ARE MOST DISEASES CAUSED BY THE MEDICAL SYSTEM?

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ARE MOST DISEASES CAUSED BY THE MEDICAL SYSTEM?

By Walter Last

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I do not want to pretend that this is an impartial investigation. Instead I

am now fully convinced that most diseases are indeed caused by the medical

system, and in the following I want to state my reasons for this conclusion.

Increasingly over the years my health beliefs have been turned around. I

started out by working as a biochemist and toxicologist in university medical

departments fully believing that all these chronic and incurable diseases are

indeed incurable and generally of unknown origin, but that pharmaceutical

drugs made life easier for patients and often were even curative. My

re-education

started after immigrating to New Zealand and learning about natural healing

and living; this made me realize that disease is mainly caused by unnatural

living conditions and can be overcome by natural methods of living and

healing.

While I learned about the harmful nature of drug treatment, I was still

thinking of it as being ineffective and causing side-effects rather than as a

main cause of our diseases. Diseases caused by medical treatment are called

iatrogenic diseases. The total number of iatrogenic deaths in the USA for 2001

is

estimated to be 783,936. These were due to fatal drug reactions, medical

error and unnecessary medical and surgical procedures. With this, the medical

system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. In

comparison the 2001 heart disease death rate was 699,697 and the annual cancer

death rate 553,251 (1).

This is also the reason why it is so beneficial for patients when doctors go

on strike. Statistics show that whenever there was a strike by doctors, the

death rate in the affected population fell dramatically. In 1976 the death

rate fell by 35 per cent in Bogotá, Colombia. In Los Angeles County,

California,

it fell by 18 per cent during a strike in the same year, while in Israel it

fell by 50 per cent during a strike in 1973. Only once before was there a

similar drop in the death rate in Israel and that was during another doctors'

strike 20 years earlier. After each strike the death rate jumped again to its

normal level (2).

However these figures of iatrogenic deaths do not take into account

iatrogenic diseases from the long-term harm done by medical treatments where

patients

survive but with a chronic disease. My real awakening to this problem

started when I became aware of the story of Orion Truss who discovered the

Candidiasis-causing potential of antibiotics.

Dr Orian Truss

In 1953 Dr Orian Truss discovered the devastating effects of antibiotics in

an Alabama (USA) hospital (3). During a ward round Truss was intrigued by a

gaunt, apparently elderly man who was obviously dying. However, he was only in

his forties and in hospital for four months. No specialist had been able to

make a diagnosis. Out of curiosity Truss asked the patient when be was last

completely well.

The man answered that he was well until six months before when he had cut

his finger. He had received antibiotics for this. Shortly afterwards he

developed diarrhoea and his health deteriorated. Truss had seen before how

antibiotics cause diarrhoea. It was known that Candida was opportunistic and

thrived

in debilitated patients, but now Truss wondered if it might not be the other

way round, that Candida actually caused the debilitated condition.

He had read that potassium iodide solution could be used to treat Candida

infestation of the blood. So he put the patient on six to eight drops of

Lugol's solution four times a day for 3 weeks and soon the patient was again

completely well.

Soon afterwards he had a female patient with a stuffy nose, a throbbing

headache, vaginitis and severe depression. To his amazement all her problems

immediately cleared with Candida treatment. Some time later he saw a female

patient who had been schizophrenic for six years with hundreds of electroshock

treatments and massive drug dosages. He started treating the woman for sinus

allergies with a Candida remedy. Soon she had recovered mentally and

physically,

and remained well.

From then on he treated his patients against Candida at the slightest

indication of its presence. Many of his patients made remarkable recoveries

from

most unusual conditions, including menstrual problems, hyperactivity, learning

disabilities, autism, schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis and auto-immune

diseases such as Crohn's disease and lupus erythematosus.

Every experienced naturopath can relate similar success stories. Also some

alternative medical practitioners have realized the curative potential of

anti-Candida therapy, as for instance Dr William Crook who wrote several books

about the successful treatment of allergies and hyperactive children (4).

