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I think that we traditionally are taught in medical school that our job is to eradicate
whatever the issue is. And so we're taught that if you have high blood pressure these
are the medications that you use to lower it. And if you have cancer here are the surgical
options to remove it, here's the chemotherapy, here's the radiation and again all of those
I think are correct. But there is the aspect of why do some people get cancer and some
people don't. When we look at the genetics of it, it's actually
a very small percentage that we can say this is due to a genetic flaw in your makeup. The
majority of it is truly what we do to ourselves. And so I think that when we look at medicine
from an educational standpoint there is very little that traditional medicine does to help
us work with that in that we have whole physician's desk reference of drugs that can take care
of just about any ailment that you can think of, but none of it deals with the route of
the problem. Why is it that you're depressed? Why is it that your blood pressure is high?
And we often hide behind the fact, oh and my dad had high blood pressure. Well if you're
eating potato chips for lunch and dinner every day, you too can have high blood pressure.
So it doesn't necessarily mean it's a genetic issue. We know there's a connection between
stress and developing cancer. We certainly know that smoking and the way we eat and so
forth all affects the way that our immune system works. But we also know if you look
into the literature that acupuncture, meditation, yoga all increase your immune system, documented
in our literature. So the idea of integrating it too is a simple one. It's just a matter
of making sure that all the avenues are open to the patient and then you can help them.