History
of the World, Part I… um, no, that belongs to Mel Brooks. How about this instead? A Brief History of
Medicine by Rich Amber (brief because the long version requires many thousands of volumes) Imagine, if you will, a group of humans in our remote past, so long ago that there were no such things as doctors, medicine men, etc. Think seriously about how they lived. No, folks, man did not live alongside the dinosaurs; in spite of what you see in the movies, those were all gone long before we came on the scene, so try again. How did these people live? What did they do with their time? What kinds of foods did they eat? Do you suppose any of them suffered from arteriosclerosis or hypertension? J These people are the ones that anthropologists call “hunter-gatherers.”
They ate what they could pick from the plants that Mother Nature*1 placed near them. They also hunted wild animals (who also ate natural
plants and/or natural meats) and they likely ate that meat raw – until such time as
one of them figured out how to make fire and accidentally toasted the meat in it. What was
their state of health, in general, and how long did they live? That’s very difficult
to answer because those people did not keep written records and likely didn’t even
think in the same terms as we do today, so even if they left a record, we wouldn’t
understand it. We can make some guesses by studying their bones, and even though modern
scientists often attempt to ascribe modern diseases to ancient peoples, the consensus is
that they were relatively healthy, though they lived shorter lives than we do because any
accident that produced a physical injury was more than likely to be fatal. They had no one
to cure them and knew nothing about how their bodies worked. We have a distinct advantage
today, but to be honest, we aren’t very far ahead of our ancestors because, in
general, our average state of health is worse (regardless of claims made by the AMA and
the government propaganda distributors). * Note 1: I fully intend this series of newsletters to be in the
here-and-now and pertain only to purely physical issues about your body. Sooner or later,
however, one of more of us will inject a spiritual comment, so let’s get that out of
the way right now. I have my set of beliefs and you folks have yours. This is not a forum
where I choose to even debate that issue or make any unnecessary comments in that
direction. But the longer I live and the closer I inspect nature, the more I am sure there
was/is intelligent design involved. I know that evolution does exist because we can
see that man is still evolving just within the span of written history. But I believe
there is still some overriding presence in the Universe, whether you chose to call that
God, Goddess, Source, the Force, or simply Mother Nature. I do not care to debate the
reality of angels and demons and good spirits, guides, or even your own higher self. I put
this here because it relates strongly to our history and the things mankind has believed
and/or still believes. Any comments that I make in this series that might use the words
“god” or “mother nature,” I ask you to feel free to change them into
whatever words or phrases that you, personally, are most comfortable with. OK? So, let’s
get on with the story. We left off with humans wandering around eating fruits and berries,
roots and leaves, and the occasional raw lizard or bird. All of these things were natural
with no added chemical ingredients or artificial flavors and colors. And those people
were, in general, very healthy, right up until the time a cave bear bit their faces off.
So what happened when a person was injured? Apparently, in some societies, they were
simply left behind when the tribe moved on to Summer camp. All the praying to the sky gods
did not fix their grandfather and he invariably died from his injuries or was left behind
to be eaten by whatever the local predators were. At some point in our history, someone
decided there had to be a way to fix broken people. Because the men were always busy knapping flints, making tools to use
in hunting food to feed their families, and telling big fish stories to each other, the
task of medicine apparently fell upon a woman. This woman learned which herbs did what to
people through trial and error (much as today’s doctors seem to do to us with the
latest offerings from the pharmaceutical distributors). Eventually, she gained great
respect in her tribe (as long as she didn’t kill off too many of them –
malpractice suits seemed to be handled by kicking her out of the tribe) and became known
as the Tribal Healer (or medicine woman or whatever name her group may have used way back
then). Remember that way back then, humans were basically a matriarchal society, so women
were well respected (OK, idolized dear Mut). No, she was not a Shaman. That was purely a
spirit-oriented thing and generally fell to an elderly male – someone who had the
courage and strength to deal with the gods. Those guys used herbs too, but usually only of
a hallucinogenic type. Here’s another one of my beliefs, which apparently was also
known by these tribal healers. Whatever you need, for whatever ailment you have, can be
found in Nature within a 50-mile radius of wherever you live. This assumes, of course,
that you no not live in those places considered to be uninhabitable by a hunter-gatherer
society, like Antarctica, the middle of the Sahara Desert, or, in my opinion, any large
modern city. J I can hear a murmur from a few of you who might be thinking about
essentials like Omega-3 that comes from fish oil. I live in South Dakota and the ocean is
1000 miles away. Oddly enough, Nature has put that same thing in a plant called Purslane,
which grows wild here in great abundance (we have been totally unable to purge that stuff
from our garden plot, no matter how hard we try, so maybe God wants us to eat it in our
salads). Anyway, as humans grew in population and regular migrations of nomads
became harder to do without engaging in battles for travel rights, we developed what is
called the agrarian society. That is, we settled in one spot, built shelters to live in,
and started growing crops that we could store and eat all year around. We also
domesticated many of those wild animals, cross bred them to make them more docile, and
started butchering them and hanging that meat for later use. That is the place where man
introduced his greatest enemy into his own diet: fungi. We’ll come back to this point
later. The Tribal Healer from a few paragraphs back still existed, but her title changed to Village Wise Woman. She still dispensed her herbs, but the secrets started to be more carefully guarded to help her maintain her special status (and no doubt her tax-free exemption). J Eventually, even these communal farms were not sufficient to handle
the growing population and demand for new and different “products,” so we
started creating population centers, hubs in the travel routes, and we called these things
cities. They became centers of commerce; a place where the farming families could come
sell their crops and/or trade them for things they needed but no longer had the time or
skills to make themselves (I’ll give you two chickens for that shiny new adz).
