Where does health not come from?

"The Doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his or her patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." Thomas A. Edison

The quote by Thomas Edison is one that you must dive deep into and anchor to your core before I give you the nuts and bolts of improving your quality of life. It is critical to your health that you understand where true health does not come from before we discuss where it does come from.

Edison states that "the Doctor of the future will give no medicine". How many of you actually believe that some pill, potion, or lotion will make you healthy? Be honest with yourself, and think hard about this. Do you really think that the more medicine you take the healthier you will become? Hopefully you answered no. However, if this were true then America would be the healthiest country in the World by an outstanding number. The USA currently makes up 5% of the Worlds population. As a country we are currently consuming greater than 60% of all the drugs produced in the World. With those statistics then you would expect us to be number 1 in healthcare, right? According to studies by the Commonwealth Fund in 2007, our healthcare system is currently dead last for quality, access, and efficiency. I understand that there are certain situations where drugs are important but how many of us are using them to try to improve quality of life. If I see another drug commercial where the person is at a baseball game, eating a chili cheese dog, chugging a beer, and then needing an acid-reflux drug to stop the indigestion then I may ban myself from ever watching TV. The acid-reflux is not coming about from some random act, but it is the garbage food that you are putting into it. The only thing that the drug will do is mask the symptoms and does not focus on what is causing the acid-reflux.

Read the next post to find out where true health comes from.