He points to changes impermeability of the gut due to overuse of antibiotics, which destroy the microflora and allow for the passage of intestinal contents into the blood stream. This can lead to chronic conditions such as rheumatic diseases and rheumatoid arthritis. Whole bacteria can sometimes cross the gut wall and affect immune response and damage the tissues of the joints. Dr. Schmidt and other holistic doctors advocate looking at the body as a balanced and dynamic biological system. This is most emphatically not symptom relief medicine as is commonly practiced by the medical industrial complex.
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Nevertheless, they offer you a whole array of drugs like Contac and Dristan to suppress symptoms. However, according to Gerald Celente, author of Trend Tracking, Americans are fed up with symptom relief medicine and are increasingly turning to holistic, complimentary forms of treatment. Symptom relief medicine as we know it is what is behind the overuse of antibiotics and other drugs, which is part of the reason for the alarmingly high incidence of iatrogenic disease. A much greater emphasis will be placed on drugless approaches to health and there will be more demand for nutritional and herbal therapies. Ignoring complementary, holistic approaches to health care was another serious short coming of the Clinton plan.