01/30/2019
Conventional medicine likes to label disorders, but often labels are meaningless. They tell us what disease we have, but they don’t say why we have it or even more importantly, how we can really treat it – other than prescribing a pill for every ill. One disease can have many, many different causes, all of which manifest the same symptoms.
Unfortunately, this approach or method of thinking is outdated, increasingly useless, and often dangerous. In some ways, it’s even tyrannical. Once you have a label, you are put in the group of people who have the same label, and it is assumed you carry the attributes of this group.
But these labels or diagnoses are just names we associate with a collection of symptoms. This name has nothing to do with why you have those symptoms—with the root causes of the “disease.”
We are all unique, biochemically and genetically, and have different responses to the same insults. We need to get out of the “name it, blame it, and tame it” game —the myth of diagnosis—and start thinking about how the body works, how to personalize our approach, and how to not suppress symptoms but to restore normal function.
