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Effectively Using Preventative Lifestyle Medicine

By April Briggs


One of the unfortunate aspects of life is illnesses. Some illnesses come about as a result of poor life choices. Others are just natural occurrences that are related to unavoidable factors such as aging or genetics. Regardless of the root cause though preventative lifestyle medicine can help people to avoid many of the illnesses that they face.

Many people are reaping the benefits of a healthy lifestyle in their own lives. Adopting a lifestyle that prevents illnesses is one means of ensuring a longer healthier life. It also eliminates the hefty medical bills that come with sickness.

Doctors and other health care experts rely on these types of medicines to help patients who want to be proactive in their health care. A careful evaluation of each patient's current status and medical history is done to determine the likelihood of the individual ending up with an ailment. After this is done the doctor will suggest and prescribe drugs that will help to prevent the onset of the ailment.

Some, doctors, for instance, upon recognizing that their patient may be a prime candidate for a heart attack may prescribe drugs such as aspirin to prevent the ailment. Aspirin is one of the many over the counter illness preventing drugs available. Its value for the prevention of heart attacks lies in the fact that it is also a blood thinner. This means that it helps to keep the blood flowing smoothly and effortlessly through veins and arteries.

Vaccination is another form of prevention geared medicine. Vaccines are essentially drugs that are designed to build the body's ability to fight diseases. In many countries around the world it is mandatory that children be vaccinated against diseases such as Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Tetanus.

Adults also get vaccinated. One popular vaccination among adults is the flu vaccine. Each year, at the start of the flu season, millions of people get their flu shots or flu vaccine. This is necessary annually because flu viruses are constantly mutating and so scientists have to constantly be adjusting the vaccines in order to ensure that they can stand up to the latest strain of the flu.

The recently developed HPV vaccine is being administered to women and girls around the world in an effort to control and prevent the incidents of cervical cancer. This vaccine works by helping the body to resist certain strains of the Human Papillomavirus. The types of HPV that the vaccine targets are among those that cause the life threatening disease Cervical Cancer.

Preventative medicine is the way to go for a healthier longer life. It is important to be proactive in relation to life in general, but if you are unable to be proactive about only one thing, it should be your health. Once health is secured, many of the other aspects of life can be tackled.




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