Americans are being treated for health conditions such as heart disease, cancer, and depression to the tune of $43 trillion a year. One doctor believes up to 80 percent of these illnesses could be avoided by addressing what truly causes them.
After watching her beloved mother suffer from poor health for decades then die relatively young, Casey Means pursued a career in medicine to help others avoid what happened to her mom.
“She had seen her doctors faithfully, taken all the medications, done exactly what they said, but the reality is she never healed,” Dr. Means told CBN News.
Ditching Mainstream Medicine
After becoming a head and neck surgeon, Dr. Means became disillusioned with the entire process, and walked away from mainstream medicine.
“What I saw in the health care system is that we’re spending more money every single year on treating diseases, but patients in America aren’t really getting better. Our rates of chronic illnesses are going up every single year,” she said.
Dr. Means believes this is due to the system ignoring the root cause of disease, what she labels metabolic dysfunction.
“This leads to every imaginable chronic disease we’re facing today from cancer to heart disease,
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