| The signs are all there. A public growing increasingly | | | | may be in part due to the discovery made during the |
| dissatisfied with traditional health care. Pharmaceuticals | | | | course of the Human Genome Project begun in 1990 |
| promising to deliver relief from every symptom in the | | | | comprising an international panel of world-renowned |
| book (notice they never mention an actual 'cure'?) but | | | | scientists. Laboratory research conducted into the |
| beware, the side effects could potentially kill you. Talk | | | | function of our genes brought forth unexpected results. |
| about a 'means to an end'. Should we be taking that | | | | Analysis showed undeniable conclusions that the state |
| little quip literally? | | | | of our health in relation to our genes, was determined |
| The North American public appears ready and willing, | | | | more on our environment and belief systems than the |
| open to the idea of the potential benefits derived from | | | | other way around. Our genes in fact, react according |
| non-traditional health treatment offered by either | | | | to our state-of-mind, ultimately creating the appropriate |
| complementary or alternative medicine as reported in | | | | combinations that produce the symptoms of illness or |
| a recent Reuters article of Dec. 10, 2008, 'About four in | | | | signs of health. |
| 10 U.S. adults and one in nine children are turning to | | | | This discovery is significant to say the least, |
| unconventional medical approaches for chronic pain | | | | considering the implications this would have on the |
| and other health problems, health officials said on | | | | mainstream medical community along with the |
| Wednesday.' This growing trend is difficult to deny | | | | pharmaceutical industry. Unfortunately, this critical |
| even for the loudest critics. Affordable, non-invasive, | | | | information is as yet, not lauded in most traditional |
| little or no side-effects, strikingly effective health | | | | schools of medicine. However, as feeble in scope the |
| treatment... who would have thought? | | | | exceptions seem to be, we are in fact, making |
| Thanks to this trend, complementary health treatment | | | | headway. |
| appears to be gaining a stronger foothold within this | | | | When we begin to see even a small percentage of |
| seemingly impenetrable fortress. With more and more | | | | scientific research grants being allocated to the study |
| of the general public tired of receiving little or no relief | | | | of alternative methods and effective natural |
| from medication and/or treatment prescribed by their | | | | treatments, in essence, acknowledging what could |
| doctors, many have turned to more natural methods | | | | potentially (and dangerously) be missing in traditional |
| which have stood the test of time and have | | | | health care, the benefits combining these two worlds |
| surprisingly, often resulted in unexplainable healings | | | | would far exceed what we have been limited to, to |
| bordering on the miraculous. | | | | date. Health care only stands to benefit in the blending |
| One possible scientific explanation for this phenomenon | | | | of all traditions. |