Drugs do save lives and we can be thankful for them.  However, the overuse of drugs is incrediable.  Some patients are taking a multitude of different drugs with interactions to match.  There are alot of questions and perhaps we can get to the bottom of what is really going on!  Comments are welcome and discussions will start shortly.