As a doctor and I hope many other doctors feel the same way that when seeing a patient, we should be more concerned with what is causing their health problems, instead of just treating their symptoms. Unfortunately, this is generally not the case. With the approach of treating the symptoms many patients in the short term feel better and because of a patient's belief in the doctor and accept taking whatever prescription drugs, test or surgeries without question he/she recommends. But in the long run, the patient's initial problem or problems will progress into a major health crisis and in many cases will lead to their body deteriorating to a point that the patient dies from the cure of symptoms.

People over the age of 65 consume more than a third of all prescription medications in the United States� Almost a quarter of older Americans are sent to hospitals or nursing homes, because of problems with medications. According to the California Pharmacists Association, more than 100,000 Americans die each year of adverse drug reactions. The annual bill for treating medication misuse is a stunning $177 billion dollars. Will you be one of these statistics in the future? In my clinic I see a great deal of people over the age of sixty-five and I�m amazed of how many different drugs some of them are taking and what is even more scary, most of them believe that regardless of what those drugs are such as rat poison that the doctor is trying to help them.

For many of them, even though I try to educate them on what they really should be doing to help themselves, I don�t know if they are just so drugged up on prescriptions or choose to be blind to important health information that is available to them. It shocks me at times, when one of them will say, � Well, I�m not going to live much longer anyway� or �My insurance picks up most of the cost of the drugs�.

I remember being at one Women's health fair and one of the booths was testing Cholesterol levels. I heard a woman say to her friend as she walked away with her results, �Well, that prescription must be working�. I didn�t have the heart to tell her, �Yes, your cholesterol levels are down, but your liver is dying from the prescription you are taking�. I guess when she dies from liver failure, they can say, �Well her doctor made sure she didn�t die from high cholesterol levels�.

Ok, I can�t help these types of people, because they are either brain dead or they are just like cattle being led to the slaughterhouse. That�s the hospitals, where they either test you to death or the doctors know that their drugs can�t hide the health problems any more, so they just give you more drugs and make the dying easier, if that is possible. Even though what I have just said is true, there are times when certain drugs or surgery may save a life, such as from an accident, a birth defect and even to help extend a life for a few more years, because the internal health of the body was ignored or just simply abused.

Now, I have no answers how to see into the future for you to avoid accidents, but this website does offer many people a chance at living longer and healthier, if someone is willing to take responsibility for their own health and make some changes that are necessary right now and not sometime in the future. Remember, maintaining quality health or reversing poor health as I have stated before, time is not your friend.

There are many causes of why a person�s health starts to go bad and you may have several options of how to address that problem. But, which one is the right one and where does someone start? It might start right here and now. This site was designed to help those wanting to resolve health issues, instead of just treating symptoms. I have no magic to offer you. What I do have is some answers of how to start regaining your health. But, if you choose to ignored your health problems thinking it will just go away by themselves, have the attitude that it is normal to feel bad or be sick and hurt, because you are getting older or you wear your illness�s on your chest like medals of honor and want someone to feel sorry for you, then this site is not for you.

What I�m going to be talking about is what comes from my heart and from my brain. The facts that I�m presenting are based on my own clinical experience of over a quarter of a century of treating patients and researching scientific studies. If you're tired of feeling older then you really should, want to stop having pain and knowing your health is going down hill, then this website is going to help you a lot.

You need to remember two major medical facts. All illnesses have two things in common. The first thing that happens at the beginning of all diseases, whether it is the common cold or cancer, there will always be inflammation. But with a disease process it keeps appearing and progressing until the disease is gone, or the faulty internal system fails completely and the patient does not have to worry about anything anymore, because they are dead.

Pain is the first sign of trauma to your body, but not for disease. Once a disease process begins, pain is not your friend, because this is usually the last thing you will feel when your body is in trouble. Which do you think stops an illness, is it killing the pain or eliminating the inflammation? If you said eliminating the inflammation you were right. Killing the pain only allows the condition to progressively get worse, until it can be a life-threatening situation.

The second major medical fact regarding illness, be it from an accident or disease is the laying down of fibrotic material. After inflammation has stopped, which lasts about 72 hours in injury cases, which is a normal process, then fibrotic material is what the bodies use to bind good tissue together to heal. The downside of this laying down of fibrotic material is the additional fibrotic material, which is called scar tissue and it is this type of tissue that can suffocate an organ and cause it to basically die. If you are not at that life-threatening situation yet, and you could reverse or at least improve the quality of your health you have left, would you? If you answered with a yes, I believe the website holds some helpful answers for you.

Do you want to feel like you did when you were a young adult and not have daily pains that you now ignore, live with, take over the counter or prescription drugs that have side effects and at most only make you think you are ok?

Most people have what is called health Insurance, Right? Does it give you Health? No. Shouldn�t it be called sickness insurance? You pay some company to cover some of your medical expense for when you get sick. This requires you to develop a negative attitude, admitting your going to get very sick one day. I will admit this type of insurance is necessary in our modern world where accidents and disease happens which is generally caused by something or somebody else. But what does it truly do as a health benefit to your body?

