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Medical Bankruptcies: What You Can Do To
Protect Yourself
by David Lear
First the bad news: about 2,000,000 personal bankruptcies each year are
caused by unexpected medical expenses. Of all those people, 1,500,000 have (or
had) health insurance before they ran into difficult financial straights.
But wait a minute. Isn't the whole idea behind health insurance - security? The
financial security that comes from knowing that you're covered if something goes
wrong with your body? You say you're covered, but what if your medical
"situation" exceeds your policy limits? Then what?
No one wants that to happen, so the question is: are there other options? For
instance, is there a way to "insure" against getting sick in the first place?
Most people assume that's not possible, but personally, I disagree.
Several years ago my wife Sandy and I stumbled onto a very unusual health
product. We both had our own experiences with it and have seen it work miracles
for others.
But before going there, I'd like to explain something. To me, health insurance
should be about staying healthy. In China, for instance, doctors used to be paid
only if they kept you healthy. That's what I call real health insurance. And
although the U.S. has some of the best-trained, dedicated physicians in the
world, heart disease, cancer, strokes, and autoimmune diseases are all on the
rise.
Clearly, our health isn't being protected - at least not to an appreciable
extent. The medical paradigm in the U.S. is mostly about treating symptoms, not
fostering health. And while we're all very grateful to doctors for all their
efforts, symptom treatment is intrinsically short-sighted.
If symptom treatment was effective in restoring health, people would be getting
well and staying well. But that's not what usually happens.
There's a growing movement of people who've recognized the shortcomings of the
traditional medical/pharmaceutical "health" model. They're not stupid. For
instance: 106,000 annual deaths from properly prescribed prescription drugs sure
got my attention when I heard the news. Check it out on the net. It's a fact.
OK. So everyone knows there's a problem. Again, the question is: are there
options out there and if so, what are they?
As I was saying earlier, there is an option. I can say that because I have
personal proof. Four years ago, I was diagnosed with a heart condition called
atrial fibrillation. It wasn't painful per se, but the irregular, spasmodic
poundings inside my chest were very disconcerting.
My wife Sandy and I were in Maui when a friend of ours told us about something
called glyconutrition. Now, I'm a fairly open-minded kind of a guy and I've been
interested in health supplements for a long time, so I decided to try it. (By
the way, nothing I was taking before then was helping my heart condition). After
a few months, the condition went away. It hasn't returned since.
Sandy also had a positive health reversal. She was in a lot of pain from neck
surgery she'd had seven years earlier. She also decided to try the
glyconutrients. It took a little longer for her, but her pain subsided and
surgery was avoided.
My point in telling you these two stories is that we saved a ton of money and
who knows how much pain and suffering by not having to undergo surgery. I don't
know if my atrial fibrillation would have led to a worsening condition requiring
surgery, but I do know that Sandy was considering a second neck surgery before
we heard about glyconutrients.
Since then, we've learned a lot more about the science behind glyconutrients and
why this new category of nutrient is turning around so many health conditions
for so many people.
Even highly trained medical doctors and surgeons are taking notice. Case in
point: Dr. Ben Carson is the department head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns
Hopkins Medical Center. A severe form of prostate cancer led him to discover
glyconutrients. Long story short: he attributes to them his complete recovery.
He now recommends glyconutrients to all his patients, to his staff and others as
well.
Without going into a lot of complicated detail, science now has a pretty good
idea about why glyconutrients seem to be helping so many different kinds of
health conditions. The bottom line is this: enhanced cell-to-cell communication.
Glyconutrients provide the body with highly specialized building blocks that the
body transforms into communication molecules that all cells use. Without an
adequate supply of these molecules, communication starts to break down and
illness starts to creep in.
The reason glyconutritional supplements are so effective is this: our diets
suck. Let me explain. If we got all the nutrients we needed in our diet, we'd
rarely get ill. By the way, the scientific evidence to support that statement is
huge.
But because 90 percent of the food we eat is processed (devoid of essential,
health-promoting nutrients) and for a number of other reasons, we're not getting
the nutritional build blocks our bodies need in order to stay disease-free.
Bottom line: understand the powerful relativity between the nutrients we
consume and the state of our health.
So to reiterate - there are options for warding off illness and medically
related bankruptcy. Just don't look for them in the current medical -
pharmaceutical - health insurance paradigm. Look for them in the emerging
science of glycobiology - the same science that's starting to describe the
cellular mechanisms behind the major health recoveries that thousands of
glyconutrient users are now reporting.
David Lear is an independent nutrition researcher and free-lance writer. His
main interest is in cutting-edge supplements that improve health and reverse
illness. For further information, visit http://www.glycoresults.com
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