So many healthcare providers on the front line have had little to no training in nutrition, herbal therapies or alternative therapies. Much of illness does have a root cause that when identified can be corrected and potentially cured.
Instead of medical schools promoting guidelines to treat illness, it needs to be recognized that there is a lack of education towards cure. Using pharmaceuticals to treat symptoms and slow down progression of illness while allowing the patient to linger with a poor quality of life, is not acceptable .
The often missed vitamins/mineral deficiencies treatment, herbal therapies and alternative therapies like ozone therapies, UBI, chelation and many others can greatly improve quality of life with potential to cure.
Research for these alternative therapies needs to be funded to help current practitioners expand their toolbox to provide relief to a greatly suffering population.
Funding to help patients with these costs since even though effective, most is an out-of-pocket cost and difficult for most to afford. This can be done by prioritizing preventative medicine treatments/policies that help avoid chronic illness. Use of incentives, insurance support, tax breaks or whatever supports patient efforts towards optimal health.