What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You By Ray D. Strand, MD.

Dr. Strand graduated from the University of Colorado Medical School and finished his post-graduate training at Mercy Hospital in San Diego, California. He has practiced family medicine for the past 30 years. His focus for the last seven years has been on nutritional medicine after realizing the dramatic effect nutritional supplements had on his ailing wife. He is an advocate that lectures internationally on this 21st century concept. Here's why:

75% of all deaths occur from degenerative diseases including Heart Disease, Strokes, Cancer, Alzheimer's Dementia and Multiple Sclerosis. Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Chronic Fatigue, and Fibromyalgia debilitate the baby boomers while diabetes runs rampant in our youth. The traditional methods of medical practice have, in the past, focused on the disease and ways of treating it.

Despite the fact that we have spent over $25 billion in cancer research, we see absolutely no decrease in the number of cancer deaths. Earlier detection of cancer has been the greatest achievement, but the treatments remain unpleasant and ineffective. Pharmaceutical companies are currently directing the course of treatment. In 1990 Americans spent $37.7 Billion on prescriptions. In 1997 that spending increased to $78.9 billion. Prescription drugs are the fastest-growing portion of health care, rising at the rate of over 17 percent per year. Well over the average rate of inflation.

Dr. Strand suggests that prevention and cell maintenance are the key to the success of disease control. Oxidative Stress, the mutation of healthy cells, has been directly linked to degenerative diseases and even the process of aging. The book goes into some pretty technical terms, but the bottom line is that free radicals run amuck in our bodies, causing cell damage. Our bodies have a natural immune system that produces antioxidants. Unfortunately, natural antioxidants are losing the battle against free radicals, causing cell mutation and disease. Without supplemental antioxidants, all the drugs taken to combat disease will be inevitably, ineffective.

Dr. Strand recounts many personal cases where nutritional supplements have improved the quality of life for his patients. Patients are empowered to control their disease rather than having the illness control them. Healthcare as we know it is headed for dramatic change over the next decades. Dr. Myron Wentz, a prominent immunologist and microbiologist is quoted as saying, "We are living too short and dying too long."

If you know anyone with a health problem, are battling prescription drug costs or simply want to preserve your quality of life, I strongly suggest you read this book.

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