Prevention is the key to survival

The health care community (doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies) have not only saved the lives of many but they have been able to often help those who are suffering from one of many forms of illness.
This has created quite a conundrum when it comes to our efforts to stay healthy.  There is no way the health care community can survive serving healthy people.  They therefore expend their efforts on only helping us once we are no longer healthy.  The exceptions are the development of vaccines which keep us from becoming ill from a number of illnesses.
Unfortunately the government follows in lock step.  The creation of the Food and Drug Administration resulted in a government institution that is governed more by the pharmaceutical companies than the U.S. government.  As a result they try to stop the practice of using products produced outside of the pharmaceutical community to prevent illness.
The current research by many of our public institutions is demonstrating that there are many natural supplements that are very capable of keeping us healthy and protecting us from the onset of illness.  Some discoveries are demonstrating the ability to either slow or even eliminate some illnesses that have already attacked our bodies.  Many Universities and even government institutions are involved in this activity.
Unfortunately the pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA have an key ally.  The media in the United States generally does not support the use of natural substances.  They are always alert to some study that might not show that a supplement has been shown to not work even though in many cases the study was flawless in the manner it was performed.  Of course they too are somewhat dependent upon the pharmaceutical companies for advertising revenue.
Fortunately the Congress of the United States has helped thwart some of the effort to outlaw the use of  supplements.  And more recently, some of the courts have also been supportive of the supplement industry.  It is interesting that even some pharmaceutical companies are investing in the vitamin and supplement business.  They most likely will do so using subsidiaries so that most of the public will not be aware of it.
When you study the research that is ongoing in the use of supplements you will be impressed with what is taking place to keep people healthy or retard the progress of illness.  Unfortunately the health insurance industry is slow to respond.  Today they only provide assistance for prescription drugs.  Perhaps someday they will see the light that they often spend hundreds of time more to cure ones illness than what they could spend to prevent it.  Of course they have little interest in doing so because they just keep raising the health insurance premiums to cover the cost.
When will we finally decide that there is no way we can afford the continuing cost of health care?  The only way to solve it is to educate people on the benefits of using supplements.  Your quality of life most often is much improved over what it will be if waiting for the medical community to treat you.