The Antibiotic Syndrome

Candidiasis is not the only side-effect of antibiotic treatment, and

antibiotics are not the only drugs that cause such problems. Drugs used in

chemotherapy, anti-inflammatory steroidal drugs and other long-term drug

therapies

tend to kill or suppress the natural intestinal bacteria, and yeast, parasites

and harmful bacteria start taking over. This is then called dysbiosis. Most

patients receive such drugs in hospitals and can be expected to develop

systemic Candida overgrowth as a result.

Our natural intestinal flora, mainly based on lactobacteria, not only helps

to digest and absorb food, it also protects us against ingested harmful

bacteria that otherwise may cause food poisoning. With a healthy intestinal

flora

millions of salmonella bacteria may be needed to cause an infection but with

dysbiosis only tens of salmonella would be required.

With chronic dysbiosis the intestinal wall becomes inflamed, causing ulcers,

appendicitis, malabsorption and Crohn’s disease, and as the intestinal

membrane erodes we develop multiple food allergies, arthritis and autoimmune

diseases. In addition to Candida also other pathogens and parasites now invade

the

bloodstream and various organs. With live cell analysis natural therapists

can see and show their patients the fungi in their blood. This invasion

greatly weakens the immune system so that people now become susceptible to

frequent

or chronic infections. Commonly this is then treated with more antibiotics,

which continues to intensify the symptoms.

Actually, the problem is not with the antibiotics. You can take a course if

you feel it is needed, provided that you take a fungicide, such as fresh

garlic, at the same time, and have some probiotics after the antibiotic and

before you ingest any carbohydrates. This will prevent most diseases that are

caused by the careless medical method of using antibiotics. For more details

see

_Candida and the Antibiotic Syndrome_

(http://www.health-science-spirit.com/candida.html) .

Autoimmune Diseases and Asthma

Autoimmune diseases, including psoriasis, lupus erythematosus and

pancreatitis, have been linked to dysbiosis. When remedies are given that bind

bacterial endotoxins, these conditions usually improve. In addition autoimmune

diseases have been shown to be linked to mycoplasmas or nanobacteria which

start to

develop from diseased red blood cells in the presence of toxic chemicals and

systemic Candida. The weaker our immune system becomes, the more these

mycoplasms start to develop into bacterial and finally fungal forms. They have

been found in all autoimmune diseases, cancers and AIDS (5).

Antibiotics are also a major contributing cause of asthma. Children who

received broad-spectrum antibiotics were about 9 times more likely to suffer

from

asthma (6). A recent research paper confirmed dysbiosis as a main cause of

asthma (7)

In the 1980’s New Zealand had the highest rate of asthma deaths in the

world. This was drastically reduced when in 1991 the inhaler drug Fenoterol was

banned as it caused a 13 times higher risk of dying (8). This reduction in the

asthma death rate was generally hailed as a great triumph for medical

science. Other studies revealed that asthmatics using more than one

bronchodilator

inhaler a month had a fifty-fold increased risk of suffering a fatal asthma

attack.

In addition to asthma, I also see the combination of pasteurized cow’s milk

with antibiotic-induced dysbiosis in babies and infants as the main cause of

their frequent infections, glue ear and greatly contributing to cot or crib

death. Because health authorities insist on pasteurizing milk, and doctors

prescribe antibiotics without the most basic precautions, I regard asthma and

most childhood infections as predominantly iatrogenic diseases.

In the ‘good old days’ people ingested a lot of lactic acid fermented foods

and raw milk products that replenished our ‘good’ bacteria, and because

antibiotics had not been invented, dysbiosis and therefore chronic diseases

were

rare. Instead people mainly died from acute infections due to unhygienic

living conditions, and in the slums also from malnutrition.

Staphylococcus aureus or golden staph causes serious infections in hospital

patients. It has been found that not only golden staph but also other

infections are greatly potentized when they occur combined with Candida

overgrowth.

As Candida overgrowth is a natural outcome of the standard hospital

treatment, it is easy to see why golden staph is so deadly in hospitals.

A similar picture emerges with AIDS. People do not die from the AIDS virus

but from Candida or fungal-potentized bacterial and mycoplasma infections. The

end stage of AIDS is the same as the end stage of cancer. It is called

cachexia, a wasting condition mainly caused by fungal overgrowth. Lugol’s

iodine

solution and other systemic fungicides should do wonders for it. Presently also

MMS, a 28% solution of sodium chlorite, is gaining acceptance as an

effective antimicrobial remedy (see _http://miraclemineral.org_

(http://miraclemineral.org/) ).

