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Paradox?

Does this title seem like a paradox? How could it be possible to achieve better health care with less cost for patients and still have more revenue flowing to practitioners? We usually hear how our healthcare system is in crisis, these days.

The media certainly feed us a gloomy message -- that our health care costs can only rise, and practitioner revenues must inevitably fall.

Some very big businesses want us to believe this. Ones that attempt to drive market opinion in the media.

But we don’t have to allow the standard negative messages about health care to become realized as self-fulfilling prophecy. We have better alternatives -- if we listen to our bodies, act in accord with our perceived needs, and take responsibility to create change.

Any paradox in the title is only apparent. A new approach that generates higher revenues, lower costs, and better care quality, is imperative for fixing our broken health services system. In fact, this is the definition of ‘fixed.’

This article is a signpost on the way forward.

Taking it Back

Third parties dominate health services today. Profit-driven big businesses gained control by shrewdly taking advantage of our primal fears about illness and death. People are awakening now to a better way, because they’re aroused by the crisis state that fear-based profiteering has created.

Health care belongs to the people. It’s time to repossess our health care system from the drug and insurance industries, and the media and government that serve them. It’s time to return to first principles and revitalize the core defining relationship of health care -- the helping relationship between practitioner and patient.

Simplifying health care to benefit this core relationship first is the most compelling health services imperative of our times. In a few paragraphs it’ll become clear how the primary participants, patient and practitioner, can work together to help turn health care around.

We’ve Already Started

Better health care that costs less while practitioners prosper -- it’s not as weird as it first sounds. Some doctors and practitioners are already accomplishing this with their patients. Two of many such health professionals are featured below. These are not radicals, they are genuine health givers who sense a better way, and follow their clinical intuition courageously.

Just ahead, you’ll read about a complementary treatment that enhances most therapeutic modalities.

Most patients or clients can benefit from it.
It helps healthy people stay well and thrive.
It helps many who suffer from a wide range of health issues to dispel pain and recover from ailments more rapidly and completely.
It’s powerfully effective, yet its margin of safety far exceeds drugs.
It has been proven safe and effective in real-world practice over many years.
Its cost is tiny compared to medical treatments it helps avert.
It’s within reach for the majority.

And no, it’s not a new wonder drug. It’s not a new high-tech diagnostic machine.

It’s the perfect adjunct to beneficial lifestyle changes.

The Nutraceutical Trend

According to the Nutraceuticals Institute, a joint partnership of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia:

“Consumers are deeply concerned about how their health care is managed, administered and priced. They are frustrated with the expensive, high-tech, disease-treatment approach predominant in modern medicine. The consumer is seeking complementary or alternative beneficial products.” [emphasis added]

Nutraceuticals provide a powerful new solution. They’re available now, and the best of them are phenomenal.

“Nutraceuticals (often referred to as phytochemicals or functional foods) are natural, bioactive chemical compounds that have health promoting, disease preventing or medicinal properties,” according to The Nutraceuticals Institute.

When nutraceuticals are the ‘treatment modality,’ they assist the body to heal itself naturally. Fewer, if any, pharmaceuticals are used. Insurance companies and giant HMO’s are not dictating limiting decisions based on profit models. Practitioner expertise and patient empowerment rule. The core relationship of health care is operating well. People are not ruining themselves from neglect and self abuse and expecting the system to fix them.

Nutraceuticals drive health care innovation to everyone’s benefit. They team with guided lifestyle and nutrition to displace disease and ailment with vitality. With broader application, long term individual healthcare costs can only go down.

Powerful Nutraceuticals

One particular group of nutraceuticals provides a shining example of what these powerful health agents can accomplish, at a modest cost. These are revolutionary because they safely enhance production of nitric oxide through the body’s own natural mechanisms, to re-supply deficiencies caused by stress and illness.

It’s now known that nitric oxide is a key neurotransmitter. It plays critical roles in a wide array of essential body functions. Stresses of all kinds deplete nitric oxide, to the detriment of global body function and overall health. Replenishing it revitalizes the body.

According to Pearce Wright, in a paper for the Association of British Science Writers –

“Summary Research papers continue to flood the scientific journals with insights into the biological activity and potential clinical uses of nitric oxide (NO): a gas controlling a seemingly limitless range of functions in the body. Each revelation adds to nitric oxide's already lengthy resume in controlling the circulation of the blood, and regulating activities of the brain, lungs, liver, kidneys, stomach, gut, genitals and other organs. . . The research is now yielding over 3,000 papers a year.”

Three prescription drugs have been developed to enhance nitric oxide -- sildenafil (Viagra®), vardenafil (Levitra®), and tadalafil (Cialis®.) These pharmaceuticals raise nitric oxide levels by inhibiting the enzyme that normally breaks down cGMP. In other words, they achieve an effect by interfering with natural nitric oxide metabolism.

