No I am not opening up a debate on Darwin.
That’s not my thing.
What is my thing?
My thing today is to discuss evolution in regards to health and wellness.
My thing today is to Challenge you to think about your health and wellness.
My thing today is to Challenge you to improve your health and wellness with as little if any prescription medications.
The way the world is going, every other day a new medication shortage is announced, or another new “scariant” is sensationalized.
Do you want to be at the mercy of government public health or Big Pharma to come to your rescue with every perceived health malady?
Do you truly trust them with your health?
I sure do not!
Then we need to evolve and take control of our health faster than the powers that be in healthcare can mess it up.
Unfortunately, traditional medical training appears to slow down the evolution of health and wellness. Sounds strange but hear me out.
In medical school and residency, we learned a whole bunch of stuff. We believed what we learned. We started to believe we knew more than others. But because of those beliefs and perhaps a little arrogance after making it through all that schooling, we often stopped learning. We discounted new research that we did not hear about in class as perhaps it went against our past teachings? We did not continue to ask questions, to try and improve. We left it to others in the field to tell us what to do and how to do it. Progress slowed down. We got lazy.
Hence the issue with evolution of health and wellness.
Our healthcare system today is not really about evolution. It is about sticking to protocols, some of which are very old, most of which were written to protect someone’s or some corporations’ profits, or some managers power and authority over healthcare professionals. It is rare that the health protocols are specific for the individual being treated as they are usually written for population health, not an individual’s health.
Not to continue to hit a sore point, just think back over the past 3 years when top-down government, Big Pharma, Hospital and Medical organizations decided how healthcare professionals could and could not treat people with what was called a novel new disease. The longer it went on the less novel I believe it was, but that is not the point of today’s substack. Not only did treatment options for the illness not evolve over the past three years but if you used your free speech to present an opinion on alternative options you were met with hostility, censorship and even threats. I don’t call that evolution. I call that bullying and I thought we were supposed to teach our kids that bullying is unacceptable.
But thankfully, that did not stop many healthcare professionals from doing what was needed for their individual patients. Enough used critical thinking and evolved new truly safe and effective treatment options for that not to be named illness but also many other health issues.
Let’s take a Common Sense Health and Wellness example:
High Blood Pressure (HBP)- we are taught that HBP, otherwise known as Hypertension, is a chronic irreversible disease process that needs medication probably for life. Once on never off. Sounds kind of defeating?
Institute for Medical Wellness (IMW) evolution-
Over the years I have noticed that the supermajority of hypertension is diet and lifestyle induced.
Dietary and lifestyle adjustments that improve your metabolism and especially lower elevated insulin levels are key to reducing/reversing high blood pressure.
Example: I have had many obese patients who came to me 75+ lbs overweight on multiple blood pressure medications. After proper exam, lab tests/reviews/evaluations and recommendations, their insulin levels started dropping and with it both their weight and blood pressure.
But here is the key and think about this critically from a cause-and-effect mindset.
If they were 75 lbs overweight to start, within 1-2 months and about a 10-12 lb weight loss, their blood pressure was already normalizing, and their HBP meds were being reduced. But they were still 60+ lbs overweight.
So is it the weight that caused the HBP? If it was the weight, then at 60+ pounds overweight their BP should still be high.
IMW Evolution:
It is NOT their weight that caused their high blood pressure. It was the metabolic imbalance that caused the elevated insulin that caused both the weight gain and their elevated blood pressure.
IMW Evolution:
It is not the HBP medications that fixed their blood pressure. The medications did NOT fix the metabolic imbalance. How do I know that? If they stopped the HBP meds without fixing their diet/lifestyle/metabolism that lowered their insulin, their blood pressure and insulin rose again. So the medications were a band aid for a bleeding wound and instead of finding the source of the bleed, traditional medicine just tried to bandage over it.
This is one area that the Institute for Medical Wellness (IMW) has evolved that traditional healthcare has not. Traditional healthcare is stuck in the pill for every ill and seems to have blinders on. They don’t seem to have the ability or desire to look for root causes of why blood pressure rises in the first place. It’s easier to prescribe a pill and go see the next patient.
IMW Evolution:
The IMW has evolved to root cause critical thinking so it can take the best of traditional healthcare, and there is a lot of good there, and improve it or shall I say, let it evolve naturally to provide more and usually safer options for treatments of ill health.
For another example of evolution just replace high blood pressure with type 2 diabetes. It’s pretty much the same insulin imbalance as the cause.
So traditional medicine may save your life one day. But for some reason traditional medicine refuses to evolve to learn how to prevent needing your life saved. They just seem stuck in a pill for an ill and think they are accomplishing something. They are definitely helping Big Pharma get richer at the expense of your health.
So, my Challenge to you:
Do you want to evolve naturally where you get a say in how you live your life, or do you want to stick to the present traditional system that is becoming ever more dependent on Big Government and Big Pharma?
The choice is yours.
On a hopefully lighter note, we have evolved in other areas of life.
As always comments and questions welcome.
Excellent info Dr H! I love to learn and I am most grateful for the teachings you take your time to share with us!! I’ve stopped reading most news and instead look forward to all you put out there for us to read. Thank you!
I’m living proof of what Dr. H just wrote about. I was diagnosed with HBP at age 47. After trial and error with different meds the Docs got it under control using two different meds. I was told that’s the way it is and that I would be on the meds the rest of my life. I had been on these meds 10 years. Then on New Year’s I entered a wager with a dozen other people seeing who could lose the most weight by April 1st. I completely changed my diet ( low carb and mostly protein) and started walking everyday. That’s when I met Dr. H. My BP dropped to the point that I was dizzy and lightheaded. Dr. H took me off my meds and kept a close eye. Now it’s been 5 years since then and my BP has been great. He has educated me and kept me on track. Thanks Doc.