All of this shows that antibiotic-induced dysbiosis and Candida are not

isolated and relatively harmless problems as the medical profession prefers to

believe, but rather the underlying cause of most of our modern diseases.

Cancer and Leukemia

One hundred years ago the rate of cancer was very low. I have no doubt that

the phenomenal increase in the use of agricultural and industrial chemicals

as well as pharmaceutical drugs has greatly accelerated the increase in the

rate of cancer, and there is also a link to the consumption of sugar. Even

stronger is the link to dysbiosis and Candida.

Chemotherapy commonly leads to systemic Candida infections, which greatly

limit the success rate of the treatment. Long-term follow-up studies show that

children develop 18 times more secondary malignant tumors later in life,

girls face a 75 times higher risk of breast cancer by the time they are 40 (9),

while the risk of developing leukemia after chemotherapy for ovarian cancer

increased 21-fold. Also other tumors commonly develop after treating

malignancies with chemotherapy (10). A main problem appears to be the

development of

deep or systemic Candida infections shortly after starting chemotherapy (11).

Only recently have oncologists started to acknowledge what patients called “

chemo-brainâ€, a distressing loss of memory and other cognitive functions.

Psychiatrists have now found that the conventional treatment of cancer causes

serious depression in 15 to 25 percent of patients. " The depression itself can

often be worse than the disease " they say (12). Brain fog and depression are

common with systemic Candida.

All of this shows that chemotherapy tends to cause leukemia and cancer many

years later mainly as a result of dysbiosis and systemic Candida. The reason

for the widespread use of chemotherapy despite its lack of effectiveness,

severe side effects, and long-term cancer promotion can be seen in the fact

that

private-practice oncologists (in the US) typically derive two-thirds of

their income from selling chemotherapy to patients (13).

This chemotherapy connection makes it very likely that dysbiosis and

systemic Candida can also cause cancer and leukemia when they are caused as a

result

of antibiotic treatment. The rate of cancer really accelerated only after

the use of antibiotics became widespread.

There is also more direct evidence that Candida and other fungi are a cause

of leukemia. Meinolf Karthaus, MD, reported several children with leukemia

going into remission upon receiving antifungal remedies for their

‘secondary’

fungal infections (14). In his lifetime work Milton White, MD, was able to

find fungal spores in every sample of cancer tissue he studied (15).

Fungal infections have been diagnosed and treated as leukemia, and leukemia

has disappeared on grain-free diets, presumably because of the high content

of mycotoxins in grains (16).

The Italian oncologist Dr. Tullio Simincini claims a success rate of up to

90% by treating cancer as a fungus. He infuses tumors with sodium bicarbonate

solution and recommends taking bicarbonate in water to get rid of

gastro-intestinal tumors (17).

Recently I received a personal communication that a large stomach tumor had

unexpectantly shrunk after swallowing some mouthwash for a few weeks for a

different problem. The main ingredient of this mouthwash was benzoic acid, a

strong fungicide that inhibits the metabolism of fungal cells. Cancer cells

have the same fungal-type metabolism which thrives on high levels of glucose

and

insulin, and they may therefore be regarded as a kind of fungal cells.

While the work of the German Dr Ryke Geerd Hamer (18) shows that emotional

shock is a major trigger for the development of cancer, a weak immune system

as caused by intestinal dysbiosis, systemic Candidiasis, toxic chemicals, and

root canal treatments appears to be an essential co-factor. After all, a

century ago people must have had a similar number of emotional shocks as at

present, but cancer was very rare. Conversely, there are lots of people with

dysbiosis and root canals that do not have cancer, but add emotional shock, and

voilà!

Root Canals

Root-canal filled teeth are a variation of the theme of intestinal

dysbiosis. They, too, appear to be a major contributing factor in many health

problems, not only cancer but also heart disease, arthritis, kidney disease and

auto-immune diseases. This is due to microbes that multiply in the multitude of

tiny canals or tubules in the dentine and gradually leach out into the lymph

system. Even normally harmless microbes become very dangerous and more virulent

and toxic under the anaerobic conditions in dead teeth.

