60 Day Turnaround

I always considered myself a “healthy” kid growing up – athleticism was my proof. In the fall of my senior year of high school, I made the All-Cobb County High School Football team. I was literally on top of the world – Sports were at an all time high, just got accepted to the University of Georgia, wonderful family, great girlfriend, plugged in at church; what could possible go wrong in my life?

Spring of 2004, my little world was rocked as I was diagnosed with Ulcerative Colitis; little did I know that I would quickly lose my football physique. I lost 45 pounds in 4 weeks. I missed 45 days of school (17 of those in a hospital). In the meantime, I also became anemic and developed 2 blood clots.

When it a hit a daily cocktail of 27 different medications, my parents took me to get a second opinion at the Mayo Clinic – where the doctors still didn’t know why I had gotten sick.

I eventually was able to “mask” my symptoms with the medications I was on. By God’s divine power and grace I graduated from high school on time and headed into my first year at the University of Georgia. Life went on this way for several years…in and out of the hospital a week a time. Could this be how my life was going to be spent?

Finally, in 2006, after countless suggestions from meaningful well-wishers and a third opinion from the University of Chicago, I was told that surgery was probably the only way for me to be healed. This is where I knew something had to change – and preferably, not by the removal of my colon.

The paradigm shift of how I viewed health was taking place; it was exciting, scary, and very unfamiliar territory. Sports had made me disciplined and competitive and I was determined to take this new challenge and run with it successfully.

My body was and still is the Lord’s Temple – I was literally destroying it with the choices that I was making.

The biggest change occurred when I started receiving on-going chiropractic care and a total overhaul of my diet. I had gone to the chiropractor before to “feel better” (don’t get me wrong, it did make me feel better), but I needed to be more consistent and disciplined.

I had to remind myself that “slow and steady wins the race.” Over that time, I had been able to come off 22 of 27 medications. Praise the Lord! My anemia had diminished because I was putting good nutrients in my body through diet and supplementation. And, the Ulcerative Colitis was going into remission.

For the first time in two and a half years, I felt that I was putting a frontal assault on my health as opposed to a cover up approach of the symptoms. I continued receiving consistent chiropractic care for the next 2 years and was able to stay out of the hospital.

In 2008, I was able to graduate from UGA…on time, marry my high school sweetheart, get a job with a great employer, and feel great while doing it! A lot of things went into the mix of my health success – Prayer and support from family and friends, proper supplementation and diet, exercise, and on-going chiropractic care.

For one thing, going to the chiropractor was beneficial because the office was always encouraging me to keep going in health and wellness. Not only did going consistently treat the root-cause of my disease, but it also acted as an accountability group for me.

It’s now 2011 and I’ve been in remission for three and a half years. Well, that was true up until about the middle of January. I had my first flare in January 2011. Looking back on the events leading up to that, I realized that as I had gotten into the working world, some parts of my health had taken a back seat. One of those was chiropractic care.

I had continued eating well and using supplements, but when I had gotten married and moved, we had never located another chiropractor that had the same ideology as my other chiropractor. My prior chiropractor had been a Maximized Living Coach – Fred Roberto. I went to him and asked him for a recommendation in my area. He was the one who told about Health Sprout and Dr. Eric.

Was I disappointed that the flare came up? Yes. Was there something that I could do about it that was outside of the world of medication? There was. I believe that there is a time and place for the medical world. But, after 7 years, I wanted to seek after care that would allow my body to heal itself – my lack of consistency in the last 2 ½ years had slowly depleted my body of the progress that I had made in the prior years.

Like Dr. Eric says, you can’t expect to stay in shape or build muscle mass without exercising. It is the same with chiropractic care. Consistency and discipline will help bring about the results that some many people desire to see.

I’ve been receiving on-going care from Dr. Eric since the end of January. I have gone back into remission, increased my energy, and am actively pursuing health. I even did the Body By God 40-Day Challenge. Dr. Eric has become a great asset to my wife and my health and wellness as he coaches us in decisions about food, supplements, exercise and other random questions you get when lying on the adjustment table.

I believe in chiropractic care and my wife and I now both go together. It is easier to do something when you have a teammate to cheer for you. In the bible, there is a verse that says “As iron sharpens iron, so another man sharpens another man (Prov. 27:17).”

