Holistic vs Medical: how to decide which is right for you

When your body starts whispering—or shouting—through symptoms, even if it's not showing up in labs, it’s communicating. Those headaches, rashes, mood swings, and digestive issues are your body’s language for “something’s off.”

Yet, in our medical system, symptoms are often treated like enemies to be silenced rather than clues to be decoded. That’s where the critical difference between medical and holistic approaches becomes clear.

The Medical Model: Suppress the Symptom

Let’s be clear: medical doctors play an important role in emergency care and acute health situations. If you break a bone, have a heart attack, or need life-saving surgery, the medical system is where you need to be. Medical doctors are trained to find abnormalities. Their goal is to match your symptoms to a disease name, then prescribe a drug to stop those symptoms. This can be essential and even life-saving in emergencies or acute infections.

But when it comes to chronic, non-diagnosable symptoms—where nothing “abnormal” shows up on labs—the traditional medical model falls flat.

Here’s why:

• Doctors are trained to look for disease, not imbalance. If it’s not diagnosable, it’s often dismissed.

• Most aren’t trained in nutrition or toxicity, which are often the underlying source of these lingering issues.

• Drugs are used to suppress symptoms, not to fix the source of the problem. And suppressing symptoms long-term can actually create more symptoms, side effects, and toxic burden on the body.

That’s when you might be told, “Your labs are fine. Maybe it’s anxiety. Try this medication.”

And just like that, physical issues get labeled psychological—and the real issue gets buried.

That’s because traditional medicine doesn’t address the early stages of imbalance BEFORE it shows up in labs, even though you have real, physiological imbalance and inflammation.

So, you’re sent home with antidepressants, blood pressure meds/statins, antibiotics, or antacids—drugs designed to silence your body’s message instead of addressing why it’s speaking in the first place. And while medication can offer short-term relief, it also adds new burdens: side effects, dependency, and increased toxic load. Over time, that false sense of “fixing” the problem can actually push you further down the disease chain because it's not addressing the real underlying source of your symtpoms.  

The Holistic Model: Stop Squashing Symptoms & Treat the Underlying Source

Here’s why the holistic model is so effective for people who feel like nothing else has worked. Instead of playing "whack-a-mole" to shut down the red flags, just to have more pop up, we investigate why they’re happening in the first place.

A holistic approach sees the body as an intelligent whole system that works together as a team—not a collection of disconnected parts. Real healing happens when you remove what’s blocking your body’s ability to keep itself balanced, protect itself, and work as the perfectly designed machine it was created to be.

Holistic approaches don’t chase symptoms—they ask why they’re happening in the first place. Instead of trying to silence your body’s signals with medications, holistic healing looks at the full picture: your nutrition, toxins you're exposed to, how well your digestion is working, and whether your body is even absorbing the nutrients it needs. If something is not working properly, we don't force it by bypassing your nervous system, the way drugs do. We look at what is in the way of that perfect function and address that!

Holistic healing looks at how every system in your body is connected—your gut, hormones, immune system, and even your emotions—and finds what’s interfering with that natural balance. This approach doesn’t just make you feel better temporarily; it helps your body work better permanently. The result isn’t symptom management—it’s transformation.It’s not about treating a label—it’s about treating you. By working with how the body is built to function and removing what’s interfering, holistic methods actually help the body correct itself. That’s the difference. You’re not masking the problem—you’re fixing what caused it. It's like having the Owner's Manual to your body so that you can finally understand how it works and what to do to "troubleshoot" it! 

Why You Need a Whole-Body Reset, Not Another Band-Aid

Your body doesn’t need another temporary fix—it needs a reset. A “band-aid” approach might stop the noise of your symptoms for a while, but it doesn’t solve the reason your body is making noise in the first place.

A whole body reset isn’t about doing more—it’s about removing what’s interfering with your body’s ability to function properly. When you address the underlying causes like toxicity, poor digestion, food sensitivities, and immune stress, your body can finally get out of survival mode and start working for you instead of against you. That’s the difference between managing your health and restoring it. True healing isn’t about fighting your body—it’s about giving it permission to function the way it was designed to.

That’s why bandaid fixes don’t last. You don’t need another prescription or temporary protocol—you need to restore balance so your body can heal itself the way it was designed to.

Why You Still Need Both

Medical doctors are invaluable for diagnostics, scans for any growths, tissue damage, injuries, malformations and emergency care. If you’re experiencing symptoms, get your labs done. Rule out the big stuff. But if everything comes back “normal,” that’s actually good news. It means your body hasn’t reached the disease stage yet—and that’s your window for real healing.

Holistic care picks up where conventional medicine leaves off. It’s not about rejecting doctors; it’s about reclaiming your role as the ultimate authority over your health.

Why You Need to Be Your Own Advocate

The truth is, your health is your responsibility, not your doctor’s or health practitioner's. It's not anybody's responsibility but your own. If you’ve been told “everything looks fine,” and you don’t feel fine, keep looking and sourcing new and different options for answers. 

You are the CEO of your body and your health. The most powerful step you can take is to become proactive and informed. Learn what your body is trying to say. Understand what those symptoms mean. Ask questions. Get multiple opinions. And if medication is offered for an undiagnosed condition, it’s okay to pause and explore alternatives.

You’re feeling symptoms before they become disease. That’s actually good news—it means you can reverse them before things get worse. Because the truth is, your body isn’t broken—it’s brilliant. It just needs the interference removed so it can do what it already knows how to do: heal. Your body is talking. It’s time to listen.

If you are local to the Phoenix, AZ area, go to this link to find out more about holistic solutions to help reset and remove interference from your body so it can do its job properly. Pills just cover up symptoms—they don’t fix WHY this is happening. Isn’t it time to finally resolve it instead of managing it? 

If you are not local to the Phoenix, AZ area, then click here to check out all of your options! You’ll get the exact steps you need to take, plus support from me to guide you every step of the way! 

xo Monica 🦋 Treat the Source: where we reveal all of the hidden causes of your mystery symptoms!