How To Escape Too Many Meds

Question: I’ve been taking lots of meds for a long time. Meds for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, depression and an aspirin a day.?I feel like my life is wasting away. I have no energy, no joy, no happiness, and no future.?I came back from my doctor’s appointment this afternoon with another?prescription and the pronouncement that ‘you’re doing fine.’ I’m fed up with this. This is not fine. What do you think I can do to turn things around?

Answer: This is a question I’ve seen in the eyes and demeanor of so many persons, but no one has asked it so eloquently or as heartfelt as you.

As I meet and talk with folk about their condition, illnesses, ailments and situations, I wonder how they continue to say “Oh, I’m fine. How are you?” as if their lives are normal.

I am amazed at people who say change is hard, yet are willing to settle for an abbreviated life, so different from before, continually becoming?more and more debilitated, year after year, with no improvement, and no expectation of improvement.

Back in the day, when I first became a nurse, the mantra was “Get a second opinion.” Today the medical model has turned away from that. The new model is more about the drugs.

Now, you don’t tell me your age or how this all got started, nor when. If you call me, we can get more specific.

Good nutrition is the key to good health. An eating program (I don’t want to say diet) that is nutritionally strong, is the key to you possibly being able to get off some - maybe all - of your meds.?We know today that chronic illnesses?respond very well to a clean, high-nutrient eating program.

Clean foods are organic, non-GMO, fresh, in-season, locally grown & grown in clean rematerialized-high-nutrient soil, and picked ripe.

It is this 21st?century food supply of processed foods, a lifestyle of inactivity, sit-down - sedentary jobs, ?and video games?that has created generations of very sick humans.?

Pharmaceuticals have become the major industry driving?the new sick-care model.?It can make managing patients simply a matter of writing out a prescription and setting the next appointment date.

One medication over time becomes three, and then 10.?Recently I spoke with a gentleman who is taking 39 different drugs and feeling depressed and hopeless.?More meds create more complications and honestly, hijacks your life, leaving the patient feeling that he has no life, and no way out.

Every choice comes with a price.?Making the clean-eating choice is the choice I?hope you’ll make. Want to know more? [email protected]

Carolyn Guilford is a 2008 Project LEAD Cancer Scholar, nutrition consultant, health and wellness advocate, author and workshop organizer.