Your alternative medicine integrative doctor experience will naturally be different than the usual conventional care experience in Los Angeles. It should be a welcome difference. However, when you are choosing your alternative medicine integrative doctor, you might not fully appreciate why there are differences. Let’s discuss this idea.
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Most people get comfortable with the way they understand conventional medicine’s disease management approach and its medical procedures. You might get caught in the routine of seeking similar doctors, and repeating the same things you have experienced before. Out of habit, you seek more of the familiar. It’s because you are already familiar with the way you get examined, tested, treated, and the beliefs the doctors have. “I’ll have the usual, please.”
You’re interested in an alternative medicine integrative doctor because you know that something is missing from your conventional medical disease-care. Maybe you realize their early detection methods are not enough to help with your higher goals. So, you seek an integrative doctor who has the ability to see things differently than just another MD.
Alternative medicine: a new kind of doctor
You may hesitate finding a new kind of doctor because you want something familiar, but with natural medicines. Maybe that would be different enough. But he/she was schooled under the same institutional banner, and practices largely the same as other medical doctors. You felt like choosing “more of the same” with a similar doctor because the familiar presents no risk to you. What’s familiar feels safe.
Would you go to a different doctor just to get the same types of tests and treatments? But didn’t you already have all of that?
Integrative doctor, or not really?
When a doctor claims to be an integrative doctor, but has beliefs like your other doctors, your treatment won’t change.
If your integrative doctor prescribes drugs, then his or her beliefs are no different than your other doctors. The underlying belief is your body is incapable of healing and repairing without drugs, surgery or radiation treatment. That’s a false medical belief system; not science. Must you believe that too?
Medicine is not a perfect science. More of the same just won’t work.
A core medical belief
Here is the key point: the choice to use any drugs in medical practice indicates the doctor’s core belief. The belief is that your body is wholly incapable of helping itself without these substances. Why would a doctor prescribe such chemicals without the belief that your body is wholly unable to function without them? Why would he recommend them to other patients if he believed that their body could function without them? It shows the doctor’s belief that the human body is incapable of self regulating and self healing without those substances.
Safe complementary medicine Los Angeles
Don’t be fooled into thinking that proper complementary medicine would act against your current medical plan/road-map. Any licensed practitioner who manages your complementary medicine will do a full history and consultation with you. He will be willing to have open communication with any of your medical doctors. Any practitioner who wouldn’t be willing to discuss their approach in your complementary medicine care should be avoided.
Unqualified opinions
“Don’t ask a surgeon about integrative medicine/clinical nutrition, and don’t ask a Nutritionist about surgery.”
When seeking advice regarding complementary medicine, integrative medicine, or alternative medicine, BEWARE! Avoid taking the advice of someone who never practiced, is not immersed in, and does not fully understand complementary medicine. Don’t listen to someone’s opinion on things for which he is not an expert. Does he have any formal training in complementary medicine approaches such as functional medicine, clinical nutrition, or even “muscle testing?” You should understand that a conventional MD knows nothing about the intricacies of alternative medicine and complementary medicine approaches.
Taking unqualified opinions from a non-expert about complementary medicine principles and practices can be confusing and terribly misleading. You need advice from a different kind of doctor; an integrative doctor. Choosing an integrative chiropractor who really understands the science of kinesiology, requires breaking away from unqualified opinions.
Does Your Doctor Believe What You Believe?
There’s an alternate understanding of how your body functions. It’s an exclusively different philosophy and belief system compared to the medical “your body is incapable” belief. As an integrative chiropractor, I teach chiropractic principles such as: “your body is a potentially self healing, self regulating organism.” You might think: “Sure, but that’s not different than a medical doctor’s beliefs, because sometimes medications are necessary.” However, if you are willing to pause and step away from that belief, I can show you the difference. Just for a minute, allow yourself to think that maybe there really is a difference between these beliefs. Either your body is incapable, or your body is potentially self healing and self regulating.
Outside of life-threatening emergencies, does your body have the potential to heal, and self regulate? If so, then why must you use a chemical that overrides your body’s functions; suppressing a symptom? You know, that’s what drugs do: they force a reaction in your body. Their purpose is narrow and meant to suppress a symptom, or change a test result number. In effect, they overwhelm your body’s current state of equilibrium, by chemical force. If your body were truly incapable of helping itself, then of course you would need drug treatment. If you think a drug is necessary “temporarily” when your body is incapable of regulating, then you believe it’s incapable. Period. It is either incapable or it is potentially self regulating. It can’t be both, or that your body is just a little incapable, because it only needs one drug.
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Chiropractic principles teach the opposite, and hold that the body is a potentially self healing and self regulating organism. But just hold-on, put your defenses down for just a moment more to consider this alternative medicine concept. For just a moment more, let this alternative medicine idea have a chance to sink in.
Imagine that your body is truly self healing and self regulating. Just imagine that for a second. Can you see it? Wait… Is something still not right? Is there a problem believing this idea because your body isn’t well? Oh! How can my body be self healing and regulating if I already have a disease and it’s not getting better? Doesn’t that prove that the body is incapable and needs a drug?
That is a very important question! Here’s why the answer is “no”. The key word in this chiropractic principle is “potential.” Your body certainly has the potential to be self healing, self repairing and self regulating. Chiropractors call this your body’s innate intelligence. Chiropractors should also know that anything thwarting communication throughout your brain and nerves can diminish this natural potential. Less light = “sub-lux-ated.” This is the opposite of the medical philosophy that the body is incapable.
Every body will function better with a better functioning nervous system.
Chiropractic principles teach that your body has the potential, no matter how broken down, to heal, and self-regulate. The only thing holding it back from its full potential is when things are in the way of brain-nerve communications. No drug could ever restore this innate potential of your body. The innate is there, yet there are things that can get in the way. Those things are not caused by diseases. Diseases are the end results of blocked healing potential, they are not the causes. We use chiropractic adjustments, and whole food natural remedies to help unblock your healing potential.
The Opposite of Drugs
The opposite of drugs is whole food: which is the most important thing for your body. Whole food, or whole food supplementation, does not force a reaction in your body. It does not override your body’s equilibrium or suppress anything. Its purpose is broad and meant to nourish your entire body, while promoting health and wellness.
How to choose an integrative doctor Los Angeles
If you choose a doctor who uses foods and clinical nutrition, but not drugs, that’s in line with chiropractic principles. Also, you’ll need access to chiropractic adjustments for your full, integrative, experience. You just can’t get that from anyone but a chiropractor. Integrative doctors integrate the care of your whole body including spinal care and nourishment. This is contrary to just focusing on one area of your body. Functional medicine means improving your body’s functional status, not just looking at hiding disease by suppressing symptoms.
You want your complementary medicine to truly be a complement to your body. Let’s help healing happen, instead of applying just another window-dressing of medicine to cover symptoms. Your integrative chiropractor will help you get to the root of why your body is temporarily not self-healing, or self-regulating. Your licensed, integrative practitioner should be able to explain this to you, without blaming it on an end-result disease. Request an appointment below.