Natural vs. Synthetic
Why natural products? Whenever we start with a natural molecule, we are building on
substances which nature has refined over thousands of years. These substances can be digested and metabolized by our enzymes, liver and kidneys without any serious side effects. When we ingest synthetic substances our organ systems do not have the proper digestive enzymes to completely metabolize them, thus leading to many of the side effects we suffer from.
Everyone agrees that reducing digestive issues is desirable. It would be nice if we had
natural products with minimal side effects which could produce the same effects of. Thankfully these natural products do exist and can be used successfully, sometimes in conjunction with synthetic pharmaceuticals, but many times on their own. My goal here is not to tell you not to use synthetic pharmaceuticals when necessary, but when feasible to replace them with natural pharmaceuticals.
As pathogenic bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, scientists are looking to other means to combat infections. We are seeing just the infancy in the use of probiotics and prebiotics, both for health maintenance and for treating different medical conditions. Probiotics are the live friendly bacteria or live friendly yeast that we can take as natural pharmaceuticals. As the scientific literature documents, probiotics have a protective effect against allergy, eczema, infection, diarrhea, blood pressure, cholesterol, digestive issues and more.
I recommend that you find a doctor who understands and prescribes, when feasible, natural pharmaceuticals for health maintenance, as well as alternatives to proton pump inhibitors and H2 blockers.
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said that the order of health is first-regimen, second-medicine and last-surgery. Regimen, according to Hippocrates, consisted of lifestyle, diet, exercise, etc. Only after you exhaust different facets of regimen, do you move onto medicine and only after you exhaust medicine do you move onto surgery. In this country we do things backwards. First we do surgery, if that fails we use medicine and if medicine fails we go to regimen. Only after surgery and medicine fail do we look towards alternative treatments. Following Hippocrates advice let us use regimen first, medicine secondarily and surgery only as a last resort.
-Dr. Mayer Eisenstein MD JD MPH
substances which nature has refined over thousands of years. These substances can be digested and metabolized by our enzymes, liver and kidneys without any serious side effects. When we ingest synthetic substances our organ systems do not have the proper digestive enzymes to completely metabolize them, thus leading to many of the side effects we suffer from.
Everyone agrees that reducing digestive issues is desirable. It would be nice if we had
natural products with minimal side effects which could produce the same effects of. Thankfully these natural products do exist and can be used successfully, sometimes in conjunction with synthetic pharmaceuticals, but many times on their own. My goal here is not to tell you not to use synthetic pharmaceuticals when necessary, but when feasible to replace them with natural pharmaceuticals.
As pathogenic bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, scientists are looking to other means to combat infections. We are seeing just the infancy in the use of probiotics and prebiotics, both for health maintenance and for treating different medical conditions. Probiotics are the live friendly bacteria or live friendly yeast that we can take as natural pharmaceuticals. As the scientific literature documents, probiotics have a protective effect against allergy, eczema, infection, diarrhea, blood pressure, cholesterol, digestive issues and more.
I recommend that you find a doctor who understands and prescribes, when feasible, natural pharmaceuticals for health maintenance, as well as alternatives to proton pump inhibitors and H2 blockers.
Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, said that the order of health is first-regimen, second-medicine and last-surgery. Regimen, according to Hippocrates, consisted of lifestyle, diet, exercise, etc. Only after you exhaust different facets of regimen, do you move onto medicine and only after you exhaust medicine do you move onto surgery. In this country we do things backwards. First we do surgery, if that fails we use medicine and if medicine fails we go to regimen. Only after surgery and medicine fail do we look towards alternative treatments. Following Hippocrates advice let us use regimen first, medicine secondarily and surgery only as a last resort.
-Dr. Mayer Eisenstein MD JD MPH
