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i really liked that post about your aunt aguacate. i agree that all science is theory and perhaps all sides have valid arguements but nothing is absolute fact in many instances. what i find amazing is how some people put so much faith in doctors and believe every word they say must be true because they are a doctor. some people can't think that somebody who went to university for six years could be wrong. i really wonder how much doctors do know though? i've heard they study very little on nutrition so i don't think they would be entitled to say anything about it. one of the most thought provocative things i read about health and the way doctors deal with sickness was this foreward in a natural health book called, how to get well. It's quite old but it has some good stuff on juice fasting and promotes a diet of a minimum of 75-80% raw foods.
"Having been a practitioner in the area of Preventitive Medicine for more than a decade, I just as you have, see the need for people to help themeselves in matters of health; and for those members of the medical community who are interested in nutritional and biological approaches to health and disease, the need for the authoritative guidance in the proper administration of the alternatives to the orthodox procedures, which your book so expertly provides.
Paavo, I remember one instance early in my professional career that bent my directions into a dedicated service to mankind.
Toward the end of my first year of practice I recieved a telephone call in the early hours of the morning. The wife of one of my patients said, worriedly, that her husband was very ill and on his way to hospital. Because his complaint was in the chest, I notified the intensive care personnel at the hospital and the attending heart specialist. When I arried at the critical wing, the patient was under an oxygen tent. Intravenous fluids were running into his arms. Oscilloscopes and monitors were flashing and beeping. The cardiologist came away from the patient and as he passed me he casually muttered an unlighted cigar dangling from his lps:
"Sub-endocardial M1 (myocardial infarction heart attack) continue orders. I'll see him in morning. Only 31 years old. Too bad..."
I walked to the bedside. ZIpping open the flap on the oxygen tent, I leaned closely to the opening and said with an air of suprised arrogance; "Well John, you've had a heart attack."
"How come, Doc? I've been coming to you for over a year now", said John with an obvious struggle and a puzzled look on his face.
We were all standing there watching our fallen comrade... me with embarassment... his wife with panic... the nurses with the boredom of work... and the machines and monitors... My eyes were fixed on the heart monitor, watching for the patterns. I suddenly realized that my mind was impersonally playing with his life, I was looking for bad patterns, not good ones. I was expecting the worst, not the best. I could not stand it any longer.
I left, and as I walked down the long tunnel-like, white corridor of the intensive care unit, I thought to myself:
-This man had hardening of the arteries. He was dying of a corruption of his blood vessels. It was growing in his body for 30 years. For all of his life, there was nothing don to avert this tradgedy. No one advised him. No one warned or treated him. they merely waited until it was so bad that the patient told us of his problem by collapse. He recieved no preventetive care whatsoever. Now he had an "intensive care" - rather than an intensive watching. We, the doctors, the nurses, the family, and the machines, were simply watching him die.
This man's life could have been saved if the changes in his blood vessels had been diagnosed in advance. The critical developments could have been prevented by changes in his living and eating patterns and by other safe biological means.
Your book Paavo is a giant step in that direction. I would be inclined to divide mediacal practice in this country into three parts. On the one hand we have acute and traumatic medicine: broken bones, gunshot wounds, acute ilnesses such as flu and pneumonia - medicine is well-equiped to handle these problems. On the other hand we have terminal, catastrophic diseases, such as cancers, sclerotic heart diseases, arthritis - medicine is well equiped to handle these also.... not by helping them, but by writing their death certificates.
In the middle, between those two extremes of acute and terminal illness, lies a gigantic no man's land where supposedly healthy people live without "apparent" disease. And according to that incredible philosophy of orthodox medicine "you do not qualify for a treatment until you have a disease." These people must first become acutely ill or terminally sick before they can expect to find help from their medical purveyors. Medicine has abandoned these people and left them to their own devices to maintain health. But what devices do our people have? None! Medicine has not equipped them with the useful knowledge able to maintain health and prevent disease - mainly because of medical ignorance in these vital areas. Much of the available so-called health literature is filled with faddist notions, contradictions, and unreliable "old wives tales" leavin the sincere health seeker in fonfusion and bewilderment.
There are but few informed and courageoius leaders concerned with the well- being of the public; leadesrs who have not only dedicated their lives to helping their fellow men, but who have the sufficient knowledge and qualifications to accomplish this............."
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