Dr Weston Price (19), a former Director of Research for the American Dental

Association, observed that the removal of root-filled teeth from patients

with kidney or heart disease would in most cases lead to an improvement. When

he

then inserted a removed root-filled tooth under the skin of a rabbit it

would die within 2 days. When he implanted normal teeth there was no adverse

health effect. In some experiments he implanted the same fragments of

root-filled

teeth in succession under the skins of up to 100 rabbits and they all died

within 2 weeks of the same disease that the human donor had!

Dr Price conducted about 5,000 experiments over 25 years. He did not find a

reliable method to disinfect dead teeth and make them safe. His research has

been suppressed, and if at all mentioned by our dental associations then they

are described as “dated†because this research was conducted and published

over 70 years ago but it has never been repeated or otherwise investigated,

or root canals shown to be safe.

The main argument for their supposed safety is that millions of people have

them and are still alive many years later. The question of root canals

causing widespread degenerative diseases is not discussed or researched. Price

found that about 30% of individuals have such a strong immune system that they

do

not develop problems from root canals until they become old but the

remaining 70% develop problems much sooner.

I regard root canals, even more so then intestinal dysbiosis, as a major

cause of autoimmune diseases. In 1993 George E. Meinig, DDS, a former US root

canal specialist, re-published the dental research of Dr Price in a popular

version, and included his own experiences (20).

Iatrogenic Heart Attacks

One hundred years ago heart attacks were almost unknown despite diets

generally being high in saturated fats. The ascent of heart attacks began with

the

pasteurization of milk and the use of chlorine to kill bacteria in public

water supplies. This began around 1900 and was generally accepted in Western

countries in the l920's. From 1920 onwards the explosive increase in the

incidence of cardiovascular disease and fatal heart attacks began, but only in

countries that chlorinated their water supplies. These diseases remained

unknown,

for instance, in Africa, China, Japan, and other parts of ASIA. However, when

Japanese citizens immigrated to Hawaii where water was chlorinated, they

suffered the same rate of heart attacks as the Americans, and the black

population in the US have the average US rate of heart attacks but not their

brothers

in Africa. Inhabitants of the non-chlorinated Roseto in Pennsylvania remained

free of heart attacks unless they moved to a chlorinated area (21).

Some of the chlorine reacts with organic impurities in water to form

organochlorins (DDT is an Organo-chlorine) while the rest remains as residual

free

chlorine in the water. It may then react either with food chemicals or with

parts of our digestive tract. In 1967 a Dr J. Price in the US performed a

decisive experiment. With one group of 50 three-month-old chickens (cockerels)

he

added one third of a teaspoon of chlorine bleach to about one litre of water

whilst another group of 50 chickens served as controls. Seven months later

over 95 per cent of the chlorinated group had advanced atherosclerosis, yet

none

of the control group showed any such evidence.

In the following years Dr Price repeated his experiment many times, always

with the same results, and more recently even researchers funded by the US

Environmental Protection Agency have confirmed atherosclerotic type changes in

other animals, including monkeys, when exposed to chlorinated water (22).

Drugs and Chemicals

Basically all drugs are more or less toxic, the more so, the more

‘powerful’

they are. Natural remedies cannot be patented, therefore in order to

maximize profits the pharmaceutical industry routinely makes and sells

synthetic

versions of effective natural remedies. Synthetic substances are usually more

difficult to detoxify than natural remedies and tend to create more problems

the longer they are taken. Often they become highly addictive and after some

time may cause the symptoms that they originally alleviated. This, however, is

rarely acknowledged by drug companies or medical practitioners, instead when

a problem arises simply alternative or additional drugs are prescribed.

A main problem is that drugs are tested individually for relatively short

periods, but are then prescribed as drug cocktails for very long periods. Drugs

have not been tested under these conditions, and therefore all drug use,

except as individual drugs for short periods, is unscientific and unsafe. As a

result of this, there are countless dangerous and fatal drug interactions and

side-effects as reported in numerous books, articles and statistics.

