In our modern healthcare (sickcare) model, the main idea is to search and find diseases within the body.  You will see this process unfold at all the hospitals and medical clinics you enter. If you enter a hospital, they will run a variety of blood tests and other specialty tests (if needed) on you to determine where your state of health is. If there is an absence of illness and disease, you are in a state of good health. If your numbers (blood pressure, cholesterol, sugar levels, etc.) are within normal limits, you will be told everything is normal. This sounds great to the average American, but is this true healthcare?

In other words, does our healthcare system promote and increase the health, wellness and quality of life of an individual? What sort of response would you receive if you walked into a hospital anywhere in the U.S. and asked, “How can you make me healthy?” There isn’t a single hospital in this country that can offer you ways to make you healthy. The medical model’s main methods of treatment are drugs and surgeries. Do you start to have heart disease due to lack of aspirin in the blood? Is an infection acquired due to the lack of antibiotics in the blood?

There is not a drug, potion, or lotion that can provide you true healthcare.

In the study Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally, 2010 Update by The Commonwealth Fund, the U.S. ranked in last place out of seven industrialized nations. If medicine were the cause of health and wellness, shouldn’t we be ranked number one? But we’re not! 

If we take America’s healthcare system today and put it into a healthy society, there is only one outcome. It will eventually make it a sick society. There is not a decrease of illnesses and diseases, but a rise. We need true healthcare and it starts by having less sick people.

True health comes from within. When you have a cut on your arm, you don’t need a cream, lotion, potion or medicine to help heal the cut. Your body will naturally heal the cut overtime. This same healing power is the healing power that continuously, day by day helps heal your body from cancer, heart disease, diabetes and so forth. When the body cannot heal properly, disease will slowly begin and it is only a matter of time before it will start to show symptoms or be detected.

Health is determined by how well you function. The better your body is functioning, the better health you will have. 

This has been part one of a three-part series. Check La Grange Patch in February for part two.