In our country today, we are encouraged to visit our doctor at least once per year, and we are also admonished to seek the advice of a physician before doing almost anything.  We have been led to believe that our physician is the authority on what is best for us, and that we are foolish for not consulting our physician and trusting what he or she says.

Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, M.D., in his book "How To Have A Healthy Child In Spite Of Your Doctor," gave some very sound advice, advice which is being repeated more and more by health care professionals today..."Avoid your doctor whenever you can."

It is true that if I were in a car accident, and my body had suffered severe trauma requiring lifesaving measure to sustain my life, I would definitely want that medical care.  American medicine is at its best in an emergency.  However, many critics of the American medical system have agreed that it is woefully inadequate in the treatment of chronic degenerative diseases that become progressively worse over time, and most of which are a product of our lifestyle choices.  American medicine is also at a disadvantage in the arena of pregnancy, birth, and infant and child care, because they reject the idea that our bodies are designed to give birth safely, and also the idea that our bodies, from the beginning of life, are designed to heal themselves best without intervention.  As a result, medical doctors often intervene in processes which, if given time, would totally cure the patient without the doctor's assistance.

Today we run to the doctor when we have a headache, a queasy stomach, or a case of constipation.  We take our children in if they have a fever, however slight, if they aren't sleeping through the night, or if they aren't eating as much as we think they should.  Your doctor can no more tell you what is causing these things than your lawyer or your mechanic.  From the medical perspective, there are hundreds of things that can cause headaches, nausea, constipation, or fever.   So, to make you feel as if they are doing something to help you, they will prescribe an antibiotic or painkiller, even though they have no idea if these things will help or if you really need them at all.

Doctors are not taught to wait and see if things get better.  They are not taught to have faith in the body's amazing ability to heal itself.  They are taught to intervene with expensive and dangerous tests and drugs, most of which interrupt the natural healing process and make the patient's condition worse in the long run.  It is a fact that the majority of the ailments in the world today are the result of our own lifestyle choices, and can be reversed most effectively by altering our lifestyle rather than through visiting the doctor and taking his or her advice.  In fact, you are often in more danger by visiting the doctor than you are by using your own common sense to care for yourself.  Feeling competent to care for yourself only takes a little education; it doesn't require a medical degree.

There is really only one disease in the whole wide world....a broken down immune system.  We usually think of headaches, nausea, dizziness, and constipation as symptoms, and things like whooping cough, diverticultis, and cancer as diseases.  Actually, all these things are simply symptoms of the same disease.  The treatment for each of these conditions should be the same....building up the immune system.  When this is done, all disease ceases.  The person become totally well, irrespective of which "disease" condition was manifesting itself.  It is a fairly simple process, and one which does not require a doctor's care or advice.

In my own life, I have sat at the bedside of many family members and watched them suffer not only with disease, but with the side effects of toxic medical treatments.  I have then seen those family members get out of the hospital, go home, and cure themselves.  I myself have never been hospitalized or had any medical procedure performed on me for any disease state.  I prefer to allow my body to cure itself, and I assist my body in doing this through supporting my immune system with the proper nutrition, and removing from my life the obstacles to healing.

Here is an example of how going to the doctor and taking treatment can actually make your condition worse.

Let's say you have a fever.  Fever is not bad for you.  It is not dangerous.  We have been led to believe that we should not let a fever get high.  Actually, increasing the body's temperature is the way the immune system fights disease.  The body has a built in mechanism which will not let the temperature exceed 106 degrees.  It will never go to 107 degrees, because the body will not allow it.  If it starts to go that high, some people will have what is called a febrile seizure.   However, studies have shown that these seizures are not dangerous, do not damage the brain, and do not predispose you to later illness.  They are simply the brain's way of relieving pressure.  They do not happen to everyone, but when they do, they are nothing to be concerned about.  Febrile seizures happen mostly to children, and to parents who are uninformed, they can seem terrifying.  But they actually cause no damage, and are a healthy part of the body's healing process.  Most people never have one.  When a fever goes as high as 106, that is a signal that you need to build your immune system, because it shouldn't have to go that high to heal your body.  So fever is healthy and is a good indicator to you of where your immune system is.

