Treating Chronic Diseases - Time to Look Wider

In modern medicine, chronic diseases - often considered incurable - remain a real challenge for both doctors and patients. But perhaps the biggest problem isn’t the diseases themselves, but the way we approach them.

Not the organ, but the person

Traditional medicine tends to focus on treating a specific organ - the heart, thyroid, kidneys. As specialisation progresses, narrower and narrower fields emerge, where doctors become experts in just one system, or even a single organ. Meanwhile, a holistic approach to health suggests something entirely different: it is the whole body that should be treated, not just the symptoms tied to one area.

A person is more than a diagnosis

Many patients struggle with problems that don’t fit neatly into any diagnostic category. Instead of a single disease, they present with a whole set of symptoms - variable and difficult to classify clearly. What happens then? Sometimes “treatment” means simply testing one drug after another - steroids, anti-inflammatories -without truly knowing what the underlying cause is.

Are synthetic drugs the only way?

It’s worth asking: since most biochemical reactions in the body rely on natural substances—vitamins, minerals, fats - why is treatment so often based on synthetic, chemically modified drugs that don’t naturally occur in the body?

The answer is simple: synthetic drugs can be patented, and that means profit. Natural substances don’t generate multi-million revenues, making them less attractive for the pharmaceutical industry. Yet these are the very substances that support the body’s most essential processes.

Back to basics

Instead of chasing after the next “third-generation” miracle drug, perhaps it’s worth checking first if the body is missing something fundamental. Maybe the real problem isn’t the disease itself, but a deficiency of vital substances? The lack of logic in many therapeutic approaches can be shocking - but returning to logical, holistic thinking offers real hope for lasting health improvements.

Summary

Chronic diseases are complex. But treatment doesn’t have to mean merely suppressing symptoms. True change begins with the understanding that a person is a system of interconnected parts - and it is the whole person who should be treated.

Source: Jerzy Zięba, Hidden Therapies