The safety of vaccines is questioned but all drugs which doctor prescribe are poisons, some of which cause a lot more problems than vaccines. Why are they still prescribing them instead of finding the cause for a disease ? The reason is that they are controlled by pharmaceutical companies across the globe. It's so easy to prescribe a pill instead of curing a disease by finding the real cause and using food as a natural approach with supplements if necessary for the people who have a vitamin, mineral deficiency etc.
The new functional medicine attempts to find the causes of illnesses. Most can be cured only by a change in diet and without the use of medicines. Unfortunately, there are only a few physicians who practice that approach to illness. The medical profession should look into what is possible with this new medicine and start to learn that our food is our main medicine. In the curriculum of the medical course, there is only a small chapter about nutrition, and I understand that it has not been updated for over a century. It's about time that doctors wake up and find out that there are numerous possibilities with good food, not the junk food which makes people sick.
We have the same problem in Canada. It is pretty hard to find physicians who practice such medicine, but I know two in the US who are respected in their profession, Dr. Sherry Anne Rogers, MD and Dr. Mark Hyman, MD. IMO, these two physicians are on the right track. It's really unfortunate that there are not enough people waking up by saying "Enough is enough!" Of course, large pharma industry lobbying is not helping matters.
I was followed by a cardiologist for atrial fibrillation. My last paroxysmal attack ocurred more than a year ago. I had been prescribed an anticoagulant to prevent a stroke occurrence. By reading on food and supplements which have anticoagulant properties, and following Dr. Rogers' recommendation in one of her books, I started taking cod liver oil and additional DHA supplements and I stopped taking the Apixaban I had been ingesting more than 2 months ago. Why didn't the cardiologist suggest that I take EPA and DHA supplements to prevent a stroke event instead of prescribing that anticoagulant? Maybe he knows about the anticoagulant properties of fish oil, or maybe he doesn't. But to me, he no longer deserves my confidence and he's going to be told next time I see him. I don't trust doctors but I know that we sometimes unfortunately need one. I don't have a family physician and when I am assigned one, I am going to make sure that he or she understands what I demand from a physician, if I haven't had the luck to meet a good doctor who practices functional medicine in the meantime.