My prayer for you is that you will be challenged and find health for you and your family. Jesus told us that He came to the world to give us a life and give it to us in the fullest! May God sharpen you and inspire you to live for him and make wise decisions so that you may live out your fullest God-given potential.

Dr. E – patients getting well, those who feel well getting really well, and living full lives… that is something to get excited about!

See this and other testimonials on our Testimonial Page

There is a conference call open to all of our patients tomorrow, these are the details:

May 26, 2011: 10 am EST

We aren’t meant to feel like there’s no hope when it comes to fitness. The good news is that the sooner we get our minds on the right track and think like a champion, the sooner our dreams of a peak physique can become realities.

Dr. Fred Roberto innovator of Max T3 examines the physiological and metabolic advantages of fitness in total health and the prevention of disease.  He explains how to use Max T3 in your practice to improve patient outcomes and engagement, creating better lives.  Fitness principles are a tremendous benefit to your patients and you as a doctor.

Hosted by: Dr. Fred Roberto and Dr. Ben Lerner

Call in #: 866.906.2673

Code: 8400928#

Old news, but good news.  It was March 2nd of this year when the FDA announced that more than 500 cold, cough and allergy prescription products were to be pulled from the market.  With all manufacturing stopping within 90 days and off the shelves within 180 (I always find it interesting how a decision is made based on lack of safety, then they allow the product to continue on the market).

Web MD has a nice article on this announcement, and states that there is an irrational combination of ingredients in many of these products, such as two or more antihistamines and poor labeling for child use.

Yolandra Hancock, MD, a pediatrician at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., praises the FDA’s move.

“The new FDA decision supports modern-day pediatric practice to avoid cough syrups in children under 2 because they do more harm than good,” she says. Some may slow down breathing, and others decrease cough and allow mucus to sit in the chest, where it can cause other problems such as lung infection, she says.

There are a lot of different takes on what this means when we read an article like this.  First off, “are the drugs that we use on a once and awhile basis safe”?  I would say emphatically no.  However, over the last year, my eye (for those who don’t read me often, I have a blind left eye, with a prosthetic over it – hockey puck in 2006) has hurt me significantly on about a half dozen occasions.  In order for me to stand up and adjust, and carry on conversations, I needed to medicate.  Usually I opted for ibuprofen, but I know full well, it is not safe, and it does reduce my potential long term every time I take it.

Next question that is beckoned… what other medications have been used in ways that cause more secondary harm than good.  This is in response to Dr. Hancock’s quote above, “problems such as lung infection”.  How many times have we said, God put the symptom there, and it is there for a reason.  So if you are coughing, I’m sorry, deal with it and cough, because the cough is good.  Even when I tell you to ice something… I only want you to control that inflammation just enough to be able to get by… you probably shouldn’t ice, because your body puts that inflammation there for a reason.  The only issue is that we don’t stay home and get well, we run off to work and make it all worse… if you choose to stay home, don’t ice!

Last one.  Are there even more harmful effects that are completely unknown?  As I read through the study published in February 2004 in the Journal American Medical Association on antibiotic cancer risk (published by
Christine M. Velicer, PhD, Susan R. Heckbert, MD, PhD, Johanna W. Lampe, PhD, RD, John D. Potter, MD, PhD, Carol A. Robertson, RPh, Stephen H. Taplin, MD, MP), I wonder how many of you take this stuff lightly?  I had a patient the other day tell me of the fear of what would happen without the antibiotic, and I of course weigh the risk of the antibiotic.  Cancer is worse than needing to go to the hospital for fluids… but better yet, let me close this article with you considering when is the body actually in failure?  Your MD and pediatric nurse are going to fall out way before me.  They have little trust and faith in this body.

My daughter Brooke has never had a med… but 95% of you, if she was your daughter, would likely have medicated her.  She has on three occasions in her life spent the night awake, coming to me in my room, crying and complaining of how bad her ear hurts.  To you that is an ear infection.  To me, it is a clogged Eustachian tube with the potential of becoming an ear infection.  The difference is that the thing that produces pain, is pressure… not a virus.  So the pressure comes from a lack of drainage, which comes from something blocking the Eustachian tube.  So in all of these cases I adjusted her (usually a couple times in the night) and then used a hairdryer and warm compresses on the side of her neck below her ear (this is to soften the mucous that is plugging her tube).  In every situation, we have helped her to be pain free at some point (in most cases is takes hours).

