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When you have had low energy and mood swings for a long time, or you’ve started getting migraines more often and you go to your doctor for help, what do they do?
If I were a betting man, I’d wager that most of the time your doctor spends a little time talking to you about your symptoms, then gives you a set of next steps that includes medication and maybe a referral to a specialist for further diagnosis.
That specialist will hear your list of symptoms, run some tests, and maybe put you on new or different medications or recommend more invasive procedures like surgery.
And after you might feel better, at least for a time.
So here’s the question:
Are the medications or surgery fixing the cause of your health issues, or are they only fixing the symptoms?
You might think “what’s the difference?”.
When you fix the symptoms, you temporarily reduce the pain or the headache or the high blood pressure but you don’t fix what was causing those things in the first place.
Here’s an example:
Let’s say you get bad headaches in the evening after a long day at work. Usually, you take a couple of Advil and the headache (mostly) goes away.
From this observation, you could conclude that your headaches are being caused by an Advil deficiency.
Obviously, your body doesn’t need Advil to avoid getting a headache, so something else is causing your headache, and Advil is just relieving the symptom.
So, what IS causing your headache?
Is it dehydration? Are your eyes straining all day because you need glasses? Do you have a nutrient or mineral deficiency? Are your hormones out of balance?
We call this finding the root cause.
What does root cause mean?
Often, different signs and symptoms that your doctor might treat individually have the same root cause.
Take, for example, Type 2 Diabetes and depression. While they may not at first seem like related illnesses, they may have the same root causes, and even share some symptoms.
But does depression lead to Type 2 Diabetes, or does Type 2 Diabetes lead to depression?
OR - is there a root cause of both that leads to both of these issues showing up together, more often than not?
In this case, it’s pretty clear that there is:
Insulin resistance and chronic inflammation contribute to both Type 2 Diabetes and depression, along with several other chronic and mental health issues.
So, here’s the question for you:
If you or a loved one are being treated by your doctor for a chronic or mental health issue (or both), are you soothing individual symptoms?
Or are you fixing the root cause?
Medical treatments are very good at helping to ease pain and suffering while we make changes to address the root cause of our issue. But we shouldn’t rely on them to solve the problem.
What is becoming more and more clear is that the foundation of fixing the root causes of chronic disease and mental disorders is nutrition.
Not just nutrition. We humans are incredibly complex creatures, and we can’t reduce the problem or the solution down to just one thing.
But while you can’t suffer from an Advil deficiency, you can absolutely suffer from an Omega-3 fats deficiency. Or an Iron deficiency. Or a protein deficiency.
When you give your body and brain the materials it needs to build hormones, neurotransmitters, enzymes, immune cells, blood cells, and everything else, and take out the things that cause inflammation, insulin resistance and oxidative stress, you’re getting yourself back as close as you can get to your original factory settings.
Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired? Ready to start fixing your health issues at their root? Want to get back to your body’s original factory settings?
That is what my 6-month nutrition program is all about. I’ve got a spot with your name on it.
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