Today I’m seeing patients with multiple ailments for which they are taking multiple medications. Many of them have taken it as a part of their life until they struck with an ailment that is seemingly incurable like a cancer or an autoimmune disease. But do we have to wait till that wakeup call?
Suffering from a lifestyle disease is expensive, not just in terms of the cost of medication and doctors consultations and tests, but also the long-term effects on our body of these, the complications of disease, and the days feeling not your best.
It is our body’s duty to create symptoms in order to let us know that we are doing something wrong. It is then up to us to recognise how we need to change. Therefore, it’s better not to remove symptoms with medicines, because the symptoms are our only guide to understand how to change. If we make the correct changes they will go and if not, they will continue to guide us.
We’ve been conditioned into a culture of disease, constantly seeking external solutions. True healing, however, comes from shifting to a culture of health. This requires both lifestyle changes and a shift in mindset.
After all, we cannot solve a problem by continuing the same lifestyle that created it.