So what good is an antibiotic in this case?  If over time, we cannot reconcile that pressure, and it remains sitting in the ear, then the chance of ear infection goes up.  HOWEVER, most of these infections are viral not bacterial (Arch Latinoam Nutr 2001;1(1):64-71), and most will self resolve, and often do right around the course of antibiotic treatment giving false kudos to antibiotics (Can J Psychiatry 2003;48(3):195-20).  I find this especially compelling because Brooke typically was fully resolved on the second night, which in many cases would be after antibiotic treatment.  But if I did not adjust Brooke and apply heat, it might have lasted three nights or more, leading to an even more compelling case that antibiotics would be the salvation… had we actually given them to her.

Ansley, at a few months old, was in respiratory distress (at least she was according to hospital nomenclature).  She had a 103.5 degree temperature, and she was breathing tiny little  breaths every third second.  Apnea.  Most parents would have rushed her to the hospital, saying “save my child, save my child” (actually my wife went so far as to tell me, “If you hurt our child…” – which translated to “I am scared to death”).  I responded to her “I love this girl so much that i would lay my life down for her, and if we take her to the hospital they will scare you to death, and pump her full of antibiotics and tylenol for her fever, and steroids for her breathing, and they will label her asthmatic, and we will be using a nebulizer, and we will have a sick girl.  However, if you trust me, I will stay up with her, and I will watch her through to make sure her fever breaks and her breathing normalizes, and that she is allowed an opportunity to be stronger for this challenge, not worse”.

It took about four hours, and all was well.  She was perfectly well within another day.  She came away stronger, whereas every single drug makes you weaker.  And we came away with more faith and trust in the body as an incredible creation than we had ever had before that time.  I don’t wear the no meds ever as a badge of “look what we can do”, but I DO wear it as a badge of “have you seen the potential in this body created by God?”

Don’t take this the wrong way, I am not chastising any of you in this writing.  I am telling you that your hears are founded in lies and deceit.  A great evil has been perpetrated on the people of this country, and it is the dependence on a chemical that weakens the body, it does not strengthen it.   Those that go down this path completely, will have their health slowly stripped from them, and that is the simple truth.

I love you – God Bless – Dr. E

So I get that most of you think I eat perfectly, which I don’t.  Look at the picture below, I eat it all (except that looks like a ham, and I don’t eat pig… and my hotdogs are always nitrite/nitrate free beef dogs).  But I eat bread, just not a lot, I very rarely eat pasta… but I do eat  it… just rare.  Corn too.  Yeah, I hate the corn market, and the way that Monsanto has destroyed most corn crops, but I will eat it.

My point, is that though I can find fault with many foods, doesn’t mean we avoid them completely.  When on the Advanced Plan (healing diet), we are strict.  But when not on the Advanced Plan, I will watch my grains, and have one serving a day typically, root veges a couple times a week… and a few servings of fruit a day.  Watching sugar relatively closely (all those foods mentioned are rich sources of sugar), while making sure I am always getting a good balance of fats, veges and protein.

Ice cream.  I love ice cream, just had some tonight.  I like sticking with a clean brand (I prefer Hagen Daz b/c of the very limited ingredients, or Trader Joes brand), and I typically stick with Vanilla and flavor it on my own (honey and cinammon is awesome).  But the fact is, I like ice cream, and though I keep it under good control, it is my most common dessert, and when it is in my house I eat it every other day.

I love finding ways to really enjoy the foods that are good for the advanced plan however, and there are some great options that I want to share as far as that goes.   Because dairy is OK, though I wouldn’t say go crazy with the dairy, my favorite sweet snack is whipped cream.  There is a great device that you can buy at Breadbekkers that allows you to make instant whipped cream with a CO2 cartridge… add a little stevia for sweetness, and you have no added sugar, and a perfect dessert.  I like it on some almond butter.

Speaking of almond butter, the concoction that sustained me for my 29 hour adventure race, was made up mostly of almond.  I don’t have a recipe per se, but I added almond butter and coconut oil keeping the proportions such that it stayed very liquidy, then adding flax meal, almond meal, coconut flakes and the chocolate nutrimeal whey protein (we sell this at the office) until it was squeezable, but not runny.  Make it a little thicker and you have a great protein bar just slightly off the recipe in the Maximized Living nutrition plans book.  Great for high calorie need activities, and awesome for those of you who are Advanced Plan committed.

