Vital Health Management System in a Nutshell

The Vital Health Management System (VHMS) endeavors to take a comprehensive, eclectic, balanced, organized and proactive approach to health, quality of life and treatment of illness. The word ‘system' is used because the Vital Health philosophy is combined with real-world solutions for self-managing your wellness issues. It won't just argue against this or that, the system will give you more options and tools so you can actually deal with this and that in a manner that befits your needs. Knowledge is only truly powerful when it gives you more options. Options are the real power.

The VHMS takes into account and has learned from (and sometimes disagreed with) the following (this is not a complete list):

The Vital Health Management System has proven to be a valid response to managing these conditions:

Why is it important?

Most of us know and accept that we should carefully research before buying a car, but most of us are woefully unprepared for any aspect of personal health management.

The customer is not an adequately advised consumer at a time in their life when they really need to be – when their very lives or quality of life is at stake. Their quality of life may be severely impacted by their choices and their advisors, so it is not a time to plead ignorance or to abdicate responsibility.

The old days of simply doing what the doctor tells us to do or taking what the doctor tells us to take are gone. We can no longer afford to have the same parent/child relationship with our health professionals.

No one tells us the real low-down on what to cook, how to cook it so it tastes good, what kind of pots and pans to use, glassware, which appliances are worth our cash and which will simply work against us.

Our knowledge of diet is much like our travel and fashion sense –what's good for one year is out of style the next. One day we're cozy with Weight Watchers, the next day we're going to the South Beach diet.

Our doctors aren't always interested in our well being, the majority seem to be interested only in masking our symptoms so we shut up and no longer take up five whole minutes of their precious time.

We don't have a free market. The alternatives to orthodox, organized medicine are marginalized, never mentioned in those lectures about the food pyramid.

Thanks to the information gathering and sharing capabilities of the Internet, it's now possible to form a grass-roots movement in shaping a new direction for vital health practices. It's possible for the consumer to start up their own Consumer Reports for health products and the very methodologies used for recovering health.

Dissatisfied customers with complaints about a diet food, medication or surgery had no real voice, no recourse, no way of knowing whether others were reacting to something supposedly safe and good for them. I hope this site will give people a voice in such matters.

As a culture, we need to find a balance that makes more sense than what's going on now. You turn on the TV and the “Just Say No” ads are followed by five ads from pharmaceutical companies saying “just say yes – you're really sick and this could save you.” Go ahead, trade your one symptom for headaches, nausea, dry mouth, bloating, insomnia and constipation.

Am I completely against taking any drugs? Of course not! I am simply all for being educated, in control of my life and finding a balance based on natural laws that cannot be circumvented or fully spoken for by the current scientific method and passing fashions of our culture.