Guest guest Posted April 2, 2008 Report Share Posted April 2, 2008 Interesting article . . . There is no Disease by Robert O. Young http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=109084 Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and misinform patients about disease prevention. There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to name a set of symptoms a disease. I was recently at a compounding pharmacy having my bone mineral density measured to update my health stats. I spotted a poster touting a new drug for osteoporosis. It was written by a drug company and it said exactly this: 'Osteoporosis is a disease that causes weak and fragile bones.' Then, the poster went on to say that you need a particular drug to counteract this 'disease.' Yet the language is all backwards. Osteoporosis isn't a disease that causes weak bones, osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis of weak bones. In other words, the weak bones are the result of excess acidity, and then the diagnosis of osteoporosis followed. The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and then you get weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And that's how drug companies want people to think about diseases and symptoms: first you 'get' the disease, and then you are 'diagnosed' just in time to take a new drug for the rest of your life. But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just a made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicate you are over-acid which causes your bones to get fragile. As another example, when a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that results in a symptom such as high blood pressure, that symptom is actually being assumed to be a disease all by itself and it will be given a disease name. What disease? The disease is, of course, 'high blood pressure.' Doctors throw this phrase around as if it were an actual disease and not merely descriptive of patient physiology. This may all seem silly, right? But there's actually a very important point to all this. When we look at symptoms and give them disease names, we automatically distort the selection of available treatments for such a disease. If the disease is, by itself, high cholesterol, then the cure for the disease must be nothing other than lowering the high cholesterol. And that's how we end up with all these pharmaceuticals treating high cholesterol in order to 'prevent' this disease and lower the levels of LDL cholesterol in the human patient. By lowering only the cholesterol, the doctor can rest assured that he is, in fact, treating this 'disease,' since the definition of this 'disease' is high cholesterol and nothing else. But there is a fatal flaw in this approach to disease treatment: the symptom is not the cause of the disease. There is another cause, and this deeper cause is routinely ignored by conventional medicine, doctors, drug companies, and even patients. Let's take a closer look at high blood pressure. What actually causes high blood pressure? Many doctors would say high blood pressure is caused by a specific, measurable interaction between circulating chemicals in the human body. Thus, the ill-behaved chemical compounds are the cause of the high blood pressure, and therefore the solution is to regulate these chemicals. That's exactly what pharmaceuticals do -- they attempt to manipulate the chemicals in the body to adjust the symptoms of high blood pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms, not the root cause. Or take a look at high cholesterol. The conventional medicine approach says that high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the liver, which is the organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the treatment for high cholesterol is a prescription drug that inhibits the liver's production of cholesterol (statin drugs). Upon taking these drugs, the high cholesterol (the 'disease') is regulated, but what was causing the liver to overproduce cholesterol in the first place? That causative factor remains ignored. The root cause of high cholesterol, as it turns out, is primarily an over acidic diet. A person who eats foods that are acidic will inevitably cause the body to go into preservation mode and produce more cholesterol to neutralize the excess acid thus showing the symptoms of this so-called disease of high cholesterol. Its simple cause and effect. Eat the wrong foods, and you'll produce too much acid which will cause the body to release cholesterol from the liver to bind up that acid which can be detected and diagnosed by conventional medical procedures. You see it is not the cholesterol that is bad it is the acid producing food we eat that is bad. Reduce the acid producing foods like beef, chicken, pork, dairy, coffee, tea, soda pops, etc and you will reduce the protective cholesterol that is saving your life from excess acid foods. Yet the root cause of all this is actually poor food choice, not some bizarre behavior by the liver. If the disease were to be accurately named, then, it would be called Acidic Food Choice Disease, or simply AFCD. AFCD would be a far more accurate name that would make sense to people. If it's an acidic foods choice disease, then it seems that the obvious solution to the disease would be to choose foods that aren't so acidic. Of course that may be a bit of simplification since you have to distinguish between healthy alkaline foods and unhealthy acidic foods. But at least the name AFCD gives patients a better idea of what's actually going on rather than naming the disease after a symptom, such as high cholesterol. You see, the symptom is not the disease, but conventional medicine insists on calling the symptom the disease because that way it