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How To Reduce Your Medical Costs.

We used to have doctors that actually liked people. They had a passion to help others, to heal the sick, to be of service.
No more.
Today’s doctors like money. They go to medical school because of money. They serve their internships because of money. They “stack” their patients because of money. If you insist on spending more than 20 minutes with one, he’ll become nervous and irritated because secretly he wants to get to his next patient.
And if he works out of an office, it’s jammed with people. This isn’t because he’s popular but because he “stacks’ his patients, causing a backlog. This way if there is a cancellation he can easily fill the hole in his schedule, and keep a continuous flow of patients helping him make his next Mercedes payment.
Doctors aren’t interested in cures or preventative medicine; they’re interested in the cash that comes from illness. For this reason you’ll seldom hear the word nutrition spoken with any real seriousness. Instead you’ll get pills to swallow. Lots of pills. Expensive pills.
But what astounds me is I keep bumping into people who are well acquainted with doctors and their drugs but know very little about nutrition.
The basics of nutrition are: vitamins, minerals / trace elements, and Omega fatty acids. Depending on who you read and listen to, it’s estimated that proper nutrition will prevent 80% of illnesses.
The principle: if given the proper materials, the body will always try to rebuild itself, to heal itself.
Nutrition builds health.

How To Begin

Vitamins. You get what you pay for in vitamins. Spend the money and get vegetable derived ones. For example, you want your calcium from broccoli, not clam shells, your vitamin C from rose hips, not ascorbic acid.
Whole Foods sells excellent vitamins. Go and ask. Study.

Minerals and trace elements. We need small amounts of chromium, zinc, selenium, etc. I buy kelp powder and make my own pills. Kelp (seaweed) contains all of the trace elements. Kelp tablets are available, but they aren’t nearly as good.

Omega fatty acids. I purchase fish oil pills at Costco and swallow one each day with food.

There is lots else, of course, such as getting enough fiber (vegetables) in your diet, cutting sugar, and spending time reducing stress. But if you begin with the three above, then get on the net and learn about nutrition, your doctor will have to find someone else to pay his golf course green fees.
Remember: the body will always try to heal itself; it needs the proper materials to do so. Nutrition builds health.
Grimgold