Some Sad Facts
By Alex Ross "Mind Body Keys"
- About 95% of people will die of either, heart disease,cancer or diabetes…
- More than 50% of the population are overweight or obese…
- About 50% of all heart attacks are fatal…
- Diabetes has increased 700% since 1959 and has become an epidemic..
- Autism has gone from 1 in 10,000 children to 1 in 150 in just 10 years...
- Cancer has moved from being the # 30 killer in 1971 to #10 killer in 1985 to #2 today, in spite of millions and millions of $$$ being invested in cancer research…
- There are now about 85 different auto-immune diseases that didn’t even exist some 30 years ago…
- Every classroom today has children, diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, being treated with Ritalin. How many had that when you went to school?..
- A high percentage of people have an undiagnosed chronic disease..
- The # 4 cause of death, is: properly prescribed drugs by a doctor…
Are you proactive about your health?
There are simple daily actions you can take to not become a statistic!
The "Good Book" sais: "Your body is your temple!"
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So why do people treat it like a shack???
In the face of an increasingly inadequate system of conventional medicine, a growing number of people are turning to alternative medicine to address their needs.
The general public is starting to recognize the effectiveness of alternative medicine's approach to health, which blends body and mind, science and experience, and traditional and cross-cultural avenues of diagnosis and treatment.
In fact, a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that over one-third of those surveyed chose alternative medicine over conventional methods, because of the medical establishment's emphasis on diagnostic testing and treatment with drugs without focusing on the patient as a whole.
It is obvious that what was once considered a "fringe" interest is now on its way to becoming the primary medical approach of the next millennium.The Crisis in Modern MedicineIt is no secret that our contemporary medical system is in a state of terrible disarray.
Though conventional medicine excels in the management of medical emergencies, certain bacterial infections, trauma care, and many, often heroically complex surgical techniques, it seems to have failed miserably in the areas of disease prevention and the management of the myriad new and chronic illnesses presently filling our hospitals and physicians' offices.
In addition, as a nation we pay more for our medical care and accomplish less than most other nations of comparable living standards, while health care costs continue to spiral out of control.
Treatment of chronic disease currently accounts for 85% of the national health care bill.
This state of affairs is due to the fact that we spend almost nothing to treat the causes of chronic disease before major illness develops, according to a report from the Association of Naturopathic Physicians.
"We wait for it [illness] to develop and then spend huge sums on heroic measures, even then ignoring the underlying lifestyle-related causes.
This is the equivalent of waiting for a leaky roof to destroy the infrastructure of a house and then repairing the damage without fixing the leak.
This is naturally expensive and ineffective."Perhaps the greatest evidence of the depth of the crisis is that we have come to accept such levels of chronic disease as normal, despite evidence that much of it is preventable. [Former] Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, in his 1988 Report on Nutrition and Health, points out that "dietary imbalances" are the leading preventable contributors of premature death .
He recommends the expansion of nutrition and lifestyle modification education for all health care professionals.
The changes that are necessary, however, will not be implemented as long as physicians earn their living and win renown primarily by delivering rescue medicine (interventions that simply treat symptoms), since it is in this area and not prevention that they benefit most.
It is time to take a good look at the wisdom and cost-effectiveness of alternative medicine.Doctors are confronted daily with patients suffering from illnesses for which conventional medicine offers only superficial treatment of symptoms.
The magic of antibiotics is vanishing as a host of resistant infections emerge; diseases such as AIDS and chronic fatigue syndrome have shown us clearly that our present treatments are simply not effective and hint at new health problems which may lie ahead.
Roots of the CrisisThe underlying concepts of alternative medicine are not new. They represent a return to the principles that have been part of human understanding of health and disease for thousands of years.
Over the centuries, medical wisdom evolved within a framework which linked health to a state of harmony or balance, and disease to a state of disharmony or imbalance, and took into account the factors that contributed to both."
Over the centuries, medical wisdom evolved within a framework which linked health to a state of harmony or balance, and disease to a state of disharmony or imbalance, and took into account the factors that contributed to both."