can treat the symptom and claim success without actually addressing the underlying cause, which remains a mystery to modern medicine. But let's move on to some other diseases so you get a clearer picture of how this actually works. Another disease that's caused by poor acidic food choice is diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the natural physiological and metabolic result of a person consuming refined carbohydrates and added sugars in large quantities, undigested proteins from beef, chicken, and pork without engaging in regular physical exercise that would compensate for such dietary practices. The name 'diabetes' is meaningless to the average person. The disease should be called Excessive Acid Disease, or EAD. If it were called Excessive Acid Disease, the solution to it would be rather apparent; simply eat less sugar, eliminate all animal proteins, eggs, dairy, drink fewer soft drinks and so on. But of course that would be far too simple for the medical community, so the disease must be given a complex name such as diabetes that puts its solution out of reach of the average patient. Another disease that is named after its symptom is cancer. In fact, to this day, most doctors and many patients still believe that cancer is a physical thing: a tumor. In reality, a tumor is the solution of cancer, not its cause. A tumor is simply a physical manifestation of bound up acidic cells so they do not spoil other healthy cells. The tumor is the solution to cells damaged by acids not the problem. The truth is cancer is not a cell but an acidic liquid. When a person 'has cancer,' what they really have is a latent tissue acidosis. They are absorbing their own acidic urine. It that would be a far better name for the disease: Latent Tissue Acidosis or LTA. If cancer were actually called Latent Tissue Acidosis, it would seem ridiculous to try to cure cancer by cutting out tumors through surgery and by destroying the immune system with chemotherapy. And yet these are precisely the most popular treatments for cancer offered by conventional medicine. These treatments do absolutely nothing to support the patient's immune system and prevent the build up of acids in the tissues. That's exactly why most people who undergo chemotherapy or the removal of tumors through surgical procedures end up with yet more cancer a few months or a few years later. It's also another reason why survival rates of cancer have barely budged over the last twenty years. (In other words, conventional medicine's treatments for cancer simply don't work.) The main reason is current medical science wrongly perceives cancer as a cell when in reality cancer is an acidic liquid, like lactic acid. This whole situation stems from the fact that the disease is misnamed. It isn't cancer, it isn't a tumor and it certainly isn't a disease caused by having too strong of an immune system that needs to be destroyed through chemotherapy. It is simply latent tissue acidosis. And if it were called latent tissue acidosis disease or urine in the tissues, the effective treatment for cancer would be apparent. There are many other diseases that are given misleading names by western medicine. But if you look around the world and take a look at how diseases are named elsewhere, you will find many countries have disease names that actually make sense. For example, in Chinese medicine, Alzheimer's disease is given a name that means, when translated, 'feeble mind disease.' In Chinese medicine, the name of the disease more accurately describes the actual cause of the disease which is caused by acids or urine on the brain, whereas in western medicine, the name of the disease seems to be intended to obscure the root cause of the disease, thereby making all diseases sound far more complex and mysterious than they really are. This is one way in which doctors and practitioners of western medicine keep medical treatments out of the reach of the average citizen. Because, by God, they sure don't want people thinking for themselves about the causes of disease! By creating a whole new vocabulary for medical conditions, they can speak their own secret language and make sure that people who aren't schooled in medicine don't understand what they're saying. 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, such as making different alkaline food choices, getting more natural sunlight, drinking more alkaline water, engaging in regular physical exercise, avoiding specific acidic foods, supplementing your diet with green foods and green drinks and alkalizing nutritional supplements and so on. See, western medicine prefers to describe diseases in terms of chemistry. When you're depressed, you aren't suffering from a lack of natural sunlight; you are suffering from a 'brain chemistry imbalance' that can only be regulated, they claim, by ingesting toxic chemicals to alter your brain chemistry. When your bones are brittle, it's not acidic brittle bones disease; it's called osteoporosis, something that sounds very technical and complicated. And to treat it, western doctors and physicians will give you prescriptions for expensive drugs that somehow claim to make your bones less brittle. But in fact, the real treatment for this can be described in plain language once again: regular physical exercise, vitamin D supplementation, mineral supplements that include calcium and strontium, natural sunlight, and avoidance of acidic foods such as soft drinks, white flour and added sugars. In fact, virtually every disease that's prominent in modern society -- diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, clinical depression, irritable bowel syndrome and so on -- can be easily described in plain language without using complex terms at all. These