Most of the time when you notice a little problem developing in your body, it can be fixed by changing your diet. Don't see a doctor every time a minor new symptom shows up, or they will likely put on their cynical capes and diagnose you with something that "only" some medication or surgical procedure can fix. In my experience, 95% of the minor symptoms I've had were the result of a nutritional imbalance in my diet. Medications and supplements hardly ever helped- they simply put a cloak over the problem and never seemed to fix it. In some cases, they even made it worse.
An easy example is a toothache; I have teeth that can be very sensitive to sugar. Too much of it can make them hurt. No fillings or crowns are necessary to fix that- I've found that abstaining from sugar for one or two days fixes the problem right away. Another is high blood pressure. While it is true that an underlying disease could be causing it, the reality is that it's highly unlikely for a man at my age and activity level to have one. Lowering the amount of sodium in my diet has made all the difference. It has also helped with flatulence and blood circulation, at least it feels that way.
Only see a doctor if you have multiple symptoms or a single symptom that gets worse over time. Remember that doctors are trained to assign medications to almost any type of illness. Alarmingly, most of them aren't required to take any nutritional classes in college- baffling when you consider it to be the core of good health. Medicine is an industry like any other. It can drain away our life savings, like holes in our souls. Most medical training gears doctors to interpret illness in a worst-case scenario, which coincidentally may be the one in which the most visits and the most amount of money can be leeched out of you. Always try a natural remedy before subjecting yourself to a pill shark who is paid to expect the worst, or his license will be revoked.
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