Dr. Guylaine Lanctot, M.D. - "The medical establishment works closely with the drug multinationals whose main objective is profits, and whose worst nightmare would be an epidemic of good health. Lots of drugs MUST be sold. In order to achieve this, anything goes: lies, fraud, and kickbacks. Doctors are the principal salespeople of the drug companies. 

Because it took almost a decade for illness to develop and manifest in our body, it had become part of our person, our constitution and our essence, we cannot just go and cut it out with surgery, suppress it with drugs or zap it off in thirty days with supper supplements. Until our mental biography is mature enough to sustain a healthy biochemistry, healing miracles and remedies are potentially useless. Its is not what made us sick that matter,it's how we heal!

Elimination of the symptom is NOT the same as elimination of the disease. The fastest way to restore wellness is to stop putting into the body the things that have caused the physical problem to develop in the first place, and then give the body the nutrients it needs to repair and rebuild itself. The holistic approach treats the whole person, ignites the body's internal healing force and stimulates the body's natural abilities to heal itself

 The perspective of Holism is also present in system theory and organicism, and it is contrary to reductionism, mechanism, and a various forms of atomism (a type of reductionism). Orthodox health care is based on reductionism. They view your organ system in isolation. They emphasize specific organ when illness occurs. Reductionism holds that the whole can be explained by reduction to its constituting the parts. Whatever the particular viewpoint, the defining characteristic of a holistic approach is its comprehensiveness with regard to health.  As noted by James Windsor”...  Cayce saw a person as a whole, with mind, body and spirit as a single unit, all so closely tied that it was not possible for one aspect to be diseased, either physically or mentally, without the whole person suffering the consequences"

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Nature is endowed  with regenerative capabilities to restore damage caused by hurricane, thunder and other natural disasters. As we look at the ruins of  natural disasters we e can find signs of  rebirth and regeneration. Nature demonstrates the ability to survive despite strong forces that challenge her. Moore

According to Dr Grandgeorge “the repressed emotions since childhood in subconscious mind   are the root of all illnesses and physical ills that afflict humanity. He believes that illnesses are the language of the body and its way of expressing the subconscious mind and what we fail to affirm makes us infirm”.

“Drug companies are intent on keeping the consumer on drugs...for the simple requirement of profit.” (Dr. Drummond Rennie, Journal of the American Medical Association) “The thing that bugs me is that people think the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is protecting them—it isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day.” (Dr. Herbert L. Ley, former Commissioner of the FDA)

Doctors Are The Third Leading Cause of Death in the US Causing 250,000 Deaths Every Year"  Journal of the American Medical Association

According to Dr David Frawley, “Western medicine has tried to remove religion from medicine. This separation leads to mundane pursuit of health at the expense of our true nature-our spirituality. The essence of healing is integration, faith; love, devotion, the sense of unity and sacred nature of humanity and all life are missing in modern medicine. They create the grace and flow of the cosmic-life force necessary for healing. Without these qualities we are broken and withered inside and our lives have little meaning. Without them, the magic, wonder, beauty and purpose in life are taken away. We must not just treat disease, but use the disease as a tool for understanding ourselves. Once this communion with the inner consciousness is gained, we will find an inner harmony and joy that can overcome all external difficulties. We need to be reminded that our current illness is based on yesterday’s choices and not today’s events”.

Most of us are sick because spiritual meaning is not present in our lives. We live in a westernized society where fear based disorders have led to a multitude of social compulsions that have wrecked havoc on our physical health. We are trapped in the tedium and stimulation of the outer world with practically nothing to nourish our hearts. We fight the people around us instead of the evil that propels the people. If not a sign of spiritual crises or change, disease is at least a spiritual opportunity to redirect our focus inward and heal from within instead of turning to suppressive therapy