Americans can be proud of the fact that we have the best diagnostic services and emergency room care in the world. But,

From the July 26th 2000 online issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and in the Aug. 28, 2000 issue of the American Medical News, comes some sad statistics concerning the state of health in the United States. These numbers should be viewed in the light that Americans spend more by far on medical care than any other country in the world. The United States spends 13.7% of its gross domestic product on medical care. This is more than any of the 191 World Health Organizations member nations. Read these statistics and judge for yourself.

In a comparison done between 13 nations in the 1998 Oxford University Press, the United States also showed glaring weaknesses in its health care system. Of the 13 nations in the study the US ranked;

These statistics reflect a medical system that is in need of revamping, not just creative refinancing. It should be noted that chiropractic care is not calculated into these statistics and therefore is not contributing to the unimpressive US health statistics.

I want you to image a new policy that is available today and it is called Longevity Life Insurance. Like any policies there are certain parts of the agreement, you must agree to honor to keep it in force. This contract is not with any third party; it is an agreement between you and yourself. Let�s also image that this policy is for the baby boomers, that�s people who were born between 1946 thru 1964. Why, the baby boomers? These people are the ones that are starting to develop some major health problems and yet may still have time to correct some or most of their health problems that they are aware of. They may also be able to stop other health conditions that are just beginning to develop that have not reach the point of having pain yet. Unfortunately, many of the current seniors, may not have the time required and needed to resolve their health problems.

In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest makes a great statement, " Stupid is is Stupid does". The difference between stupidity and ignorance is lack of information. The information provided at this website may help you live longer and healthier. I want you to try to clear your mind of all negative and false information that someone has told you or you have heard in the past. Listen to what I�m trying to communicate with you regarding longevity and quality of living. Remember, it is possible to lie to anyone, but yourself. I know in my heart and before God everything that I�m going to try to explain to you is the truth as I see it.

The doctor�s Hippocratic oath is based on one principle or should be, �Do no harm�. It appears to me that many doctors have forgotten that oath, choose to ignore it for personal gains or hold on to the closed minded beliefs of what their medical ancestors were taught about health care. Thank God, there are still some that still believe in that Hippocratic oath. I believe God gave most of us the knowledge to know the difference between what is right and what is not. I also believe that he gives us the promise, the ability and the intelligence to make choices, and hopefully the right ones for reaching a full quality life.

Take control of your health now, don�t wait until it�s too late. When you have finished and understand totally what I have tried to explain to you, e-mail a friend, call everyone you know that could benefit from this information and refer them to this site. Then pat yourself on your back for caring enough to help your fellow man or woman.

Over the years as a physician, I recall several sayings, which I would like to share with the readers of this web site and what I think they mean to me as a doctor and a human being.

As a teacher of health, no matter what information is provided; be it based on scientific and/or clinically proven facts, the majority of people hear what is being said, but do not listen.

YOU CAN DO NOTHING ABOUT YESTERDAY, HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THE FUTURE, SO LIVE FOR TODAY

I believe this saying was actually misquoted and should have been; You can do nothing about what happened yesterday, but what you do today can make a difference in what the future holds for you tomorrow.

Before Christopher Columbus proved that the world was round, everyone believed the world was flat. What is more surprising is many continued to the day they died that it was still flat even though they were given proof that it was not. The majority of people today still believe that modern drugs and surgeries hold all the answer to their health problems. They will hold on to that believe all the way till they die from what they are being treated for regardless of what is based on facts and truth.

I believe this to be a true statement from my experience as a physician, but the majority of people don't pay attention to their mind, body and spirit until it is to late to save them from pain and many times early death. Until that time they will continue to believe they can do whatever they want to their bodies with no consequences.

Of course, when they finally get seriously ill from ignoring the warning signs of not taking care of themselves, their attitudes change. At that point in time, they will do whatever you tell them and money is no object. But for the majority of them it will be to late or they will lose a vital organ or normal function of one or more internal systems. They will also have to take lots of drugs with bad side effect just to have a chance of extending their lives a little longer, even if it is not really a good quality of live. Looking back they will think, "If I had only done that Ounce Of Prevention".

Shouldn't that really say, "I will invest my money in what I need and if I have something left over, I will buy those material things I want"? Most people spend their money on things that last for moments in time and ignore the important things that can last a life time. In the past when I would do a lay lecture and ask the people in the audience, "Write down the five most important things that you want to accomplish in your life" their answers to this question is close to the following for the most part; a good financial retirement , a home that is paid for, a new car, pay for my children's college education and to be able to travel.

Innate intelligence

I believe in Science and God

The atheist says, there is no God and the "Big Bang" theory is the answer. From a scientific viewpoint evolution and the big bang theory is what it is all about, and I do understand this concept of thinking. But, I pose this question to the atheist,

"If the big bang is true, than who created the big bang?"

I could go on and on, but the sad fact is regarding their health, perhaps eighty percent (80%) of the people who visit this web site won't understand what I have been saying and will continue with their heads stuck in the sands of stupidly or looking for the "QUICK FIX". They will continue to believe the paid advertisements funded by those who profit by peoples suffering. On the other hand, if I offered them something for nothing or someone else would pay for it and I did not ask them to do anything different to help themselves that would be a different story.

For the other twenty percent (20%) of readers of this web site, not only will they learn more about how they can have more control over their health and therefore have a better chance in living a longer life without the horrors that sickness brings. They will now be able to share their knowledge with others or at least refer them to this web site, so they can also learn some important health facts regarding quality longevity (living longer and healthier).