Hence they carry serious contraindications and have potentially dangerous side effects. All without providing any additional nitric oxide in the body. Yet the benefit of nitric oxide therapy is clear – the names of these drugs have become household words.

Most approaches to creating alternative nitric oxide nutraceuticals have not been practical. Direct administration of the gas is problematic, and administering large doses of precursors has negative effects without working well.

However, a researcher and formulator in Southern California, Robert Fogli, developed a breakthrough delivery system that enables significant nitric oxide replacement, using only microgram dosages of the Arginine precursor. Fogli’s approach increases the amount of nitric oxide in the body’s natural systems, has only beneficial secondary effects, and is limited to restoring normal homeostatic balance of depleted nitric oxide. Unlike drugs, it re-supplies nitric oxide production.

According to Fogli, “Years of positive testing and research allow us to offer our products designed to increase the body's natural healing process and performance, with all-natural ingredients.”

Along with generalized nitric oxide benefits, Fogli’s various nutraceuticals are formulated with herbal remedies that target specific ailments ranging from diabetes, to infertility, to Parkinson’s disease, and more are in development. Fogli’s synergistic remedies are targeted to specific body systems, and delivered in strength by increased circulation from nitric oxide enhancement.

Field Reports

Two practitioners, who have been using Fogli’s nutraceuticals for years, were interviewed about their therapeutic value. Both have come to rely on these products for themselves, for their families, and with their patients.

Sandro Femia, DC, is a New York chiropractor. Many of his urbanite patients come in with injuries and tissue trauma. He also sees the broad range of maladies typical in our culture. In addition to delivering classic chiropractic care, Dr. Femia relies on Fogli’s nutraceuticals to help his patients recover faster and stay healthier. He credits nitric oxide nutraceuticals with saving his father’s life.

Dr. Femia had this to say about Fogli’s nutraceuticals –

“Whenever there’s any sort of soft tissue trauma, I treat people with a combination of Hemoxide® and NutraWound®. This creates an accelerated and more complete recovery. It helps tremendously.

“My patients clearly perceive the value of the nutraceuticals. In several years, I have never had a negative result, and a large majority of patients report positive results. The nutraceuticals definitely improve their lifestyle. They become more functional both physically and psychologically.

“Nutraceuticals are essential – they make the doctor more effective in treating patients. I don’t want to see patients too long in my office, so I want them to get on nutraceuticals. I use these nutraceuticals with as many patients as I can.”

Carole Bergeron, ARNP, is a Nurse Practitioner who counsels several groups throughout the Northeastern US, including the Amish community of Pennsylvania. Carole describes her role as educating primary caregivers within families, to provide natural health approaches that augment lifestyle changes.

Bergeron provided another compelling report --

“Bob Fogli’s formulations are so cutting edge that they are extraordinary. They create balance and communication within the body and the body then does the rest. His approach does so much. I don’t have to worry about doing this, that, and the other thing with multiple supplements. The nutraceuticals create balance, and the effects are comprehensive.”

“As a clinician, I see results immediately. This approach is profound.”

“I’ve seen blood pressure normalize very rapidly, from levels like 190/110, down to 150/95. This is after only 1 or 2 doses of Hemoxide®. Results can happen within hours or at most, in severe cases, a couple days.

“I’ve seen Hemoxide II® balance blood sugar in a profound way when coupled with lifestyle changes. It’s the combination that works, with both diabetics and hypoglycemics. When things are broken, it’s the nutraceutical that supports the whole process.

“NutraFlu® just knocks out colds and flu if you catch the onset. If you miss the onset, it diminishes the length and severity of the illness.”

“This [Fogli’s] product line is all about longevity. It helps the body make its own most powerful antioxidant. The products create significant advantages for those of us facing ageing issues.”

“Any time I find something that lays down the basis for the body to balance itself and figure things out like these products do – that’s the best.”

In Closing

Dr. Femia summarized the theme of this article well --

“For practitioners using these nitric oxide nutraceuticals, there is added value. Additional revenue is coming into the office, and they are also enabled to give a better full service, educating patients about nutrition, which helps them to recover better and quicker.”

There it is in a nutshell -- better health care that costs less, while practitioners gain added value.

Nutraceuticals, and especially Fogli’s nitric oxide products, are helping us untie the seemingly hopeless knot of modern healthcare, by returning to fundamentals -- the core helping relationship between practitioners and their patients.

Readers can find out more about Robert Fogli’s nitric oxide nutraceuticals, which are classed as both medical foods and over-the-counter supplements, by contacting Vivo Naturals, the distribution partner for these products, at www.vivonaturals.com.