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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

We need more doctors like Mark Hyman, M.D.

I am a big fan of doctor Mark Hyman, a medical doctor who is not happy with the status quo. He has a podcast called "The doctor's Farmacy."

He is thinking outside the box and teaching his patients and his listeners how to care for themselves. Many of us have learned over the years that the typical western medicine is not the answer for our health issues. Dr. Hyman learned from his own experience what he had to do and what others must do to stay healthy or cure their physical illness.

Watch the video. The female doctor suffers from autoimmune disease and hearing her speak about how western medicine failed her is eye opening.

As we age, our immune system fails us, our body breaks down, and taking another pill and dealing with side effects is not what I want. I argue with my nice young doctor who always wants to prescribe another drug for me every time I see her. I am not as interested in the quantity of my life as I am the quality of my life. Who wants to live a long life and be unable to enjoy it?
Not me.

I have made my goal for the rest of this year to put all my energy into taking care of my health, getting exercise, eating right and sleeping well. 

I purchased a gadget I wear on my wrist that tells me how much sleep I get, how well I sleep and how many interruptions I have each night.

It also tells me how many steps I make each day. I like that it keeps up with my weekly totals and encourages me when I improve. This is not the expensive FitBit. Mine is from Withings and cost about $40.00.

Just wearing this has helped me move more. I, like most writers, live a sedentary life, but now I get up from my computer and walk or dance or climb the stairs every half hour. I am putting my health as my top priority. 
How about you?
What do you do for your health that your doctor has not prescribed for you?





2 comments:

  1. I take as little medication as I can. I particularly resist taking medication to counteract another medication. That said, a new medication prescribed for my MS has as one of its effects nausea (there is no such thing as side effects, they are all effects even if we don't want some of them). Nausea for up to twenty hours a day. I cannot get in to see the specialist again until January. I have weakened and have some anti-nausea medication - which I take as rarely as possible.
    I garden, I walk, and I volunteer. All are incredibly important to me (and sorry for the long comment).

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  2. EC, I had a similar experience recently when I was prescribed a medication for diabetes. It is a new one you see advertised on TV. I did ok with it at first then it began to cause nausea that would hit me suddenly. Wow! I took it for almost three months not realizing it was the medication that was making me sick. But when I went in and saw the NP, she said it was the medication and wanted me to try a lower dose. But I don't want to take it at all now. Good luck with your problem. I think I would call and just tell someone in that office that you can't go on with twenty hours of nausea a day. Surely there is another med that you can take that won't cause such bad effects. My sympathies because I can relate.

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