Besides housing lots of non-survival-oriented enterprises and governments, those cities
also became major storage centers for anything that was created in excess of the daily
needs of the population. Thus was invented the “grain storage bin” and the
“warehouse culture.” Now, ponder this for a minute or twelve: what happens to grain when
it sits in a pile on the floor of some hot and damp warehouse or in some over-stuffed
bin/silo? It not only becomes rat-infested and full of critter droppings, but it gets
moldy. Will you eat moldy wheat, oats, corn? You will if you’re starving. You also
will if the manufacturer who makes a product from it alters the taste with added chemicals
so you don’t even know it was ever moldy. And what happens to you when you eat moldy
bread? Your body gets sick. You get a bunch of mycotoxins flooding through your body,
killing off your good bacteria, and stalling your natural immune system defenses in favor
of their own preferred order (We are the Borg. Resistance is futile. You will be
assimilated.). In other words, you die (eventually). I really hate to tell you this, but
if you eat any kind of corn and most grains today, you are getting moldy foods. No
one seems willing to pay for a storage system that is capable of preventing the growth of
molds. Now, when you cook those foods, you can kill the actual mold, but the mycotoxins
produced by the mold are heat stable and cannot be destroyed by the cooking process. All
corn, even the seeds you planted in your garden this year, are contaminated, so your crop
will also be contaminated.*2 * Note 2: I have heard objections like “God doesn’t make
mistakes. He wouldn’t create a food that is so dangerous to us.” Sorry to tell
you this, but God did not create corn; man did. This is a food that was cross-pollinated
by man over 1,000 years ago from a wild weed into maize into today’s corn. In the
early 20th century, those kinds of foods were called hybrids – foods that
man has altered genetically to make it larger or tastier or quicker growing (time to
market affects profits). Today they have a new name, which has generated a lot of fear:
genetically modified foods. Folks, it’s the same thing with different names. All your
life you have believed corn to be a safe product of Nature and now you know it was always
a GM food. You’ll find a very similar story surrounding almost all the new drugs
prescribed today. Because we have now introduced the culprit responsible for the root
cause of most human diseases, this might seem a good place to stop this story, but it
really is too far from the current end of our history to do that. You see, if people knew
this was the cause, they would do something about, wouldn’t they? I keep hearing that
people are intelligent, so why are we still sick all the time? (Could it be too many Big
Macs and fries or Doritos in front of the TV? Yes, you can say you don’t eat those,
but I can see you sitting in front of your computer right this moment chucking a handful
of peanuts [more mycotoxins than corn] in your mouth and washing those down with a huge
gulp of sugary Coke.) At the same time that cities were popping up all over the globe, a
concept called Capitalism arose. Now, in and of itself, this is not bad, but there
are those who abuse it to the point they are harming others, and that is bad. That
concept is known as greed, the wanting of more for me and less for you. No, the greedy
capitalist doesn’t want more of your mycotoxins; he wants more of your money, and he
is willing to do whatever he has to in order to beat out the competition. From having the
most money, he gains something else: Power. Whether or not power puts him above the law,
it certainly allows him to influence what laws are made and how they are enforced. And
that brings us much closer to modern times. Wait a minute! How come most doctors in written history were men?
