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There is No Disease
by Dr. Robert Young
Disease names like diabetes and
osteoporosis are misleading and misinform patients about disease prevention.
There is a curious tendency in
conventional medicine to name a set of symptoms a disease. I was recently at a
compounding pharmacy having my bone mineral density measured to update my
health stats. I spotted a poster touting a new drug for osteoporosis. It was
written by a drug company and it said exactly this: ‘Osteoporosis is a disease
that causes weak and fragile bones.’ Then, the poster went on to say that you
need a particular drug to counteract this ‘disease.’
Yet the language is all backwards.
Osteoporosis isn’t a disease that causes weak bones, osteoporosis is the name
given to a diagnosis of weak bones. In other words, the weak bones are the
result of excess acidity, and then the diagnosis of osteoporosis followed.
The drug poster makes it sound like
osteoporosis strikes first, and then you get weak bones. The cause and effect
is all backwards. And that’s how drug companies want people to think about
diseases and symptoms: first you ‘get’ the disease, and then you are
‘diagnosed’ just in time to take a new drug for the rest of your life.
But it’s all hogwash. There is no such
disease as osteoporosis. It’s just a made-up name given to a pattern of
symptoms that indicate you are over-acid which causes your bones to get
fragile.
As another example, when a person
follows an unhealthy lifestyle that results in a symptom such as high blood
pressure, that symptom is actually being assumed to be a disease all by itself
and it will be given a disease name. What disease? The disease is, of course,
‘high blood pressure.’ Doctors throw this phrase around as if it were an actual
disease and not merely descriptive of patient physiology.
This may all seem silly, right? But
there’s actually a very important point to all this.
When we look at symptoms and give them
disease names, we automatically distort the selection of available treatments
for such a disease. If the disease is, by itself, high cholesterol, then the
cure for the disease must be nothing other than lowering the high cholesterol.
And that’s how we end up with all these pharmaceuticals treating high
cholesterol in order to ‘prevent’ this disease and lower the levels of LDL
cholesterol in the human patient. By lowering only the cholesterol, the doctor
can rest assured that he is, in fact, treating this ‘disease,’ since the
definition of this ‘disease’ is high cholesterol and nothing else.
But there is a fatal flaw in this
approach to disease treatment: the symptom is not the cause of the disease.
There is another cause, and this deeper cause is routinely ignored by
conventional medicine, doctors, drug companies, and even patients.
Let’s take a closer look at high blood
pressure. What actually causes high blood pressure? Many doctors would say high
blood pressure is caused by a specific, measurable interaction between
circulating chemicals in the human body. Thus, the ill-behaved chemical
compounds are the cause of the high blood pressure, and therefore the solution
is to regulate these chemicals. That’s exactly what pharmaceuticals do — they
attempt to manipulate the chemicals in the body to adjust the symptoms of high
blood pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
Or take a look at high cholesterol.
The conventional medicine approach says that high cholesterol is caused by a
chemical imbalance in the liver, which is the
organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the treatment for high cholesterol is a
prescription drug that inhibits the liver’s production of cholesterol (statin
drugs). Upon taking these drugs, the high cholesterol (the ‘disease’) is
regulated, but what was causing the liver to overproduce cholesterol in the
first place? That causative factor remains ignored.
The root cause of high cholesterol, as
it turns out, is primarily an over acidic diet. A person who eats foods that
are acidic will inevitably cause the body to go into preservation mode and
produce more cholesterol to neutralize the excess acid thus showing the
symptoms of this so-called disease of high cholesterol. Its simple cause and
effect. Eat the wrong foods, and you’ll produce too much acid which will cause
the body to release cholesterol from the liver to bind up that acid which can
be detected and diagnosed by conventional medical procedures.
You see it is not the cholesterol that
is bad it is the acid producing food we eat that is bad. Reduce the acid
producing foods like beef, chicken, pork, dairy, coffee, tea, soda pops, etc
and you will reduce the protective cholesterol that is saving your life from
excess acid foods.
Yet the root cause of all this is
actually poor food choice, not some bizarre behavior by the liver. If the
disease were to be accurately named, then, it would be called Acidic Food
Choice Disease, or simply AFCD.
AFCD would be a far more accurate name
that would make sense to people. If it’s an acidic foods choice disease, then
it seems that the obvious solution to the disease would be to choose foods that
aren’t so acidic. Of course that may be a bit of simplification since you have
to distinguish between healthy alkaline foods and unhealthy acidic foods. But
at least the name AFCD gives patients a better idea of what’s actually going on
rather than naming the disease after a symptom, such as high cholesterol. You
see, the symptom is not the disease, but conventional medicine insists on
calling the symptom the disease because that way it can treat the symptom and
claim success without actually addressing the underlying cause, which remains a
mystery to modern medicine.
But let’s move on to some other diseases
so you get a clearer picture of how this actually works. Another disease that’s
caused by poor acidic food choice is diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the natural
physiological and metabolic result of a person consuming refined carbohydrates
and added sugars in large quantities, undigested proteins from beef, chicken,
and pork without engaging in regular physical exercise that would compensate
for such dietary practices.
The name ‘diabetes’ is meaningless to
the average person. The disease should be called Excessive Acid Disease, or
EAD. If it were called Excessive Acid Disease, the solution to it would be
rather apparent; simply eat less sugar, eliminate all animal proteins, eggs, dairy, drink fewer
soft drinks and so on. But of course that would be far too simple for the
medical community, so the disease must be given a complex name such as diabetes
that puts its solution out of reach of the average patient.
