[HealingOils&More] The Illusion of Disease- What's In a Name?

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I love this article. This is part of the reason why I ask what

someone actually experiences, and not just the label of the disease,

when they ask for suggestions here at S-A. A very, very worthwhile

article...

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The Illusion of Disease

 

by Mike Adams

 

There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to label a set

of symptoms as a disease. For example, I recently spotted a poster

touting a new drug for osteoporosis. It was written by a drug

company and it said this: " Osteoporosis is a disease that causes

weak and fragile bones. " The poster went on to say that you need a

particular drug to counteract this " disease. "

 

Yet the language is all backward. Osteoporosis is not a disease that

causes weak bones. Osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis of

weak bones. In other words, the weak bones happened first, and then

the diagnosis followed.

 

Another drug company defines osteoporosis as " the disease that

causes bones to become thinner. " Again, the cause and effect are

reversed. And that's how drug companies want people to think about

diseases and symptoms: First you " get " the disease, then you

are " diagnosed " just in time to take an expensive new drug for the

rest of your life.

 

But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's

just a name for a pattern of symptoms that indicate you've let your

bones get fragile. And to treat it, western doctors will give you

prescriptions for drugs that claim to make your bones less brittle.

 

We should really call it Brittle Bones Disease, and describe the

treatment in plain language - exercise, vitamin D, mineral

supplements with calcium and strontium, natural sunlight, and the

avoidance of substances like soft drinks, white flour, and added

sugars, which strip away bone mass.

 

Diabetes is another condition given a complex name that puts its

solution out of reach of the average patient. Type 2 diabetes isn't

technically a disease. It's just a natural metabolic side effect of

consuming refined carbohydrates and added sugars in large quantities

without engaging in regular physical exercise.

 

The name " diabetes " is meaningless to the average person. It should

be called Excessive Sugar Disease. If it were called Excessive Sugar

Disease, the solution to it would be rather apparent.

 

Cancer is another disease named after its symptom. To this day, most

doctors and patients still believe that cancer is a physical thing:

a tumor. In reality, a tumor is only a side effect of cancer, not

its cause. A tumor is simply a physical manifestation of a cancer

pattern that is expressed by the body.

 

When a person " has cancer, " what they really have is a sluggish or

suppressed immune system. And that would be a far better name for

the disease: Suppressed Immune System Disorder.

 

If cancer were actually called that, it would seem ridiculous to try

to cure it by cutting out tumors and destroying the immune system

with chemotherapy. These are the two most popular treatments for

cancer, and they do nothing to support the patient's immune system

or prevent future occurrences. That's exactly why most people who

undergo chemotherapy or the removal of tumors end up with yet more

cancer down the road.

 

The cure for cancer already exists, and it's found in every human

body. Your body kills cancer cells as a routine daily task, and it

has done it thousands of times in your lifetime.

 

All we have to do is stop poisoning our bodies with cancer-causing

chemicals and start feeding ourselves the materials our bodies need

to beat chronic disease. Instead of searching for new technological

cures, our money and time would be better spent making people aware

of the existing cures and prevention strategies available right now.

 

Here's another example: high cholesterol. Conventional medicine says

that high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the

liver, the organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the treatment is

drugs (statin drugs) that inhibit the liver's production of

cholesterol. Upon taking these drugs, the high cholesterol

(the " disease " ) is regulated.

 

But the fatal flaw in this approach is once again evident: The

symptom is not the cause of the disease. There is another cause, one

that is routinely ignored by conventional medicine, doctors, drug

companies, and even patients. The root cause of high cholesterol is

primarily dietary. A person who eats foods that are high in

saturated fats and hydrogenated oils will inevitably produce more

bad cholesterol. It's simple cause and effect, not some bizarre

behavior by the liver.

 

If the disease were accurately named, it would be called Fatty Food

Choice Disease. That would make more sense to people. And the

obvious solution to the disease would be to choose foods that aren't

so fatty. Of course, that may be a bit of an oversimplification,

since you have to distinguish between healthy fats and unhealthy

fats. But at least the name would give patients a better idea of

what's actually going on.

 

Outside the United States, the names of diseases in other languages

(such as Chinese) more accurately describe their actual causes. In

western medicine, however, the name of the disease obscures the root

cause. That makes all diseases sound far more complex and mysterious

than they really are.

 

That's a shame, because the treatments and cures for virtually all

chronic diseases are actually quite simple and can be described in

plain language. Preventing and reversing these diseases only

requires language that describes things like making different food

choices, getting more natural sunlight, drinking more water,

engaging in regular physical exercise, avoiding specific toxins,

supplementing your diet, and so on.

 

There is a degree of arrogance in the language of western medicine,

and this arrogance propagates the separation between doctors and

their patients. Separation never results in healing. In order to

create healing, we must bring together healers and patients by using

plain language that real people understand and that real people can

act upon.

 

There's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and

they sure don't want to make health sound attainable to the average

person. Making the language of disease complicated keeps it out of

reach of the public.

 

But health is attainable by every single person. It isn't rocket

science. It's not complex. And it doesn't require a prescription.

Health is easy, it is straightforward, and it is direct. And, for

the most part, it is available free of charge if you invoke the

healing power of sunlight, pure water, stress reduction, exercise,

and healthy food choices.

 

(Ed. Note: Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist and author of more

than 1,500 articles on disease prevention, conventional medicine,

and more. He posts new articles daily at http://www.NewsTarget.com.

His downloadable e-books (many are free) are published at

http://www.truthpublishing.com.)