Longevity

 Kara Fitzgarald, N.D. a colleague of mine wrote a book titled Younger You, Reduce your  Bio age and Live Longer, Better,  that I highly recommend. You can shave three years off your age in eight weeks by changing your diet and lifestyle. So why aren’t more people doing this? It is hard to change, period. Fast food is all around every corner, easy to get to but not necessarily as cheap as we think when it comes to the extra expense on our health. Mainstream medicine offers that magic pill that will treat your chronic disease and make your pain go away. But this also comes at an expense to our health since prescription drugs have been the fourth leading cause of death for the last twenty years. Studies are showing that in the hospital population there are between 300,000 to 400,000 deaths directly due to medication – and that medication had been properly prescribed.  If we did not have prescription drugs would people live longer? Granted, prescription drugs can be effective for treating some diseases but should not be used for long-term treatment. This is a question which we should all be thinking about? Prescription medication should only be used when diet and lifestyle is not working.  Unfortunately, most people have no idea what to do to change their diet and lifestyle and medical doctors have no education regarding diet and lifestyle.  There is where naturopathic doctors are very effective in treating chronic disease.