Autoimmune Disease and Alternative Medicine by Robin Lee Zaft
Full article here: http://www.plexuschangeyourlife.com/autoimmune-alternativemedicine/
I found the most amazing article, that I believe every single person who is immune system -impaired, should read. The title is:
http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/07/30/how-to-stop-attacking-yourself-9-step...
I am going to quote and discuss a few of the more important facts in the article. But I hope you will read the entire piece, because there is a reason it was #2 in the Google search! Let’s start with this, in a nutshell: “Autoimmune disease conditions are connected by one central biochemical process: A runaway immune response also known as systemic inflammation. “ (sic) Conventional physicians are trained to shut off inflammation with medication, but are not trained to find and treat the underlying causes of inflammation in chronic disease and are not addressing the cause. Functional (alternative) medicine is a different way of thinking about disease that teaches us to treat the cause, not only the symptoms and to ask the question WHY are you sick, not only WHAT disease do you have.”
If the medical community as such, does not care to repair the cause, then alternative medicine treatments should definitely be considered. Does alternative medicine work? Think about this- there’s no such thing as “alternative medicine“. If you try a new approach, and you find that a therapy works, it’s good medicine. And if a therapy doesn’t work, then it’s not an alternative for you. It doesn’t matter if it “approved” or not. If it works for you or not is the only thing that matters.
From the article: “(My patients’) results simply reflect the application of a new model of thinking about problems called functional medicine — it’s a way to get to the root of health problems and treat the underlying causes of what ails you instead of suppressing symptoms with medications.” Read more at link above.
