OPINION:
Indoctrination during medical education can be so powerful that professionals will believe the opposite of what they see. This creates roadblocks to creative solutions for important health issues. Some indoctrinated solutions are inadequate or worse.
It is not for a lack of caring by our military doctors that the immense health challenges in our combat military and veteran communities are frequently undertreated. The problem is institutional inertia. Deviating from “accepted practices” is a sure way to get demoted or worse.
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The military’s active and veteran populations have high disability rates from physical, cognitive and psychological injuries related to combat. Brains and bodies cannot heal, or even remain healthy, without an adequate continuous supply of testosterone. Besides increased exposure to hormone-disrupting chemicals, the rigors of military training and concussive brain injuries further deplete testosterone levels. Opiates lower it further. NSAIDs interfere with testosterone function.
High suicide rates are a symptom of nonhealing injuries, particularly in those with TBI and PTSD. Clear-thinking, functional, non-depressed individuals do not contemplate suicide.
There is a better way forward for treating our soldiers. It involves thinking outside of the indoctrination box by learning an old therapy based on decades of published research.
The first step in creating an effective solution is to understand the root cause of the problem. Solutions can then be developed based on trustworthy science. However, if a solution reduces revenue by curing too many problems, it may be stifled for a long time.
I wrote about these challenges in “Nobody Wants You Healthy: Achieving Better Health by Avoiding the Corruptions in Modern Medical Science.”
The pharmaceutical industry generates 90% of its revenues from the treatment, but not the cure or prevention, of chronic diseases. Additionally, their primary legal responsibility is to shareholders, not doctors or patients. This explains, in part, why well-meaning medical professionals are miseducated and encouraged not to question pharmaceutical research data.
Medical specialty societies, medical journals, medical textbook publishers, mass media advertising, politicians campaigning, national and university medical research centers, and our regulatory health agencies are dependent upon pharmaceutical industry funding. This gives Big Pharma powerful leverage over them.
Government health agencies do not independently analyze evidence or data for medical treatments before recommending them. This is a dereliction of duty and a violation of public trust. A 2005 analysis from Stanford University proved that over 70% of published peer-reviewed medical science articles are false.
“Nobody Wants You Healthy” also discusses the environmental causes for the rapid rise in chronic diseases. Hormone-disrupting chemicals in our environment, which are more prevalent in the military, have reduced the most abundant hormone in men and women by over 60% since 1970. It is this hormone, testosterone, that exerts control over inflammation, metabolism, and cellular repair.
Inflammatory and metabolic disturbances are the underlying basis for most chronic illnesses. Inadequate testosterone creates ripe conditions for cognitive and psychological impairments, cardiovascular diseases, joint, bone and muscle impairments, various cancers, diabetes, obesity, auto-immune illnesses, sarcopenia, and more.
Forty percent of the 19- to 35-year-old male segment of the U.S. population (from which the U.S. military recruits) currently have inadequate testosterone. No one bothered to test young adult females. Even worse, few understand that the lab reported ranges only reflect a sick population average, not the healthy range that we should be compared against.
Optimization of testosterone availability in men and women allows their brains and bodies to repair themselves. Long-lasting testosterone supplementation is only possible from testosterone pellets inserted into the fat. This therapy, successfully used in the U.S. since 1939, reduces chronic diseases, improves health and well-being, and lowers healthcare costs. I have witnessed my military patients’ recovering from debilitating cognitive, psychological, and physical ailments within the first few months of starting treatment.
Three of my veteran patients wanted to share their stories and recovery to encourage others to seek treatment in “Restoring Our Special Operative Veterans” podcast. Their goal for this podcast was to bring attention to common debilitating military health issues and empower listeners with actionable strategies for restoring functional health and well-being. Only through the insertion of generic testosterone pellets can we reliably provide months of steady therapeutic levels, allowing for meaningful deployment schedules and proper healing.
We need only to realign medical therapy to achieve the stated personnel goals as written in our National Defense Budget: Increased Retention, Enhanced Performance, and Reduction of Suicides.
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Dr. Mark Richards served for years as a physician consultant to the White House and in leadership positions in medical and surgical societies. This Yale-educated scientist noticed that something unexplained yet treatable was taking a heavy toll on human health and relationships. His search for answers led to a shocking discovery he details in his book, “Nobody Wants You Healthy: Achieving Better Health by Avoiding the Corruptions in Modern Medical Science.”
www.NobodyWantsYouHealthy.com for more information and to watch the veterans’ podcast.
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