{"id":957,"date":"2014-09-04T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T17:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/?p=957"},"modified":"2014-09-05T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T21:08:29","slug":"where-do-we-put-our-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/where-do-we-put-our-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Do We Put Our Faith?"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a week ago while interviewing a new practice member, we discussed his current health. The form he filled out asked if he was being treated for anything, to which he responded, \u201cno.\u201d When asked if he was taking any medication he said he was not. Further into our conversation he mentioned that he takes an aspirin every day. I asked what he was treating with it and again he said he was not treating anything. So naturally I asked, \u201cIf you\u2019re not treating anything, then why are you taking a drug?\u201d He said, \u201cOh, I don\u2019t take any drugs, just aspirin.\u201d As we talked more he soon came out with it and said, \u201cOK, I know that aspirin isn\u2019t a food, it\u2019s a drug!\u201d Interesting though, until he really he thought about it, he would have said \u201cit\u2019s just<\/em> an aspirin.\u201d
\nThen I asked him why he takes it. He said that his physician told him to start taking it several years ago when another \"bible\"<\/a>family member had some heart trouble. The physician believed that the drug would reduce his risk of difficulty and the patient faithfully did what he was told. It turns out that over the past couple of decades millions of people have placed their faith in physicians who believed in this drug. Faith and belief are important to our spiritual well-being, but shouldn\u2019t medical decisions be based in science?
\nNow hold onto your seat if you haven\u2019t heard about this. In a consumer update from none other than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the FDA says it has combed the scientific evidence and concluded that people who have not had heart problems, even if they have a family history of it, will not benefit from taking a daily aspirin. It has been estimated that more than 40 million Americans take an aspirin every day. To me it\u2019s shocking to think that such massive drugging has gone on without good science to support it. It seems understandable that corporations are willing to sell drugs, but why did physicians act on faith? Who told physicians to make these recommendations, the drug manufacturers?
\nIronically, it seems that greed on the part of a leading drug manufacturer, Bayer, may have played a role in causing FDA to take a look at this. It is reported that FDA denied Bayer\u2019s request to make the claim on its label that aspirin can aid in the prevention of heart attacks in people without a history of heart disease.
\nTo learn more check out these recent articles appearing in Newsday<\/em><\/strong> http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/health\/fda-rejects-labeling-aspirin-as-heart-attack-prevention-1.7929168<\/a> and Time<\/strong><\/em> http:\/\/time.com\/89681\/do-not-take-daily-aspirin-if-you-havent-had-a-heart-attack-says-fda\/<\/a>. \"drugs\"<\/a>Another article that may be of interest to some is by Dr. Mercola, a physician who says that, \u201ceven “low-dose aspirin” (LDA), may do far more harm than good\u201d http:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2014\/08\/04\/daily-aspirin-side-effects.aspx#_edn3<\/a>.
\nContrary to popular belief aspirin should not be viewed lightly, like eating a piece of candy. Mercola\u2019s article questions the safety of the practice and lists numerous dangerous consequences of using the drug.
\nI don\u2019t share this conversation with my readers to try to convince them to leave their physicians. In fact I wouldn\u2019t want to live in a world without them. But neither should we blindly believe in physicians. The message is simple, we need to question everything and think for ourselves.
\nNow, back to my discussion with our new practice member. He then asked me whether I thought he should stop taking aspirin. I explained that I don\u2019t have an opinion about that, or any special training about drugs. Chiropractic isn\u2019t about drugs; it\u2019s about improving a person\u2019s life. We discussed what to expect from his experience in receiving chiropractic care and went to work.\"Chiropractic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a week ago while interviewing a new practice member, we discussed his current health. The form he filled out asked if he was being treated for anything, to which he responded, \u201cno.\u201d When asked if he was taking any … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[115,31,45,56],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aspirin","tag-chiropractic","tag-health-care-crisis","tag-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youneedchiro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}