Disease is one of the ways the body echoes back to us what we have put into our body. It is a divinely orchestrated mechanism for check and balance. We need disease to help us maintain health. It helps us retrace our steps and signals a need for change. It’s a call from nature. It has hidden messages. For those who take its early warning signs seriously, they see greater advantage in its disadvantage. Disease help alter our destiny to the path, the cosmic originally designed for us. Disease matures us spiritually, emotionally and physically. It recalibrates our life and navigates us to our chosen path. Disease is the pain we feel when the body is caught in the crossfire as the immune system encounter disease agents. These pains, referred to as signs and symptoms, are what conventional medicine address or suppress with drugs when treating a sick person. The regimentation of healing starts with a process called “healing crises”. While conventional doctors suppress it, naturopaths let it run its course. Without crises, there is no true healing. The “get well crises” is a prerequisite or transition period for holistic health to occur

What a person feels are called symptoms and what the doctor sees are called signs. A set of unique signs and symptoms are cataloged to define a particular disease entity. During these encounters, if the immune system cells are overwhelmed, they are held hostage by the disease agents and, the free ones are what lab test record as being low. Like the pendulum of a clock that oscillates back and forth yet giving the correct time, so is the human body. Our regulatory mechanism called homeostasis, dictates the fluctuations of the human body as it responds to outside and emotional challenges. It’s called equilibrium. As long as we maintain balance, we are healthy. Ironically there is nothing like perfect health in an imperfect world. As nature and events fluctuates, so do we. We aim to get to the point where the rate of production of diseased agents cancels their destruction. This is called normal health. Normality is relative to each individual and, is determined by our tolerance level, sociocultural factors, psychological states and parameters that are beyond the scope of this book. Healing the body is a totally different concept from curing the disease. Sadly, orthodox doctors never address the immune system and remedies that address the disease exclusively, endanger the body. According to Albert Einstein, “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created”. We hope to step outside the box!

Death by Diet is an informative guide to health and longevity written by Bob Barefoot. Barefoot explores the connection of the food we eat and its impacts on our overall health and life expectancy. Death by Diet details how healthy individuals register body fluids such as blood and saliva in normal alkaline (pH) levels and unhealthy individuals body fluids register in the low pH ranges on an acidic test scale. Barefoot relates the positive impact of simple dietary changes combined with vitamin and mineral supplementation in this easy to follow book to health. *DID YOU KNOW that the body fluids, such as blood, spinal and saliva, of the healthy are alkaline (high pH), whereas the body fluids of the sick are acidic (low pH)? *DID YOU KNOW that most degenerative disease attributed to aging, such as cancer, osteoporosis, and heart disease, and other diseases such as allergy, kidney stones and gallstones have all been scientifically linked to mineral deficiencies that result in your body fluids, including your saliva, becoming more acidic? *DID YOU KNOW that scientists have found that cancer thrives in an acidic medium, but cannot survive in an alkaline medium? *DID YOU KNOW that by spitting on a penny's worth of pH paper you can measure your level of acidity and health? *DID YOU KNOW that with vitamin and mineral supplements, you can lower the acidity of your body fluids and become healthy? *DID YOU KNOW that a 10 year study of 5000 men 45 to 59 by the British Medical Research Council found that those who drank more than one half liter of milk each day reduced heart disease tenfold? *DID YOU KNOW that a 25 year study of 4697 women by the Finland National Public Health Institute found "an overwhelming association between the consumption of milk and the prevention of breast cancer"? Please read this book

Like a double indemnity, processed foods and lifeless drugs are the double jeopardy that sends us to early grave. Research shows that disease is nothing more than the body responding to the wrongs we have done to it: It is the body's attempt at keeping us alive in response to and in spite of the wrongs we have inflicted on it. If the body has the intelligence to produce a disease, it is capable also of reversing the process and to return to health once the cause of the disease is removed. The foundation of any disease state is “toxemia”, the progressive accumulation of metabolic and environmental waste that the body fails to excrete through its normal elimination channels by storing them instead in its tissues. The body is unable to effectively undergo detoxification because of this “enervation”, or lack of vitality due to faulty metabolism.