diseases are simply misnamed. And I believe that they are intentionally misnamed to put the jargon out of reach of everyday citizens. As a result, there's a great deal of arrogance in the language of western medicine, and this arrogance furthers the language of separation. Separation never results in healing. In order to effect healing, we must bring together the language of healers and patients using plain language that real people understand and that real people can act upon. We need to start describing diseases in terms of their root causes, not in terms of their arcane, biochemical actions. When someone suffers from seasonal affective disorder or clinical depression, for example, let's call it what it is: Sunlight Deficiency Disorder. To treat it, the person simply needs to get more sunlight. This isn't rocket science, it's not complex, and it doesn't require a prescription. If someone is suffering from osteoporosis, let's get realistic about the words we use to describe the condition: it's really Acidic Bones Disease. And it should be treated with things that will enhance bone density, such as nutrition, physical exercise and avoidance of acidic foods and drinks that strip away bone mass from the human body to neutralize the excess acids in the blood and tissues. All of this information, of course, is rather shocking to old-school doctors and practitioners of western medicine, and the bigger their egos are, the more they hate the idea of naming diseases in plain language that patients can actually comprehend. That's because if the simple truths about diseases and their causes were known, health would be more readily available to everyday people, and that would lessen the importance of physicians and medical researchers. There's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and they sure don't want to make sound health attainable to the average person without their expert advice. Doctors all want to serve as the translators of 'truth' and will balk at any attempts to educate the public to either practice medicine on their own. But in reality, health (and a connection with spirit) is attainable by every single person. Health is easy, it is straightforward, it is direct and, for the most part, it is available free of charge. A personal connection with our Creator is the same if we ask humbly in prayer for a relationship with Him, and guidance. Don't believe the names of diseases given to you by your doctor. Those names are designed to obscure, not to inform. They are designed to separate you from self-healing, not to put you in touch with your own inner healer. And thus, they are nothing more than bad medicine masquerading as modern medical practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 3, 2008 Report Share Posted April 3, 2008 Yes indeed Robert, there is no Disease, i egry with the writer and with you. thanks for the article regards Mary - robert-blau SymphonicHealth ; oleander soup ; cancercure ; cancercure2 ; cancercured ; cancer_alternatives ; cancervictory ; never_do_harm_to_anyone Cc: drpasdndc ; c21shrlne ; purrlady ; asoftbouquet ; aviator72 ; dstone ; devaju2 ; dgrodjesk ; alain108 Thursday, April 03, 2008 1:10 AM There is no Disease by Robert O. Young Interesting article . . .There is no Diseaseby Robert O. Younghttp://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=109084Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading andmisinform patients about disease prevention. There is a curious tendencyin conventional medicine to name a set ofsymptoms a disease. I was recently at a compounding pharmacy having mybonemineral density measured to update my health stats. I spotted a postertouting a new drug for osteoporosis. It was written by a drug companyand it said exactlythis: 'Osteoporosis is a disease that causes weak and fragile bones.'Then, theposter went on to say that you need a particular drug to counteract this'disease.'Yet the language is all backwards. Osteoporosis isn't a disease thatcausesweak bones, osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis of weak bones.Inother words, the weak bones are the result of excess acidity, and thenthediagnosis of osteoporosis followed.The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and thenyouget weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And that's howdrugcompanies want people to think about diseases and symptoms: first you'get' thedisease, and then you are 'diagnosed' just in time to take a new drugfor therest of your life.But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It'sjust amade-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicate you areover-acidwhich causes your bones to get fragile.As another example, when a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle thatresultsin a symptom such as high blood pressure, that symptom is actually beingassumed to be a disease all by itself and it will be given a diseasename. Whatdisease? The disease is, of course, 'high blood pressure.' Doctors throwthisphrase around as if it were an actual disease and not merely descriptiveofpatient physiology.This may all seem silly, right? But there's actually a very importantpointto all this.When we look at symptoms and give them disease names, we automaticallydistort the selection of available treatments for such a disease. If thedisease is, by itself, high cholesterol, then the cure for the diseasemust be nothingother than lowering the high cholesterol. And that's how we end up withallthese pharmaceuticals treating high cholesterol in order to 'prevent'thisdisease and lower the levels of LDL cholesterol in the human patient. Bylowering only the cholesterol, the doctor can rest assured that he is,in fact, treating this 'disease,' since the