“All men by nature desire knowledge.” Aristotle
When it comes to dealing with any disease symptoms, very
often you are your own worst enemy.
Health Awareness
To overcome any autoimmune disease you may have, you must
be aware of your own health conditions, whatever they may be at this moment
Do you have high blood pressure?
Are your blood cholesterol levels
normal?
Do you experience regular physical
pain, or frequent headaches?
Do you have difficulty going to
sleep?
Do you have insatiable cravings for
certain unhealthy foods?
Do you have anxiety or mental
depression?
Is everyday life stressful to you?
Are you overweight?
Do you have any degenerative
disease or chronic illness?
It is useless to deny the presence of any health problems
you may have. Your awareness of your present health conditions
is the first step towards self-healing.
Health decision
Once you become aware of your own conditions, make a decision to
bring about the necessary changes—a change in your attitude, and a change in
your diet and lifestyle.
Adopt the right attitudes towards an autoimmune disease
you may have, such as myasthenia gravis.
The right attitudes include your quest for health information. According to a
research study at Purdue University by Mohan J. Dutta-Bergman,
published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, “individuals
who searched for health information on the Internet were indeed more likely to
be health-oriented than those who did not. Consumers who sought out medical
information on the Internet reported higher levels of health-information
orientation and healthy activities, as well as stronger health beliefs than
those who did not search for medical news on the Internet.”
Knowledge is power. Knowledge not only gives you more
options in life, but also enables you to make your own health decisions,
instead of replying on others to make them for you.
Empower yourself with health information. Do not reply
solely on doctors or pharmaceutical drugs to make you younger and healthier for
longer. They offer no miracle cures.
Nowadays, many doctors may find themselves unable to keep
themselves abreast of the new knowledge of medicine in spite of their
continuing education. In addition, many doctors may become so preoccupied with
the ever-increasing paper work required by the health care machinery that they
simply do not have adequate time for their patients. If doctors cannot devote
their full attention to treating you, it just makes good sense that you should
be more reliant on yourself to keep yourself younger and healthier for longer.
The pharmaceutical companies and the FDA have convinced
not only the medical establishment but also the gullible public that costly
drugs are the answer to all their health problems, despite their dubious track
records and often-deadly side effects.
The use, misuse, and abuse of drugs account for 250,000 to
500,000 deaths each year in the United
States Harvard University
This is not to say that doctors and pharmaceutical drugs
have no place in modern medicine—far from it. But you must equip yourself with
knowledge to understand what your doctors are telling you, and why you should
be taking certain medications, if need be. More importantly, become your own
physician, and, indeed, the best you could ever have, because no man can be a
perfect physician to you than yourself, and no one can tell you
what your body needs other than yourself.
So, without the right attitude, it is difficult to
initiate any meaningful change in your life. Let your mind control your body,
and not the other way around. Therefore, what you feed you mind is as important
as what you feed your body. A toxic mind is worse than a toxic body. Remember,
your mind is most powerful if you harness its energies to create the reality
for you.
Stephen Lau
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