One of the most glaring mistakes conventional medicine makes is to assume that many modern diseases – diabetes, heart disease, depression, autoimmune disease, etc. – are unrelated conditions that don’t share a common cause. This is a convenient fiction created by the pharmaceutical industry (and perpetuated by the medical establishment) to sell more drugs.
The truth is that while these conditions do have unique features, they all share a common origin: the modern lifestyle. Poor diet, nutrient deficiencies, stress, lack of sleep, lack of, or the wrong type of exercise, toxins and medications all directly contribute to the problems that are ruining our health.
The conventional approach is to treat each of these various problems with different drugs, and ignore the fundamental factors that are at the root of all of them. That has been a stupendously unsuccessful approach. It’s time to replace it with a more holistic view of health, and to empower people to prevent and treat disease without unnecessary drugs or surgery.
this is an exerpt from Chris Kresser’s blog, at http://chriskresser.com/
Chris is, for my money, one of the most succinct writers and forward thinking practitioners about, and offer many blog articles including valuable and free information about the benefits of a “paleo template” applied to modern lifestyles and diets.