If you happen to be fortunate, you will likely get a taste of this, and some of my other favorites over the next week, as we wrap up the 10th anniversary month for HealthSprout!

Enjoy, be well, Dr. E

Come visit the downtown Woodstock park this Sunday for the launch of the Support Clean Sport campaign.  We will be there as well as our brother in health, The Garage!  Come check it out!!

127 hours…  Aron Ralston spent that many hours trapped in a crevice in Utah starting on April 26, 2003 and finally ending six days later when he performed an hour long surgery to remove his right arm with a “multitool” which had no sharp knife, and a dull pair of scissors to boot.  His willingness to accept what it would take to survive, is the only reason why he did.

Aron was trapped when a boulder that he was leveraging against came loose, he fell, and so did the boulder that pinned his arm into a tight crevice.  With meager amounts of food and water, he was forced to drink his own urine in his bid for survival, and eventually the realization that nobody knew where he was, and nobody would know where to find him, led him to the decision to cut through his own arm.

I remember this story so well, because I was captivated by the survival determination that Aron had.  His life has now become all about that day… though he has put it behind him, and he continues to be a very successful climber and canyoneer, he has written a successful book, and he is an accomplished lecturer.  All because of survival.

His story makes me think of the journey that we are on for health.  Your journey towards health is a journey towards survival.  Your chance of death is 100%.  Your chance of death from heart disease or cancer is 70%.  Add in other disease process and it is 88%.  12% to hopefully die from something else.

With those kind of odds, you should be thinking survival.  But that isn’t how we respond when the threat is slow and sometimes seemingly inevitable.  I should stop and make a point, YOU SHOULD NOT LIVE IN FEAR, I am not trying to make you fearful, just the opposite.  By living clearly into the path that God has given us for health, you do not need to be fearful of your choices, or the consequences.

If it was as clear to you as it was to Aron that something has to change, would you be willing to change?  We are surrounded by a toxic world.  A seriously toxic world.  One that is the cause of most cancers… according to most recent medical literature, 95% of the cancer in this world is environmental, and 5% genetic.  So guess what, those toxins matter.  There is not a reason why every one of you should not be tested for the toxic metals in your body, and now is the time to do it.  I am going to offer the workshop at two separate times, to be determined based on your most common choices, to insure that everyone can get the information they need to change their lives and secure confidence in your choices.

But it really isn’t about another workshop, even if I believe it is necessary, it is about a state of mind.  It is about being committed to your best well being, to survival if you will.  Information is great, and I agree with the Bible as it says, “My people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge” (Hosea 4:6), but I believe the translation of knowledge is the application of knowledge, not just having it.  The passage continues on “because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.”  For those of you who are not Christians, you might first just gloss over this and forget about it, but I think this applies from a standpoint of the laws of physics/nature as well.

If you forget or reject the truths that are evident, then you will fail to fulfill the fruitfulness that is available to you.  Your body will rot and degenerate, you will weaken and become diseased.  Likewise, your path for your family will be skewed towards disease.  I often think the greatest value of my life pursuit, is watching my daughters grow up with ridiculous health.

Aron was faced with a life and death decision, and in that moment he found a very difficult path to life.  You are in the same boat.  Everyday your health choices are a life and death decision, and the culture has lulled you into thinking that those decisions don’t matter.  I would advise you to start cutting your arm off and freeing yourself from this cultural lie.  Be well, and blessed – Dr. E

I was reading this great article on ChiroAccess.com which talks about two studies that have been published in medical literature since January, that support chiropractic care.  This isn’t a first, medical literature has been supporting chiropractic care for years.  The difference, is that medical literature that supports chiropractic care, always supports it for ACUTE care only.

These literature pieces support maintenance care!  Ongoing chiropractic adjustments for better health. Let me give you the details.

The first study published in January 2011 in Spine concluded that “SMT (spinal manipulative therapy) is effective for the treatment of chronic non specific LBP (low back pain). To obtain long-term benefit, this study suggests maintenance spinal manipulations after the initial intensive manipulative therapy.”

The study… of course, is directed at pain, which isn’t the best thing for chiropractic progress, but it is a start.  Cool part, they discuss maintenance adjustments as a method of continuing to keep someone out of low back pain.  Which is nice to see in the medical literature.  You may have heard me say it before (and when I say it, it is way more profound – because I know that chiropractic brings health, not just pain free living)… eating healthy one day a month doesn’t bring health.  Working out one day a month, doesn’t bring health or fitness (but it does bring soreness); and getting adjusted one day a month, doesn’t bring health.

