Short excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter ("Hidden Costs of Pain Relief"). The speaker warns that American medicine often reacts to symptoms rather than addressing underlying causes; overuse of pain-relief drugs (anti-inflammatories) can damage other parts of the body and merely mask problems, preventing real improvement.
If we don't get to the bottom of things and just act as reactive like we do in American medicine, if we continue to just react. The change in his body was taking anti inflammatories so much that it was damaging other parts of the body. And I think that's an important point is if we just mask the pain, if we just mask the symptoms, if we don't get to the bottom of things and just act as reactive like we do in American medicine, if we continue to just react and react and react, then we're behind the eight ball and we never get anything better. That's true. We just continue to treat the symptoms. And I think that you're an excellent example of how we can make some real impact.
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