Why Doctors Don’t Know

You can’t always blame your doctor for lack of effective diabetes treatments, since doctors only knows what they were taught in medical school. Most medical doctors were trained to treat symptoms with drugs, rather than using natural nutrients for prevention. Your doctor likely devoted many years of his or her life, and a great deal of money, getting a medical degree.

If an M.D. chose to use a natural therapy (unapproved by the American Medical Association), he or she could help save a life… yet jeopardize their license to practice medicine in doing so. Conversely, if a patient dies as the result of a therapy or drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it would be considered perfectly acceptable (since the doctor followed “proper protocol”).

Avoiding disease by prevention obviously makes much more sense, and thus should be our first line of defense, as well as the primary objective of medicine.

A friend of mine once told me, her doctor indicated that he was taking a statin (cholesterol lowering) drug just for prevention, even though his cholesterol was not elevated. He suggested that she also take the drug just for prevention.

That is definitely not preventative medicine! (Because statin drugs — like virtually all other medications — have a long list of serious “side effects”… definitely NOT something you want to gamble with your health.)

She decided that a change of doctors was in order (a wise decision, I might add).

Another concern regarding modern medicine today is the approximate 7-10 minutes many clinics allot doctors to spend with their patients, and they normally schedule appointments accordingly. It’s obviously very profitable, and certainly makes good business sense… but what about the patients’ welfare?

Although it doesn’t take long to write a prescription, it would normally take a medical doctor considerably longer to adequately diagnose and properly resolve a particular health issue, as well as evaluating the potential interactions of the drugs the patient might already be taking.

Most natural practitioners normally spend approximately one hour on the patient’s first visit, and allow approximately thirty minutes on follow up visits. This approach may not be nearly as profitable, but is obviously much more effective. The same also applies to natural supplements versus drugs. The ingredients in natural supplements normally cost more than prescription drugs for the company, although they sell for far less to the consumer.

Serious Implications Associated With Many Drugs

I believe that many doctors are totally unaware of the serious implications associated with many of the drugs they prescribe daily.

The drug commercials imply that your doctor will know if you should be using their particular drug, and that he is basically an authority with all the answers. They then focus on convincing your doctor that many patients could benefit from their drug (even for unapproved uses).

There are more drugs being continually added, and many are just variations of the same basic class of drug. Although similar, they often vary in potency and potential for interactions with other drugs.

Unfortunately, your doctor is normally so busy with his practice, and dealing with many different patients on a daily basis that he has very little time left to research or evaluate the “side effects” of drugs, and the interactions of multiple drugs.

Natural medicine is in my opinion a true science, as the basic ingredients normally used were created by Our Creator, (who is much more brilliant than man), and whose major concern is our welfare, rather than the most profitable solution. Natural foods are far more complex than any drug produced in a laboratory, and organic (as is our body)… and therefore much less harmful to our bodies.

We must basically decide where we will place our trust, in man or in Our Creator who also created our body. He is obviously in a far better position to understand our body’s needs, and has provided many natural resources for our benefit.

Our body always knows exactly what it is doing and why. The only thing we need to concern ourselves with is providing adequate resources to allow it to do the job it was very efficiently designed by Our Creator to do. We must stop trying to second-guess our body’s intentions by using drugs to override our body’s very efficient functions.

Modern medicine seems to hypothesize that our body somehow has some major design flaws that must be suppressed and controlled at all costs through the use of high-tech drugs.

Our bodies were obviously designed to withstand a tremendous amount of abuse, but there is a limit. Unfortunately, we sometimes exceed that threshold, and many diseases continue to evolve as a result.

This basic problem will not go away unless we drastically change our course of action. One thing that should be obvious to all of us is: We cannot continue doing the same things, and somehow expect to get different results!

- Dr. David W. Tanton