How do we heal our self of diseases and, still maintain internal constancy? Do we eradicate all our diseases and microbes with drugs? The human body is like a functional ecosystem where the most insignificant being plays crucial roles. Ecosystems are maintained in perfect balances in nature due to complex relationships between the producers (plants, photosynthetic bacteria and algae), herbivores (which feed only on plants), predators (which feed on herbivores) and the decomposers (which feed on the dead animals and plants). When this balance is altered, it can destabilize the entire ecosystem and trigger alterations in it. Wiping out predators from an ecosystem has several ill effects. The most prominent of those ill effects is ecosystem imbalance. There exists a delicate balance of species occupying different levels of a food pyramid. When we disturb the balance, a cascading effect is felt on the other levels of the food chain.  War against microbes is like trying to eradicate the apex predators in an ecosystem. (e.g. frogs will help keep down insect populations. If we remove all the frogs from an ecosystem, the insect population explodes. If we use insecticides to control insect population, we destroy the whole ecosystem). What happens is, as we annihilate these predators, we throw the entire ecological system into gross imbalance leading to other problems we never imagined. Thus, the hunter becomes the hunted. This is what goes on in microbial and disease wars. We use powerful medicines to kill the disease, upset our internal balance and, it end up destabilizing us

After being diagnosed with illness, the next step is learning how to live with it instead of dying from it. It is normal to go through the emotional phase of grief after hearing the news that you have an illness you will have to live with the rest of your life. We want you to know that we have been there, and though we don’t know how long ago you acquired this illness, you need to know that there is life after liver disease. You can have the best treatment in the world, but if you do not resolve your inner conflicts and replace negative emotional feelings of anger, resentment, and blame and with positive mental attitudes, your treatment will only be successful if you suppress your symptoms with drugs or if replace your liver through transplantation. We really do not live in our physical address, but in our thoughts. Negative emotions will do nothing except block the healing currents that flow restlessly through our thinking. True healing starts with inner peace, acceptance, and understanding.  The responsibility for your health rest solely in your hands, and only you know exactly how you feel.   

 The analogy of food in a freezer buttresses the alternate view that the terrains of our body trump all conventional theories of disease and war against microbes. Unplug the freezer from its power source and leave the food there for a few days. All kinds of activities begin occurs to create mildew and spoilage. Then, the bugs take over. The bugs didn't crawl in; the door remained closed. They were already there to some extent, and when the terrain or internal environment changed, with cold air changing to warm.  It’s like pH changing from alkaline to acidic in humans. This explains how the immune system, with that easy to read pH indicator, determines whether viruses already exist to some extent can replicate in our body. They were always there .We feel their impact when our terrains change. During inflammation, the body undergoes fermentation and reduced oxygen utilization. This state becomes opportunistic for disease, cancers, diabetes, bacteria, viruses, parasites, and all of the bugs that were latent and inactive in our bodies. The symptoms of disease should be a road map to its source. Drugs can be used initially for interventional purposes, but continued drug dependence is like dancing on a mine field. It creates other conditions called iatrogenic diseases. The entire physiological ecosystem of the body is disrupted. Botanicals, rather than disrupt, work within the system to restore harmony and homeostasis between diseased agents and healthy cells thus creating a “no victor, no vanquish” phenomenon.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, if you learn only methods, you will forever be tied to those methods. If you learn the principle behindthose methods, you’ll be free to devise your own method and become the master of your destiny and the author of your experience. The echoes of those kind words are truly endless in my life, and you should be able to do the same with this book’s recommendations. You are sick because of prodigalism on your part. Let nobody reduce you to the size of their ideas because, whatever you make your standard becomes your limit. Life is crazy and we never know how and when we are going to learn lessons. Honor your past and rediscover your future. You are not just a creature, you are a creator. You are the quintessential of life. Your wish is your command. You are created to dominate your condition. Because freedom is not free, “You have to fight to be a man” says Kenny Rogers, even if everybody reads you wrong. You can recover from anything. As you continue to live life on your own terms, you will find wellness in your illness and you will be no longer bound to adversity. According to John Lubbock, “what we see depends mainly on what we look for”.You can make your wish your command, whatever you ask can be given to you and you can millionize your thoughts. “Miracles happen, not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to what we know’ of nature” says St. Augustine. That which you seek you can find. You can make today’s progress, tomorrows promise. Your hopeless end can become endless [endless hope is the opium of the hopeful] hope.  You can stumble on the Gold mine with you. You will gain knowledge- a weapon in adversity and an ornament in prosperity.