The next study, published in April 2011 - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, provides additional support for the value of chiropractic maintenance care for post injury low back pain patients.  The study followed 894 injured workers for a period of one year.  During that year there were four different types of therapy available to the workers:  medical management, physical therapy,  chiropractic, and no therapy.  Episodes of repeat disability were recorded during the year following the initial injury.  Physical therapy had the highest percentage of reinjured workers followed by those receiving medical management or no treatment at all.  The lowest incidence of repeat injury was found among those workers who had received chiropractic maintenance care.

Nice!  The simple answer… your brain is the single most valuable tool in bringing and maintaining health.  God protected your nervous system with a skull and a spine, and nothing else is protected that way.  You can work on your muscles, and rehabilitate them… but if you do not rehabilitate the message to them, then you cannot heal.  It is necessary for healing!

I have another journal article that I am fond of.  In 2005 the Spine Journal published a study from six medical doctors in Japan showed that loss of cervical curve increases incidence of atrophy of the spinal cord, as well as demyelination.  Basically, these doctors figured out that the cervical curve directly relates to MS and ALS type conditions.

This is a good direction for chiropractic, but we sure do need more.  In the meantime, we’ll do everything we can to keep you healthy, and everything we can to keep your moving in the direction of correction!  Be well!

Dr. E

Did you know that one person out of 5 suffers from hypertension in the United-States? This thickness (arteriole stenosis) is principal risk factor associated with cardiovascular disease as well as stoke during life.

A Consummation of 8 onces of Pomme-Grenade juice each morning have been proven to reduce the thickness of the intermediate carotid arteries, the general arterial systolic pressure as well as the oxidation of LDL caused by free radicals!

Pomme-Grenade (pomegranate) juice has superior antioxidant properties because it contains an incredible amount of :

Polyphenolics

Tannins

Anthocyanins

Theses antioxidants play an extremely important role in the oxidation of LDL from free radicals caused by hypertension.

Many recent group studies have shown that one glass of Pomme-Grenade juice per morning has proven reducing the thickness of the intermediate coronary artery significantly by:

• 3 months = 13 %
• 6 months = 22 %
• 9 months = 26 %
• 12 months = 35 %

In the other hand, the group that did not consume Pomme-Grenade juice saw their carotid arteries tickening by 9% !!!

Other results have shown that…

• The quantity of antioxidant calculated in the blood serum after one year of pomme grenade juice has risen by 130%! This leads to a better hypertension therefore to a healthier heart!
• The systolic pressure of theses patients have been reduced by 21% after one year of consumption.
• An augmentation of 200% to 300% of Gluthatione in the blood. WHAT IS THAT? This is one of the major antioxidant responsible to reduce the dommage done to the cells by the free radicals.

It is important to find the most organic source of Pomme-Grenade juice in order to reach the maximal benefits. This incredible fruit is to be considered for everybody to live longer life and healthier  days.

Simon Lemay Pagé

Student Intern at HEALTHSPROUT

Dr. Eric’s Note – Though we don’t condone HIGH sugar intake, and juice falls into that high sugar intake.  Once off the healing diet (Advanced Nutrition Plan – Maximized Living Nutrition Plans), I recommend some Pom juice as well as dark cherry juice in moderation, but more importantly a steady supplementation with Juice Plus to insure that you have these health benefits (Juice Plus has an awesome study out that shows considerable reduction in oxidative stress on the body – antioxidant properties)!

Chiropractic was not an easy choice for me, just as choosing to become a chiropractic patient wasn’t necessarily an easy step for many of you.  I remember a coach telling me I should consider a chiropractor when I was 14 and complaining of back pain regularly during hockey practice.   I thought he must be crazy to recommend a chiropractor, isn’t that like a palm reader?

It wasn’t until ten years later when the back pain got to be too much of a life interruption, that I went to a chiropractor, and my life was changed.  I fell in love with the philosophy more than the life changing effect on my back.  I felt healthier, I felt more balanced and energized.  It had a huge impact on me.

