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Chances are 1 of every 2 people reading this take at least 1 prescription pill every month. Doesn't sound like much does it? But this adds up to 300 Billion Dollars spent by the US last year alone!
We have become so reliant on prescription medications. We pop pills to treat everything from high cholesterol, to anxiety, to back pain. But what I believe and I think more doctors, such as Dr.OZ, are realizing that those pills are actually masking your symptoms rather than treating your problem.
Now I realize that some very severe conditions may need prescription medication and this post is remember just my opinion. But I believe that there is always a more natural, alternative medicine. Why put on band-aid solution to your [ailment]? Why not try to find the real cause and treat it. Prescription medications do just that, cover up your symptoms so that you don't feel them, but they don't go away do they? They always come back cause you didn't fix the problem.
After watching Dr.OZ last week, his episode on alternative medicine was my inspiration for this weeks Challenge. This is why I love Dr.Oz, he I believe is starting a movement towards healthy living and away from the traditional medicine approach.
On this episode he reveals natural alternatives to the top 4 most prescribed forms of prescription medication. Watch what I watched by clicking here:
Dr.Oz part 1
and you have to check out part 2 as well, Dr.Oz. Bruce Wilde a Alternative Medicine expert nails it on the head. He explains why there isn't a huge investment or why there isn't a lot of money in the world of alternative medicine. It's all about money and drug companies are money hungry. They don't care what they sell you or sell to your doctor who tells you to take this medicine cause he gets paid more money to promote it. It simply boils down to money, 300 Billion dollars in fact, for the US alone, last year alone!
If you are taking prescription medicine, I am not advising you to stop immediately. However maybe just give some of these natural alternatives a try. I know I am going to try to find that California Poppy. I do get headaches, sometimes really bad ones and if this California Poppy could help rather than taking the usual Advil or other pain killers that are really just band-aiding my symptoms and that are damaging my liver, I will take it.
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Until next time,