The genius of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, was not in the drugs he used or his diagnostic skills," points out Dr. John R. Lee, M.D. of Sebastopol, California, "but in his insight that the elements which were needed to produce and maintain health were natural, and that they included hygiene, a calm balanced mental state, proper diet, a sound work and home environment, and physical conditioning.
In addition, he recognized the life forces that pervade all of nature, and which have multiple expressions---some known, some theorized, and many unknown. He taught that health depended upon living in harmony with these forces."
One theory was that infecting microbes called germs (viruses, bacteria and fungi) were the cause of illness.
The opposing theory maintained that these microbes only became infectious if conditions inside the body were right for them.
According to this theory, by keeping the internal environment of the body healthy, these potential agents of infection will remain dormant.When the germ theory of disease became dominant, the birth of contemporary medicine, with its emphasis on infectious causes of diseases rather than physiologic balance or harmony, occurred.
This provided medical science with the opportunity to greatly expand its role in the treatment of illness.
This was followed by the rapid development of microscopy, bacterial cultures, vaccines, x-ray, and in the 1930s the discovery of antibacterial drugs such as penicillin and sulfa drugs. However, the more that medical science embraced the germ theory of disease, the more it also superseded the individual's role in his or her own health.
The Purpose of Medicine: War or Repair? The thrust of 20th century medicine can be described by the metaphor of war.
We have seen, for example, a failed "war on cancer," a proliferation of antibiotics, and a growing number of surgical procedures, cell-killing radiation treatments, and chemical medications (such as chemotherapy), all of which do harm to the body, in one form or another, in their attempts to restore health.
Lost in this approach is the concept of repairing the imbalances which allow the illnesses to occur in the first place.
Medical science has become one-sided in its focus, increasingly losing sight of the whole person in its attempt to treat the body's individual parts.Because the emphasis of conventional medicine remains upon war and not repair, it has led to the organization of medical schools with their various departments, such as cardiology, neurology, dermatology, orthopedics, psychiatry.
This forces students to focus their study on one organ system at a time, as if each bodily organ functioned independently of all the others.
It's no wonder that our "modern" doctors understand so little of holistic concepts of health.Why Are We Ill? Health is far more than the absence of disease.
When we are healthy all our bodily systems and functions are harmoniously balanced and integrated with each other, and we are also in balance with our environment.
The first of these is the body's structural system, including all of the muscles, bones, ligaments, nerves, blood vessels and organs and their functions.
The second factor is the body's biochemical process, which involve the absorption and utilization of nutrients, and the elimination of wastes, along with the complicated biochemical relationships which are the key to cellular function and health.
The third factor comprises the mind and emotions, as well as the spiritual dimension of each person.
"When there is a balanced, energetic interplay between these three components we have health," Dr. Chaitow says. "But when imbalances exist within any of these factors, or in their relationships with each other, ill-health occurs.HomeostasisIn a state of health, if we cut ourselves, we heal.
If we are bruised, strained, or suffer a broken bone, healing starts immediately.
If we are exposed to infection our immune system deals with it.
These examples are illustrations of the body's natural tendency towards repairing itself.
This tendency is known as homeostasis, the maintenance of the body's internal organs and defenses to compensate for external health hazards.When homeostasis is called into play to handle a "crisis," its activity is usually experienced as "symptoms."
For example, when you exposed to an infection your body will mount an aggressive defensive response which might result in fever.
Or, should you injure yourself, the healing process which starts immediately might involve inflammation and swelling of the traumatized area. In other words, under normal conditions, the body will attempt to heal itself without help, and the symptoms produced will indicate what sort of healing process is going on.
Unfortunately, many people, including all to many physicians, rather than respecting these homeostatic processes and simply waiting for them to finish their tasks, will actively try to suppress the symptoms of self-repair, whether this be a raised temperature or inflammation in an injured area.
