A checkup at the doctor

Ah, the checkup. At the regular Western doctor, your well being is determined by machines and tests. You could be feeling fine, sleeping well, have a good appetite, and, pardon, pooing every day, but you have high cholesteral, according to your doctor. What the??? Now you gotta take medicine.

If you went to a TCM doctor for a checkup, since you've never been to one before, he'll say:

• do you have an appetite when you're supposed to?
• sleeping well?
• have energy when you need it?
• happy?
• no pain anywhere?
• have normal bodily functions?(bowel movement every day?)

If you said yes to everything, you're healthy! Woopee! You don't need another checkup. You only need to go to the doctor if you don't feel well. How easy was that? You're healthy if you think you are, basically.

If you are the skeptical one, you're probably thinking, "well then how do you know if you have high blood pressure? high cholesteral? at risk for a clot? have cancer? etc..." Most of these other facts are not really important. If you have high blood pressure/cholesteral, you won't die. If you feel fine, you won't have a clot. And now for the last thing...(dramatic halloween music) CANCER.

"Um, madam, we have bad news from your mammogram."
"..."
"You have a malignant tumor in your left breast, that is stage three and blah blah..."
"AAHHH!! *starts sobbing*"
"You have 6 months to live without treatment."
"oh no!"
"But we could help!"
(dun duhduuuun)(that was supposed to be like, "suuupermaaaan")

Yeah. Nowadays, having cancer is like, a death sentence. You're so worried about it, you probably die from that. Or maybe the treatment killed you (oops). I'm not saying its a funny matter. It's serious, just not as bad as it looks. It can be cured, but why go through the trouble when you can just prevent it? Why try to "defeat" the cancer? If you were a king, why would you kill your messenger informing you of an enemy attack?

Prevention tips tommorow! To be continued...