Remnantmd on Nostr: What makes allopathic medicine (MD) different from most 'alternative' medicine? MDs ...

What makes allopathic medicine (MD) different from most 'alternative' medicine?

MDs often (not always) come to management decisions on the basis that the body is wrong, and it needs to be intervened on. Be corrected.

Most popular alternative medicines take a different approach.

IMO, the over-riding motifs within alternative practices of medicine are:

-we are not giving the body something it needs
-we are doing something wrong to our body
-both of the above, but to the mind
-and don't forget the soul

This is very different than MDs

We can appreciate this difference:

-your blood pressure is too high
-your blood sugar is too high
-your blood cholesterol is too high
-your [insert organ] is dysfunctional

Most of the solutions proposed are aimed at correcting the measurable manifestation of the problem.

Despite what most MDs are taught...they do, in fact, treat the numbers.

Blood pressure? Treat the #

Blood sugar? Treat the #

Cholesterol? #

We will stick to these 3 for arguments sake.

All of them are prescribed drugs.

Until they aren't enough, and you need surgery.

Nobody stops to think:

-What is accounting for the tension in the body to cause hypertension?

-How am I causing my body to be resistant to insulin?

-Why is my body needing to pump out so much cholesterol?

Your body isn't stupid. It knows what it is doing, very well!

You want to believe that you know more about your body, than your body?

Your body has billions of years of evolved wisdom.

Your mind, not so much.

Even your doctor. Definitely not smarter than your body.

Then, after the medication you are prescribed masks the symptoms without addressing the problem.

Inevitably, the problem gets worse. But you have silenced the feedback mechanism your body was using.

And if your doctor is 'smart,' the drug also adjusts your lab values.

Mask the symptoms ✅
Normalize the labs ✅

Congratulations, now you have no way of knowing if the underlying problem is getting worse or better.

That is until the problem builds-up.

Over years and years.

Until one day...you need something new.

Unexpectedly, the blood pressure and cholesterol you have been masking has contributed to coronary artery disease.

Even the vessels in your brain are getting narrowed.

You have a stroke, or a heart attack.

Now, you need surgery!

Alternatively, all the toxins and inflammation you have been inflicting on your body eventually causes a tumor to form.

Now, we need to cut our a body part.

Irradiate your body.

Inject chemotoxins into your bloodstream.

I think you get it.

Look, I don't like to talk about my profession in this manner.

It's just something that I have been coming to terms with, and trying to understand how we can correct our path.

No matter how bad, we should always strive to improve what we love doing.