It is similar with the thousands of synthetic chemicals and heavy metals

that are allowed by health authorities to contaminate our living space. These

are even less tested than drugs but also react with each other and with drugs

in a brew that is impossible to disentangle.

I want to mention just one instance of such a combination. The herbicide

paraquat and the fungicide maneb are widely used in farming and may remain

present as crop residues. Each on its own did not cause a problem but if rats

and

mice were exposed to both together, even at very low rates, they developed

symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. The leader of the research team said: " No

one has looked at the effects of studying together some of these compounds

that, taken by themselves, have little effect. This has enormous implications, "

and " it's a huge problem to start thinking about a nearly infinite array of

mixtures of chemicals, instead of the risk that a single chemical might pose "

(23).

We have similar problems with fluoride and chlorine as well as mercury,

aluminium, nickel and other heavy and toxic metals being deliberately put into

vaccines and used in dentistry. For a detailed documentation of the problems

associated with heavy metals and endocrine disrupting chemicals see Bernard

Windham (24).

Sunlight

Health authorities and medical associations have campaigned strongly to

avoid sun exposure of the skin. Presumably this causes skin cancer, including

melanoma that can kill. However, the vast majority is normal skin cancer that

almost never kills, and there is widespread doubt that melanomas are really

caused by normal sun exposure, although there seems to be a link with sunburn.

Generally outdoor workers with the most sun exposure had the lowest rates of

skin cancer and melanoma, while melanomas often show up in office workers.

Melanoma often occurs on areas of the skin that had not been exposed to

sunlight. Other studies show a strong link between long-term exposure to

fluorescent

lighting and melanoma (25). With the present campaign to replace all

incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent ones, I expect a melanoma epidemic in

ten

to twenty years (26).

Now more and more research papers show that a vast number of diseases, and

especially cancer, could be avoided by greatly increasing our levels of

vitamin D with suitable foods, supplements, and frequent or daily short sun

exposure of the skin. Sunlight is our main source of vitamin D. Research shows

that

there is a strong negative correlation between available sunlight and breast

cancer death rates - living in a sunny area is associated with lower cancer

rates. Even skin cancer is inhibited by regular low-level sun exposure; only

sunburn is a strong skin cancer promoter. It has now been calculated that with

these measures worldwide about 600,000 cases of colon and breast cancer

could be prevented (27).

Furthermore, the researchers pointed out that by increasing levels of

vitamin D3 by regular sun exposure and other measures we could prevent diseases

that claim nearly 1 million lives throughout the world each year (28, 29).

The irony of all this is that the present skin cancer epidemic has, in my

opinion, been manufactured by our health authorities and medical experts. There

are three conditions that make us susceptible to develop skin cancers with

high sun exposure. These are overacidity, a high ratio of omega-6 to omega-3

fatty acids, and a lack of antioxidants. The most common cause of overacidity

is Candida overgrowth, especially in combination with the officially

recommended diet high in cereals. Our omega-6 to omega-3 ratio was always

somewhat too

high but it went off the chart when our health authorities recommended

replacing saturated fats with seed oils high in omega-6 fatty acids. This

increased inflammatory conditions of all kinds, including tumors and skin

cancers. To

make matters worse, health authorities also discourage and legally minimize

the use of antioxidant nutrients.

With these measures health authorities created the conditions for an

epidemic of skin cancers. Then they tried to prevent skin cancers by

recommending

complete avoidance of sun exposure, which in turn caused large-scale vitamin D

deficiency with an estimated loss of 1 million lives each year. I sometimes

ask myself if it is simply ignorance and incompetence or if there is something

more sinister to it.

The Obesity epidemic

I could write a book about all the health problems caused by the

medical-pharmaceutical complex and the neglectful way in which health

authorities

contribute to our diseases. In addition to directly causing diseases, these

same

forces also prevent the healing of these same diseases by restricting,

suppressing and persecuting the practitioners of natural medicine as well as

giving

disease-causing nutritional advice.

Until 1980 the rate of obesity and Type 2 diabetes was fairly stable.

