HEALTH DIRECTIVES

The direction of healthcare and what is considered healthy and good for people has changed a lot over human history. Many practices that were once considered sound medical care are now considered barbaric and are known to do much more harm than good. The industrialized world has witnessed many advances in medicine in the past century that have allowed people to live longer, healthier, more active lives. An unfortunate byproduct of some of these advances, many of which were once considered miracles of modern medicine, are negative and sometimes dangerous side effects of different treatments, medicines, procedures and practices. While science and Western medicine continues to make strides to find solutions for myriad of health problems that were once incurable and thought to be unavoidable, both Western healthcare practitioners and patients have begun to look for “alternative” forms of medicine and healthcare practices.