Upon reading the title of today’s post, you may be wondering what a medication deficiency is. Actually, I don’t know myself, but judging from the way the majority of doctors practice and the way the majority of people live their lives, apparently any symptom you can name is a sure indication of a medication deficiency.
While there are exceptions, if you visit almost any medical doctor these days and report any kind of symptoms, you are almost guaranteed to walk out of the doctor’s office with a prescription for one or more medications. Generally the medications are directed at symptom suppression as opposed to actually assisting the body in healing itself, so I must assume that most medical doctors believe that all health problems are simply a matter of medication deficiency.
This belief appears to now have carried over to the beliefs of many people. When they experience symptoms of any kind, the “normal” thing to do is grab some over the counter medication, go to the doctor to get prescription medication, or obtain prescription medication that a friend or family member has leftover from when he or she suffered from the same “deficiency”.
Give the right medication to alleviate the deficiency (suppress the symptoms) and all will be well. Or will it?
Most medications have side-effects. But wait a minute! Side-effects are just symptoms. We’ve been talking about how doctors believe symptoms are just an indication of a medication deficiency. All you have to do is take OTHER medication to fix those medication deficiencies that the first medication produced.
For example, let’s say you have arthritis. This obviously means you must have a deficiency of anti-inflammatory medication. But the anti-inflammatory medication produces stomach problems. Now worries, this just means you now have a deficiency of acid-blocking medication. Get yourself some purple pills, and you’re all set. Uh-oh, the purple pills caused you to develop high blood pressure. Well, then all you have to do is get some blood pressure medication to fix that deficiency. No problem!
Wow, it’s a good thing we have all these medications available to fix all those deficiencies we get, isn’t it?
The forgoing was of course written “tongue in cheek”, but all too often it is exactly how people manage their health. It is time that people become more aware of how to maintain health naturally, rather than using one toxic medication to cover up the side-effects of another.
The chain reaction of using one medication to counter the side-effects of another builds as people get older and develop more and more symptoms so that by the time they are in their 60′s and older, most people have a shopping bag full of medications that they take on a daily basis. Despite (or actually because of) taking 10, 15, and sometimes 20 or more different medications each day, these people still feel terrible! In my experience, many of these people can start feeling much better within a few days simply by eliminating (using appropriate withdrawl precautions) all non-essential medications (and with few exceptions, most medication is non-essential).
Medications are necessary in some cases, but the vast majority of medication used is not healthy when used as a long-term fix. With resonably good lifestyle habits, the vast majority of people can live in comfort and health (at least the vast majority of the time) with no medication at all.
Imagine that!