However, when health authorities in the U.S.A. started vilifying foods

containing

fats and cholesterol, and recommended eating more carbohydrates instead,

obesity increased from 15% of the adult U.S. population to 25% within one

decade and continued to rise to 32.9% in 2003-2004 (30). Type 2 diabetes became

an

epidemic as well. In addition, for the first time in history a large number

of obese children developed Type 2 diabetes. Since then it is no longer

called maturity-onset diabetes. Also children start now developing Type 1 and

Type

2 diabetes simultaneously (31, 32, 33). All of these are iatrogenic diseases,

caused by the medical system.

Natural practitioners are experts in preventing and successfully treating

chronic diseases with nutrition and other natural methods. This includes the

metabolic syndrome which leads to diabetes, heart disease and overweight. It is

routinely and quickly remedied with proper nutrition, but with accepted

medical practice it becomes a life-long condition managed with more or less

toxic

drugs. Surgery is used for a wide range of conditions, and patients are

severely traumatized or mutilated for life when these problems could be

successfully treated with natural therapies.

Vaccinations

Vaccinations are the proud showpiece of drug medicine in eliminating the

dreaded childhood infections of previous centuries. However, long-term

statistics and diagrams tell a different story. Starting between 1850 and 1900

scarlet

fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles had declined by about 90% by

the time general vaccination was introduced for each disease. While

statistics vary between different countries, this is generally true for

England, the

United States and Australia. Whooping cough had declined in England by about

98.5% before a vaccine became generally available, and measles had declined by

over 99%. Tuberculosis had declined by 87% when antibiotics first became

available and by 93% before the introduction of the BCG vaccine. The death rate

from rheumatic fever had declined by 86% when penicillin was introduced (34).

All of this has obviously more to do with better plumbing than with

vaccinations.

There are also statistics showing that death rates from targeted diseases

rose with the introduction of vaccines. Other side-effects ascribed to modern

vaccines are cot or crib death (SIDS), a strong rise in autism and ADHD, and

shaken baby syndrome (spot bleeding in the brain) which apparently landed

innocent parents in jail. Experts strongly deny that there is a connection

between vaccines and autism, but it is strange nevertheless that the rates of

autism have suddenly exploded after greatly increased numbers of vaccinations

in

recent decades, and there is no obvious alternative reason. Also autism is

absent in Amish children who are generally not vaccinated. Vaccinated children

are reported to have about 150% more neurological disorders such as ADHD and

autism compared to unvaccinated children (35).

Another curios aspect of vaccine safety statistics was highlighted by Dr

Archie Kalokerinos. Working in the remote Australian outback with Aboriginals

he

found that every second child died as a result of vaccinations. Because

deaths commonly occurred about 3 weeks later, they were not recorded as

vaccine-related; officially reactions were limited to occur only for up to 2

weeks

after vaccination. However, eventually Dr Kalokerinos solved the problem by

giving babies high doses of vitamin C before vaccinations, and no more

vaccination

deaths occurred. Also SIDS disappeared. Naturally he encountered ridicule

and hostility from his medical colleges, and babies are still dying needlessly

(36).

Deliberate Bias Against Natural Therapies

It has become a habit that any successful natural cancer remedy or treatment

is quickly outlawed by our health authorities. Many natural health

practitioners have been dragged before the courts and often imprisoned,

especially in

the area of cancer treatment (37). This is especially regrettable because

there is no evidence that the methods of orthodox cancer therapy are in any way

successful (38).

One of the methods increasingly used to denigrate natural therapies is for

the pharmaceutical industry to finance shoddy research on natural remedies and

then proclaim them to be ineffective or harmful. This is only partly

intended to influence the general public but mainly to provide the

justification for

health authorities to outlaw and greatly restrict natural remedies (39).

Another strategy is not to list favorable vitamin studies in the MEDLINE

database. This is taxpayer-funded and operated by the US National Library of

Medicine. It lists all articles by medical research journals, including Time

magazine and Readers' Digest, but not the peer-reviewed Journal of

Orthomolecular Medicine (_http://www.orthomed.org/jom/jomlist.htm_

(http://www.orthomed.org/jom/jomlist.htm) ) which specializes in vitamin

research. Now the British

Medical Journal has published a letter about Medline bias (40) and this has

forced Medline to index articles on Medline bias.

