PAIN IS THE MESSENGER - DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER!

                
                         PAIN IS THE MESSENGER - DON'T KILL THE MESSENGER

I see clients each and every day that are suffering from intense pain. By the time they get with me they have tried most of the more conventional approaches. Once through all the anti-biotics, pain pills and depressants with no results they are ready to try something else. 
What these clients need to understand is that MOST if not all of these approaches have been to relieve the pain. It is important that a person understands that  pain is not the bad guy. It might be painful to hear this news. You are probably saying, "he doesn't know how much pain I am in." And in all due respect I am not trying to dismiss the anguish  and pain that you or a loved one is suffering. But, the truth of the matter of health is: PAIN IS ONLY THE MESSENGER. It is not the cause of the pain. Actually this discomfort is the body trying to tell you it needs help. But, most clients choose to kill the messenger instead of addressing the underlying cause of the pain.
Working together to find the root cause of the pain is the cornerstone of Naturopathy and Functional Medicine. 
A client we will name R came to me with her mother. She was in her twenties. She was suffering and had been for quite a few years. I explained to her and her mother as I did my exam that she was not digesting protein and there is no way to get healthy when you are not receiving the correct amount of amino acids every day. She started on our enzyme program for protein digestion. She came back and she still wasn't feeling any better. She was still nauseated and sick at her stomach.
Through muscle testing I added enzymes and nutrients for the gall bladder which were testing was causing the nausea. She also had tissue damage in the jejenum from the years of undigested proteins which also were causing auto-immune system issues which they were aware of.
I just seen her for her third visit and she could now eat with no stomach pain, no nausea and less pain. No she was not completely well, but she was in less pain. The body was saying "thank you for listening to my pleas." We still have more to do until she has no pain. And as long as the body is communicating with pain I know there is still more layers that must be discovered and uncovered on the journey of health.
As a Naturopath doctor I always am asking the same question, "WHY". Why is this pain happening? One thing for sure - when you experience pain your body is in trouble, it is out of balance. That is my job - what a good Naturopath doctor does, find these imbalances and correct them which will allow the body to function with no pain - that is how it was designed to function. And that is what I call Perfect Health.