Alternative Health is Booming

Woman Doing Yoga as Alternative Health Technique

It’s hard to believe about $30 billion dollars is spent by people in the US every year on alternative medicine. This is only a mere fraction of about 1% of what Americans spend every year on conventional health care.

The National Health Interview Survey conducted in 2012 revealed information that involved 44,743 individuals aged 4 and above. The next thought is, why would people in America spend that much money on what one prominent drug company referred to as, “eclectic” and “unconventional” health approaches instead of mainstream medicine. Practitioners such as yoga instructors and chiropractors, natural supplements such …read more