Optimal Health With Little or No Medication. (1 of 5)

Many of my patients have asked me how they can become healthier (optimal health). The answer to that all important question is really quite simple. But for many not so easy to accomplish.

Our health is a compilation of our lifestyle habits. Bad habits generally lead to poor results and good habits generally lead to good results. Results being your health and happiness.

**NEWSFLASH**

Sickness and disease is not the result of a prescription drug shortage.

In a recent article published in the Dynamic Chiropractic, September 14, 2006 issue, they report the high cost of medical mistakes can increasingly be calculated in lives and dollars. According to the latest estimates from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). a staggering 1.5 million Americans are the victims of medication errors every year, with approximately 400,000 of these errors considered preventable. "The frequency of medication errors and preventable medication related injuries represents a very serious cause for concern," states the report. "The committee estimates that on average, a hospital patient is subject to at least one least one medication error per day  ... at least one quarter of all medication-related injuries are preventable." Those errors contributed directly to injury and/or death."

In 2003, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggested that 27% of all adverse drug events experienced by Medicare patients 65 and older were preventable, and that "most" were attributed to medical doctor error.

Don't be fooled by medical doctors when they tell you that a certain drug has no side effects because all drugs have side effects. Anything that is put into our body that the body does not recognize as food is a foreign substance (drug). At that point the body does everything it can to filter out that substance and remove it from your body. This puts an undue strain on the filters (kidneys and liver) in your body. Most, over 50%, kidney failures a directly caused by prescription medication.

In my opinion we need to severely reduce the amount of drugs prescribed. Americans are the most medicated society on the planet.

In my next post learn how achieve optimal health with little of no medication through regular Chiropractic care.

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