When we defined integrative medicine, we said that it combines the methods of conventional medicine and complementary medicine. But there is only one medicine, and the important thing is to have as many options as possible to prevent, cure, or alleviate the diseases that affect any human being, avoiding side effects and contraindications as much as possible. Academic medicine and biological medicine are fully compatible.
Modern medicine has made great strides in treating acute illnesses, but it often fails when faced with chronic conditions. We often encounter patients who are blocked and intoxicated by excessive medication. And doctors often prescribe drugs to treat the side effects of other drugs, which does not seem logical.
Most patients are chronically ill. But doctors have gradually lost sight of the human body as a whole. There are fewer and fewer internists and general practitioners. Specialization has reached such a point that many no longer see the human body as a whole and only deal with a very specific part of it. There are cases in which the same patient is treated by four different specialists at the same time, with no one coordinating these treatments. The figure of the family doctor is disappearing, someone who not only had an overall view of the patient but also knew all their personal circumstances. They were the doctor, confessor, friend, teacher, etc.
Modern medicine is suppressive and symptomatic. If we have pain, we are given a painkiller; if we have a bacterial infection, we are given an antibiotic; if we have a viral infection, we are given an antiviral; if we have inflammation, we are given an anti-inflammatory. It focuses on suppressing the symptom.
On the contrary, biological medicine, also called integrative medicine in the US, activates the body's defense mechanisms or helps them fight the cause of the disease. It is a preventive medicine and stimulates the body's natural self-regulating mechanisms. It is natural because it helps the body return to a state of health, not just because it uses natural products or herbs to treat diseases.
Nor should we think that modern medicine is useless. For example, we cannot treat appendicitis with herbs, massages, or homeopathic medicines. If surgery is indicated, there is no time to waste. Let's operate on the patient. Of course, we will treat the patient naturally in the postoperative period so that they recover sooner.
Both types of medicine should be complementary, and doctors should stop engaging in absurd mutual confrontations. Our mission is to treat, advise, and care for patients so that they can recover and regain their lost health.
Being healthy is the normal state of human beings. From the moment we are born, our biological clock starts ticking and from then on we are influenced by everything around us, especially our mother. In this way, from the very beginning, we depend on the lives our elders lead. So, as parents, we are directly responsible for our children's health and should be the family's health advisors.
If our normal state is to be healthy, we will have to define what health is and what illness is.
We could define health as the harmonious state of all the functions of the organs and tissues of the human body, mind, and soul, in relation to the environment and everything we encounter. Health is physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual fulfillment. All methods of spiritual improvement encourage us to look within. The same is true of health: all healing comes from within. The body heals itself. The process can be initiated or enhanced by an external source that triggers healing.
Knowing our weaknesses, we must take care to correct them. Despite the weight of our genetic inheritance, we can avoid many diseases. In many cases, physical discomfort is nothing more than a wake-up call from the body to change our habits and customs before it is too late. We are referring to those isolated symptoms that we sometimes suffer from: headaches, nausea, insomnia, itchy skin, etc. This is our body's way of warning us that we are living an unhealthy lifestyle and that we need to change course.
To do this, we need to find the most suitable method or combination of methods to rebalance the body. The first thing is to use common sense. All extremes are negative. Nothing is absolute. Everything is relative. The Chinese explained this to us 5,000 years ago with the theories of Yin and Yang.
We must not become completely polarized physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. Illness will show us where the imbalance or stress that makes our lives miserable lies. We must look for the cause. The process of holistic or integrative healing will allow us to identify the cause and restore balance to the body. If we only treat the symptoms and forget the real cause that has disrupted the balance, these destabilizing energies will seek a new opportunity to manifest themselves.
In the case of rheumatic diseases, modern medicine often prescribes lifelong use of painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs. But doctors are not solely to blame. Patients have become complacent and prefer to take pills rather than change their habits. It is easier to adopt a passive rather than an active attitude toward the disease.
When we tell a patient with a rheumatic disease that the first step is to eat only fruit and vegetables for a few weeks, they throw their hands up in horror. And they are even more surprised when we talk about emptying the bowel and suggest colon hydrotherapy. How often do we fail to do the exercises that the doctor has recommended we do every day to improve our joints? How often!
Rheumatic diseases are those that affect the bones, joints, muscles, tendons, and ligaments—in short, the musculoskeletal system. There are more than 250 types of rheumatic diseases, and it is important to diagnose them correctly and establish the treatment protocol for each case and patient.
The medicine of the future that will revolutionize rheumatic diseases will be regenerative medicine. At Biosalud, it is in osteoarthritis where we have achieved the best results, making pain treatments with anti-inflammatories, which have well-known side effects, unnecessary.
Regarding rheumatoid arthritis, we use highly advanced techniques to control inflammation and pain, above all, without side effects or contraindications, such as ozone therapy, mesotherapy, focal magnetotherapy, electromagnetic bioregulation therapy, acupuncture, Physicalm, Phototherapy, Auriculomedicine, Cryoelectrophoresis, Colon Hydrotherapy, Neural Therapy, Homeopathy, Phytotherapy, Orthomolecular Medicine, Immunogenetic Biomedicine, Cell Therapy, and Regenerative Medicine. In the near future, we will be able to treat rheumatoid arthritis with an immunomodulatory treatment using a specific, personalized vaccine for each patient, which will stop the immune system from attacking the soft tissues of the joints. That is, unless it is Lyme disease, in which case Dr. Mariano Bueno, medical director and founder of Biosalud, is highly specialized in its treatment.
In cases of osteoporosis, we use a combination of techniques: deacidifying diet therapy, orthomolecular medicine, phytotherapy, homeopathy, spagyric medicine, catalytic oligotherapy, etc. The improvement is spectacular. We look for the cause, resolve it, and as a result, the osteoporosis disappears.
We have found that many cases of fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome are actually Lyme disease, so they will not be cured until they are treated with anti-infective and personalized treatment.
We can say that often the key to rheumatic diseases lies in treating the underlying disease that is actually causing the problem. There are no common patterns; each case is different and requires truly personalized care.
We will also look at the patient's diet and any foods that may have caused the disease, as well as all the extra-articular causes that can lead to rheumatic diseases, and lesser-known terms such as geopathies, food allergies and intolerances, neurofocal dentistry, tonsillar foci, interfering scars, joint colopathies, meteoropathies, heavy metal contamination, etc.
The new opening of the Regenerative Medicine unit will completely change the lives of patients with osteoarthritis. It will revolutionize the treatment of osteoarthritis, and we hope that thousands of patients will replace their joint pain with moderate exercise and a healthy, fulfilling life.
In summary, we will stimulate the body's natural self-regulating mechanisms to help it return to its previous state of health and heal its joints, taking into account the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) and making use of all appropriate therapies, both conventional and complementary, and finally regenerating damaged structures using regeneration techniques.
