In the past years, I have seen an increase in the unbelievably ignorant and harmful practice of prescribing corticosteroids by physicians for infectious diseases including the common cold, viral respiratory infections, pneumonia / bronchitis and just about anytime a doctor wants to suppress symptoms, create a false sense of feeling 'high on life' while sick, and have a happy customer in the short term at long term expense to the patient's health. There was a trend for decades where doctors tried to avoid these deceptively dangerous immunosupressive, anti-healing, anti-regeneration medications that rob you of your health behind a symptom-free facade (false front). But since most doctors have not been taught or independently researched Integrative medicine using Naturopathic principles to treat patients, they resort to quick fixes to get the patient 'out the door' and happy for the short term.
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