Do You Need A Diagnosis To Get Healthy?

Diagnostic labels, Making a diagnosis, (Disease diagnosis and treatment), when is it appropriate and when is it

not so appropriate? What are the pros and cons? Coming right up Hey I'm Dr. Ekberg

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So diagnoses are based on symptoms and signs so you present to the doctor and

you tell them what's bothering you you have rash here and you have a headache

and you have a pain here and they put it all together and they say you have this

That's making a diagnosis and when is that appropriate because that's what our

entire "health care system" is based on it's making a diagnosis and finding the

appropriate treatment, but diagnoses are based on signs and symptoms symptoms are

the things that you tell the doctor and signs are the things that they find such

as high blood pressure and and so forth but symptoms can be due to either trauma

or they can be due to functional factors so functional factors those are things

that your body regulates things that your body turn on and off that your body

turn up and down such as stomach acid and blood pressure and blood sugar and

pH and hormone production all of those things are managed on a second to second

basis by your autonomic nervous system that's called regulation it regulates

your physiology and if there's an imbalance in one of those then you have

a functional problem so that's where it's not due to a trauma but it's

something that is functional. Trauma obviously is an accident it's something

that happened you fell down the stairs you're in a car accident

something happened so here the diagnosis would be in a trauma would be that your

you're bleeding from your abdomen you're bleeding from your arm or something like

that then they want to sew it up and fix it you can have a fracture you could

have a fracture to any bone in the body and they make a diagnosis they figure

out where it is they treat it they set it they'd give you a cast and they allow

time to heal burns is another form of trauma so in

all these cases it is very very appropriate to make a diagnosis it's

critical to make an appropriate diagnosis so that you can treat the

signs and symptoms as fast as possible and save lives on the functional side we

can have two categories so something cannot work for a long long time and

give rise to a crisis and now this is something life-threatening that could be

something like appendicitis it could be a stroke a heart attack a diabetic coma

and once again it is critical to make an accurate diagnosis and to treat the

correct condition and we treat the signs and the symptoms and we save lives so

here drugs and surgery and emergency or crisis intervention is absolutely

critical and it helps save lives every day millions if the functional problem

is a chronic one and not life-threatening then it is not so

valuable to make a diagnosis because these are things like heartburn and

headaches, insomnia fatigue, ADD, high blood pressure, hypothyroid and the list

goes on and on and on and on and if you open up I don't recommend this but if

you open up the Merck Manual where they have the 50,000 different diagnostic

conditions and labels you'll find that 99% of them are in this category these

are lifestyle problems these are imbalances

and what we have to understand here is that these things are not the problem

these are the result of an imbalance and if we treat the symptom we allow the

imbalance to continue and if we allow something to continue it will get worse

every time so here it's very very appropriate to treat the condition and

to treat the symptom but here the symptom is not what it seems to be it is

because of something else the heartburn could be due to a hundred different

things it could be stress could be low pituitary could be a slow thyroid could

be eating the wrong kinds of foods so unless we address those things and we

just treat the heartburn we are allowing the problem to get worse and as a matter

of fact once we treat symptoms in this category we are actually doing something

dangerous this may be one of the worst things that humans have ever come up

with because once we treat this and allow the

problem to get worse this is what accounts for most of our suffering like

I said 99% or so the things that we suffer from are in this category and

when we treat the symptoms we allow the underlying imbalance we allow the

underlying problem to get worse the only thing to make this better long term is

to listen to the body and to restore the health so it's not about right or wrong

it's knowing when do we need to do one or the other and we need to understand

that the thing called "health care" is not really about health care the thing that

most people that most of our society's money is spent on is actually treating

this with drugs and surgery when it's completely inappropriate and this is a

very very small portion so the thing to remember is that this is crisis

intervention this is where medical care is very very

appropriate this is where you need true health care and the medical system has

nothing to offer in this area because drugs and surgery will never make

anything work better they can save a life but they cannot restore health so

when we talk about health there is only one goal in health care and that is to

return the body to normal when we return the body to normal it will handle it

will fix it will correct all of these things unless it is just too far gone so

the value of diagnostic labels is when there is a condition that needs where

it's appropriate to treat the symptoms such as a trauma or a crisis when it's

very very inappropriate when it's either useless or dangerous is when we have a

chronic functional condition and we apply a label and we try to treat the

label then that is counterproductive and it is harmful so I hope this has been

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understand how to restore bodies to normal thanks for watching