Perhaps you are asking the wrong person that question.....
And despite all those "therapies"....how many of us enjoy good health today without the "need" for drugs? Mental health issues are now more prevalent than ever....drugs have a lot to do with this problem. Psych units are overburdened and staff at risk from those who are damaged by mind altering substances, turning violent.
Advances mostly involving the use of ongoing drug treatments, which so often have such adverse side effects that people are prescribed more drugs to cope with them.....its a joke. Is mitigation all that can be hoped for? Why not cures? Why just make treating symptoms the whole box and dice? Isn't that about making sure that your business plan is successful?
One clinician lamented the changes he has seen in his medical career.....
"What has led to such changes? A new factor is affecting health care in ways that would never have been anticipated: medicine has become a business. This has occurred because of hefty drug costs, decreasing reimbursements from insurance companies and Medicare/Medicaid, increasing regulatory burdens, the loss of cross-subsidization to cover the uninsured, and the need to treat a larger number and proportion of uninsured patients requiring more specialized and costly services. This fiscal aspect has so permeated medical practice and patient care that, to younger physicians, it goes unnoticed. In the real world of medicine, speed and efficiency using modern technology are the priorities, because the cost of health care and the very salaries of the health care personnel depend on it.
The effects are profound. Physicians are now “providers,” guided by case managers who decide on the length of “client” hospital stays, and professionals in business suits, not white coats, determine health care policy. Responsibility for patient care is now diffused among multiple providers with no single person willing or able to assume final responsibility for the patient. As a result, when decisions are made, the patient becomes confused and feels caught in the middle. It is no wonder that malpractice litigations and the use of alternative medicine have grown so dramatically."
https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(04)00303-8/fulltext
When medicine became a business, patient care went out the window.
Auto-immune disorders (like rheumatoid arthritis) of many different sorts are surfacing today with the medical profession scratching their heads about what causes them and with no idea how to treat them....except with drugs. These often cause more problems than they solve, introducing synthetic chemicals into an already struggling body.
There are very basic causes of ill health that are associated with the diets of many western countries. The emphasis is not on the nutritional value of food but on shelf life. To ensure that food stays "fresher" longer, (to increase profits and avoid waste) they have to remove every living organism in that food. Living food, packed with fiber is what humans are designed to eat. Sufficient enzymes and good gut bacteria are essential for good digestion. The food bought in the average supermarket is basically dead.
Even fruits and vegetables are stored for long periods in cold storage, diminishing vitamin content. Vital mineral content is missing because the agricultural methods of mass production deplete the soil of minerals which are then enriched with artificial fertilizers and contaminated with poisonous pesticides. If ever there was a system designed to rob its population of good health...its the food industry. Add fast food and you can sign more death certificates.
May I ask what field you retired from?
I too have a friend treated for prostate cancer. His was in the early stages (fortunately) and he has no interest in natural medicines so he went down the orthodox route.
He has erectile dysfunction and incontinence as a result of the surgery. He is alive, but his quality of life is severely diminished.
I wish he'd had the option of trying whole plant cannabis (not the synthesized stuff being produced in labs that is useless) then he may have been able to defeat the disease and still have a good quality of life. But no one knows, because of the demonization of a harmless plant that may reduce pharmaceutical company revenues by a large margin. Watch them now make their expensive synthetic fake version and then claim that its useless.
Perhaps it is you getting the same propaganda that has been around for decades. Time to wake up I think. Doctors and nurses get their information from the wrong sources I believe....a system designed to make it appear as if they are doing "all they can", when not much is being accomplished in reality. All those medical "breakthroughs" that we see on the news, that will be available in ten years....never materialize. No one seems to notice.
It is true that there are genetic factors in disease, but even in the area of gene therapy, a lot is being mooted but not much is really happening.
It is always good to prevent ill health, but we live in a system that is deliberately designed to make us sick. What medicine can "cure" would fit into a thimble compared to what they "treat" with expensive medication.
I have diabetes in my family.....I know about type one....more than I want to. Type two is a different story. My brother-in-law has type two....he is a 'junkfoodaholic' and always has been. I have friends who also have type two, they are obese and love their junk food as well. People who eat a healthy diet don't usually get type two diabetes. There is nothing to exhaust their pancreas so it doesn't shut down.
Calling it "Type 2 Diabetes" somehow makes it sound like you have a disease that you can't help......that is not true. It can be reversed and cured by diet alone. I have read the testimonies of many people who have accomplished it. Why doesn't the medical profession tell people that? No drugs huh?
That is not what I have found in my own research. I am hypoglycemic and can control my sugar levels well with diet alone.
Hyperglycemia can be the result of stress affecting hormones. If it is an ongoing problem, (cause unknown) it is treated the same as type one diabetes.
I believe that diet is implicated in the majority of type two cases however.
The medical profession is a poor source of nutritional information. Its not just about calories and salt.
The infamous "low fat" craze that swept the world resulted in more obesity than ever before....and in the sale of "low fat" products. The medical profession were warning people about the dangers of fat. Butter and healthy saturated oils (like coconut oil) were seen to be the culprits in heart disease....so margarine and polyunsaturated fats were touted as beneficial to health.....nothing could have been further from the truth.
We need healthy fats in our diet to regulate our metabolism. Sugar was much more of a problem which was added in copious quantities to low fat foods to make them more palatable. There is no one more gullible than Mr and Mrs General Public. Funny thing is...they never seem to wake up.
Yes the right kind of medicine...working with the body with natural remedies....not assaulting it with artificial chemicals that make it reject what you are putting into it. What do you think side effects are?
Again, if you eat a healthy diet, rich in fiber and whole foods, (organically grown,) you are less prone to any digestive problems. Good gut flora is essential as well as digestive enzymes if they are lacking due to a poor diet.
I have a natural therapist who can diagnose any of those issues noninvasively. She has been spot on in her diagnoses over the ten years I have been going to her. Iridology is an amazing thing though not her only diagnostic tool. The eyes tell all. Her natural remedies have been used by my family with great success ever since.
As a teenager, my daughter had bouts where she was violently sick. Doctors could not find the cause of the problem. Taking her to a natural therapist traced the problem to an unhappy gall bladder and she was given herbal treatment, she has not had another attack since.
In my own experience, the medical profession is needlessly hamstrung by the system that trains them. What they would consider "quackery" has worked for us in ways that the orthodox system never could.
