ARE MOST DISEASES CAUSED BY THE MEDICAL SYSTEM?

By Walter Last

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.

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).

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-brain”, 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) 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-like” 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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