Improving Access to Natural Medicine

Health food stores have been instrumental in the cost-effective preventative health care movement away from drug-based symptom suppression. But a recent study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research asked employees of a 34 retail health food stores for recommendations for breast cancer.

68% of the health food store employees didn't ask whether the patient took prescription drugs, 24% discussed the potential for drug interactions, 9% discussed potential side effects, 44% recommended visiting a healthcare professional, 6% suggested a possible cure with the recommended health products, and one health food store employee suggested discontinuing tamoxifen.

Improved access to natural health practitioners trained at certified, accredited professional colleges is needed. Please help improve access to natural medicine in California by visiting the site Natural Medicine Now.