Trust
Trust is one of the cornerstones of a good doctor-patient relationship. This trust may be even more important in the setting of an unconventional approach. As an enduring skeptic, it took hundreds of personal experiences for me to trust the accuracy and power of the approaches that I would eventually employ.
Fundamental to my personal medical philosophy is the belief that the body has the capacity to regulate and heal itself. I prefer to think of disease not as a distinct entity but rather the failure of an individual person’s physiology to meet the challenges it faces. Sometimes the individual’s genes predispose him and sometimes the challenges are too strong or there’s just too many of them.
The limitations of traditional medicine.
But there’s a great deal of difference between one person’s biochemistry and another’s. Biochemical individuality makes life hard for doctors because we’re trained to think of all people as being essentially the same. We also like things to be black or white so that we can address problems algorithmically – that is to say we like to move from a symptom or a sign or a lab result to a diagnosis and then to a treatment.
We look to find and address the factors that make a person's body prone to dysfunction in the first place.
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