If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It.
Channel: BioBalance Healthcast
Date: 2018-03-02

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MY PRACTICE is centered around making people healthier, not curing disease like other doctors, however I live up to my resident nickname, "Radar", which I earned by always running out from the call suite to the L&D right before someone had fetal distress.  Now I specialize in radar that detects disease in my patients before it happens, and when both the patient and I have time to avert the future disease.

When we are successful our patients feel unbelievably good, and healthy.  This is a common occurrence and is exactly what I am aiming for.  The future aversion of disease is a secondary success.  We revise diet, exercise programs, employ hormone replacement and medications and supplements when necessary, but eventually our patients are happily well!  Sounds like an amazing outcome right?  

Well often when 60 year olds feel 40 after years of feeling bad they go a step further and can't seem to turn down all kinds of fads to feel even better!   The reality is that feeling NORMAL and HEALTHY is as good as it gets!  

"Don't make this mistake….if it ain't broke don't try to fix it!"  

What is behind this urge to improve?  I think there are a few personality types that fall into this rut.  Those over-achievers (and my practice is full of them) who are perfectionists commonly fall into trying fad diets, weird supplements that make no sense, over exercising and other effort to feel "perfect". In the end they feel worse, and they may or may not tell us…so we order tests and look for viruses, autoimmune diseases and then find out that they have been fasting for days on end or only eating cookies!  It always seems to us that we are being pointed in the wrong direction by the absence of information, until this patient finally decides to confess that they have tried to feel perfect, but we've been on a wild goose chase to see why they don't feel well any more…..

Another type of person who falls into this circumstance are the "control-maniacs" or more nicely said, those people who feel out of control in their life but who try to control everything in their environment to feel better.  The symptoms of this type of "fixer" are obvious to us….they call all the time wanting to change dosage or treatment plan because they read something in a magazine or a non-medical friend told them of a new treatment,  OR even worse, they just change their dose and treatment plan without telling us until later, but would call and complain over symptoms that could not occur secondary to our therapy, but COULD happen when a patient stopped or changed our treatment plan.