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If one physician offers you no hope of a cure or a satisfactory, effective, affordable, low-risk treatment, then we suggest that you seek additional information and second opinion(s) from multiple types of qualified specialists and information sources.

Licensed board-certified physicians are wonderful sources of some (but not all) specialized information, assistance and timely treatment, but all medical professionals are fallible humans. What works for the majority of people may not work well for you for a wide variety of reasons.

All healthcare professionals occasionally make a few mistakes and errors in judgment. Many licensed physicians make mistakes that result in the death of their patients. There is a medical minefield that each of us must be careful to understand and avoid.

  No single human can possibly know everything about everything. Ultimately, intelligent individual adults are responsible for integrating information from multiple sources, which will impact their own lifestyle choices and their assumption of known risks, and thus, greatly influence longevity, overall well being, and the burden they place on their loved ones (and on taxpayers who subsidize the treatment of avoidable diseases, like the $39 billion that American taxpayers spend each year for obesity treatments through Medicare and Medicaid programs, which cover sicknesses caused by obesity such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, several types of cancer, and gallbladder disease).

  Before seeing any physician, gather what information you can, prepare a list of your symptoms, concerns and specific questions. Do NOT be surprised if you discover widely varying and conflicting opinions from different highly qualified specialists (who may even be “board-certified” in the same subject matter). There is no effective single education program available in the U.S. for thorough knowledge about pharmaceutical medicine, nutriceuticals, natural organic nutrition, food storage, cleaning and preparation, pollutants, toxins, exercise, mind/body conditioning and lifestyle changes that can greatly reduce the risk of a variety of avoidable diseases. In fact, professionals who only understand a small portion of the important above topics often discount or actively discredit those who actually know much more than they do about other important topics. The human intellect has finite limited capacity. Throughout history, those in positions of (undeserved) authority (political, governmental, religious, medical and scientific) frequently fear and prosecute those with valuable knowledge that they do not understand.

  Do NOT fear or discredit the unknown. When a topic of personal interest to you is highly individualized and very controversial (such as diet and nutrition), physicians, government agencies, healthcare organizations and insurance companies often disagree about what actions you should take (as often happens in any complex scientific subject matter). Joyful Aging recommends that you do not ignore divergent opinions, but rather do what you can to understand the reasons for them, and then, develop your own well-informed decision model and plan of action, which may significantly influence your future health and happiness (and that of your offspring and others that you feed, teach, or care for).

  New (often conflicting) discoveries, information, recommendations, diagnosis techniques and treatments WILL surely become available in the future. We must all remain open minded and flexible. We strongly suggest that everyone pursue:

Retirement Planning Information

Plan Your Life, Live Your Plan

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Things You Need to Know About Us

The information, references and links on the Joyful Aging website are for our readers’ education and personal enrichment only. Nothing on the entire Joyful Aging website is intended to replace the care of a licensed physician or other health care professional.

Before making any change to your current medications, or significant alteration of your nutrition, exercise or other lifestyle issues, you should first consult a qualified health care professional and have appropriate tests interpreted by at least one certified professional.

None of the information contained on any Joyful Aging web page is presented or intended for self-diagnosis, self-medication or self-treatment of any individual or specific disease, although we do present recent research findings about possible risk factors for future health and well being problems.

Each individual is unique. We are as different as our fingerprints. General information does NOT necessarily apply to everyone. What is good for one individual may be very bad for another (such as iron supplements, vitamin C, lipid-based vitamins like A, D, E, dietary intake of different type of fats, carbohydrates, etc).

If you already have medical, physical or psychological symptoms, or if you are concerned about a family history of a specific disease, see a licensed physician or qualified specialist and thoroughly discuss what you know or suspect about your problems, discomfort and concerns. Make a comprehensive list of your questions, to accelerate and add value to your discussions. Read what is available from reputable information sources about the topic. For complex, controversial, issues that are particularly important to you, proactively seek multiple expert information sources. Understand that the issues related to individual health issues may be very complex, and that no single person has memorized all of the helpful information and divergent opinions on any complex medical topic.

Ultimately, YOU are responsible for proactively gathering the best available information about your own health, happiness and prosperity from multiple sources with various (often conflicting) points of view. Only then can you make an informed decision about your treatment options and critical lifestyle modification decisions.

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