What happened to that village wise woman?*3 Well, at some point, men realized she had a status and power that
they wanted. So they invented a new form of healing and chose to call it medicine. They
still used herbal cures, but they put new names on them. And they disbursed them in a
different fashion, powders being much more effectual (so they said) than chewing on a
leaf. Tinctures were easier to use than steeping a tea with several different types of
leaves or roots in it (thus catering to the growing laziness of society). This soon became
very elitist and anyone who challenged their wisdom and authority was put down hard. They
even formed associations, exclusive “clubs” and agencies to lobby the city
council on their behalf and influence any political decisions made by the king (this
group, today, referred to lovingly as Congress Critters). * Note 3: One of the oldest known written sources of much of the
knowledge gathered by those Village Wise Women can be found in a Hebrew religious book
called The Tanakh. Christians use this book also, but they have chosen
to call it The Old Testament. Of course,
given that these books were penned by men, they have taken the credit for this knowledge. Then one day the doctors realized they were too busy treating people’s
ailments to have enough time to also mix up their own powders and extracts, so some of
them decided to specialize and became apothecaries (later split into pharmacologists and
pharmacists). This one guy could make all the stuff for several doctors. But here comes
the greed again. He wanted to be the biggest and to set his prices higher and he had to
drive the competition out of business. He wasn’t, at this point, concerned for the
occasional village wise woman because no one in the city believed in her anymore, so she
only continued to exist in remote rural locations, but he was concerned about other
alchemists/chemists who were mixing potions too. So it came time for more lobbying of the
government. Let’s make laws about how this stuff is done and who gets to do it. Let’s
require certain standards to be met and certain testing to be required. That additional
cost would drive the little guy out of business because if he didn’t pay up, his
product would be illegal. The governments, of course, went along with this because it was
presented as a matter of public safety, and promoting that idea might also help them get
re-elected. The governments decided the time was also ripe to establish their own agencies
to ensure all was up to code, which is where we got things like the FDA and USDA, etc.,
who, today, often introduce more errors and lies into the equation than we might have
otherwise (bribing a government official is still, even in the USofA, the cheapest way to
get approvals and endorsements). But all of this didn’t seem to be good enough. They had to find
a way to make the people want all these things they were inventing. Along
comes a new expert, “media management”… the marketing man who knows just
enough psychology to be able to change the way words are used to get people to believe
absolute lies. Not only will people want this stuff, they will even present personal
testimony that it has cured them of an incurable disease! People are so gullible that you
can, indeed, fool most of them most of the time. And they are sufficiently lazy that they
are more than willing to let someone else do all the work and just hand them the results
(if the price is right) without question. So the traveling salesman starts hawking Dr.
Kwak’s Miracle Potion. That was, of course, replaced by ads in the newspapers, then
radio, then TV*4, and now I can’t even turn on my computer without someone
trying to sell me breast enlargement medications. * Note 4: Have you noticed the change in TV ads in your lifetime? When I was a kid, the TV and magazines told me that 4 out of every 5 doctors smoked Camels. When that went out of vogue (it became profitable to make us fear tobacco, but you notice they are still in business, even without ads). The next big ad push was booze. Now most of them are gone too (oh, how dreadful it is to consume that sinful beverage! Get MADD!). What is the most frequent ad on TV today? The latest drugs that you absolutely must “ask your doctor if it is right for you!” Which of those three things will kill you first? Drugs, of course. So, JUST SAY NO TO prescription DRUGS. J Speaking of media ads, have you noticed how many new diseases have been created in your lifetime? No, I did not say new diseases that have been discovered; I said “created.” Things like: chronic fatigue syndrome, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, infertility, restless leg syndrome, chronic sinusitis, etc. You’d never get these if the media (and your doctor) didn’t tell you they existed – because they don’t. They are not diseases; they are merely symptoms of something else. Doctors “invent” a new disease name because the FDA rule says you cannot market a drug for a symptom – only for a disease. We are creating new diseases so that we can patent new drugs. We have named 100 different cancers (there really is only one) but you cannot patent additional medicines unless you can get someone with the title “doctor” to claim it will cure a specific disease. Patents, of course, lock in the profits to a specific corporation, and profit is what the world seems to be about today. When it is time for a patent to expire, a savvy lab will change the name of the same pill and do it all again, only this time they use a name that sounds like something very good for you (Seraphim? Oh, you know your child, little angel that she is, just has to have this drug!). Merck Labs once tested olive leaves to extract the healing ingredient
so they could patent a new medicine (the law says you cannot patent the whole leaf because
Nature made that). They found out that their new medicine didn’t work without the
rest of the stuff in the leaf, so the whole project went in the garbage. They weren’t
about to go to all the expense of making a cure that they couldn’t get exclusive
profits from. The whole leaf is very healing, but anyone can sell it. This doctor-pharma relationship is a self-perpetuating business. They
need each other, they need you to need their service/product continually, and neither one
of them would even be in business if you would get well and stay well. This means that
they do not want you to know the root cause of diseases and they certainly have no
intention of curing you. Here’s a short list of some of the “diseases”
that have their root cause in fungi/mycotoxins, in spite of the “scientific evidence”
(makes it sound very important, doesn’t it?) for which the doctors/pharmaceutical
companies insist you need more specific and stronger medications (i.e., patented).