I felt called to it.  Like God was tugging me in a direction to take me from obscurity to purposeful living.  I wrote a business plan, headed to Atlanta, and after four and a half more years of non-stop education, I emerged with my chiropractic degree and a masters in exercise physiology.  It was a month later that this office was opened… and here we are, ten years later!

Our mission was more clearly developed over time, but I have always had the confidence that everyone is healthier under chiropractic care.  As you can imagine, the more testimonials we had, the more confident we became in our message.  The more we saw people overcome disease, the more we knew it was possible for everyone.

Of course, there have been many who have not gotten well from what we do… fuel for the disbelief that is always ready to pop out of any chiropractor’s mind.  This is the reason why 99% of the chiropractors in the world, do NOT have the confidence that we have.  They may have seen a great response from a patient here and there… but they have more who do not respond, thus they don’t believe.

However, the fact that we believe, is the reason why so many get well.  We say confidently that if you follow our path, you will have the best chance ever at health… overall health.  As our patient success grows, our confidence follows, thus more patient success.

The reason I went down this path with this daily sprout, is because your time for health is now.  Keeping your nervous system functioning well is the most important step to health, but it is only one.  If you haven’t started looking at the other areas of your life, you need to get on this train.  Diet – most people think their diet is good because they eat low fat, which is completely opposite of what you should be doing, which is why you need to take the time to come to a workshop.  Exercise, detoxification (clean living) and stress-free living are all necessary if you want your health.

This weekend, I will be running through the woods in a 28 hour adventure race, so I will not be available; however there is an awesome one day extreme makeover going on with the rest of our local Maximized Living crew this Saturday from 9am until noon at North Metro Church in Kennesaw.  Sign up, and change your life.

Look for some fun stuff this month, as we celebrate our ten year anniversary, trivia, in office cooking days, give aways, etc.  And thank you so much for being a part of this health mission, be confident, make bold change, and you will be amazed!

God Bless – Dr. Eric

In one moment, I am on the web watching a video about a brain surgery that saved Gabby Gifford’s life (an incredible decompression surgery where the simple barbaric nature of the surgery is lost considering the potential life saving impact); and a moment later I am seeing a facebook message that says this:

Day 7 of extreme body, muscle, joint pains from antibiotic Levequin. Only relief is synthetic morphine dilauded. I can barely walk and almost 100% bed ridden. Anyone, please help. Any information you have is appreciated. I want to know long term affects and if I will walk Or run again. Help please!

And after spending some time on both of them, it made me question the brain surgery.

For those who might not have caught this in the news when it happened, but in early January, Representative Gabrielle Gifford was shot in the head in Tucson AZ, in a sooting rampage that took six people’s lives.  Rep. Gifford was shot at very close range.  The surgery that was done was first designed to reduce pressure on the brain from the swelling that ensued, and secondly to remove dead tissue from the trauma.  According to media, she is improving and on the long road to partial recovery following the trauma.

So what would I ever question about such a valid intervention?  The drugs used to make it happen.

It isn’t that I question that surgery at all, in fact, it is simplistic and genius all at once (at least for our current understanding of the body).  The problem is that it takes a bunch of drugs to perform this surgery, drugs which likely each have more than a dozen options to choose from.  So at every point when a drug is administered, do you think that the very best clinical judgement is used?  That the doctors involved are considering patient factors such as gender, age, weight and morbidity (disease history and risk), while trying desperately to save a life?

Of course not, which is why the solution at every junction is provided by preference.  And preference comes from a bunch of different possible places.  One of the most likely being the relationship with the drug representative who supplies it.  Which is why we see a drug class like the fluoroquinolones with pretty significant side effects, being used in routine places where other lower risk antibiotics would be a safer choice.

This weekend I watched a movie, “Love and other drugs” (which I must warn you is not appropriate for most viewers), but I was interested in the story line as it followed an up and coming drug representative.  Though they sensationalized the relationship between doctor and rep, they still did a decent job at times of showing the battle of doctor’s loyalty that can rage between different drug companies, as well as the view of a potential “blockbuster” drug that goes on.

So though there are some awesome interventions in this country, we are still following the rules of a system that has been built on cash flow.  We need a reform in the way that medications are promoted to doctors, as well as the public.  I think drugs are WAY overused in lifestyle management, but we need to use some in trauma and emergency care, and there is no reason for higher risk meds to be an option in these situations, unless the patient history requires it.

Be well,

Dr. Eric