Chapter 1: Introduction To The War in Medicine
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Introduction
We live in a world of "fast foods," "fast cars," and fast answers or should
I say: "shallow answers." Executives don't like to read reports of more than
one or two pages. People want to learn everything they need to know about
something by watching a 1/2 hour television show. Students want to learn
complicated mathematics while they play video games. And so on.
Unfortunately, the world of cancer politics and cancer treatments are not
simple subjects. They are complicated. Plus it is impossible to overcome
decades of constant false information by reading for half an hour. So grab
something to drink, settle into your seat, and grab your computer mouse,
because this is not going to be a short story, nor will it be entertaining.
Let us start with a metaphor.

The Small Town Metaphor
Let us suppose you move to a new town, in fact a small town with only two
car repair shops (i.e. "garages"). One of them is owned by Jim. The other by
Bob. Jim's garage is by far the biggest garage, he has lots of customers.
The problem is that Jim's mechanics are not very good because they have had
very poor training. In fact, most of the time the cars they have "repaired"
are in worse shape when they are done, than when the car first came in. Most
people put up with Jim, and just live with the shoddy work.
However, some people go to Bob's garage, usually after they have gone to
Jim's garage first. While Jim's garage charges an average of $1,500 per car
repair job, Bob's garage only charges $75 per car repair job. Furthermore,
in over 90% of the time, Bob's garage completely fixes the cars of its
customers, including the extra damage done by Jim's garage.
You are new to the town, and wonder why anyone would ever take their car to
Jim's garage and why everyone doesn't take their car to Bob's garage first.

Then one day as you are reading the newspaper you see part of the problem.
Jim is so rich he has several large ads in the newspaper every day. Bob
rarely advertises, and when he does he usually gets a visit from the police,
and it is not a friendly visit. It seems that all prior policemen in the
town now work at Jim's garage, and the current policeman looks forward to a
cushy job at Jim's garage.

You also note that the newspaper has an article virtually every day about
how good Jim's garage is. They interview satisfied customers, interview the
mechanics, and make the mechanics sound like geniuses. You also read about
how the mechanics at Jim's garage are constantly striving to get better and
better equipment. But you note that the better and better equipment they
talk about doesn't improve anything, it just increases the cost of their
repairs.
You also note that the mayor, members of the chamber of commerce, etc. all
strongly endorse Jim's garage. You also note that many of these people are
highly paid part-time salesmen for Jim's garage.
You also note that Jim contributes significantly to the local schools, and
that the children are taught how good Jim's garage is.
Finally you realize there is a war going on between Jim's garage and Bob's
garage and that those in power in the town are more interested in which
garage offers them the most benefits, than in which garage has the best
mechanics. You see that the political machine in town does everything in
their power to crush Bob's garage.
But above all, you note that month after month, year after year, Jim's
garage prices keep growing and growing, it makes obscene profits, and
usually does more damage than good in repairing the cars. You also note that
those small number of people who later go to Bob's garage usually get their
car completely fixed for less than $100.

What Is Wrong With This Picture?
What I have just described is the war in modern medicine with regards to
cancer treatments.
Orthodox medicine is well organized, unbelievably well funded, and has total
control over the news media due to the massive amounts of advertising
dollars spent by the pharmaceutical industry. When was the last time you saw
a 1/2 hour television show where the main speaker was a doctor who used
alternative treatments for cancer? Try to name 10 of the "top 100" best
alternative treatments for cancer.

Would it surprise you that the pharmaceutical companies make billions of
dollars in profits on chemotherapy drugs every year? Big Pharma also
controls many other aspects of life in America due to their billions of
dollars of clout. It turns out that there are a lot of people who will
quickly sellout for the right price.
Alternative medicine, on the other hand, is very poorly organized, equally
poorly funded, disjointed, and severely persecuted by orthodox medicine.

People in America, unfortunately, generally make their key decisions based
solely on what they hear on television. Yet, the fact that orthodox medicine
has lots of money, and alternative medicine is disjointed, has nothing to do
with which type of medicine has the best treatments for cancer. It only has
to do with which side has had the most money for the longest amount of time.
It is like the above metaphor: just because Jim's garage makes far more
money than Bob's garage, and does far more advertising, doesn't mean Jim's
garage charges a fair price and does a better job.

While orthodox medicine generally uses surgery, chemotherapy and radiation
treatments, alternative medicine uses treatment plans with names like:
Kelley Metabolic, Breuss Tea, Budwig Flaxseed, Brandt Grape Cure, Essiac
Tea, etc.
Did you recognize any of the treatments I just mentioned under alternative
medicine? You probably didn't. Yet if you have cancer, and if you make the
wrong treatment decision, it could cost you your life! That's right - your
own life. Before you brush-off this war as being unimportant to you, keep
that in mind.

You probably think that this war is about medical theory, and that one side
believes in the "germ theory" of disease and the other side believes in the
"nutritional theory" of disease. Or perhaps you think that orthodox medicine
is interested in treating "symptoms," while alternative medicine is
interested in treating "causes." While there are theoretical differences,
the war is not caused by differences in medical theory. The war is all about
profits.

Carole
www.cellsalts.net