Stress and Medical Visits

By on January 12, 2009 in Health, Healthy Living

Marginalizing Meditation for Profit?





The American Medical Association (AMA) notes that stress is the cause of 80 to 85 percent of all human illness and disease. Each week, more than 90 million Americans suffer some kind of stress-related symptom for which they take medication.

Each of those medications is a profit center to a pharmaceutical company, a source of income. If a drug company develops a new pill that can help temper the symptoms of, for example, hypertension, it creates a new potential source of income & profit.

What if it could be determined that meditation, guided breathing, or relaxation techniques could relieve the hypertension symptoms with the same effectiveness as the new drug? Would the pharmaceutical company ‘market’ any of these time-honored solutions as an equivalent treatment?

Taking this a step further, one can see how discrediting meditation and other so-called ‘alternative’ approaches could be a profit enhancement strategy. I’m not suggesting this is occurring; but I wouldn’t be surprised.

 

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My father was in the US Navy, and we lived in Japan for five years. Growing up in Japan was an amazing experience that continues to shape my world view. Later, I spent 4 years as an US Air Force officer, and separated as a Captain in 1992. Received an MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management in 1995. Founded The JK Worthy Company in 1996, and lived in Guadalajara, Mexico for two years exporting home & garden products to the US, Canada, and Australia. In 2002, moved all business to the internet, and manufacturing to China. Sold select ecommerce assets of JK Worthy to a private equity firm in March, 2008. Acquired Wild Divine (www.wilddivine.com) in November, 2008.

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One Response to Stress and Medical Visits

  1. missbrook January 12, 2009 at 3:39 pm #

    OK then, I'll say it. Pharmaceutical companies are in the profit making business of creating medicines to cure symptoms, so they will be the last ones to admit that an activity that is free (meditation) could possibly work as effectively as one of their products!

    I say, MEDITATION NOT MEDICATION!