When this occurs, we are in effect saying that we know more than our body's innate intelligence about what is good for it.In order to maintain good health, therefore, it is important to recognize that many symptoms are actually evidence that healing is underway, and that, unless they are actually unbearable or dangerous, the symptoms should be left alone so that the repair processes can be completed.
The Return to HealthThe vast majority of illnesses are self-limiting, meaning that they get better all on their own. Alternative medicine recognizes this fact, realizing that health will usually arise spontaneously when the conditions for health exist.
Therefore, once you are ill, getting healthy again requires the very same inputs that were needed to keep you healthy in the first place.This may seem obvious but it's a message worth restating. As Dr. Chaitow says, "To regain health once it has been lost we need to begin to reverse some, and ideally all, of those processes which may be negatively impacting us, and over which we have some degree of control.
This includes taking responsibility for stopping those lifestyle choices which we know are harmful, whether this be smoking, excessive alcohol intake, or using drugs. In addition, we need to start to positively address the real needs that such behavior masks."
For healing to take place in an optimal way .Depending on the nature of our health problems, this might involve starting to eat more nutritiously, sleeping and exercising in a more regular and balanced way, and making sure of receiving reasonable exposure to fresh air and sunlight.
It may also include hygienic considerations, detoxifying and cleansing our bodies, addressing any structural or mechanical imbalances, as well as learning how to properly cope with stress, and deal with our mental and emotional needs."That sounds like a vast prescription," Dr. Chaitow says. "
However, even if only some of it can be addressed, such as diet and relaxation, a remarkable phenomenon occurs as homeostasis begins to function more efficiently and health begins to return."
Our bodies are not designed to become ill, they are designed to heal and become healthy.The return to health is a road which each person must walk according to his or her own unique individuality.
It is also a road that needs to address one's entire being, taking into account one's mental, emotional and physical aspects, as well as the structural, biochemical and energetic components that shape each of us.
It is precisely because alternative medicine honors and understands these concepts that it is now positioned to become a valuable and necessary pathway for meeting the medical crisis we, as a planet, are currently facing.
It is also a road that needs to address one's entire being, taking into account one's mental, emotional and physical aspects, as well as the structural, biochemical and energetic components that shape each of us.
It is precisely because alternative medicine honors and understands these concepts that it is now positioned to become a valuable and necessary pathway for meeting the medical crisis we, as a planet, are currently facing.
QUOTES from the History of Health & Medicine
Throughout history we have known that the best medicine, is no "medicine," but rather what we find in nature. Below are quote dating back thousands of years. Why
Throughout history we have known that the best medicine, is no "medicine," but rather what we find in nature. Below are quote dating back thousands of years. Why
haven't most doctors been listening?
"One-quarter of what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-quarters keeps your doctor
alive." (Hieroglyph found in an ancient Egyptian tomb.)
"At the end of times the merchants of the word will deceive the nations of the world through
their Pharmacia." (sorcery) - Rev 18:23
"Doctors give drugs of which they know little, into bodies, of which they know less, for
diseases of which they know nothing at all." Voltaire
"The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it."
Maimonides
"Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational." Hippocrates
"Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food." Hippocrates
"And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for
our diseases." Plato
"When you are sick of sickness, you are no longer sick." Old Chinese Proverb
"The carpenter desires timber, the physician disease." Rig Veda IX. 7.9
"What ails the physician that he dies of the disease. That he would have cured in time gone
by? There died alike he who administered the drug and he who took it, and he who
imported and sold the drug, and he who bought it." (Verses upon the death in Baghdad of
the physician Yuhanna ibn Masawayh in the year 857)
"The work of the doctor will, in the future, be ever more that of an educator, and ever less
that of a man who treats ailments." Lord Horder
"All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage." Philippus Theophrastrus Bombast
that of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541)
"All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the
challenge of science is to find it." Philippus Theophrastrus Bombast that of Aureolus
Paracelsus (1493-1541)
"I find medicine is the best of all trades because whether you do any good or not you still
get your money." (Moliere: "A Physician in Spite of Himself," 1664)
"Never, no never does Nature say one thing and wisdom another." Johann Christolph
Frederick von Schuller
"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine
will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of
men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of the Republic should make a
special privilege for medical freedoms as well as religious freedom." Benjamin Rush, MD.,
a signer of the Declaration of Independence and personal physician to George Washington
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will
cure and prevent disease with nutrition." Thomas Edison
"If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that much better for our
patients and that much worse for the fishes." Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendel
Holmes, MD
"It is not... that some people do not know what to do with truth when it is offered to them,
but the tragic fate is to reach, after patient search, a condition of mind-blindness, in which
the truth is not recognized, though it stares you in the face." Sir William Osler, physician,
1849-1919
"We must admit that we have never fought the homeopath on matters of principle. We
fought them because they came into our community and got the business."