definition of this 'disease'is high cholesterol andnothing else.But there is a fatal flaw in this approach to disease treatment: thesymptom is not the cause of the disease. There is another cause, andthis deeper causeis routinely ignored by conventional medicine, doctors, drug companies,andeven patients.Let's take a closer look at high blood pressure. What actually causeshighblood pressure? Many doctors would say high blood pressure is caused byaspecific, measurable interaction between circulating chemicals in thehumanbody.Thus, the ill-behaved chemical compounds are the cause of the high bloodpressure, and therefore the solution is to regulate these chemicals.That'sexactly what pharmaceuticals do -- they attempt to manipulate thechemicals in the body to adjust the symptoms of high blood pressure.Thus, they only treat thesymptoms, not the root cause.Or take a look at high cholesterol. The conventional medicine approachsaysthat high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the liver,which isthe organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the treatment for highcholesterolis a prescription drug that inhibits the liver's production ofcholesterol(statin drugs). Upon taking these drugs, the high cholesterol (the'disease') isregulated, but what was causing the liver to overproduce cholesterol inthefirst place? That causative factor remains ignored.The root cause of high cholesterol, as it turns out, is primarily anoveracidic diet. A person who eats foods that are acidic will inevitablycause thebody to go into preservation mode and produce more cholesterol toneutralize theexcess acid thus showing the symptoms of this so-called disease of highcholesterol. Its simple cause and effect. Eat the wrong foods, andyou'llproduce too much acid which will cause the body to release cholesterolfrom the liver to bind up that acid which can be detected and diagnosedby conventionalmedical procedures.You see it is not the cholesterol that is bad it is the acid producingfoodwe eat that is bad. Reduce the acid producing foods like beef, chicken,pork,dairy, coffee, tea, soda pops, etc and you will reduce the protectivecholesterol that is saving your life from excess acid foods.Yet the root cause of all this is actually poor food choice, not somebizarrebehavior by the liver. If the disease were to be accurately named, then,itwould be called Acidic Food Choice Disease, or simply AFCD.AFCD would be a far more accurate name that would make sense to people.Ifit's an acidic foods choice disease, then it seems that the obvioussolution tothe disease would be to choose foods that aren't so acidic. Of coursethat maybe a bit of simplification since you have to distinguish between healthyalkaline foods and unhealthy acidic foods. But at least the name AFCDgives patients a better idea of what's actually going on rather thannaming the diseaseafter a symptom, such as high cholesterol. You see, the symptom is not thedisease, but conventional medicine insists on calling the symptom thediseasebecause that way it can treat the symptom and claim success withoutactuallyaddressing the underlying cause, which remains a mystery to modernmedicine.But let's move on to some other diseases so you get a clearer picture ofhowthis actually works. Another disease that's caused by poor acidic foodchoiceis diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the natural physiological and metabolicresultof a person consuming refined carbohydrates and added sugars in largequantities, undigested proteins from beef, chicken, and pork withoutengaging inregular physical exercise that would compensate for such dietarypractices.The name 'diabetes' is meaningless to the average person. The diseaseshouldbe called Excessive Acid Disease, or EAD. If it were called ExcessiveAcidDisease, the solution to it would be rather apparent; simply eat lesssugar,eliminate all animal proteins, eggs, dairy, drink fewer soft drinks andso on. Butof course that would be far too simple for the medical community, so thedisease must be given a complex name such as diabetes that puts itssolution outof reach of the average patient.Another disease that is named after its symptom is cancer. In fact, tothisday, most doctors and many patients still believe that cancer is aphysicalthing: a tumor. In reality, a tumor is the solution of cancer, not itscause. Atumor is simply a physical manifestation of bound up acidic cells sothey donot spoil other healthy cells. The tumor is the solution to cellsdamaged byacids not the problem. The truth is cancer is not a cell but an acidicliquid.When a person 'has cancer,' what they really have is a latent tissueacidosis.They are absorbing their own acidic urine. It that would be a far betternamefor the disease: Latent Tissue Acidosis or LTA.If cancer were actually called Latent Tissue Acidosis, it would seemridiculous to try to cure cancer by cutting out tumors through surgeryand bydestroying the immune system with chemotherapy. And yet these areprecisely the most popular treatments for cancer offered by conventionalmedicine. These treatments do absolutely nothing to support thepatient's immune system andprevent the build up of acids in the tissues. That's exactly why mostpeople who undergo chemotherapy or the removal of tumors throughsurgical procedures end up with yet more cancer a few months or a fewyears later. It's also another reason why survival rates of cancer havebarely budged over the last twenty years. (In other words, conventionalmedicine's treatments for cancer simply don't work.)The main reason is current medical science wrongly perceives cancer as acell when in reality cancer is an acidic liquid, like lactic acid. Thiswholesituation stems from the fact that the disease is misnamed. It