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The Scientific Method |
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I would not propose a philosophy of health care based only on theory, but feel rather that any concept of wellness, or health care, should be subject to test, revision and proof by the scientific method.
The scientific method generally says that you start with some observations and a hypothesis, then test that hypothesis for validity.
hy·poth·e·sis (hì-pòth¹î-sîs) noun
plural hy·poth·e·ses (-sêz´)Abbr. hyp., hypoth.
1.A tentative explanation that accounts for a set of facts and can be tested by further investigation; a theory.
2. Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation; an assumption.
3. The antecedent of a conditional statement.
[Latin, subject for a speech, from Greek hupothesis, proposal, supposition, from hupotithenai, to suppose : hupo-, hypo- + tithenai, to place.]
The scientific method indicates that the hypothesis should allow you to explain the relationships among observations, to predict new observations, go looking for them, and find them. The scientific method looks for and thrives on observations that don't fit into the hypothesis because that allows the hypothesis to be changed, as necessary, to account for all observations.
A philosophy of health care should meet these criteria.
The observations I would suggest that we start with are the facts about the tremendous quantities of unnatural chemicals that humans have within their bodies today, compared with thousands of years ago.
Another set of data would be the tremendous change in diet comparing now with only a few hundred years ago.
We don't have to get very detailed with these facts in order to conclude that man has become a chemically-laden being, compared to times past, and that his diet has moved far from anything considered natural.
The hypothesis I would suggest, for my philosophy of wellness, is that man suffers today from a burden of toxins of all types, that these are the primary cause of illness today and that the FIRST objective of any health care system would be to identify and then cleanse the body of toxins!
My hypothesis indicates that, after toxins, it is nutritional deficiencies that cause illness.
The first objective simply recognizes that good health starts off for almost everyone as a process of negative gain. We gain better health by getting rid of stuff!
For this step we DO NOT improve our health by adding stuff to the body. There may be some things worth adding to the body, but before we look at those, let's get rid of as much as we can of the accumulated poisons which load up in our body.
These toxins ARE NOT put there by bacteria or viruses. Yet, the great bulk of medical research over the past 150 years has been to study bacteria as a cause of disease, and more recently, to study the virus as a source of disease. The reason is obvious. Drug companies do NOT research how to rid the body of chemicals -- instead they research on what new chemical they can add to a body to handle some bug!
Instead, medical science should be studying he effects of various chemical substances on the body, and finding ways to rid the body of those chemicals which remain in the body causing harm.
An example would be the lead which kids used to swallow by chewing on toys painted with lead-based paints. The "disease" of lead poisoning is well understood and the symptoms are quite recognizable. The first solution, of course, is to avoid taking that lead into the body.
There are no microbes or viruses to blame for lead poisoning. It happens that intravenous chelation therapy is the standard, FDA-approved treatment for lead poisoning and that it is quite effective.
Here, then, is an example of negative gain in terms of health care -- take the lead out of the body to improve health.
Certainly removing the mercury from silver tooth fillings is a popular way to remove a very dangerous metal toxin from the body. You get the silver removed, replaced with gold, and then use cysteine in the Life Glow Plus formula, for instance, to get rid of the toxic mercury.
I could write, and will write, about many poisons which you may not even thing about as poisons, but the main point HERE is that there are millions of substances now aloft in our atmospheres, placed into our water and food supplies, even despoiling the soil, and that many of these substances are, in fact, toxins to the body. The first job of health care is to identify them and then find ways to get rid of them from your body.
It is a political objective to prevent them from being put into our environment in the first place, but it is a health care objective to remove them from individuals. Individuals may take up the political agenda of changing the amounts of toxins put into the general public, but individuals have a senior responsibility to themselves, to make sure that THEY are healthy, and that THEY get rid of the toxins in THEIR bodies.
There are many ways to detoxify the body, already well documented. I'll write of those in future issues of The Wednesday Letter, but two of these include fasting and colonics. There are others, including one I'll write about in a special issue of The Wednesday Letter, involving certain vitamins and a sauna program of sweating out many of these toxins. Certainly many of the Vibrant Life products have been designed around cleansing objectives. Look, for instance, at:
I would then suggest that the second objective of any health care system would be to determine what deficiencies exist in the body, and remedy those.
Years ago there was a terrible disease which killed many people. The disease was called scurvy.
scur·vy (skûr¹vê) noun
A disease caused by deficiency of vitamin C, characterized by spongy and bleeding gums, bleeding under the skin, and extreme weakness.
adjective
scur·vi·er, scur·vi·est
Mean; contemptible.
[From Middle English scurfy, characterized by scurf (influenced by French scorbut, scurvy, from Latin scorbútus). See scorbutic, from scurf, scurf. See scurf.]
— scur¹vi·ly adverb
— scur¹vi·ness nou
Believe it or not, scurvy was considered an infectious disease for many decades. Back then, just as now, medical scientists were chasing after bugs as the cause of some disease when the true cause was simply some deficiency in the diet.
Pellagra (rough skin leading to nervous disorders, insanity and death) is another "disease" which, for decades, was considered contagious. Many thousands of people died from pellagra before it became obvious that it was nothing more than a deficiency of niacin.
So, the first statement of my hypothesis for wellness is that:
Wellness is a natural state for mankind, departed from because of toxins taken into the body, and because of deficiencies in the diet (and exercise or life style).
The study of the return (from a death-like condition) to a previous condition of health, Anabiology, examines the technology of health care within this hypothesis.
This technology, now evolving, will consist of various types of cleansing or purification programs and biochemical analysis of the nutritional needs (in term of basic minerals and vitamins) of individual organs and tissues.
Bacteria and viruses play a very minor role in the study of wellness since, as another part of this hypothesis, bacteria and viruses usually cause disease ONLY when the body has been weakened by previous toxic build-ups and nutritional deficiencies.
I have not included here the problems caused by the mind -- other than to acknowledge that they may account for as much as 70% of all illness. As mentioned above, I believe this type of problem is NOT the province of a medical doctor OR a psychiatrist, but a minister.
Medical drugs, as a generic term, will play almost no role within this hypothesis, other than as causes of disease rather than useful treatments.
Discipline does! The health care professional who continues to "help" a client who refuses to start a cleansing program will have so many losses in his practice as to quit. The professional will have to be more a teacher and motivator than dispense of drugs or a wielder of the knife!
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