What you should not know about your health
We all spend over €100 billion on healthcare, but statistics show that no less than 57% of the Dutch have one or more chronic diseases.
What is going wrong and what can we do about it?
This presentation focuses on health and what it takes to get and stay healthy.
Achieving good health first requires an understanding of our current mainstream healthcare system and its results based on suppressing symptoms.
Two specific examples (arteriosclerosis and ADHD) show the regular medical approach and how, with understanding of the underlying cause, it could also be tackled.
It also provides insight into why vitamins are suppressed and what vested interests lie behind this.
The aim is to make it clear that we should be moving towards a new health care system based on modern science, prevention and identifying and addressing the cause of disease or suboptimal health.
Introducing Dr Nick van Ruiten:
Nick studied medicine in Antwerp and Rotterdam. As he was not satisfied with his career as a doctor, he subsequently successfully completed a business administration course (MBA).
He then worked for six years as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group.
His interest in the workings of the human body brought him back to the medical industry and, in particular, to the field of high-tech active medical implants.
As time went by, he began to realise more and more that healthcare had to and could be done differently. Based on these new insights, he started the company Free Choice with the aim of helping people to maintain or restore their health.
THE DIFFERENT CHAPTERS:
Chapter 1: What is wrong with our healthcare system?
- How much do we spend on our 'health care' every year?
- What is the return on this annual investment?
- What lies at the root of the many chronic sufferers?
Chapter 2a. Treating a symptom or tackling the cause? Example: Atherosclerosis
- What is the regular treatment?
- Why is cholesterol vital?
- What do cholesterol-lowering drugs do?
- What is arteriosclerosis?
- What role does collagen play?
Chapter 2b. Treat the symptom or tackle the cause? Example: ADHD
- What is the regular treatment?
- How is the diagnosis made?
- What are possible causes?
- What does ADHD medication do?
Chapter 3. How can that be?
- Why does the doctor focus on treating symptoms?
- In what situations are doctors especially important?
- And in what situations are they less effective?
Chapter 4. How do we stay healthy throughout life?
- What is the building block of our body?
- What is needed to stay healthy?
Chapter 5. The importance of vitamins and minerals
- How many vitamins and minerals are left in our fruit and vegetables?
- What are the causes of the decline in quality?
- What restrictions are there on vitamins?
Chapter 6. Why are vitamins counteracted?
- What role does the chemical industry play in vitamins?
- What are the benefits of vitamins?
