IMMUNE FOR LIFE/DIAGNOSIS: POOR HEALTH ACROSS THE COUNTRY
If you think you have nothing to worry about because your doctor has told you’re in average health, think again:
• The average American in average health has the average heart attack.
• The average American in average health gets the average cancer, diabetes, stroke.
• The average American is tired and unhappy
• The average American has no idea what it’s like to feel really great.
• The average American dies too young, feeling old and worn out.
• The average American is scared—and should be!
As a physician who has worked on the front lines of crisis medicine, treating patient after patient in the intensive care units and coronary care units, and seeing thousands more in my office, I can tell you that the average American is a medical disaster waiting to happen.
One of my patients complained: “It started about a year ago, Dr. Fox. I had a cold, and then a flu, then another cold, then another flu, and my nose was always running and one thing after another. No matter what I did, I couldn’t get well. A whole year of being sick! What’s wrong with me?”
What was wrong? For any number of reasons, his body’s defenses were down. As you will learn, colds, flus and other problems are clues, telling us to take a look at the patients’ entire defense system. The colds and flus aren’t diseases in themselves; they are symptoms of the underlying problem, which is a breakdown of the “doctor within.”
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