Dr. J.N. McCormack, AMA, 1903
"It's supposed to be a secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help
and encourage the doctor within." Albert Schweitzer, M.D.
"One of the biggest tragedies of human civilization is the precedents of chemical therapy
over nutrition. It's a substitution of artificial therapy over nature, of poisons over food, in
which we are feeding people poisons trying to correct the reactions of starvation."
Dr. Royal Lee, January 12, 1951
"The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task."
Roger Williams Ph.D. (1971)
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away." Your mother...
EVEN MORE QUOTES From Lesser Known Sources
"What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one
is this. Among all my autopsies (and I have performed over 1000), I have never seen a
person who died of old age. In fact, I do not think that anyone has ever died of old age yet.
We invariably die because one vital part has worn out too early in proportion to the rest of
the body." Dr. Hans Selye
"Disease is a lack of health. Health is not a lack of disease." Unknown
"God, in His infinite wisdom, neglected nothing and if we would eat our food without trying
to improve, change or refine it, thereby destroying its life-giving elements, it would meet
all requirements of the body." Jethro Kloss
"You cannot poison your body into health with drugs, chemo or radiation. "Health" can
only be achieved with healthful living." T.C. Fry
"Health requires healthy food." Roger Williams
"Nutrition can be compared with a chain in which all essential items are separate links. We
know what happens if one link of a chain is weak or is missing. The whole chain falls
apart." Patrick Wright, Ph.D.
"What is impossible to see from the viewpoint of those who believe in cures is that the very
symptoms the good doctors have suppressed and turned into chronic disease were the
body's only means of correcting the problem! The so-called "disease" was the only "cure"
possible!" Dr. Philip Chapman - 1981
"It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases."
Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D.
"It seems that some consideration should be given to the cause of our mounting physical
disabilities, but instead of going to the root of our troubles -- wrong habits of eating and
drinking -- we rush to the medicine shelf and smother our uncomfortable and distressing
symptoms under an avalanche of pills, potions and palliatives." Brother Roloff
"The word incurable is modern. I suspect coined by allopaths. The word incurable is not
found in any indigenous language. Translated it means: I do not know how to cure you.
But instead of taking the responsibility to tell you that, or refer you to someone who might
be able to help with your cure, I will instead guilt trip you and blame YOU for being
incurable and ruining my day." D.