Another disease that is named after
its symptom is cancer. In fact, to this day, most doctors and many patients
still believe that cancer is a physical thing: a
tumor. In reality, a tumor is the solution of cancer, not its cause. A tumor is
simply a physical manifestation of bound up
acidic cells so they do not spoil other healthy cells. The tumor is the
solution to cells damaged by acids not the problem. The
truth is cancer is not a cell but an acidic liquid. When a person ‘has cancer,’
what they really have is a latent tissue acidosis. They are absorbing their own
acidic urine. It that would be a far better name for the disease: Latent Tissue
Acidosis or LTA.
If cancer were actually called Latent
Tissue Acidosis, it would seem ridiculous to try to cure cancer by cutting out
tumors through surgery and by destroying the immune system with chemotherapy.
And yet these are precisely the most popular treatments for cancer offered by
conventional medicine. These treatments do absolutely nothing to support the
patient’s immune system and prevent the build up of acids in the tissues.
That’s exactly why most people who undergo chemotherapy or the removal of
tumors through surgical procedures end up with yet more cancer a few months or
a few years later. It’s also another reason
why survival rates of cancer have barely budged over the last twenty years. (In
other words, conventional medicine’s treatments for cancer simply don’t work.)
The main reason is current medical
science wrongly perceives cancer as a cell when in reality cancer is an acidic
liquid, like lactic acid. This whole situation stems from the fact that the
disease is misnamed. It isn’t cancer, it isn’t a tumor and it certainly isn’t a
disease caused by having too strong of an immune system that needs to be
destroyed through chemotherapy. It is simply latent tissue acidosis. And if it
were called latent tissue acidosis disease or urine in the tissues, the effective
treatment for cancer would be apparent.
There are many other diseases that are
given misleading names by western medicine. But if you look around the world
and take a look at how diseases are named elsewhere, you will find many
countries have disease names that actually make sense.
For example, in Chinese medicine,
Alzheimer’s disease is given a name that means, when translated, ‘feeble mind
disease.’ In Chinese medicine, the name of the disease more accurately
describes the actual cause of the disease which is caused by acids or urine on
the brain, whereas in western medicine, the name of the disease seems to be
intended to obscure the root cause of the disease, thereby making all diseases
sound far more complex and mysterious than they really are.
This is one way in which doctors and
practitioners of western medicine keep medical treatments out of the reach of
the average citizen. Because, by God, they sure don’t want people thinking for
themselves about the causes of disease!
By creating a whole new vocabulary for
medical conditions, they can speak their own secret language and make sure that
people who aren’t schooled in medicine don’t understand what they’re saying.
That’s a shame, because the treatments
and cures for virtually all chronic diseases are actually quite simple and can
be described in plain language, such as making different alkaline food choices,
getting more natural sunlight, drinking more alkaline water, engaging in
regular physical exercise, avoiding specific acidic foods, supplementing your
diet with green foods and green drinks and alkalizing nutritional supplements
and so on.
See, western medicine prefers to
describe diseases in terms of chemistry. When you’re depressed, you aren’t
suffering from a lack of natural sunlight; you are suffering from a ‘brain
chemistry imbalance’ that can only be regulated, they claim, by ingesting toxic
chemicals to alter your brain chemistry. When your bones are brittle, it’s not
acidic brittle bones disease; it’s called osteoporosis, something that sounds
very technical and complicated. And to treat it, western doctors and physicians
will give you prescriptions for expensive drugs that somehow claim to make your
bones less brittle. But in fact, the real treatment for this can be described
in plain language once again: regular physical exercise, vitamin D
supplementation, mineral supplements that include calcium and strontium,
natural sunlight, and avoidance of acidic foods such as soft drinks, white
flour and added sugars.
In fact, virtually every disease
that’s prominent in modern society — diabetes, cancer, heart disease,
osteoporosis, clinical depression, irritable bowel syndrome and so on — can be
easily described in plain language without using complex terms at all. These
diseases are simply misnamed. And I believe that they are intentionally
misnamed to put the jargon out of reach of everyday citizens. As a result,
there’s a great deal of arrogance in the language of western medicine, and this
arrogance furthers the language of separation. Separation never results in
healing. In order to effect healing, we must bring together the language of
healers and patients using plain language that real people understand and that
real people can act upon.
We need to start describing diseases
in terms of their root causes, not in terms of their arcane, biochemical
actions. When someone suffers from seasonal affective disorder or clinical
depression, for example, let’s call it what it is: Sunlight Deficiency
Disorder. To treat it, the person simply needs to get more sunlight. This isn’t
rocket science, it’s not complex, and it doesn’t require a prescription.
If someone is suffering from
osteoporosis, let’s get realistic about the words we use to describe the
condition: it’s really Acidic Bones Disease. And it should be treated with
things that will enhance bone density, such as nutrition, physical exercise and
avoidance of acidic foods and drinks that strip away bone mass from the human
body to neutralize the excess acids in the blood and tissues.
All of this information, of course, is
rather shocking to old-school doctors and practitioners of western medicine,
and the bigger their egos are, the more they hate the idea of naming diseases
in plain language that patients can actually comprehend. That’s because if the
simple truths about diseases and their causes were known, health would be more
readily available to everyday people, and that would lessen the importance of
physicians and medical researchers.
There’s a great deal of ego invested
in the medical community, and they sure don’t want to make sound health
attainable to the average person without their expert advice. Doctors all want
to serve as the translators of ‘truth’ and will balk at any attempts to educate
the public to either practice medicine on their own. But in reality, health
(and a connection with spirit) is attainable by every single person. Health is
easy, it is straightforward, it is direct and, for the most part, it is
available free of charge.
A personal connection with our Creator
is the same if we ask humbly in prayer for a relationship with Him, and
guidance.
Don’t believe the names of diseases
given to you by your doctor. Those names are designed to obscure, not to
inform. They are designed to separate you from self-healing, not to put you in
touch with your own inner healer. And thus, they are nothing more than bad
medicine masquerading as modern medical practice.
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