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My Epiphany on Aging One rather typical day in my practice I suddenly experienced an epiphany. It started with a simple question sometime just before lunch. “What am I really doing here everyday?” The answer that came later that evening, opened my eyes and sparked this research project. Health Care or Disease Care? My honest answer was, that I was merely managing the symptoms of a diseased body”. Which then begged a second career-changing question, Am I a health care practitioner or disease care practitioner? I was doing very little to help improve the “health” of my patients, very little to promote healing, regeneration or restoration. I had been taught to manage the symptoms of disease and thus attempt to improve the quality of people’s lives. But I felt as though I was fighting only half the battle. Each disease was a symptom of a diseased body that would eventually  yield to disease in other areas. I felt like Lucille Ball and her friend Ethel during the episode where they were working on the chocolate conveyor belt. The belt speed increased and chocolates kept coming with nowhere to put them. By the end they had stuffed chocolates everywhere possible but failed to keep up with the demand.In my care of patients there is an almost palpable sense of disease picking up speed and this creates a perception of a body that is falling apart and with it, a crumbling quality of life. My patient’s stories motivated me to dedicate my career to help people regain their lost quality of life and stop the runaway train of degenerative disease. My research led to some shocking and yet exciting conclusions. Many of the degenerative diseases that we face today both at the individual and national levels are preventable and in fact reversible, pain can often be eliminated without medications, and we can live healthy high quality lives well into our 80’s, 90’s and beyond. Cause and Effect As the baby boomer population ages, a host of books, vitamins, potions and lotions, all promote the Anti-aging philosophy. This philosophy paints aging as the enemy of a high quality life. But, is aging really a liability to our quality of life? In reality, I consider aging a valuable asset  that we should diligently seek to acquire as much as possible! Degenerative disease and pain are the true enemies in the battle for a high quality of life and not aging. . It is important to understand that aging is not the direct cause of disease and arthritis. If aging were the direct cause of arthritis and disease then we all should suffer from the same degenerative diseases as we get older. Instead, I believe aging is associated with disease and it is through time, diet, habits, stress, accumulated injury, exposures, compensation, and genetic susceptibility that degenerative disease is planted, watered and eventually grows. . Disease is not always the inevitable consequence of living you often have to earn it. Examples are all around us I have encountered a number of people who have been able to age beautifully and gracefully with little or no disease and maintain a rich, high quality of life well into their nineties. In their lives, aging did not lead to the degenerative diseases and pain but instead to a sweet time in life enjoying the fruits of their labors and the great heritage of family. Join me on my quest Exceptional health and vitality are attainable. The science is known. By changing our lifestyles we can avoid many of the ailments of old age. We are fortunate enough to live in a time, and a country where the resources to turn back the clock are readily available. I invite you to join me in my quest to defeat the ravages of age. |
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