Our illnesses should be a learning experience on how not to be sick again. Our attitudes can handicap and abort our healing. A time of illness is often a time to tap into latent capacities when we turn our thoughts inward and reevaluate our lifestyles. The initial diagnosis is understandably accompanied by fear, but often most of us always have premonitions of what is about to come our way. Anybody can heal if they begin their journey to recovery from the mind-body connection. We know you are at crossroads, and this is a time to take an honest look at the patterns that negate your journey towards recovery. It is time to bid farewell to attitudes, places, or acquaintances that no longer complement the journey to regain your health. In her book, The Wheels of Light,Rosalyn Bruyere clearly substantiates the above views. “We are no less affected by air pollution, noise pollution, or people pollution...if we are exposed to negative energies for long enough, the potential results will be detrimental to our health—physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual.” The decisions we make will either increase or decrease our journey toward health. We want to see you not as an aggregate of organs for the liver specialist to analyze but as a whole person whose emotions are inseparable from his body. “Your current condition is but a cloud that is hiding a shinning Sun and as long as you know that the Sun is there, there is no reason to get too worked up over the temporary clouds around you.”  

Getting cured conventionally or getting healed of a disease is another decision we have to make in order to move forward. We are going to come across remedies and doctors that relieve us of our physical pains. Often times, this is a passive process that occurs without our participation. We yield to the attending physical authority who offers any remedy that will alleviate our predicaments. Often times, when we approach our illness with this approach, drugs and surgery do all the work. When a person is passive with an attitude of “just do it for me”, he does not fully heal; he may recover, but he may never deal fully with the source of his illnesses. On the other hand, an active participation on our part in our health care means we understand our body, the disease, and the reasons for any therapeutic regimen by the attending physician. True healing emphasizes our attitudes over our aptitudes as our attitudes influence our affluence. It goes beyond being a spectator to the disease to being actively involved in healing our attitudes and correcting our negative patterns internally to repair our emotional injuries. When we consciously turn our attention from our illness and contemplate wellness, something begins to happen in the realm of the mind and spirit that reinforces our desire to overcome our adversities. Gradually, we realize, as Dr. Frederic Bailes puts it, “There is a power in Man that can lift him toward his highest aspirations and make him the person he wants to be. No enslavement can hold a person; no illness can defeat him, when he comes to understand the tremendous power that lies within him just waiting to be released.”

We don’t hit every thing we shoot for in life. Sometimes our healing is not what we anticipate. We need to be more open to the gifts and opportunities which life is always ready to bestow on us. It may be that a physical problem resolves, but it may also stay awhile to teach us some lessons in life.  Sometimes a health challenge is a doorway to a much deeper level of healing, a cry from deep within our soul for attention to some part of us that has been unloved and feels separated from the Whole. According to Mary Maddux, “Regardless of whether our focus in healing is on the physical, mental, emotional or spiritual level, all levels are invariably touched by the process, and none can be separated out from the rest”.

It’s okay to be sick. As the body responds to internal fluctuations, environmental changes, diet and lifestyles challenges, the body goes through a recalibration process as it readjust itself. Sometimes these adjustment periods manifest as acute illnesses that goes away. If an individual have a weak constitution, the adjustment may be sluggish and chronic illness may occur.

