New Rules for A Better Prognosis
by Douglas J. Pucci
There is an advertisement out right now that pictures a husband and wife sitting together side-by-side at sunset holding hands feeling amorous; in another commercial, a woman is collapsed on the couch underneath the weight of an elephant that is sitting on her chest. The messages are clear: it’s hard to breathe, and the woman feels suffocated, or life would feel more relaxing and pleasant when the husband and wife are capable of having greater intimacy. The promise is that with medication, not only will these very personal issues completely disappear, but they will also be happier and lead productive lives.
The reality, though, is plain: there is no single medication that will completely restore us to happiness and health. It is believed that if we can take this single lesson to heart, it will help us avoid wasting precious effort, time and resources on miracle cures and wonder drugs. In general, we all are prone to quick fixes and are susceptible to fad concepts. Single product marketing plays right into that sense of an effortless solution. Instead, what we have learned is that health and true healing are hard work.
Here is a short set of rules to get beyond the diagnosis conundrum and focus on the root instead:
Rule No. 1:
Ignore the Lab Marker
Not all diagnoses begin with a blood test, but many of them do, because the marker is what a doctor uses to monitor and prescribe medications. With cholesterol, for instance, the patient and doctor get caught up trying to correct a particular marker on a blood test and fail to see the big picture of what the patient is feeling—in the case of high or low cholesterol, probably nothing.
By contrast, thyroid sufferers may fixate on the thyroid markers and forget about the root causes for their symptoms like fatigue and constipation. They puzzle out all the different thyroid conversion pathways and ignore the fact that for most of them, fixing the marker doesn’t change the immune system problem caused by poor gut health, mercury buildup or whatever.
A perfect dosage of anything; cholesterol lowering medication or thyroid hormone replacement, will never change that.
Rule No. 2:
Learning Our Own Telltale Signs
Symptoms don’t lie. Someone with a thyroid issue has a list of complaints that start with hair loss and end with cold feet, and yet the resolution for these cannot be measured by the result of a laboratory test. Instead, what the patient needs to become aware of are the simple triggers and preliminary warning signs.
Rule No. 3:
Follow the Results
When something is working, keep doing it. If following a particular protocol for 30 days allows someone to feel the best she has in days, then don’t stop.
Dr. Douglas J. Pucci, DC, FAAIM, offers the latest science and clinical data on neurotoxic illness, hormone disruptions and chronic disease at his seminars. For more information, call 201-261- 5430 or visit GetWell-Now.com.
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