The key to coping successfully with an illness is not only to be an educated consumer but also to hone your sense of intuition about what is healthful and not healthful for you.
Over 24.5 million Americans suffer from autoimmune diseases – and yet this group of illnessess is still poorly understood and underrepresented in research and medical schools. Most primary medical doctors have only a rudimentary education in autoimmune diseases and do not have knowledge of or access to the kind of cutting edge research, testing and treatments that may make a difference.
Worse – as patients we tend to put our head in the sand about our own health issues and because of our unwillingness or inability to adequately ascertain the scope and depth of our illness fail to seek and get appropriate medical care – rather tolerating a lifetime of disease and medication.
Uninformed doctors combined with patients who do not trust their own health intuition and do not advocate for themselves is a recipe for personal and public health disaster. How many people do you know who suffer from Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Asthma, Scleroderma, and more?
In this blog you will learn about disease and how you can be a better patient in myriad ways. I will cover the following topics:
The Science of Your Immune Disease:
- basic lessons in biology, immunology and related subjects
- genetics
- toxicology and environmental triggers
Understanding and Treating Your Immune Disease:
- Your genetics
- Nutrition
- Your Gut
- Stress
- Safe Detoxification
Patient Skill Building – Developing Personal Health Intuition
- learning how to listen to your body
- understanding your personal symptom picture + communicating it effectively to doctors.
- how to get the most out of each and every visit to the doctor + how to listen to doctors
- how to choose the right doctor/s
- how to know if your doctor is not good for you, and how to fire them when they’re not
- Lay medical advice – sorting out the crap from the clinically proven
- how to be a responsible consumer of pharmaceutical drugs
- how to advocate for yourself in emergencies
Plus broader issues about health care, reform, medical education, scientific trends and more.
Health Intuition 