Introduction
An Introduction to Dr. Debé's Services
There is a new era dawning in healthcare from which everyone can benefit. For those who desire greater levels of health, we offer a program that is second to none. It has evolved from a synthesis of timeless holistic principles with cutting–edge science. It is designed to empower you to make the proper changes in your lifestyle to enhance recovery from illness. This new, proactive form of health promotion is also for everyone who is currently free of symptoms and desires optimum wellness and longevity.
Up until now, despite being more costly than any other medical system in the world, America has not had much of a health care system. What we do have is a disease management system. The current medical model basically asserts that a person is either well or sick. If you are sick, the treatment often involves taking a drug to turn off the symptoms, and then you are considered well again. If you get a headache, take a Tylenol to get rid of it, and your condition changes from sick to well. More serious conditions involve more invasive therapies, such as surgery. If you develop a tumor, a surgeon can change your health status from sick to healthy by cutting it out. Is the philosophy underlying this approach consistent with reality? No! The absence of symptoms or overt pathology does not equal health.
Although drugs and surgery do have a place in disease management, conventional medical philosophy often leads to an illusion of health. Millions of patients, both with and without symptoms, leave their yearly physical with “a clean bill of health.” These people cannot be helped by conventional medicine because their state of health has not yet deteriorated to the point of resulting in a recognizable pattern of signs and symptoms and thus defies disease classification. Yet, these same individuals have suboptimal metabolic performance, which eventually leads to disease. By failing to recognize the continuum between health and disease, conventional medicine can do little to prevent disease and promote health improvement. Fortunately, there is a new approach to healthcare.
The Continuum Between Health and Disease
Dr. Debé believes that a person is not simply either well or sick. “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it” is a philosophy that should not be applied to the human body. Long before anything is obviously “broken” (disease), there is a process of dysfunction (poor function) occurring within the body and mind that may be present for quite some time before we become aware of it by the appearance of signs and symptoms. Left unchecked, dysfunction eventually culminates in degeneration and disease.
Dr. Debé employs methods to identify and correct dysfunction in the body before it progresses to disease.
Dr. Debé utilizes a variety of assessment tools to identify contributing factors to an individual’s state of health. The process begins by the patient filling out health history and symptom assessment forms. A holistic consultation and physical examination follow this. Finally, laboratory tests are often performed. Usually these are special, more functional tests such as digestive analysis, stress hormone measurement, and detoxification assessment.