isn'tcancer, itisn't a tumor and it certainly isn't a disease caused by having toostrong of animmune system that needs to be destroyed through chemotherapy. It issimply latent tissue acidosis. And if it were called latent tissueacidosis disease or urine in the tissues, the effective treatment forcancer would be apparent.There are many other diseases that are given misleading names by westernmedicine. But if you look around the world and take a look at howdiseases arenamed elsewhere, you will find many countries have disease names thatactually make sense.For example, in Chinese medicine, Alzheimer's disease is given a namethatmeans, when translated, 'feeble mind disease.' In Chinese medicine, thename of the disease more accurately describes the actual cause of thedisease which iscaused by acids or urine on the brain, whereas in western medicine, thenameof the disease seems to be intended to obscure the root cause of thedisease,thereby making all diseases sound far more complex and mysterious thantheyreally are.This is one way in which doctors and practitioners of western medicinekeepmedical treatments out of the reach of the average citizen. Because, byGod,they sure don't want people thinking for themselves about the causes ofdisease!By creating a whole new vocabulary for medical conditions, they canspeaktheir own secret language and make sure that people who aren't schooledinmedicine don't understand what they're saying.That's a shame, because the treatments and cures for virtually allchronicdiseases are actually quite simple and can be described in plainlanguage, suchas making different alkaline food choices, getting more naturalsunlight,drinking more alkaline water, engaging in regular physical exercise,avoidingspecific acidic foods, supplementing your diet with green foods andgreen drinksand alkalizing nutritional supplements and so on.See, western medicine prefers to describe diseases in terms ofchemistry.When you're depressed, you aren't suffering from a lack of naturalsunlight; you are suffering from a 'brain chemistry imbalance' that canonly be regulated,they claim, by ingesting toxic chemicals to alter your brain chemistry.Whenyour bones are brittle, it's not acidic brittle bones disease; it'scalled osteoporosis, something that sounds very technical andcomplicated. And to treat it, western doctors and physicians will giveyou prescriptions for expensive drugs that somehow claim to make yourbones less brittle. But in fact, the real treatment for this can bedescribed in plain language once again: regular physical exercise,vitamin D supplementation, mineral supplements that includecalcium and strontium, natural sunlight, and avoidance of acidic foodssuch assoft drinks, white flour and added sugars.In fact, virtually every disease that's prominent in modern society --diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, clinical depression,irritablebowel syndrome and so on -- can be easily described in plain languagewithout using complex terms at all. These diseases are simply misnamed.And I believe that they are intentionally misnamed to put the jargon outof reach of everyday citizens. As a result, there's a great deal ofarrogance in the language ofwestern medicine, and this arrogance furthers the language ofseparation.Separation never results in healing. In order to effect healing, we mustbring together the language of healers and patients using plain languagethat real people understand and that real people can act upon.We need to start describing diseases in terms of their root causes, notinterms of their arcane, biochemical actions. When someone suffers fromseasonal affective disorder or clinical depression, for example, let'scall it what it is: Sunlight Deficiency Disorder. To treat it, theperson simply needs to getmore sunlight. This isn't rocket science, it's not complex, and itdoesn'trequire a prescription.If someone is suffering from osteoporosis, let's get realistic about thewords we use to describe the condition: it's really Acidic BonesDisease. And itshould be treated with things that will enhance bone density, such asnutrition, physical exercise and avoidance of acidic foods and drinksthat stripaway bone mass from the human body to neutralize the excess acids in theblood and tissues.All of this information, of course, is rather shocking to old-schooldoctorsand practitioners of western medicine, and the bigger their egos are,the morethey hate the idea of naming diseases in plain language that patientscanactually comprehend. That's because if the simple truths about diseasesandtheir causes were known, health would be more readily available toeveryday people,and that would lessen the importance of physicians and medicalresearchers.There's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and theysuredon't want to make sound health attainable to the average person withouttheir expert advice. Doctors all want to serve as the translators of'truth' andwill balk at any attempts to educate the public to either practicemedicine ontheir own. But in reality, health (and a connection with spirit) isattainableby every single person. Health is easy, it is straightforward, it isdirectand, for the most part, it is available free of charge.A personal connection with our Creator is the same if we ask humbly inprayerfor a relationship with Him, and guidance. Don't believe the names ofdiseases given to you by your doctor. Those names are designed toobscure, not to inform. They are designed to separate you fromself-healing, not to put you in touch with your own inner healer. Andthus, they are nothing more than bad medicine masquerading as modernmedical practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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