The first thing to understand is medicine is not healthcare, it is sickness care. You are taking the medicine because you are sick, not because you are healthy. Nutrition, giving the body what it needs, is healthcare.
"The disease treatment paradigm accepted by conventional medical practitioners creates a crisis management mentality.
Individuals receive the most health care not while healthy but when in dire straits, often after arriving at the emergency room suffering from a serious ailment. It is at that time when the individual is least able to fend for him or herself and is most willing to accept any medical recommendation in the hopes of recovery.
It is at that time when individuals are most vulnerable to the foibles of modern medicine: to receipt of a wrong diagnosis, to receipt of a dangerous prescription drug, and to receipt of the wrong intervention. Rationality gives way to urgent need.
Moreover, the entire paradigm for medicine, from the local clinic to the FDA drug approval process depends on drug interventions for the treatment of disease and symptoms of disease. The approach often avoids a cure in favor of masking signs and symptoms of disease in the hope that the body will cure itself.
While youthful patients can fare well with recovery, older ones do not ordinarily. While we depend on nutrients to repair and restore the body to normal, modern medicine views dietary supplementation and nutritional interventions with a jaundiced eye, albeit increasingly more conventional practitioners are coming to realize that they must embrace nutrition.
Dr. Joanne Conaway offers a different approach. Dr. Conaway recognizes that longevity is dependent upon healthy interventions that are best adopted when we are not in extremis but when we are still on our own two feet and that those interventions depend upon vigilant application throughout life. Dr. Conaway prescribes changes in diet and lifestyle, with a particular emphasis on gut health.
She seeks to empower the individual to transform his or her own health without heavy reliance on crisis intervention from conventional medicine.
She is not an enemy of conventional medicine, having been conventionally trained and experienced, but she is very definitely a friend of natural medicine.
In particular, she wants to enable each of us, through education about wise food, supplementation, and lifestyle choices, to correct the dire course America now experiences through informed self-help."
- Jonathan W. Emord
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