Re: Calamine

For generations now, our doctors have been taught in medical schools whose primary source of funding is the Big Pharma companies that the way to treat illness is to prescribe approved medicine made my guess who?  And those same doctors, supported by drug company reps that are as abundant as doctors themselves and billions in annual advertising, have passed along this brainwashing, I mean knowledge, to us.

They, and we, have been taught precious little about prevention or the role that diet and proper nutrition play in health.  And what little they have been taught about healing herbs found in nature is that they are ineffective and dangerous. In fact, for four decades doctors were trotted out before congress to testify that vitamins and minerals were essentially useful and could be downright harmful.  A doctor friend of mine said that in his entire time in medical school he had exactly one lecture on diet and nutrition.

How many years have we been warned about the dangers of sunshine to the point that we are now virtually all deficient in Vitamin D3, without which there would be no life?  I am surprised that they have not figured out a way to ban sunshine altogether - after all they came after Washington cherry growers when they dared make statements about consuming cherries having health benefits.

The first doctor who had the audacity to suggest that better hygeine would save lives from diseases spread by doctors who failed to wash their hands between patients was persecuted to the point of ending up in an asylum.

While much credit has been taken by modern medicine for increased lifespans, other than the initial use of antibiotics (which germs have quickly out adapted), such increase has been largely due to increased sanitation, better access to medical trauma care, and better nutrition - though thanks to all the toxins, processed foods, SADS diet and depleted soils we are quickly turning that advantage into a disadvantage again.

When one takes away the high child mortality rate and compares the figures for those who lived past the age of 20, you find that life expectancy has increased precious little for the past couple of centuries.

No one ever became ill due to deficiencies in pharmaceuticals.  On the other hand, millions have become ill due to the ingestion or injection of compounds created in labs and not found in the same form in nature.

"Modern medicine" may well be defined as "the experimental study of what happens when poisonous chemicals are placed into malnourished human bodies." - A. Saul, Contributing Editor, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

"Leave your drugs in the chemist's pots if you can cure your patient with food." - Hippocrates, "the father of modern medicine", 420BC

"The doctor of the future will give no medicine but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease." - Thomas Edison

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.” - Thomas Szasz, M.D.

“God heals and the doctor takes the fee.” - Benjamin Franklin

"Unless the doctor of today becomes the dietitian of tomorrow, the dietitian of today will become the doctor of tomorrow." - Dr. Alexis Carrol (Famous Biological Scientist and head of the Rockefeller Institute.)

All the best,

DQ