Because all these favorable vitamin studies are not indexed by Medline,

proponents of drug medicine can claim that there are no studies that show that

vitamins are useful in the treatment of diseases or that they are safe in high

doses, and therefore should be restricted to very low doses. Of course,

world-wide yearly fatalities due to vitamins are zero; in comparison drug

fatalities are infinitely higher.

30 years ago Linus Pauling showed that high doses of vitamin C are

beneficial in cancer treatment. This has been ‘disproved’ by the orthodoxy

ever

since. But now a study by conventional Johns Hopkins scientists has shown that

he

was right (41). In addition, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine has just

published a double-blind, randomized clinical trial showing that HIV-positive

patients given supplemental nutrients can stop their decline into AIDS (42).

This would pose a big threat to the medical-pharmaceutical complex and is

one more reason not to index this journal on Medline.

There exists a systemic culture of suppression of dissenting views in

science and medicine, and frequently a vicious persecution with

“Gestapo-likeâ€

methods (43, 44). Recently in the US even a mother has been jailed and

brutalized for “illegally†using natural methods to cure her son of

malignant

melanoma (45).

Of course, this assault of the medical-pharmaceutical complex on natural

healing methods is not illegal. On the contrary, in a capitalist system it is

their duty to maximize profits by eliminating the competition and generating a

steady supply of patients with chronic diseases who can be managed

indefinitely with drugs. The question is just why do government health

authorities make

and enforce laws on behalf of drug medicine and against natural medicine?

Theoretically they should be impartial and ensure the best outcome for the

population. I believe the answer can be found in some good lateral thinking by

the pharmaceutical industry. By paying for and influencing much of the

medical education (46, 47, 48), they automatically produce health officials and

government advisers who are steeped in pharmaceutical thinking and biased

against natural medicine. No bribery is needed, but health officials always

know

that there is a well-paid job waiting if and when they want to retire from

government service, simple!

Natural Medicine to the Rescue

Health authorities so far have ignored the claims and evidence of natural

medicine that it is the superior form of treatment for chronic and medically

incurable diseases. The very fact of a high rate of chronic disease in our

society attests to the inability of the medical profession to successfully

treat

these diseases. I have no doubt that natural medicine could eliminate most

chronic diseases within a decade, needing only a few percent of the money that

is spent on conventional medicine. The knowledge is already available; no

expensive high-tech research is needed that may or may not give results

sometime

in the future.

There is a simple low-cost solution for bringing about the healing of our

society:

1. Phase out public assistance for pharmaceutical companies and their

research, and require research to show that a drug is safe with long-term use

in

combination with other common drugs and chemicals and with old or fragile

patients, or alternatively that it is superior in the long-term to available

natural treatments

2. Make it illegal for pharmaceutical companies to fund medical education

or provide drug information, marketing or incentives directly to the public

or to medical practitioners, or to employ former health officials. Information

to medical practitioners should be provided by an independent and impartial

body

3. Except for unethical conduct according to general society standards,

make it illegal for medical associations to restrict the therapies used by

their members

4. Afford qualified practitioners of natural medicine the same recognition

and opportunities as those of drug medicine, including in hospitals,

rehabilitation, research and publications, health departments and regulating

authorities

So far our medical and economic leaders do not want to face reality. They

brainwash the public into believing that the present health situation is

completely normal. Importantly, the whole economic structure of Western

civilization is based on the production and distribution of goods and services

that are

contributing to poor health. These include chemicalized agriculture and food

processing, the pharmaceutical industry, technological medicine and the

petrochemical and plastics industries.

The guiding motto for industry is 'profit', while for the consumer it is

'convenience'. The price for all to pay is the loss of health. This situation

is

the natural outcome of a society based on selfish motivation. A change for

the better can only come when more and more people realize that ultimately

they harm themselves with selfish attitudes, and start electing leaders who are

prepared to act in a compassionate and cooperative way in the interest of the

whole society. We get what we choose: natural health or enduring drug

management.

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[Guest guest]

My wife's Father recently underwent emergency surgery for a perforated duodenal

ulcer, caused by the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) that he was

taking for his Arthritis ... He now has an infected wound for which the

prescribed anti-biotic has had little effect, so, he has now been prescribed an

even stronger anti-biotic ... !

 

Ray.