I often see natural medicine practitioners and influencers on social media strongly criticising mainstream medicine and dentistry. Yet when something serious happens—either to them or someone close to them—they turn to the very systems they’ve been condemning.
When there’s an emergency, a broken tooth, or tooth loss, they seek dental care. When faced with conditions like type 1 diabetes, they rely on essential treatments like insulin. When something suspicious appears, like an unusual mole, they don’t ignore it—they act on it.
That contrast is hard to ignore.
This isn’t about dismissing alternative approaches—there are valid concerns around parts of the system, and yes, not every aspect of modern medicine or dentistry is perfect. There are influences, commercial pressures, and evolving technologies that deserve questioning.
But rejecting everything outright, or assuming all professionals are acting with harmful intent, isn’t grounded in reality.
So it’s worth asking—at what point does critique turn into arrogance? And when does standing on a “high horse” prevent people from acknowledging the very care they quietly rely on when it really matters?
Medicine and dentistry are constantly developing. Knowledge changes, improves, and adapts over time. Not every advancement is wrong, and not every practitioner is working against you.
At the end of the day, health is about informed choices.
The responsibility lies with each of us to understand the options available, ask questions, and make informed decisions that align with our own values and way of life.
Many people choose homeopathy quietly, without making a statement of it, often because they wish to avoid the compounding side effects associated with conventional medicines, which many times lead to another disease created artificially.
I am one of those people and my grown up children too.
There have been a few occasions during my perimenopause phase where I was given diagnoses described as “serious,” and I made a conscious decision to follow a homeopathic path of treatment and was healed afterwards.
Those experiences are too many to go into here, but that choice doesn’t come from a place of rejecting or dismissing conventional Western medicine.
It simply reflects a personal approach to health—not a judgement of others’ choices or professions.