As I have waded through many of these messages my heart continues to sink.I thought this was the "alternative treatments" section. I've read few, to no references, of great doctors like Dr. Linus Pauling (two time Nobel Prize winner) who used vitamin C for many serious health afflicitons. Little to few notes of Dr. Mathius Rath, Ralph Moss and many alternative healers like Dr. Clark and Dr.Donsbach. Few to No notes of orthomolecular medicine.
Few people know that mainstream doctors have little- to- zero training in alternative healing. Their medical text books are created by the drug companies "for" the drug companies. They are mandated by law to only offer choices that will benefit drug companies.Therefore going to a mainstream cancer doctor and hoping they will offer a safer, natural choice, is just not going to happen. Nor are they going to offer natural choices that we can buy ourselves without a prescription and without padding their pockets. In that instance even alternative doctors are a disgrace when they add 500% mark ups to very affordable supplements and try to make patients think they have some "special" form of a common supplement.
What seems to astonish me more is the inate fear people will have when looking into any "natural" healing choice that rarely offers any side affects and if they do have side effects they are absolutely nothing compared to the side effects of radiation, chemo or the seriousness of sacraficing entire body parts for the elusive treatment of cancer. But these are the same people who do not flinch when talking about "which" toxic chemo choice caused less serious damages to internal organs, hair loss, greatly diminished body mass and bed ridden results of mainstream cancer protocols. I am sorry but for me when we are comparing which posion will harm us less I do not see how either is a choice. Posion is posion is posion. If we add posion to herbal tea that tea is no longer safe to drink.
I liken this to the oxymoron of the EPA warning oregnant women not to eat too much tuna due to mercury content but then the FDA thinks nothing of saying pregnant women can get flu vaccines still loaded with mercury and aluminum which will pass through the blood brain barrier of the infant they are carrying.
Somewhere along the line people have removed fears of dangerous chemicals that repeatedly show they kill us and erroneously replaced them with fears of natural choices. Do the math...not one supplement holds a shred of the record in deaths caused compared to drugs. Cancer rates have not improved with all this so-called "great" science.
When the studies reveal that if they gave 100 very healthy people chemo that 25 of those "healthy" people would die from this chemo alone how have we managed to convince ourselves that a body ravaged by cancer via an already greatly weakened immune system would ever fair better when given chemo that would kill 25 out of 100 "healthy" people?
They have also revealed many people can live at least 4 times and up to 20 times longer if they do nothing and just let cancer run its course. Of course the end is still death so that's not a any choice either.If we want to live we can't not do a thing. I guess it all depends on what we call quality of life? If a protocol used to treat cancer only keeps us in a barely existing state of miserable conditions for several years, what was the quality of life worth in those end years?
I lost several family members years ago to cancer already. I did not know back then what I know now about natural alternative healing choices and it breaks my heart to know they had to live a miserable existence for several years, with no quality of life in the end, while we all felt as if we suffered greatly with them feeling completely helpless, and tortured seeing the diminished, malnourished, concentration camp victim state they eventually died in.
We need truth in medicine, in both sides, today more then ever. As it is alternatives are not allowed by law to make any medical claims for supplements or treatments unless they get FDA approval to even run trials and those trials cost into the millions per supplement. It's quite the oxy-moron to say to suppliers they can sell them all they want but they cannot even tell people what they are for isn't it? How is the FDA protecting the people when they refuse to allow supplement providers to even tell people what they are for? Doesn't that set more people up for harm when they resort to just experimenting on themselves with no guidance?
The sad reality is that mainstream medicine has reached the all time shameful status of the number one killer of Americans over all diseases. Over all cancers, heart diseases etc.. This is due to thousands who die from drug reactions when taking them "as directed." Thousands more who do not take them as directed. More who die from unessasary surgeries, and being operated on the wrong body part. Infections gained while in the hospital that they did not have going in. The list continues to grow of the extreme failures of mainstream medicine and the drug companies continue to spend billions in Tv advertising to the tune that most just ignore the very serious and life threatening side affects they will then reveal at the end of the commercial in a much lowered voice in hopes the people will just ignore them.
In the battle of cancer they have had their turn to show us for decades what billions of dollars have not done for healing it. Meanwhile natural choices in healing continue to come under unjust fire and the mainstream medical industries now have the FDA as their henchmen to shut down and target natural healers to the tune they are leaving America and going where they can heal without restrictions with alternatives that have been used for decades to heal but were denied to be used in the US.
The bottom line for me is that any healing choice needs to not have any links to causing what I am trying to heal. That is exactly what cancer protocols continue to reveal from biopsies that seed the cancer to necessitate the dire need to immediately start chemo, raditaion or cut it out because they know it spread the cancer they just cut into. To chemo that causes cancer as does radiation. Even mammograms have been linked to causing cancer because they emit radiation 1000 times straonger then basic xrays. Of course that is used to find cancer right? >sigh<
The chemicals in commercial sunscreens have also been linked to causing skin cancers. On the other end natural sun exposures to our skin have been revealed to prevent many kinds of cancers due to natural substances like Vitamin D that our body will only make in higher levels when natural sunlight exposures is given to us in moderation each day.
No matter what we use to heal with we need to know all information. The good the bad and the ugly. The supplement market has been greatly infiltrated by giant drug companies who ahve done the same to supplements that commercial farms did to our food supply. They cut corners for a higher profit. Substituted all natural vitamins that heal with synthetic ones that cause damage.
The same is true for new clinical trials. These drug companies should never be allowed to just test their "own" products, then cherry pick which trials they liked best and gain approval from the FDA. The clinical trials that the public was denied from seeing in Vioxx that revealed heart attacks and strokes they already knew as a "side effect" was need to know ifnormation. But they were allowed to hide those studies until so many died they could not longer deny it.
If we want to see real healing we ahve to take charge of our health and self educate. question and question some more. In my almost decade of studying alternatives I have found they do indeed have a safe alternative choice in healing for every toxic choice offered by mainstream. But it is not a highly profitabnle business and the people will not be told how to "prevent" illness and no chronically ill patients for a system designed around selling sickness will mean no more business of selling sickness for a profit.
We are the only ones who can change that. Not the doctors, not the drug companies and not even the press. If we do not buy it, use it, or sacrafice our bodies to it, they will be forced to conform to give us what really heals.
I pray everyone in here seeks true healing choices and not treatments that only go after the symptoms of disease while leaving the root cause in tact, and most importantly while not setting their body up for more damages due to the side affects of those treatments. We may, or may not, be able to get people to take charge of their health and make the lifestyle changes needed to save their lives. Far too many want the so-called proverbial quick fix for serious health afflictions that took years to manifest. They will be the victims of our future and as each one opts for a choice that renders no more hope for healing then it did 40 years ago I pray they will wake up before they sacrafice their lives and become another statistic that could have been prevented.
There are alternatives that can save them in spite of opting for chemo, radiation and surgery. It all depends on how long they want to take to heal and how many more risks they are willing to take when their body is already beaten down with serious illness.
God Bless, Pamela