Myth 4: Chronic diseases always require chronic use of medication

Of course, many chronic diseases require the use of medication for long periods, and sometimes for life, especially depending on the severity of the disease when it was discovered, how the patient took care of their health until diagnosis, their genetic tendencies, among other factors.

However, it's not true that chronic illnesses always require patients to accept being dependent on medication for the rest of their lives! I still maintain that the most important thing for recovering, maintaining and optimizing health is the patient's lifestyle and daily habits. And since these habits are very powerful, both in healing and making the body ill, I've seen them in almost 20 years of practice:

Fibromyalgia is improved and even cured with good sleep and regular exercise;

Hypertension disappears with improved regular fluid intake and physical exercise;

Anxiety decreases with better breathing and adequate sleep;

✅ Diabetes disappears with improved diet and exercise;

Asthma attacks decrease with better sleep and stress management.

In other words, almost no illness is an “addiction sentence”: this only happens if you don't improve your lifestyle habits before looking to medication as the main solution for your life. Think about it!