For years now, scientists and people in the scientific community have implored Americans to start changing their diets and switching many of their medical needs to more natural health based solutions and products. With even such ailments as constipation, the scientific community has encouraged people to move away from prescription and over the counter remedies in favor of more natural solutions. Using constipation as an example, even two years ago a study was done which seemed to show considerably better results from a panel of test subjects when using natural health over their medically enhanced counterparts.
It doesn’t stop with constipation, of course. Leaders in the science industry have recently become very vocal in their opposition to the increasing trend in menopause therapy to supply endless amounts of hormone replacement for women going through the change. Menopause can be a devastating time for a woman, but studies have shown that hormone replacement therapy and prescription drugs may have complicated the problem rather than solve it. The jury is certainly still out, but more and more evidence is coming in that the natural health pundits may have been right all along. Not only when it comes to menopause and constipation, but when one turns to many of the products advertised on a daily basis on American television.
Consider sleep aids, for instance. You don’t even have to be a scientist to know there is more to these prescription sleep aids than meets the eye. Has anyone ever stopped to think that there might be something wrong with a pill that knocks you out cold for eight hours? And what of the side effects, which are as plain as day, and even stated in bold terms in the very advertisements that purport to sell these sleep aids? Still, millions of these sleep aids are prescribed every day, leaving scientists frustrated as they try to get the word out that these pills and medications might not be what’s best for your body.
There can be no doubt: the medical community has made great strides in just the last fifty years. Life expectancy for Americans has gone through the roof. Tangential evidence aside, there is no question we are healthier as a people than we were just a short time ago. The question, however, remains: are we right in abandoning all of the natural health products available to us from Mother Earth? The scientific community, increasingly, is telling us we are not. Natural health products are, by and large, the best first step in any fight against a minor ailment or illness. They don’t come with the dangerous and irritating side effects found in drugs, and they often times work just as well, if not better.
While there is no way to predict whether the unprejudiced scientific community or the drug companies will eventually win this war, there is much you can do as an individual to stake your claim. Natural health is not just a series of products, but a lifestyle. And while no reasonable person would ask you to abandon all remnants of the miraculous medical marvels available to us, it may be worth seeing what a natural health lifestyle can do for you.