Do you want to BE well, or do you want to GET well? Alternative medicine approaches your body from the viewpoint of taking care of yourself so that you don’t get sick, and Western medicine says, I’ll treat you when you do get sick.
The alternative approach is don’t eat chemicals, cut down on the toxic overload in our homes and products, exercise, boost your immune system, meditate, de-stress…do what it takes to live in such a way that disease will not find a foothold in your body. Give your body, mind and emotions the support, nutrition and lifestyle that is conducive to health and happiness, and you will remain well.
Western medicine has X-Ray machines and MRI’s to find your disease. They have powerful drugs, knives and scalpels with which to cut it out, or drug the symptoms with. When you have lived however you want to live, eaten whatever you have wanted to, then Western medicine will name your excess toxin for you: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease or cancer. They can’t cure it, but they’ve gotten good at ‘treating’ your symptoms with drugs or cutting it out of you.
Were you aware there are actually places in the world where there is no disease? There are people who live to be very old, and who are healthy until their last days. In those cultures, there is no heart disease, no cancer, no arthritis, no high blood pressure or cholesterol. It is not their genes. It is not luck. It is their lifestyle and what they eat. People from these cultures who move to areas with Westernized diets and lifestyles, get just as sick, and die just as early as the Westerners themselves!
The people in the cultures where there is no disease get moderate exercise everyday. They eat fresh fruit, vegetables, meats and dairy that have not seen pesticides, antibiotics, additives, dyes, hormones, animal by-products, chemicals, microwaves or genetic modification. They drink fresh water that does not have fluoride or chlorine in it. They do not watch the evening news, talk shows, political debates, football, or reality shows. They watch sunrises and sunsets, their children, loved ones and wildlife.
What is your choice? You cannot drug a body back to health! If you give your body anything other than what it was created with or needs to sustain life, your body recognizes it as a foreign material. This triggers a response by your immune system.
What can trigger this response in your body? Anything manufactured in a lab, processed, micro-waved, chemically altered, genetically modified, pasteurized, hydrogenated, homogenized, dyed, enriched, or overcooked, is considered a toxin by the body and the immune system will attack it, neutralize it, swallow it, metabolize it and try to eliminate it. When it can no longer eliminate the toxic overload, it produces a reaction that we know as disease. Disease is too many toxins and not enough nutrition.
Eat foods that are really food and your body will use it to keep you nourished and well. That means foods that have not been fiddled with by food manufacturers. Instead of drinking orange juice from a carton, eat an orange. Stop slathering chemicals and toxins onto your body, inhaling clouds of chemical vapors and ingesting chemical cocktails commonly known as prescription or over the counter drugs.
You too have a choice. Why would you choose to GET well, when your alternative is to BE well?
