Having said that, many diseases are classified currently as uncurable. 

There are a few problems with classifying things this way.

They may be right, they may currently be right (many diseases were once considered incurable but no longer are), or they may be uncurable with current standards of care.

Science continues to discover new ideas and treatments to help people all the time.

Taking a step back though, why are so many people suffering with chronic diseases?

According to the CDC many (or most) chronic diseases are lifestyle diseases.

In other words, our lifestyle choices over a long period of time cause many serious chronic diseases.

The challenge in treatment is that generally the individual suffering is only getting ever increasing amounts of various medications for ever worsening symptoms without ever addressing the cause of the chronic disease (according to the CDC), lifestyle.

When this is addressed, people may see remarkable changes.

We see this reported in many chronic diseases in the literature with dietary, exercise, sleep, and stress changes.

Are these people cured of chronic conditions? 

You can’t really say that if it’s classified as incurable… but if their symptoms improve and objective findings improve then they are happy regardless of cure status.

Let me give a great example of a serious, incurable disease being helped with a simple dietary change. 

Many autoimmune celiac disease sufferers go into remission by simply removing ‘gluten’ from their diets.

Of course, Celiac disease is an autoimmune reaction to gluten so it makes sense.

Other people with various problems, including many neurological problems, have reported amazing improvement with dietary changes.

An interesting case study of Medical Doctor, Terry Wahl’s, recovery from MS can be found here in her TED Talk.

Yes, these may seem like extreme examples.

However…

You could argue though that many people (of course, not all) with a chronic disease are reacting to lifestyle challenges.

If you need help with making the right lifestyle choices to improve your pain and health, contact us to set up and appointment!