March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.  So there will be a lot of “awareness” being trumpeted to the masses—mostly telling people to get their colonoscopies, watch for changes in bowel habits and basically hope your number doesn’t come up in the colorectal cancer lottery.  Well, I have a lot more to say than that.  Here’s what people should really be “aware” of:

What I am writing today might not win me any popularity contests, but that’s too bad because I tell it like it is.
If you are among the one out of five people in the US that currently has at least one tattoo, there is much more going on behind the scenes than your body’s “pretty artwork.”
Here’s what I mean:

Three out of the top four best-selling drugs of 2015 were medications that treat autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

Let’s play an “imagine” game for a moment.

Let’s say you went to the doctor complaining of these symptoms:

• Headache
• Fatigue
• Irritability

When most people think of skin problems, things like acne and rashes come to mind.

But what most people don’t realize is that things going on with your skin aren’t typically confined to just the skin—they’re coming from somewhere deeper inside.

In addition to keeping you “all put together,” your skin protects your heart, liver, kidneys and intestinal tract, and that includes giving these vital organs a helping hand if they are struggling. 

If I were to ask you what the most important part of your anatomy was, what would you say?  Your heart? Your brain? Your lungs?