According to The World Health Organisation the main causes of disease and death are no longer acute infections like HIV/AIDS (1.5 million in 2012), TB and Malaria, although still massive killers. It is the chronic diseases like cardiovascular (heart and lung), cancer and diabetes. 38 million in 2012 alone, that are now the top 3 causes of death worldwide. Conditions such as asthma, food intolerances, eczema, and autism have all doubled and in some cases tripled in numbers since the 1980s.
On average it takes 18 years for new information to work its way into conventional medical education and the average time of a GP appointment is 7 minutes. Why is this?
The conventional medical system was set up to deal with acute and urgent medical conditions. Things like heart attacks, broken bones and acute illnesses. The focus is on treating the symptoms in the short term and the type of drug prescribed is usually the same for everyone with the same disease. It’s a one size fits all prescription. As far as it goes It is a good system considered within this scenario.
Diagnostic medicine, on the other hand, is about Ultimate Health which means three crucial things:
Firstly: finding the cause of chronic and acute conditions using cutting edge diagnostic scientifically proven tests Secondly: looking at the whole body as being interconnected Thirdly: by providing an individualised treatment plan.