These are all being treated as stand-alone diseases with pills that
do not cure anything. No pill created by a pharmaceutical company cures any
disease. Many of these pills will temporarily relieve the symptoms or pain, but what
happens when you quit taking that pill? It comes back, doesn’t it? And when you go
to the doctor, have you ever discussed with him/her what the exit strategy is to get off
this medication? They’ll give you a blank stare because they (generalization
here) do not believe you should ever try to live your life without being on a medication
of some kind. Hey, the very worst thing you can ever say to a doctors is, “I feel
fine and there is nothing wrong with me.” That doctor spent many years in school
studying what medications affect which part of your body and, after all those years, all
he really knows is how to write you a prescription for a pill that will not cure whatever
it is he thinks you have wrong with you. And don’t forget to bring your wallet back with you when you
come to see him next month, when he will give you another pill to counteract the
side-effects of the one he gave you last visit. I am sorry to have to say this (again),
but doctors are murdering us through their lack of knowledge. How we can change that
should become apparent as this series progresses. So, this history story now brings us up to the point where most of
you have at least been born into this life. Do you remember going to the doctor when you
were a kid? How did he treat you back then? In the 1940s, if you had some sort of
infection, you got a pill that contained both antibiotics and antifungals. It seems that
doctors might have been aware of fungi back then, but then along came the 1950s and
antibiotics were the rage in the medical world (and have been ever since – you might
even get that pill for the sniffles today, even though antibiotics will do absolutely
nothing for viral infections). I remember the few times that we could actually afford a doctor visit
when I was a child in the 1950s. I do not know the full name of our doctor, but everyone
called him Penicillin Pete because, no matter what was wrong with you, you got a
shot of penicillin. Do you remember all the hype about how that stuff was invented? Yeah,
it was made from moldy bread. It’s no wonder that everyone in this country has health
problems when doctors gave them a heavy dose of exactly what is already ailing them:
mycotoxins! Penicillin might be out of vogue today, but general antibiotics are still the
rage. Q: What do antibiotics do to us? A: Well, look at the root parts of the word. It means: against
(anti) life (biotic). They kill things. In particular, they kill bacteria. Remember
that there are some bacteria in your body that are absolutely necessary to the proper
functioning of your immune system. At a minimum, these include Lactobacillus acidophilus,
Lactobacillus bulgaria, and Bifidobacterium bifidum. But antibiotics do not discriminate;
they kill all bacteria, good or bad. I am not saying that you should never allow
your doctor to give you an antibiotic because there are times when this is the right
choice of medicines, but you should follow that pill, about two hours later, with a
healthy dose of probiotics. Q: What is a probiotic? A: The meaning of the word is “for life,” but in today’s
use it is essentially a capsule of the good bacteria that your body needs – those
that the antibiotics (mycotoxins again) just killed off. Q: What’s a healthy dose? A: 5,000,000,000 cfu of Lactobacillus acidophilus, 5,000,000,000 cfu
of Lactobacillus Bulgaria, and 20,000,000,000 cfu of Bifidobacterium bifidum. Q: What’s a cfu? A: That stands for “colony-forming units” and while only
the Lactobacillus acidophilus and the Bifidobacterium bifidum actually form colonies
(Lactobacillus Bulgaria is transient), just think of this in terms of “live active
organisms.” That’s not really a lot, considering that all of that fits into one
gel cap quite easily. Q: Where do you get this stuff?
A: Well, if you go to Google/MSN/Yahoo search engines and type in
“probiotics,” you’ll get over 676,000 hits. Many of those will gladly sell
you something they call probiotics and, unfortunately, most of them won’t help you
one bit. I found some on the shelf at a store that didn’t have anywhere near the
quantity mentioned above, and I’ll guarantee that most of what it did have were dead.
In order for these bacteria to get into your body as “live active organisms,”
the product must be refrigerated all the way from manufacture date to when you use
it. While there might be a few manufacturers who sell such a product, I am personally
aware of only one: Natren’s Healthy Trinity. You can buy it at some health
food stores, located in their refrigerator, or you can order it online at www.natren.com and they will ship it to you overnight in
an ice pack. This is the brand Le Anne and I use and we are not getting a penny for
telling you about it. Le Anne will be happy to give you her personal testimony of all
the ailments she no longer has since she started taking this stuff. Well, folks, this newsletter was longer than usual, so I guess I
better cut it off here. Next time we’ll talk about healthy diets… is what you’re
being told really the truth? |