Your Prescription is a Band-Aid. Here’s How to Fix the Wound
Bandaid fix
If this stings a little, it’s because it’s true: your meds aren’t fixing you.
You’re just pressing “mute” on your symptoms while the real problem keeps getting louder in the background.
Let’s get something straight – I’m not anti-medicine.
If you need a prescription to keep you alive, manage a condition, or stop a health crisis, take it. That’s what modern medicine is brilliant at – acute care and symptom control.
But here’s the uncomfortable truth: most medications are designed to only manage symptoms, not fix the root cause.
Blood pressure tablets lower your readings, but they don’t magically repair your arteries.
Antacids stop the burn, but they don’t heal the reason you’ve got reflux in the first place.
Antidepressants can stabilise mood, but they don’t teach your body how to regulate stress hormones or your mind how to process life differently.
And yet, so many people believe that if they just take the tablet their doctor prescribed, their problem is fixed.
Chronic Disease Doesn’t Just “Happen”
Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, IBS, autoimmune flare-ups – they’re not random bad luck.
They’re the result of years of habits, choices, and stress your body has had to put up with.
What you eat (and all the crap your body wishes you didn’t)
How much you move (or don’t)
Your sleep (or lack of it)
The way you deal with stress (hello, wine and Netflix)
Toxin exposure
Gut health that’s been screaming for attention for years
Your body has been keeping score.
The Real Problem with the “Magic Pill” Mentality
Sure, meds make you feel better.
But if nothing else changes? The root cause keeps brewing.
That’s why so many people start with “just one little pill” and end up with a pharmacy in their kitchen drawer. One condition turns into three. Three turns into five. And suddenly your “health plan” is a colour-coded pillbox.
Want to Heal? Change the Environment Your Body Lives In.
Real healing means changing the things that made you sick in the first place. It’s not instant. But it works.
Eat actual food.
Move your body.
Get real sleep.
Manage your stress (in a way that doesn’t wreck your liver).
Repair your gut – because if that’s not right, nothing else will be.
Your Doctor Has a Role – And So Do You
Your doctor can write the prescription.
I’ll help you rewrite the life script that got you here.
Because true health doesn’t come from “managing” your illness – it comes from removing the reasons your body became unwell in the first place.
The hard truth?
No one else can do it for you.
The good news?
You’re not stuck with the health you have right now – and small, consistent changes can make a massive difference.
Stop living on pause.
Stop mistaking “managed” for “healed.”
Your health won’t change until your habits do – and that starts today.
If you’re ready to stop collecting prescriptions and start collecting wins, let’s talk. Because your future self is either going to thank you… or wish you’d started sooner.