NHS Funding Crisis

I often come across assertions that the NHS is underfunded. I disagree; the amount that is spent on it is perfectly adequate. The problem is not on the ‘supply’ side of the equation, it is on the ‘demand’ side. Ignoring the obvious administrative innefficiencies, the fundamental reason that the NHS struggles is because the scale of the demand on its limited services.

Diseases that are associated with metabolic disfunction are responsible for a huge percentage of this demand. If the number of people suffering from issues such as obesity, type-2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, was significantly reduced, the ‘lack of funding’ argument would go away.

But here’s the rub: whilst I know exactly how to naturally prevent or reverse the majority of metabolic issues, those who run the NHS and the GMC’s ‘experts’ who inform NHS policy, are not interested. Even worse, not only are they not interested, many of the common practices they advocate actually promote the very problems they are supposed to address!

If you want a classic example, just do some basic research into the standard dietary advice given to type-2 diabetics. In the majority of cases, the insulin resistance that underpins diabetes has been caused, for the most part, by an individual’s overconsumption of certain forms of carbohydrates. Instead of encouraging these people to restrict the intake of such carbohydrates, ‘the system’ proactively does exactly the opposite ... and then medicates the inevitable result.

Unsurprisingly, the most common question I get from those I help to naturally reverse their type-2 diabetes is, ‘why on earth didn’t my doctor suggest your approach?’

I once asked my own GP why he refused to adopt my methods to help his patients reverse their metabolic challenges, and his reply left me in shock: he basically told me that he was obliged to follow orders and that even though he could see that what I was suggesting made sense, and that I was clearly living proof it could be effective, he was unable to do anything other than what the ‘official guidance’ demanded.

The bottom line is that we could easily fix the supply versus demand equation on the NHS and return it to the wonderful asset it once was, but the forces that hold all the leverage clearly don’t want us to fix it.