You Can Heal Your Body

I love Grey's Anatomy! But the Season 3 episode where Addison drives down the coast to California to consult with her friend, who is a fertility specialist, offended and saddened me.

Addison wants a baby. She's close to 40 and has worked hard at her career, but now she wants something different. She's given up on her relationships and browses for a sperm donor. Her Fertility Specialist friend does some tests and then tells her: "Your FSH level is too high. There is no fertility potential here." Addison breaks down and cries with despair. It's over! She's left it too late!

I know it's only television, but do these people have any idea of the damaging message they send out there? Addison, who is an OB/GYN herself, is not even aware that there are thousands of success stories of women who have gone the holistic route and lowered their FSH levels adequately to conceive without the help of Assisted Reproductive Technologies!

When are we as a society going to learn that our journey only starts with the doctor's "verdict"? That we can heal our bodies ourselves if we only read enough and apply what we've read. This is not pie in the sky. It happens every single day when people have the courage to challenge what the medical professionals proclaim.

Western medicine is all about diagnosing and treating specific conditions, rather than working with the whole person. Doctors specialize in different fields, meaning you could be under the care of a fertility specialist, a colon specialist and a dermatologist at the same time for three different conditions that most probably have the same cause. But the cause will never even come under the spotlight with any of those three doctors. They will be too busy treating you with drugs, and even surgery. And we call that advanced Western medicine! In the process people are not educated about healthy living and how it affects their health. So what if you lose a few organs along the way and have to take chronic medication for the rest of your life?