Time and Money

The answer is the two biggest concerns we all have ­ Time and Money. With all the "time-saving" devices we are inundated by today, one would think we would have more time on our hands to take care of more things, such as our health . . . but we don't. Few people seek out professional advice for health concerns because they can't fit it into their schedules, they think their symptoms will go away, or they realize "health care" is out of the hands of the doctors and into the hands of the administrators, so why bother anyway.

This way of thinking is strongly supported by our current healthcare system, or better yet, crisis-care system. Chronic or long-term conditions are ignored or suppressed until they are crisis situations, then something is done about them. This is not an efficient system.

The truth is, if you don't take care of your health now, your body will make you take care of it by giving you a bunch of symptoms or worse yet, a disease or end-stage pathology. Then, with an emergency room mentality, a drastic measure is applied to this treatable chronic condition which is now very acute and critical. As an example, one of the well-known predispositions to breast cancer is something termed estrogen dominance.

Being well supported in the research literature, one would think this would be assessed and treated, but sometimes it is just easier to not even ask the question. So the crisis care system would rather wait until breast cancer shows up so they can perform a several thousand-dollar removal of the cancer and put the patient of tamoxofin for the rest of their lives. But maybe all they needed was some hormone balancing and an inexpensive liver detoxification program, to help the liver metabolize the estrogens through the Phase I and Phase II liver enzyme detoxification pathways, and excrete them out of the body so they will stop supersaturating the estrogen receptor sites. If the liver is unable to carry out the steps of the detoxification process all the way to the production of the nontoxic estriol, estrone and/or estriol can build up, and in susceptible women it increases the risk of breast or endometrial cancer. But who has the time to look into their Phase I and Phase II liver detoxification pathways? Everyone does now, from the comfort of your very own computer.

Time, we feel, is something we are constantly running out of. But time is one of the few things we truly have each and every day. Sorry to philosophize, but these days everyone has a computer, usually more than one. And if you do not, you have a public library, a near-by college, or a friend who does. E-health is not only a vehicle of the future, it is happening right now. Now, you can even visit your doctor while you are at work, I won't tell your boss. You don't have to wait six or eight weeks to get in, you don't have to take time off work, you don't have to find a babysitter, you don't have to fight traffic getting to the clinic, and you don't have to sit in a waiting room.

Money is the next issue. Health care costs are at an all time high. We spend a trillion dollars on health care every year, so are we any healthier? No, we are sicker than ever. We have virtually eradicated such infectious diseases as small pox, polio and the like. What are killing us today are the degenerative diseases such as heart disease, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, etc.

Most of the money spent in cancer research has been on finding what drug will stop cancer once it has started; they are looking for a silver bullet. Cancer, although, is a multi-factorial condition so a silver-bullet will probably not be found. What would make more sense would be to research how diet, nutrition, lifestyle, and environmental factors can help the body heal itself, and possibly even prevent it in the first place. But guess what happens...nobody makes money.

There are too many people high up making too much money for a system like this to just go away overnight. My intention is not to talk badly about pharmaceutical health care; it serves a very definite purpose. I am not going to go to the acute cardiac wing of a hospital and start talking to them about coenzyme Q10; it's too late for that. My point is that, crisis care modalities for chronic illnesses is not a cost-effective system.

By providing our services over the web, we have much less overhead than we do in our clinics, which affords us the opportunity to keep the costs of our services relatively low. We receive the lab kits directly from the laboratory and the nutritional supplements, herbs, homeopathics, etc., directly from the manufacturers which allows us to keep the prices down because there is no middleman.

We are, of course, are more than happy to see you in one of our clinics if you are in southern California, but one of our main purposes of getting on the web is to reach those who do not have a holistic doctor down the street.