Breakthroughs in Alternative Health!

INTRODUCTION

Perhaps the best way to view alternative health is through the TYPE of benefits it brings. First, conventional medicine today is largely concerned with treating a disease after it has first made its appearance. One of the major concerns with alternative health is empowering the individual to be proactive, and to protect himself by trying to prevent disease. Major elements of this approach is to deal with the predictable declines of aging, or to try to prevent or minimize potential hereditary diseases or known environmentally-caused diseases.

Second, alternative health is concerned with using treatments and supplements which are less harmful than those provided by conventional medicine. It is a well-understood fact by those in the medical community that one of the leading causes of death today is drug interactions while in hospital. Thus, simply minimizing the number of prescription drugs one is taking could actually be a life-saving factor for when one is hopsitalized with serious problems. Also, many prescription drugs have burdensome side-effects, and being able to replace these drugs with less-dangerous herbal and alternative treatments provides life-style benefits.

Third, alternative health is concerned with using exploratory treatments for serious and life-threatening diseases for which there is no good treatment, or for which the treatment imposes serious harm itself.

Below are only some of the treatments which alternative health provides today.

Note, I have many more items to list here (and I've been slacking off on posting them). However, I will be making an effort to get more of them uploaded in 2005.

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