Western medicine often errs by addressing symptoms with medications without tackling the fundamental imbalance that caused the illness, leading to future health issues.

“Western medicine was founded on the principle I mean medicine in generals found on the principle that we should understand what causes something but I would say that Western medicine has gotten too far from that”

“Western medicine doesn't really work to fix disease and I think that that was pretty quickly the first sort of you know existential crisis I had what my career was a [ __ ] I went to PA school I work as a physician assistant in cardiology and the beta blocker is the statins the meds I give people don't actually fix through cause and most of them just progress and medicine isn't very good or motivated to ask what is actually causing a problem”

“I don't think anyone will argue with me when I suggest that most of Western medicine just looks to ameliorate symptoms with pharmaceuticals yeah and that wasn't interesting to me or satisfying it didn't feel good and my gut or my heart I wanted to understand what was causing patients to be sick at the root and be able to affect that”

“because you know so boxes are slippery when we just address the symptoms we're not addressing the terrain that allowed the imbalance to happen in the first place and I think this is where Western medicine goes wrong and does a great disservice to many patients is that by ameliorating symptoms with medications we are not addressing the fundamental imbalance that allowed these illnesses to arise in the first place”