{"id":4389,"date":"2016-04-16T01:09:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T01:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icaro.med.br\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:30:51","slug":"myth-4-chronic-use-of-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/myth-4-chronic-use-of-medication\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth 4: Chronic diseases always require chronic use of medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Post648MitosEmSaude.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4395\" style=\"width:528px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Post648MitosEmSaude.png 720w, https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Post648MitosEmSaude-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Post648MitosEmSaude-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Post648MitosEmSaude-700x700.png 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fibromyalgia is improved and even cured with good sleep and regular exercise;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hypertension disappears with improved regular fluid intake and physical exercise;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anxiety decreases with better breathing and adequate sleep;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2705 Diabetes disappears with improved diet and exercise;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asthma attacks decrease with better sleep and stress management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, almost no illness is an \u201caddiction sentence\u201d: 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!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c9 claro que muitas doen\u00e7as cr\u00f4nicas exigem o uso de rem\u00e9dios por longos per\u00edodos, e, \u00e0s vezes, por toda a vida, especialmente dependendo da gravidade da doen\u00e7a ao ser descoberta, como o paciente cuidou da sa\u00fade at\u00e9 o diagn\u00f3stico, suas tend\u00eancias gen\u00e9ticas, entre outros fatores. No entanto, n\u00e3o \u00e9 verdade que doen\u00e7as cr\u00f4nicas sempre exigem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saude-geral"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24818,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/24818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}