Do You Need Medicine or Lifestyle Change?

Living in a consumer culture, we expect to be able to buy an immediate fix to any problem. It is in our nature to try to take short cuts and expend the least energy necessary to solve any problem. We have busy lives and only it’s natural to want quick fixes to difficult problems.

Medications are widely used in current health care to treat diagnosed diseases, relieve pain, or change moods and behaviour. However, medication is often a band-aid approach rather than a cure.

We have all been conditioned to think that taking medications will solve our problems. Just find the right pill and you’ll be cured. Drug companies are only fulfilling a need that already exists in modern society. We ask for quick fixes and they try to supply them.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of things medical science can’t fix. It’s not that drug companies are hiding some special cure from us. Rather, it’s that our perception seems to be that medicine can do a lot more than it can.

There are some things medical science can help us with, like blood pressure and cholesterol levels. However, often lifestyle changes can help these things better, without the negative side effects.

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