Global crisis from an holistic GP's perspective

Words DR CARLOS SANCHEZ

It’s an unprecedented time for everyone living in the current world.

And it makes one reflect on many areas of life. Some people work very hard to earn money and buy things like big houses, fancy cars and the latest gadgets. But now, the pandemic is making them rethink.

Unfortunately, the Coronavirus is taking the lives of a lot of people, and money cannot guarantee your protection against this terrible disease. Even prime ministers and members of royal families can contract the virus.

I deal with all walks of life in my profession. I treat every person with the same enthusiasm, trying to prevent disease. There’s been a lot in the media about trying to reduce the number of people getting infected with the social distancing and self-isolation practices. Talking to my family in Spain, where the army is on the streets arresting people who are ignoring the national lockdown, the cases are still going up and up. It is a sci-fi movie made into reality. Famous people are dying despite being very wealthy.

Nothing much has been said about how people can prepare or prevent getting infected. There’s a lot of anxiety from the bombardment of questionable daily news. This is stressing people, with a detrimental effect on their immune system.

People are running to the supermarket stocking up on nutrient deprived foods like pasta and rice, things that get metabolised into glucose, elevating the blood sugar levels and causing immunosuppression. They also may be running to stock up on alcohol, just in case they go into lockdown, when this will make them more susceptible to infection, but not much is said about this.

My take on it is that unfortunately the world cannot continue at this rate of consumerism, where the environment is being poisoned, and there are negative effects on people’s health. Too many are just focused on themselves and making lots of money.

Without health we have nothing, and there are a lot of ways of promoting it with lifestyle changes that are cheap and effective. We should learn from this hard lesson given to us by nature right now. And value life for its essentials and know that every living being should have the right to live a healthy life.

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