Healthcare Insurance Freedom in 2025
There has been frustration and underlying anger growing among patients and medical practitioners when access is denied for therapies and procedures that should be used but insurance companies are unwilling to pay for it or continue to delay what a patient is badly needing. This is very frustrating in the way it handcuffs medical practitioners as well because it quite simply dictates how they practice medicine.
A friend recently told me she finally gave up and went to Mexico to get kidney stones removed because she was in such excruciating pain but unable to get the medical clearance from her insurance company to get the procedure done. My uncle (medical doctor) recently had an elderly patient with debilitating pain in her back, and the insurance company denied the MRI he ordered and even after personally calling them, was told that the protocol is for her to do three months of therapy first. Imagine how that makes a medical doctor feel that has been practicing for 49 years. Unfortunately, taking a path of least resistance has probably been what has brought us to where we are now.
We live in an era where there has been far too much emphasis on having access to health insurance, medical-care and pharmaceutical management drugs, but very little emphasis on doing what we can to live drug-free. With prejudice we tend as a society to look at people that are on illegal drugs as “being on drugs” while we ourselves are putting our bodies and organs through hell on legal drugs and drug combinations. How much does our body actually care about what is legal or illegal? It seems most drugs of value to the pharmaceutical industry, have become ones you are kept on (management drugs) with very little guidance about how to incorporate lifestyle habits to heal the disease and get weaned off of them.
Our real addiction: we use drugs to manage symptoms instead of relieving our hurting body part(s) or system(s) of the actual problem. This applies to diabetes management, arthritis management, pain management, cholesterol management, blood pressure management, cancer management and the list goes on and on. When we take drugs for symptoms but are unwilling to change the lifestyle habit that is causing it, (though it is accepted in today’s society and rubber-stamped by the FDA) our body’s opinion is quite simply that we are a drug user and abuser.
We have a new year coming up and one thing that we can all benefit from is decreasing our dependence on drugs whether illegal or legal (including alcohol and tobacco) and making the lifestyle changes that empower our body to make its own personal designer drugs it needs to fight the bad stuff and to keep us healthy. There are some things that we can do now to help prevent or decrease our dependence on drugs in 2025.
Statins: instead of using statin drugs to manage cholesterol, let’s start making the dietary changes needed to heal our network of blood vessels (taking away the reason for the cholesterol sticking to our blood vessel walls), lower our sugar and high fructose corn syrup intake and increase fiber intake. Increasing our fiber intake causes us to lose bile that our body has to replace), our liver then makes new bile from cholesterol, which lowers our cholesterol. That’s why high fiber foods are considered cholesterol-lowering foods.
Sugar lowering drugs and insulin: we can lower our need for insulin and sugar lowering drugs through diet and exercise. Exercise helps suck up glucose from the blood to energize our muscles thus lowering blood sugar. Intense exercise stimulates the hormone Glut4 to the surface of our muscle cells and helps sugar enter into them easier, lowering the amount of insulin we need. This helps lower the stress put on our pancreas for insulin production.
Blood pressure drugs: a heart healthy diet with healthy dietary fats and an active lifestyle can decrease our need for blood pressure medicine. A quick remedy for blood pressure is doing slow to moderate activity until you feel your body heat up. This causes blood to heat up as well (blood that is heated up relaxes blood vessels).
Drugs for gastrointestinal issues: keep a food diary for what you eat and how you feel. This timeline will give you a prescription of what you need to eliminate (that your gut doesn’t like) and may also help you resolve autoimmune disorders that can be caused by un-dissolved food particles getting into your blood. Un-dissolved particles can cause our organs to get inflamed when the blood delivers food particles instead of nutrients that are ready to absorb.
Pain drugs: finding out why our body part or system is hurting and then eliminating this will dry out the inflammation that is causing the pain. When a pain gets too intense in an area, cool it down; this helps shrink the inflammation thus reducing the pain.
Even though we can find out many of the side effects of individual drugs, there is very little research if any on long-term effects of drug combinations, so there are potentially more side effects than on the individual label.
Giving our body the chance to work its way through things by giving it time and good lifestyle habits can decrease your dependence on drugs produced by man and will build a stronger and more skilled immune system that can build the exact drugs your body needs.
Continued use of medications, (especially multiple ones) work in the body like an unlabeled mixed pack of seeds does in the ground; you really don’t know what the results will yield. Let’s make it our mission in the new year to find the reasons our body needs a drug in the first place and eliminate that which will take away the need for the drug or at the least help decrease the dosage and frequency.
Talk to your doctor about what lifestyle habits you can change or introduce that can lower the need for the medication you are on. If they really care about your long-term healthcare freedom, they will carefully help you lower or eliminate them.
“The best doctors give the least medicines.” ~Benjamin Franklin