 If you have chronic or acute illnesses, take your doctors medication. Healing is an acquired art. Gradually build your confidence level while taking your orthodox med. Withdrawing from your medications cold turkey is disasterous.The adversity of illness  can become a university of Healing.Illness,when understood can be a good servant. If we ignore its early signs, it turns out to be a bad master. Disease occurs partly from what we ingest but mostly from the mismanagement of by and end product of what we consume barring emotional factors. Inability of the body to manage metabolic and toxic wastes is a major etiology of all diseases. In its early stage illness are acute, they become chronic and terminal, if we mismanage or ignore it early warning signs.

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The “acute stage” is the initial manifestation of a disease. It is accompanied by inflammation, pain, sensitivity, fever, discharge, and high acidity. Poor living and dietary habits can contribute to the buildup of wastes, and this can lead to the beginning of toxic settlements throughout the body. This is also referred to as the alarm phase. When some new stress factor strikes the organism, it causes a sudden release of internal the stress hormones like corticosteroids and catheholamines. If the stress is very intense, it can damage the regulatory systems of the organism immediately and permanently, such as in the case of exposure to high levels of nuclear radiation. But, if we are lucky, if we have positive coping skills, or if we are taking adaptogenic herbs, we will smoothly progress further to the “adaptation phase.” 

The adaptation stage is accompanied by the absorption of systemic toxins, dull aching pain, low metabolism, weakness, and lassitude. Devitalized foods and beverages, poor living habits, a polluted environment can all lead to the general buildup of excessive accumulation of toxic matter throughout the body. If the stress factor continues—for example, in excessive consumption of cooked food, or emotional abuse—our body learns to tolerate (“adapts to”) the stressful stimulus and increases its resistance to the stress factor. The adaptation phase is usually a safe period. The more we can stay in the adaptation phase, the better. 

The “chronic stage” is characterized by low metabolic activity, increasing toxic buildup throughout system, and a general lack of vitality. The disease is now part of our daily life. Heavy accumulations of toxic waste interfere with vital cellular activity.  At least 80 percent of all recognized diseases could be classified as chronic. This is the exhaustion phase when the organism fails to fight physical, emotional or metabolic stress and simply gives up. In this exhaustion phase, disease symptoms rapidly appear and get worse. This is considered the breaking point and chronic degenerative disease is manifested. The “degenerative stage” shows no perceptible sensations in affected tissue, extremely low blood circulation, low nerve activity, and tissue decay. The general breakdown of life-supporting activity occurs in the affected area and often throughout the entire system. Vital life forces are at low ebb.  

Often times we see illness and adversity as a bad omen. This is not always so. Illness can be an opportunity for us to be more attentive to certain yearnings in our life. Disease and adversity can direct us to new paths and insights we would otherwise never contemplate. This makes adversity a necessary part our evolution and spiritual maturity. As we use adversity to reevaluate our priorities, we no longer take love, grace and mercy for granted. We see more beyond our material life and we are more sensitive to spiritual undertone that accompanies our daily chores. With increased awareness of our spiritual nature .As we become more aware of our spiritual nature, we realize that our daily worries never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but robs today of its joy. A new realization that yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift comes upon us. That’s why it is called the present! We begin to see Life and health as God’s gift to us. We need to polish it with purpose; live it, cherish it, embrace it, celebrates it or looses it to pain. The choice is ours

If you think drugs are the answer to your problems  please listen "Between 2004 and 2008, the number of people who went to the emergency room after abusing prescription painkillers more than doubled, from 144,644 to 305,885, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration".Read moore

 According to Shé D'Montford, Shambhallah, from Australia ‘The human body "WILL HEAL"... If we get out of our own way and allow it, it heals itself. It is our basic nature. Anybody who tells you other than that is trying to sell you something. No matter what you have been told. Don't give up on yourself and don't buy into the lines like ... ‘oh well you've had a good life'... 'at your age'... and the worst of all ...'there's nothing further I can do, I suggest you finalize your affairs'... How dare anyone tell you to give up! So much in society combines to convince us of the propaganda that some things never get better. It's up to you ... do you want to get better? Make things better? It is human nature to make things better, evolve and grow.”

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