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Symptoms…Crucial
alarms!
“Modern medications and beauty products have conspired to eliminate (or mask) the most basic of bodily functions”. This is what many medical doctors like Dr. Miller, professor of medicine at the University of Michigan believe. “From upset stomachs to perspiration, society is bombarded with products designed to turn off alarms and leave us thinking our bodies are well”. Dr. Miller says taking drugs designed to mask symptoms is not only dangerous, but leave people uneducated about what symptoms are and how important they are in the healing process. “Many common symptoms are actually crucial physical functions and should be listened to and not interfered with”.
One of the best examples of this is a fever.
Although most people view fevers as bad things, they are in fact one of
the most important defense mechanisms the body has to fight bacterial invasions.
As the temperature rises in the body, the immune system shifts into high
gear to defend against and eliminate foreign substances.
More importantly, this rise in temperature creates an environment where
most bacteria and viruses cannot multiply.
Thus creating a situation more favorable for the body to fight the
foreign substance. Another poorly
understood symptom is nausea.
Dr. Miller teaches his medical students that “nausea is the stomach’s
way of alerting us of hidden problems such as infection, ulcers and other
disease processes”. Although doctors are taught the importance of symptoms,
advertising from pharmaceutical companies tell society to believe the opposite.
Drug companies, not health professionals have created the misconception
that having no symptoms means you are healthy and that the presence of a symptom
is bad and undesirable. In fact,
drug companies rely on and strengthen this misconception to sell their drugs. As unethical as this advertising is, what is even worse is
that this misconception results in tens of thousands of Canadians to die each
year from taking a drug that masks a symptom and allows the cause of the symptom
to continue. Symptoms are nothing
more than the body’s way of alerting us to a problem that needs to be
addressed…the symptom itself is never the problem.
The truth is, covering up any symptom with a drug such as Advil, Tylenol
Cold and Flu or Gravol does nothing to improve our health.
In fact, the definition of health as given by the World Health
Organization is “a state of optimum physical, mental and spiritual well-being,
not merely the absence of disease”. So
why do we associate a lack of symptoms or removing a symptom as being healthy
and healed? Simple.
Drug companies made a profit of $300 billion last year advertising that
pills can eliminate our symptoms and thus heal us.
Drug sales were the single most lucrative business on the planet last
year.
Every doctor knows that our body’s internal power, not drugs, is the reason we heal. And that this internal power is only optimum when nothing interferes with it. And like everything else in the body it is controlled by the nerve system. That being said, shouldn’t your spouse, child, sibling and neighbor get checked to ensure their nerve system is controlling their body properly. Without a doubt drugs can mask our symptoms but this does nothing to help or improve our health. In fact, drugs and medicine are now the third leading cause of preventable death on the planet! They killed over 40, 000 people in our country last year. Chiropractic adjustments work to remove interference with the nerve system and regain optimum health and healing in the body. Although chiropractic is not a treatment for any symptom or disease, once nerve pressure is removed the body is better able to heal any and all condition. So the next time you have a fever or an upset stomach, listen to your body, and do not shut it off with a drug, pill or potion.