Andrew Saul's Website

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Dear Group,

 

I have been posting or actually reposting articles

from Andrew Saul's website lately. Many of them were

posted initially when this group was started 3 years

ago and a lot of them have been reposted many times

since.

 

I did so for the many newcomers who come here and I am

constantly amazed that people who are of long standing

and who consider themselves well versed in

" alternative health " still do not understand the power

of nutrients and the concept of natural healing. Also

a lot think that nutrients are " good for health " as

for prevention in some small rather insignificant but

nonunderstood way but If a person is sick they need

bigger guns to attack the illness.

 

This is carry over thinking from the allopathic

approach. Attack the symptom with one mediciation

whether it be an alternative one or an allopathic one,

but vitamins are basically for everyday prevention.

 

This is not the orthomolecular, natural nor wholistic

approach. Many bandy those words around to describe

their activities or thinking regarding health care

because they sound good and they probably don't know

better or they may even think that they are doing so,

but many times this is not the case.

 

They never fully got the ecological idea of real

natural health care.

 

Symptoms can be very important to help diagnose and

treat but in most cases they are not the actual

disease. Most of us have been taught to think that

they are by the proliferation of the allopathic model

in our societies. In reality, the same symptoms can be

created by different causes.

 

Think more in terms of the interconnectedness of life

and the cleaning up and keeping in balance an earthly

natural environment like a lake, an evergades, a forest, with all of their

interconnected environment of plants and animals and

then transfer that image to the body with all of it's

parts, cells, foods, enzymes, nutrients, etc. working

together to keep healthy the whole.

 

That whole can be made unhealthy by imbalance,

invasion by organism, malnourishment of any certain

nutrients, poisioning by toxic substances, etc. To

correct that you must first try to reverse any of

those things that are a problem. It is usually not

corrected by attacking a symptom with another chemical

although that may make one symptom of the " disease "

become undetectable.

 

In many cases by attacking that symptom, you are

really just attacking what the body is doing in trying

to balance and protect itself anyway.

 

In simple examples, that is exactly what happens when

we take something to bring down a fever, lower our

cholestoral, stop vomiting, stop diahrea, etc. We attack

those symptoms as if they were diseases, when in

actuality it is just the bodies way to try and right itself

and heal, and when we do these things we are actually impeding

our bodies ability to regain health.

 

Project and multiply that same approach to all of the functions and

processes going on in the body by the thousands and

you will get to see why the body needs to be helped

and not attacked in most cases. It also shows why the

body must be helped in it's whole or entirety.

 

You must learn to think in terms of symptoms related

to the whole and not confuse them by using an

allopathic model and think of them as diseases.

 

Anyway, Andrew Saul's websites is one of the best

around to learn from, so I have been trying to give us

all a refresher course so to speak.

 

Frank

 

 

 

Doctoryourself.com

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/

 

If you want something done right, you have to do it

yourself. This especially includes your health care.

 

" I remain amazed at the comprehensive coverage you

have on your web site. I have not seen any better. "

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.

 

(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.

 

 

The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine published my

review of Dr. Evan Shute's

THE VITAMIN E STORY

in Volume 17, Number 3, Third Quarter, 2002 (p

179-181).

Click here to read it online.

 

The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine also published

my review of Howard Straus'

DR. MAX GERSON: HEALING THE HOPELESS

in Volume 17, Number 2, Second Quarter, 2002 (p

122-124).

Click here to read it online.

 

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients published my

article

B-INFORMED ABOUT B-VITAMINS

in the February-March, 2000 issue (p107-108) Click

here to read it online.

 

BETTER INFORMED CONSENT FOR VACCINATIONS

was published in the Townsend Letter's

April 2001 issue (p 109) Click here to read it online.

 

The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine published my

article

WILLIAM KAUFMAN, B-3 AND ARTHRITIS

in Vol 16, Number 3, Third Quarter, 2001 (p 189).

Click here to read it online.

 

The Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine also published

my tribute to

Lendon H. Smith, M.D., " The Children's Doctor "

in Vol 16, Number 4, Fourth Quarter, 2001 (p 248-250).

 

Click here to read it online.

 

 

Reviews of DOCTOR YOURSELF.COM:

 

" The DoctorYourself.com website has an enormous amount

of very important information dealing with the use of

nutrition in the treatment of mental and physical

disease. Thank you, Dr. Saul, for making this

information more available and thus promoting the

development of the medicine of the 21st century,

Orthomolecular Medicine. "

(Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD)

 

 

" Andrew Saul believes that education beats medication,

and educate he does. "

(Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients)

 

 

“Your work in the health care field is magnificent and

courageous. I offer you my heartiest appreciation.”

(Philip Rudnick, PhD, Professor Emeritus, Chemistry)

 

 

" If you would enjoy access to a huge library of

health-related articles with an orthomolecular

approach, on a website made by a man with an

outrageous sense of humor, try DoctorYourself.com. "

(Soil and Health Library, Tasmania, Australia)

 

 

" Practical tips from an excellent advocate of

nutritional therapy. Visit DoctorYourself.com for

access to a vast amount of information on vitamins and

other self-healing resources. The site has abundant

evidence, especially, of the high value and healing

power of vitamin C and helpful hints about how to get

what you need. "

(The Surgery Coach: Mind-Body Preparation for Faster,

Better Recovery)

 

 

" We are very pleased to learn of the Doctor Yourself

website, Newsletter, and the consumer information they

provide. Dr. Andrew Saul provides holistic information

on a variety of health topics and conditions. You'll

find everything from healthy eating to exercising. "

(Peoples' Medical Society)

 

 

" We very much appreciate what you are doing at your

website, and especially like your autobiography. "

(Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D., D.M.D.)

 

 

" Dr. Andrew Saul has a web site that is must-reading

for anyone seriously interested in health and doubtful

about the efficacy of conventional medicine. If you

are as impressed as I am with the wealth of health

information presented, you can to Dr. Saul's

free newsletter. "

(John Moelaert, author of The Cancer Conspiracy)

 

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)