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Is good health an accident?
I am fighting for health from 1996. No – I am not shooting, not kicking… Nothing of this sort.
But I know I MUST do something to overcome my uninvited guest – Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Tricky thing – official medicine, claiming to be on top of health keeping, can’t help me. It can’t help millions of other seriously ill with ALL sorts of chronic degenerative diseases.
So I decided to be responsible for my own health. And I succeeded ! I am not alone. There are lots of others, who succeeded fighting for their own health, too.
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It wouldn’t be possible keeping own health in good shape, being alone. That’s really interactive process – learning from others and applying to yourself.
In so long time I discovered many superior teachers. Some of them are doctors, some – not. But all of them are teaching personal responsibility – and are naturalistic (not synthetic medication based).
One of my top teachers is a journalist (health ranger) Mike Adams. I like his articles very much. Some my articles are based on his most valuable and interesting writings: Faulty medicine?, MS, cancer and FUD, MS – name ambiguity.
I came across his article Good health is no accident recently. I was excited – again. The author put all the aspects every carrying about a personal health should know, into a logical and elegant unit.
Anybody interested should read whole article. I’ll present some pieces I like the best. You’ll see the power of these wise words:
- Those who seek answers for their health outside the realm of their own decisions are looking in the wrong place… Lasting health can only appear as the result of a lifetime of informed, deliberate decisions aligned with nature’s principles of health, not the distorted version of health promoted by our backward system of mainstream medicine
- … The cure for cancer is already programmed within. Each person is born with a highly-advanced cellular nanotechnology that already knows how to cure cancer. Activating this inner healing potential is all that’s necessary to prevent and cure cancer …
- … masses continue to eat cancer-causing foods and pursue cancer-causing lifestyles even while blindly handing over their money in the form of donations to organizations that they naively hope will come along and “save them” someday
- Obesity is what happens when a person spends each day imagining how much they’re going to start exercising tomorrow.
- Cancer is what happens when a person spends each day eating cancer-causing foods… rather than just getting some sunshine to boost their own vitamin D.
Disease is what happens when people believe they have no role in their own health outcome. So they eat for entertainment rather than for nourishment, and they live for product-induced external stimulation rather than internal fulfillment
- Cancer can never be “cured” through any external, artificial means, regardless of how many billions of dollars are thrown at it. Trying to cure cancer with synthetic medications makes about as much sense as trying to cure illiteracy by feeding children “reading pills”
- Health, like learning to read, is something that must be pursued through dedicated self-advancement. Neither literacy nor health can be endowed upon you with the flick of a magic (medication) wand. They cannot be injected into you through a needle. They can only be achieved by teaching each person how to own their results
If you wish to learn how to read, for example, you must first accept responsibility that no one else can read for you. YOU must go through the learning and advancement curve if you wish to experience the positive results of being literate
If you have read this piece up to this point, it’s rather safe to assume, that you agree with health ranger Mike Adams, and me – a folk, who is living after multiple sclerosis (MS):
Good health is no accident !
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Our toxic reality
…as infectious childhood diseases like polio, smallpox, rheumatic fever, and diphtheria have largely been controlled, chronic conditions of less obvious origins have taken their place.
Asthma, autism, attention deficit and hyperactivity disorders (ADD and ADHD), childhood brain cancer and acute lymphocytic leukemia have all increased over the past 30 years.
That’s introductory part of article Human health problems on the rise, published by Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit organization, founded in 1993 to: 1. protect the most vulnerable segments of the human population – children, babies, and infants; and 2. replace federal policies, including government subsidies that damage the environment and natural resources, with policies that invest in conservation and sustainable development.
You’ll not find neither multiple sclerosis, nor any other autoimmune disorder included in this graph. Nevertheless, it’s safe to assume that no chronic degenerative disorder is an exception. Contrarily – such an assumption would be both unrealistic or even precarious.
Take a long hard look – you’ll definitely see the trend!
Conclusions follow:
Scientists cannot fully explain these increases, but early life exposure to environmental pollutants is a leading suspect (2005)
Fetal exposures lead to adult disease
Fetal exposures cause disease in future generations
Heaps of different already discovered aspects and separate facts about toxins and pollutants influence on health could be added, but the key message remains the same – for everybody:
Pollutants = Toxins = Poisons
The Dose Makes the Poison
- Included information has been known for over 500 years now
- Probably just after reading this short article you will change your attitude concerning:
- food and food additives you eat
- any drugs you take
- any supplements you consume etc
- Most probably careful insight into what you put into your mouth could reduce health problems…
All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison
The right dose differentiates a poison….
Paracelsus (1493-1541)
A substance can produce the harmful effect associated with its toxic properties only if it reaches a susceptible biological system within your body in a sufficient concentration (a high enough dose). The toxic effect of a substance increases as the exposure (or dose) to the susceptible biological system increases. For all chemicals there is a dose response curve, or a range of doses that result in a graded effect between the extremes of no effect and 100% response (toxic effect). All chemical substances will exhibit a toxic effect given a large enough dose. If the dose is low enough even a highly toxic substance will cease to cause a harmful effect. The toxic potency of a chemical is thus ultimately defined by the dose (the amount) of the chemical that will produce a specific response in a specific biological system.
http://learn.caim.yale.edu/chemsafe/references/dose.html
Toxicology is the study of poisons or toxicants and their adverse effects on various organs and tissues of the body. The term “toxin” is often used as a synonym for poison, but some specialists prefer to reserve that name for poisons of biological origin, like snake venom or poison ivy.
