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(Andrew Saul is Contributing Editor for the Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine. DoctorYourself.com is his

personal website, which receives over 1.5 million

visitors annually.)

 

" 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. " Oliver Wendell Holmes,

M.D.

 

I have seen the foolishness of conventional disease

care wisdom. I have seen hospitals feed white bread

to patients with bowel cancer and hospitals feed

" Jello " to leukemia patients. I have seen schools

feed bright red " Slush Puppies " to 7 year olds for

lunch and I have seen children vomit up a desk-top

full of red crud afterwards. And, I have seen those

same children later line up at the school nurse for

hyperactivity drugs.

 

I have seen hospital patients allowed to go two weeks

without a bowel movement. I have seen patients told

that they have six months to live when they might live

sixty months. I have seen people recover from serious

illness, only to have their physician berate them for

having used natural healing methods to do so. I have

seen infants spit up formula while their mothers were

advised not to breast feed. I've seen better

ingredients in dog food than in the average school or

hospital lunch.

 

And I have seen enough.

 

Don't bother looking in the history books for what has

slaughtered the most Americans. Look instead at your

dinner table. There's an old saying: " One fourth of

what you eat keeps you alive. The other three-fourths

keep your doctor alive. " We eat too much of the wrong

things and not enough of the right things. Scientific

research continually indicates nationwide vitamin and

mineral deficiencies in our country. We spend over

one million million dollars (one trillion) each year

on disease care in America. Is it any surprise that

doctors consistently place among the very highest

incomes?

 

" And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and

driven doctors to invent names for our diseases. "

Plato

 

Nearly two-thirds of a million men died in the Civil

War. All other U.S. wars put together add about

another two-thirds of a million soldiers killed. That

means that about 1,300,000 Americans have died,

totally, in all the wars in U.S. history. That is a

lot of deaths.

 

Today, right now, we lose more than that number of

Americans each year because of cancer and heart

disease.

 

So always remember that disease is the real enemy.

 

About 10 million soldiers were killed in World War I,

charging machine guns and getting mowed down month

after month. There were nearly a million casualties

at the Somme and another million at Verdun. A

terrible slaughter went on for four years. Yet, in

just the two years following the war, over 20 million

people died from influenza. That is more than twice

as many deaths from the flu in one-half the time it

took the machine guns.

 

During the American Civil War, three times as many

soldiers died from disease as from battle. Today,

alcohol and tobacco kill nearly as many Americans in

one year as the entire Civil War did in four.

 

Results are all that matter to me. Alternative

medicine works. The natural treatment of illness can

be accomplished safely, inexpensively, and

effectively. We've all been taught that anything that

is safe and inexpensive cannot possibly be really

effective against " real diseases. " It is time to

rethink that, and especially to see for yourself what

works.

 

My work is not prescription, but rather description.

I'd like for us to be free to utilize any reasonable

health care approach. To decide, we need education

far more than medication.

 

Each treatment regimen included here is not mine. I

do not stay up late at night making all this up.

These ideas are not original. They are generally not

new, either. I have collected the safest and most

effective healing approaches that I can find from

physicians worldwide. I hope you find them to be as

helpful as they have been for my family.

 

Natural healing is not about avoiding doctors. It is

about not needing to go to doctors. A dentist is not

upset if you are cavity-free. A doctor should not be

upset if you are healthy.

 

The idea is to be well. The first step is wanting to

be. The old Chinese saying is " When you are sick of

sickness, you are no longer sick. "

 

The second step is to do something to improve your

health. Each of us is ultimately responsible for our

own wellness. I think we should leave no stone

unturned in our search for better health. I also

believe that you get out of your body what you put

into it. Your body will respond to your efforts to

improve your health.

 

The time to start is right now. Another old saying:

" If not now, when? If not here, where? If not you,

then who? "

 

" 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.

 

 

WARNING:

This website contains controversial scientific ideas

that may be of an offensive nature

to some well-educated persons.

 

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