SOME FREAKY FACTS
When you experience a nutrient deficiency, your body will try to alert you. It may send a message via any combination of seemingly inconsequential symptoms: aches and pains, circulatory problems, cognitive impairment (such as brain fog, poor concentration, or memory loss), dandruff, depression, fatigue, infections, insomnia, irritability, or low energy levels. As Dr. Timothy Smith indicates, these situations tend to “drive doctors up a diagnostic tree” (1999). This frustration occurs because the underlying cause is difficult to pinpoint—especially for those who have not been trained in the science of nutrition and nutritional deficiencies.
In these situations, standard medical tests seldom show anything is abnormal, leaving both physician and patient at a loss. This is the point at which you or your physician or perhaps family, friends, or employees may misinterpret the symptoms as laziness, a bad temper, hypochondria, some kind of mental or character weakness, or simply as normal aging (an old standby that patients seem to accept all too-readily). Your body message has been sent and received, but grossly misunderstood.
So you force yourself to go to work, to pull up your socks, to get on with it. It’s the modern-day equivalent of flogging a sailor in the early stages of scurvy. Like those sailors, you want to regain your health---but how? As Dr. Smith points out:
If doctors do prescribe treatment, they usually bypass nutritional supplements in favor of drugs such as anti-inflammatories, antidepressants, tranquilizers, and the like. These not only mask symptoms but also deplete nutrient stores even further. This accelerates the degenerative process, which id the forerunner of disease and aging (1999).
If a physician cannot diagnose or treat your symptoms or if you simply choose to ignore them, you may succumb to a more serious illness (an event, as it’s known in medical terminology). It’s important to realize, however, that ill health is seldom an event---it’s a process. You become ill one mouthful at a time, one sedentary day at a time, one nutrient-deficient, inactive week at a time.
Despite the best that medical technology can offer, a heart attack or stroke can kill you or permanently debilitate you or, at the very least, leave you unable to play a game of baseball with your children. If you have a leg amputated due to diabetes (which is the leading cause of amputations). You may never again hike a favorite trail or dance a much loved tango. In fact, fact once you become ill, you may end up in treatment for the rest of your life.
As these examples illustrate, disease can severely affect your life. Unfortunately, many people do not realize just how severe the changes may be, nor they do not realize how great the risks of developing a serious illness may be ---but the evidence is all around them:
(Askew and Paquette p. 18-19)
In these situations, standard medical tests seldom show anything is abnormal, leaving both physician and patient at a loss. This is the point at which you or your physician or perhaps family, friends, or employees may misinterpret the symptoms as laziness, a bad temper, hypochondria, some kind of mental or character weakness, or simply as normal aging (an old standby that patients seem to accept all too-readily). Your body message has been sent and received, but grossly misunderstood.
So you force yourself to go to work, to pull up your socks, to get on with it. It’s the modern-day equivalent of flogging a sailor in the early stages of scurvy. Like those sailors, you want to regain your health---but how? As Dr. Smith points out:
If doctors do prescribe treatment, they usually bypass nutritional supplements in favor of drugs such as anti-inflammatories, antidepressants, tranquilizers, and the like. These not only mask symptoms but also deplete nutrient stores even further. This accelerates the degenerative process, which id the forerunner of disease and aging (1999).
If a physician cannot diagnose or treat your symptoms or if you simply choose to ignore them, you may succumb to a more serious illness (an event, as it’s known in medical terminology). It’s important to realize, however, that ill health is seldom an event---it’s a process. You become ill one mouthful at a time, one sedentary day at a time, one nutrient-deficient, inactive week at a time.
Despite the best that medical technology can offer, a heart attack or stroke can kill you or permanently debilitate you or, at the very least, leave you unable to play a game of baseball with your children. If you have a leg amputated due to diabetes (which is the leading cause of amputations). You may never again hike a favorite trail or dance a much loved tango. In fact, fact once you become ill, you may end up in treatment for the rest of your life.
As these examples illustrate, disease can severely affect your life. Unfortunately, many people do not realize just how severe the changes may be, nor they do not realize how great the risks of developing a serious illness may be ---but the evidence is all around them:
(Askew and Paquette p. 18-19)
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