Life

Someone said once that if aliens looked down on us they would consider humans to be asofisticated mass transport system for bacteria. We evolved from bacteria, we share DNA with bacteria and we are dependent on bacteria for our health and wellbeing.

I am convinced that the gut and the bateria therein is the most important 'organ' of the body. After suffering from 'non allergic' allergies for over twenty years, and having been given only short term relief by conventional medicine, it was proposed to me that my problem was 'leaky gut syndrome'. I followed a strickt detox diet for 30 days. I have been symptom free ever since.

Ever since my 'cure' I have followed

I am concerned about:

the non thereputic levels of prescription drugs found in drinking water.
the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in farming to promote growth.
Agricultural runnoff poluting rivers and drinking water

At some point thousands of years

To say that the NHS has nothing to do with Good Health. Pressure from alternative approaches are forcing some changes. Doctors are starting to abandon what they are taught and accept that people can and will take responsibility for their own health. Now questioning the appropriateness of prescribing increasing numbers of drugs that primarily serve to alleviate the symptoms induced by the last prescription. The use of lifestyle drugs should be limited. If a patient chooses to continue taking a lifestyle drug rather than address the underlying health problem the should have to bear the cost. The primary approach in (conventional) allopathic medicine is to suppress the presented symptom. The human body is a wonder in it’s capacity to respond and deal with disease. Eliminating a symptom in the short term can give the body an opportunity to restore good health e.g. Antibiotics. In long term use, that does not address the true problem, the body will cannibalise itself seeking to address its disease. The body therefore undergoes decline that follows an understood sequence of failure leading to kidney, then liver failure and death. There is a history within medicine of practitioners suppressing information and resources in order to profit from creating a demand for their services (medical instruments). Denying evidence and seeking to strike off doctors who contradict convention (bacteria causes gastric ulcers) until current products are out of patent protection. Limiting research that questions accepted treatment – chemo therapy. Refusing to look at the evidence available – No AIDS patient undergoing treatment has Multiple Sclerosis. The medical industry focuses its investment in areas that maximise long-term profits. Treatments for near death drugs are easier to gain approval have a shorter development time. More importantly they focus talent and resources on ‘treating’ the disease rather than eliminating it. Turkeys don’t vote fro Christmas. The medical industry seeks to re-use failed drugs i.e. drugs that fail to treat the disease they were developed to address by identifying and promoting treatment for disorders specified to meet a need addressed by the drug. Anticipating a market rather than serving it. The book ‘The Tao of physics’ had a profound effect on my thinking. In 100 years time practitioners will look back on the medical industry today and see them as no better that a shaman rattling beads. They would however acknowledge the value the shaman contributed. I look forward to the day when medical practitioners are mature and confident enough to write ‘The Tao of medicine’.