Alternative therapies, from acupuncture to nutrition therapy, are gaining acceptance at a basic standard as the world economy slows down and the medical-malpractice rates increase. Not only is it too expensive for many people to pay for doctor and prescription costs, but it's simply not as effective as people need it to be.
The beautiful part approximately alternative therapies is that they frequently examine aspects of health that the government and the medical bureaucracy ignore. Primary among these is 'holistic' medicine, which examines the entire body (often including the mind as well).
Holistic medicine is critical because traditional medicine often cannot determine the root cause of a problem, a fact which becomes clear when listening to commercials for drugs which say clearly "treats the symptoms of" such-and-such a disease. They treat the symptoms since they have no idea what the root cause of a problem might be. Whether you have irritable bowel syndrome now your endocrine system is releasing too much inflammatory hormone because you've got leaky gut and it's causing an allergic reaction to wheat that you never notice owing to it's entirely internal...modern medicine has no way to see that.
Holistic mecidine, in this case nutritional medicine, does. By examining your intent starting with it's inputs (food, water, sunlight, air, and whatever chemicals you put on your skin), nutritional medicine can make determinations about what is happening in your body based on what comes out (urine, feces, sweat, pus, etc.) and what's happening inside (cancer, heart problems, etc.).
Nutritional medicines and other alternative/holistic treatments can cure a staggering variety of problems so common that they're considered 'normal' from effortless fatigue to acne to cancer and heart disease. It's because all of those things are symptoms of a holistic imbalance, and mainstream therapies just don't see the fundamental flaws in your whole being. Nutritional therapy and other alternative therapies are the right answer for millions of people.