With advances in imaging technologies and in chemical measurement technologies, the scope of toxicology is progressively broadening to subsume more subtle, subclinical effects of toxicants.
Paracelsus was a medieval alchemist who is often recognized as both the “father of toxicology” and the “father of pharmacology” because of his pioneering work in systematizing the study of effects of chemicals and drugs.
Paracelsus stated that
- all substances are poisons
- that only the dose differentiates a poison and a remedy.
This notion of dose is critical for understanding toxic effects.
At very low doses, even the most toxic chemicals known will cause no discernable effect on humans, while at very high doses, even essential substances like oxygen and water will harm or kill. In between, different amounts will cause different degrees of harm
http://www.lectlaw.com/filesh/tabcaus.htm
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Health and wellness problems of information overload
Every day it appears there’s a new piece of health advice stating you how to sustain or recover your health and wellness.
Recent “fact” becomes a “fad” as this week’s data challenge the previous theory. Are you amazed, and maybe irritated, when one group of scientists disproves what another group has affirmed? You are not alone. Multitude of folks are confused by the overflow of accessible health information.
Numerous health care leaders acknowledge that this overcharge of information can be even as dangerous as ignorance. They agree – instead of being concerned with the small stuff, you should practice an overall healthy lifestyle.
Apply nutrition recommendations and added lifestyle fads as mere fixes that do not add to an generally healthy lifestyle. Moderation in nourishment, alcohol, and even physical activity ought be your approach
It’s called the “information explosion” – an apparently never-ending bombardment from television, print, and internet. In the world of medicine, “information overload” is quickly becoming a new “disease” in search for a cure.
Obviously, same applies for medical doctors.
This phenomenon due to high volume of information as well as rapid changes. Some effects of the “information explosion” on health care are obvious – and whether some doctors are missing the latest medical news. Latest research confirms that some doctors respond too slowly — if at all — to new research developments.
Food for thought:
100 years ago there was significantly much less information available, and at the same time people managed to live much healthier, so happier.
Isn’t it possible that information overload is dangerous for your health and wellness??
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My Health Manifesto
It happens regularly – new is well forgotten old.
Same for my health basics – I found these described the best in almost a 100 years old book:
WHAT more can be asked by any doctor or layman than a philosophy of the cause of disease that gives a perfect understanding of all the so-called diseases?
To know cause supplies even the layman with a dependable knowledge of how to avoid building disease, and how to cure. When people know how to avoid disease they know an immunization that immunizes rationally.
Dependable knowledge of what disease really is and its cause is man’s salvation; and when it can be had with no more effort than that required to read carefully and understandingly Toxemia Explained, there is little excuse for anyone, lay or professional, to live in ignorance of it.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge of how to have health gives greatest power.
Few people know anything about the cause of disease. To them this book is dedicated and the freedom from medical superstition it will bring them.
That is a Dedication of a book “Toxemia Explained” by J.H. Tilden, M.D., first printed in 1926.
I really do not know, what I could add to these so extremely wise words.
Apparently, if everybody knew (and practice) these so simple truths, in would be much much less suffering and unnecessary illnesses around.
Again – the more I apply these simple basics in my everyday life, the more healthy I am!
Therefore just these so simple and at the same time so extremely prudent words became my Health Manifesto.
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Luckily, this wisdom packed book, helpful for anyone, concerned at own health, has been reprinted and is available:
Toxemia Explained: The True Interpretation of the Cause of Disease
Price: $14.99
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Allopathic vs. Holistic
From the time of Hippocrates (400 BC) there have been two obviously distinct medical approaches, each with clear ideology.
Today these are known as allopathic (orthodox) and holistic (naturopathic) medicines.
Presently allopathic (orthodox) medicine system is predominant.
Historic, social etc. circumstances etc. are nicely presented in an article Allopathic vs. Holistic by Chayne Ellis M.B.A (Acu) B.Sc (Comm).
But what are the distinctions between the allopathic and holistic medicine models?
- (A) treats symptoms
- (H) seeks patterns and causes
- (A) specialized and treats parts of the person
- (H) involves the whole person
- (A) pain and disease are regarded as negative
- (H) pain and “dis-ease” are considered as helpful signals of internal disharmony
- (A) disease is seen as a “bad” condition
- (H) disease is seen as a process
- (A) the body is seen as a machine in good or bad repair
- (H) the body is seen as a dynamic system of body-mind-spirit and of energy fields
- (A) primary intervention is with surgery, drugs, radiation (the “cut-poison-burn” approach)
- (H) minimal intervention with technologies complemented by non-invasive use of such things as diet, nutritional supplements, exercise etc
- (A) primary reliance on quantitative information – lab tests, instruments, charts, etc
- (H) qualitative information, including the client’s statements and attitudes, intuition, etc
- (A) the therapist is an authority on whom the patient is dependent
- (H) the client accepts self responsibility and is mainly autonomous
- (A) “prevention” is seen as an annual or more often laboratory tests and examinations
- (H) wholeness in relationships, work, goals, together with good nutrition, etc
Certainly, it is entirely up to anybody to choose a doctor (healer) as well as allopathic (orthodox) or holistic (naturopathic) medicine.
Regretfully, no sick is provided explanations and advices.
Hopefully, such an information could widen anybody’s viewpoint.