Most people get a fever, they feel hot, achy, and uncomfortable.  They will usually try to lower the fever or reduce their discomfort by taking an aspirin or acetaminophen product.  These products reduce pain and discomfort by inhibiting the production of prostaglandins, hormonal substances which help send pain messages to the brain.  The only problem is, those same prostaglandins are necessary for the immune system to function and fight off the illness.  The antibodies your immune system manufactures require prostaglandins.  In the process of trying to reduce your discomfort and reduce the fever, you have also reduced your immune system's effectiveness.  This is in essence why drugs and routine interventions are not helpful and should be avoided.  When you get in the way of what the body knows it should be doing, you are keeping yourself from getting well at the fastest possible rate.

Now, if you aren't able to get better at home by taking aspirin or acetaminophen, you will probably go to the doctor.  Your doctor might take a blood test or throat culture to see if you have one of the few bacterial or viral infections that can be identified.  However, more often than not, he's not going to go to that trouble, because most of them can't be identified.  So your doctor will probably prescribe you an antibiotic, even if he's not sure that it will work.  The word antibiotic means literally, "against life."  It is against all life, even yours.  Not only does it kill bacteria, it also kills helpful, healing substances in your body.

For instance, in your intestinal tract you have healthy bacteria that MUST be there in order for your body to heal itself.  When you take antibiotics, it not only kills any unhealthy, pathogenic bacteria in your body, it also kills this healthy bacteria.  The healthy bacteria keeps the bad bacteria in check, keeps fighting it off in your intestinal tract so that you stay healthy.  But you have just killed it all, so after you stop taking the antibiotics, your immune system is weaker than when you started.  It takes time for your immune system to build back up, and during this time of building, toxic yeast bacteria is building up in your colon, because in your weakened state, it can multiply faster than the good bacteria.  Any time a person takes antibiotics, they have set themselves up for a lifelong struggle with a systemic yeast condition which will be the foundation for many future health problems.  Couple this with the fact that most people do not eat a diet capable of assisting the body in wiping out the bacteria which cause disease, and there is little hope that this person is going to live a life free of disease unless they somehow learn what to do to break the cycle of disease.  Candida yeast releases 79 different toxins into the blood stream, which cause a variety of diseases and effects.  Most often, the cause of these diseases is never traced back to the yeast problem, but it most assuredly is the cause.

If more people knew this information, perhaps they would never take antibiotics in the first place.  If you have a bacterial condition, there are ways to boost your immune system without taking drugs.

The key to good health is to keep your blood pH as well as the pH in your organs and tissues between 7.2 and 7.6.
Blood pH cannot drop below 7.2, or you will die.  The pH of your tissues and organs, however, can drop to 3.5 before death occurs.  So what the body often does is take the acidic compounds out of your blood and store them in your tissues and organs in order to return the blood to 7.2 as quickly as possible.  The key is to ingest foods which return your body to that normal range.  In general, fresh fruits and vegetables are the most alkaline, and will return your blood to normal the fastest.  Meat and dairy products are extremely acidic, so these foods cause the most problem for blood pH.  Grains are halfway between meats and fruits in their acid/alkaline balance.  They are somewhat acidic, but not as acidic as meat and dairy products.  This is a slow process.  Even if you eat only fruits and vegetables, it will take a long time to totally reverse your body's acidic condition, because you have to clean the blood, which takes about a month, and then once your organs are being fed clean blood, the toxins will start to be washed away.  It's kind of like doing your laundry.  If you start out with dirty water, you may be able to get some of the large clumps of dirt or mud off your clothes, but your clothes won't really be clean until you wash them in pure water.  Right now, your blood is able only to get the most lifethreatening substances out of your organs, but it is not able to totally clean out the toxins.  Until a person learns what to do to clean their blood, they will progress further and further into disease.  If you are one of those people who would like to stop the cycle of disease now, please email me and I will counsel you privately.

A long time ago, our family decided that we would be our own physician.  We have our babies at home, unassisted by harmful medical intervention.  My children have not been immunized.  We do not go for yearly physical exams.  I do not take routine mammagrams or pap smears.  We do not buy over the counter drugs or take prescription drugs of any kind.  We have no need of these things.  Yet we are extremely healthy.

The word "doctor" comes from the word doctrine, which means teachings.  Technically, a doctor is someone who teaches the doctrine of good health.   You can be your own doctor.  It just takes a little education.  Click Here to see a recommended reading list so that you can start that education today.
 

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