Hi, my name is Dick Miller, and I am just a normal guy that is over 70 years old. I work a full time job and of course I am very concerned about my health. Yes, there are a number of things that frustrate me a great deal about standard, conventional medicine. In many ways it is very corrupt. Yet there are real doctors and others that are trying to clean up the mess and create systems that are so much more successful. In my opinion we have a number of problems that everyone seems to be afraid of. Ignorance on the part of the public at large is one of the major problems and there are those that take advantage of this ignorance to make very large amounts of money by herding the ignorant into health care programs that increase the sales of the drug companies, and treatment methodologies that are very expensive, do not cure the medical problems or they just kill the patients. If we could freely use all of the technologies out there, the average person would be amazed at how they could live a more robust life with out expensive drugs. Heart Disease, Cancer, and Diabetes are serious and very dangerous medical problems. Today these medical problems are multibillion dollar industries that have no intent to find a cure. But fantastic advances have been developed in the field of Alternative Medicine and they are not allowed to make the public aware of these advances.
Today, when I see people sitting in a doctor’s waiting room I get very up set. I doubt if any of those individuals have any real understanding of why they are sick. The majority just accept what ever the doctor tells them to do; buy a prescription, accept the prescribed surgery or what ever medical methodology that is prescribed. Most doctors will not take any time to explain in detail what the problem is, or what the causative factors are. Very few will explain how to control the causative factors; assuming that all that is solved when the prescription is followed.
I went through this type of routine when I had my heart attack. I lay in that parking lot for 2 hours before I had regained the strength to crawl over to my car. I pulled myself into the driver’s seat, by this time I was soaking wet from sweating and hurt like hell. I had to gasp to breath. I drove to a medical center down the street and went into the Emergency room and asked for help. A nurse checked me over and told me there was nothing wrong. I went out to my car and sat there until the pain in my chest and my back stopped and I could breathe without effort. Several months later my regular doctor ordered an electrocardiogram for me. She told me I had a heart attack and I told her what happened. She called a Cardiologist and made an appointment for me. In short, I went through a series of very dangerous and painful tests, which resulted in my diagnosis. The Cardiologist gave me a fist full of prescriptions and restrictions on my life style. He would not answer any of my questions. I went back to my regular doctor and explained what had happen. My doctor got very angry and called the Cardiologist’s office. From that point on my education started on heart disease. She put me on a number of supplements and herbs. I did not understand how the supplements like Coenzyme Q10, L-Carnitine, D-Ribose, or Magnesium did anything to help my heart, but I faithfully did as the doctor directed, and guess what, my pain disappeared, I did not get dizzy, I had more stamina and strength. I was not totally healed, but I was a hell of a lot better. I knew I had to know to know what exactly was wrong with my heart and why I had the problem. So I had a lot of questions. My doctor was a practitioner of Alternative medicine. She answered most of my questions and agreed that I needed to learn more. I asked a lot of questions and I will admit it was not easy. But I was fortunate and started getting more and more answers. One day I called a company that had a top quality D-Ribose supplement and I was asking a lot of pointed questions, because I was not a believer in what this supplement was supposed to do. Finally, the lady I was talking to told me about a book written by Stephen T. Sinatra, a practicing cardiologist in
I would recommend that you check out two magazines. Life Extension magazine, at www.lifeextension.com; they will send you a copy of the magazine for free. It is a terrific publication. I subscribe to the magazine and I am also a member of the Life Extension Foundation. There are a lot of benefits that they have to offer.
Total Health Magazine is another terrific publication. Go to www.totalhealthmagazine.com
I would also like to recommend a book written by Suzanne Somers, BREAKTHROUGH, EIGHT STEPS TO WELLNESS.
I started reading this book in August. It completely stopped me. I had never given Suzanne Somers any real attention. Man was I wrong. She is an accomplished author and really knows the problems of medicine. In the book she interviews some very accomplished doctors and does not hide the shocking details she learns from the doctors. The first doctor she interviewed was one of my heroes, Dr. Jonathan Wright. This is a book that every one has to read before they can really put their health plans together.
I hope you found some of my thoughts valuable and useful. This is a new adventure for me and I am very excited about how I may be able to help people.
