BreakFree Medicine: A Systematic and Integrative Guide to Balancing Your Body - Softcover

Lobisco ND, Sarah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452517487 ISBN 13: 9781452517483

Verlag: BalboaPress, 2016

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" BreakFree Medicine is a book about healing, medicine, and maintaining wellness. It provides the missing holistic, comprehensive, and solution-based approaches often lacking in today's conventional medical care. It is succinct, valid, and applicable to patients and practitioners alike. BreakFree Medicine is a reference guide for anyone seeking to effectively navigate today's changing medical environment. ""Dr. Sarah LoBisco's book is a brilliant and comprehensive look at medicine, healing, and wellness from both the analysis and critique of what is wrong with our modern system of medicine, and also by detailing the path we need to take, both individually and collectively, to achieve better health from a physical, emotional and spiritual perspective. I highly recommend this book, and anyone who reads it will be grateful for having done so and the knowledge and insight they will have gained."" - Michael Wayne, Ph.D., L.Ac., author of Quantum-Integral Medicine: Towards a New Science of Healing and Human Potential and The Low Density Lifestyle. ""Dr. Sarah LoBisco is a shining example of an integrative doctor who is teaching modern medicine how to balance scientific progress with natural healthcare wisdom. Her book BreakFree Medicine is a treasury of wellness."" - Robert Holden, PhD, author of Happiness NOW! and Shift Happens! "

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BreakFree Medicine

A Systematic and Integrative Guide to Balancing Your Body

By Sarah LoBisco

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2016 Sarah A LoBisco, ND.
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4525-1748-3

Contents

Foreword, xiii, 
Preface, xv, 
Acknowledgements, xix, 
Introduction, xxi, 
Chapter 1 - Traditional, Conventional, and Natural Medicine: The Power of a Beautiful Integration, 1, 
Chapter 2 - A New Approach to Individualized Treatment, 16, 
Chapter 3 - Let Food Be Thy Medicine, 30, 
Chapter 4 - Moving Toward Healthier Outcomes, 52, 
Chapter 5 - Your Gut: The Home of Mood, Food, and Immunity, 67, 
Chapter 6 - Healthy Body, Healthy Brain, 85, 
Chapter 7 - Finding Hormonal Harmony, 113, 
Chapter 8 - Toxic in the 21st Century, 131, 
Chapter 9 - Heart & Soul Medicine, 149, 
Chapter 10 - Conclusion, 156, 
Epilogue, 159, 
About the Author, 161, 
Glossary, 163, 
Resources: for Further Reading, 167, 
References by Chapter, 169, 
Index, 193, 

CHAPTER 1

Traditional, Conventional, and Natural Medicine: The Power of a Beautiful Integration

Naturopathic doctors revere the body's innate ability to heal and to be restored to optimal function through the least invasive, most natural means possible. This philosophy views disease as a state of imbalance, and believes that when the body is provided with what it needs, it is restored to its natural balance. Our aim is to address the underlying cause of disease, remove any obstacles to cure, and support the body with the proper nourishment it needs to heal.

My training in naturopathic philosophy has been furthered by the study of functional medicine, which provides insight into one's unique biochemistry. It utilizes a holistic model that incorporates specific biological assessments to help determine individualized nutritional needs and deficiencies. Functional medicine also offers insight into how various supplements or medications affect each person's body differently.

Conventional medicine, which is the medicine practiced by today's medical doctors (MDs) and their allied professionals, tends to rely more on tools aimed at covering or suppressing symptoms. Although I am trained in the use of pharmaceuticals and diagnostic tools of modern and scientific research, I have earned the letters "ND" (vs. "MD") after my name because of the ways in which I use, apply, and view those tools. This book is not meant to assert which type of medicine is better. Both are needed. I have the utmost respect for conventional medical practitioners and their brilliance. I am not questioning their abilities, diagnostic excellence, or knowledge of core clinical sciences. I do, however, agree with most of my colleagues who use integrative medicine. Conventional medicine tends to apply this knowledge by suppressing symptoms without always addressing causes ... an approach that could be contributing to today's healthcare crisis.

Today's Conventional Medicine Statistics

Many people who are interested in healthcare reform and integrative medicine are familiar with Gary Null's publication, Death by Medicine, a compilation of various studies on the state of healthcare statistics in the United States. This publication cites sources for estimated costs, death rates, and unnecessary medical events. Null lists the following conditions with an estimated rate of mortality that totals 7,841,360:

Adverse drug reactions
Medical errors
Bedsores
Nosocomial (hospital-based) infections
Malnutrition
Outpatient errors
Unnecessary procedures
Surgery-related complications

Null concludes, "Our estimated 10-year total of 7.8 million iatrogenic [a condition unintentionally caused by the actions or words of a physician] deaths is more than all the casualties from all the wars fought by the US throughout its entire history." Yikes! This is quite an alarming conclusion for most of us to hear, especially since we are led to believe that we have one of the best healthcare systems in the world.

Recently, I came across an updated statistic on our country's dreary healthcare outcomes. A meta-analysis in the September 2013 issue of the Journal of Patient Safety affirmed "that a lower limit of 210,000 deaths per year was associated with preventable harm in hospitals," with an upper limit of approximately 400,000. Interestingly, this analysis was limited to only four studies and only took into consideration specific medical harms using the Global Trigger Tool to flag specific evidence in medical records.

A June 2010 report by the Commonwealth Fund, a private organization advocating for a "high performance health care system providing better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency," echoed Null's disconcerting news on the state of US healthcare. As stated in the Executive Summary of their 34-page report,

The U.S. health system is the most expensive in the world, but comparative analyses consistently show the United States underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. This report, which includes information from the most recent three Commonwealth Fund surveys of patients and primary care physicians about medical practices and views of their countries' health systems (2007-2009), confirms findings discussed in previous editions of Mirror, Mirror. It also includes information on health care outcomes that were featured in the most recent (2008) U.S. health system scorecard issued by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System.

Among the seven nations of Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom (UK), the United States ranked last in overall health outcomes. The United States has also ranked last in the 2004, 2006, and 2007 editions. The Netherlands, UK, and Australia scored highest in patient and physician survey results for the experience and dimensions of care. The following items were among the considerations for key findings in this report:

1. Quality of care and access

2. Efficiency

3. Equity

4. Quality of life

It is concerning that the United States fails to achieve better results for healthcare, falling behind seven nations in the dimensions of access, patient safety, coordination, efficiency, and equity. Universal health coverage was absent in the United States, which was a notable difference from the other countries. Furthermore, the other six countries spent less money per person and overall in healthcare's gross national product compared to the United States. It is questionable whether President Barack Obama's healthcare reform legislation will improve affordability and access in the future. During the editing of this book, The Common Wealth Fund released their 2015 report, "U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective: Spending, Use of Ser vices, Prices, and Health in 13 Countries" and reported similar results in 2013 as in 2010, stating that, "Despite spending more on health care, Americans had poor health outcomes, including shorter life expectancy and greater prevalence of chronic conditions."

Ten years after The Institute of Medicine issued their article, "To Err is Human," a 2010 studyexamined possible harms to hospital admissions in North Carolina between 2002 and 2007. The report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggested that the above statistics concerning medication errors and conventional treatments are not improving:

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: BalboaPress
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1452517487
• ISBN 13: 9781452517483
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 220
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