But Why?

This blog topic comes to us courtesy of my 3 year old son,
Brandon.  Brandon's favourite phrase these days is "but why?"
which has me convinced he'll make an excellent naturopathic
doctor.  You see its an inherent part of the job that you must
always be asking yourself the question "but why?" in order to
get to the root cause of the problem.  You can insert your
own health condition here but as an example I'll use
asthma.

Patient A has asthma
But why?
Because her bronchi restrict in response to certain stimuli
But why?
Because they have developed a hypersensitivity
But why?
Because she had excessive stress, was depleted in vitamin C,
B6, essential fatty acids and her liver wasn't clearing toxins
effectively
But why?
Improper diet, poor absorption of vitamins/minerals,
stress-related depletion of the nutrients she did have and her
liver didn't have what it needed to do its job
But why?

You get the idea, at some point we are satisfied with the answer
and you've reached what I call the end point of explanations and
there's where you need to start to treat the problem.  In a
simplistic world we could give herbs to open up the bronchi, but
that's nowhere near the root cause of the problem.  Without
asking "but why?" we would only be masking the underlying
deficiencies rather than treating the actual cause.
The "but why?" philosophy can be applied to any life situation,
not just health problems.  It's important to keep asking the
question to eventually get a satisfactory answer and a place to
start finding solutions.

Yours in Health,
Pamela

 

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