"The consideration of man's body has not changed to meet the new conditions of this
artificial environment that has replaced his natural one. The result is that of perceptual
discord between man and his environment. The effect of this discord is a general
deterioration of man's body, the symptoms of which are termed disease." Professor Hilton
Hotema
"Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws." Leonard
Da Vinci
"When you're green inside, you're clean inside." Dr. Bernard Jensen
"If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would
be out of business. Joy is one of Nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A
pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal." Catherine
Ponder
"DO GERMS CAUSE DISEASE? Or could it be the other way around...first the disease, then
the germs. Natural Hygiene contends that germs do not cause disease. They are not the
originators. Most diseases occur when people allow themselves to become enervated, that
is, low in nerve energy. As a consequence, the organs of excretion fail to function
normally and waste material accumulates in the body. When this waste continues to build
up, exceeding the body's toleration point, a crisis arises. The body, to offset this
overabundance of poisonous matter, begins to react. The result of this reaction is
sometimes a cold, the flu, pneumonia, or some such, depending on the individual. At this
crisis point of elimination, germs may or may not be present. They are sure to come later,
not to attack, but to assist in the cleanup or cleansing process." Dr. Alec Burton
"Disease is the warning, and therefore the friend - not the enemy - of mankind." Dr. George
S. Weger
"Actually bacteria are our symbiotic partners in both health and disease. They serve a useful
role. As scavengers, they make harmless or remove undesirable substances within our
bodies. They also elaborate certain of our body needs. That is, they help build complex
organic compounds from simple ingredients. A notable example of this is the production
of vitamin B-12 in our intestines." T. C. Fry
"Infection is no war in which the body is fighting invaders. The bacteria that come to these
sites are symbiotic and help the body in elaborating dead cells and tissues for expulsion -
they are partners in the cleanup process. When this has been accumulated, the bacteria
disappear and the wound heals. Infection...is a body cleaning process for a body burdened
with toxic materials." T. C. Fry
"Germs do not cause disease! Nature never surrounded her children with enemies. It is the
individual himself who makes disease possible in his own body because of poor living
habits... Do mosquitoes make the water stagnant; or does stagnant water attract the
mosquitoes? We should all be taught that germs are friends and scavengers attracted by
disease, rather than enemies causing disease... As their internal environment is, so will be
the attraction for any specific micro-organism... The germ theory and vaccination are kept
going by commercialism." Dr. Robert R. Gross
"The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this
fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we
know, the pulsation of life can go on forever." Dr. Alexis Carrell - Nobel prize winner
"We need to re-direct our perspectives of microbes and see them in a new light. In terms of
bacteria, for example, we need to appreciate them as: Bodily inhabitants who assist us in
such ways as protecting us from other organisms (e.g. fungi), assisting in digestion and
metabolism of food, synthesizing vitamins, and helping to eliminate waste materials."
Dr. Paul Goldberg
"The absorption and organization of sunlight, the essence of life, is derived almost
exclusively through plants. Since light is the driving force of every cell in our bodies, that
is why we need green plants." Dr. Bircher-Benner
"Warmth, moisture, food -- these are the causes that activate latent germs and arouse them
to activity. They exist, all except the food, in the mouth, nose and throat at all times. The
food is thrown out into these, as excretions, in disease. The germs feed on the excretions.
They are scavengers. They were never anything else and will never be anything else. They
break up and consume the discharge from the tissues. This is the function ascribed
to germs everywhere in nature outside the body and is their real and only function in
disease. They are purifying and beneficial agents.
The medical profession has worked itself into hysteria over the germ theory and is using it
to exploit an all too credulous public. Germs are ubiquitous. They are in the air we
breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink. We cannot escape them. We can destroy
them only to a limited extent. It is folly to attempt to escape disease by attempting to
destroy or escape germs. Once they are in the body, the physician has no means of
destroying them that will not, at the same time, destroy the patient. We cannot avoid
germs. We must be proof against them. We have to accept them as one of the joys of life."
Dr. Herbert Shelton
"(Natural) Hygienists object to the germ theory of disease because germs do not cause
disease. They may be present in disease processes, and they may complicate a disease
with their waste products which can be very toxic at times, but the germ or virus alone is
never the sole cause of disease." Dr. Virginia V. Vetrano
"Forgiveness, love and our connection with the Divine is the medicine that is healing the
sickness of our time." J. Artos Roske
"When you see the Golden Arches you are probably on the road to the Pearly Gates."
William Castelli, MD - Director, Framingham Heart Study
"I am appalled at the prospect of using water as a vehicle for drugs. Fluoride is a corrosive
poison that will produce serious effects on a long range basis. Any attempt to use water
this way is deplorable." Dr. Charles Gordon Heyd - Past President of the American Medical
Association
You can't fix stupid. Ron White - Comedian
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