Hippocrates, the Greek philosopher and scientist taught one underlying principle: to do no harm. It is so important that it became a key part of the Hippocratic Oath taken by people entering the healing profession.
How closely do you think it's actually followed in the twenty-first century?
Recently I took my son to a podiatrist after the pediatrician told me that's who I would have to see and wrote out a referral. He's 13 and has flat feet that point outwards when he walks.
The day arrived and we were ushered in. I'm sitting across from my boy when the doctor walks in, looks at him for less than a minute, and proceeds to tell me he will have to do a complicated surgery immediately. He won't be able to walk for a year and will have a steel plate for the rest of his life. Right in front of my son!
Do no harm? I was livid.
My 13 year old with a steel rod?
I was angry at that man for scaring my son, but I'm not so easily manipulated. My son is now doing daily exercises to correct the real issues.
If this were an isolated case, I wouldn't be writing this. It's not. Fear used to sell a $30,000 procedure (the insurance would pay for it, but not the real solution) is not unusual. It was a sales pitch, but how skeptical are we when pitched by a doctor?
Look at the training the medical profession receives: it's all drug intervention and invasive surgeries.
While emergency operations and medications can sometimes save lives, the problem is that they've become the only way. Other means don't even come into their heads.
For years I had been searching for a better way. In the process I found a very unique place, that is based on the crazy notion that the body is amazing and self-healing.
It seems archane: the idea that if you will give the body all the tools and nutrition it needs and stop overworking it while it's healing - it will go into high gear.
Named after the father of medicine, the Hippocrates Health Institute truly believes and practices "do no harm" as it teaches people how to create their own healing.
Hippocrates Institute was totally unlike anything I had ever experienced in healing. For me, it was a taste of paradise.
It seems like a miracle when the body goes into healing - from all manner of conditions: high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer and tumors.