To My Fellow Health Professionals

Fellow Health Professionals:

I am personally appalled at the lack of nutrition education provided to members of the medical field. What we are more commonly taught to recommend and reinforce to patients is indefensible in many ways. A never-ending stream of patients come to us, often people who possess diminishing or nonexistent quality of life, and many health professionals have little idea how to help them except prescribe medications and adhere to guidelines that harm or kill more frequently than cure or help. Additionally, we are all well aware we are in a health care crisis with virtually all disease rates ever-rising.

With consideration to the current mandated training for medical professionals on nutrition (effectively none), I feel very strongly that we owe it to our patients to make sure we are up-to-date on current guidelines, studies, and research for what constitutes healthy living. This extends beyond nutritional guidelines…some corn is no longer really corn, some ketchup is no longer really ketchup (GMOs and many other examples), the ever-failing antibiotic problem, the rise of the superbugs, and the many other serious issues that combine to form the current crisis. We owe it to our patient to advocate for them, and therefore to understand these problems that impact their health.

What do you recommend to a patient with Multiple Sclerosis? High blood pressure? Reflux? Cancer? High cholesterol? Diabetes? Arthritis? Erectile Dysfunction? Vascular disorders? A patient who wants to live healthy and prevent disease?

Patients who desire to live a healthy life, should be given the opportunity to do as such, and that is what we have pledged to do for them to the utmost of our ability. We owe them truth. Don’t be a victim of Big Pharma and lobbyists.

Check the facts and let’s end the healthcare crisis!!!

"When you fail to inform someone about the importance of lifestyle medicine, then you steal that person’s right to live free from sickness and medications.”
- John McDougall, MD