Maddening Organics

Truth is hard to come by when you are talking business.  News today includes a study of conventional crops and organics having no difference in nutrient value.  On the face of this it is hard to buy.  If you have better soil and you do not trouble the crop with chemicals that linger and you provide microbes needed for plant health and the plants do better in drought conditions and they taste better to amateur foodies, maybe they are better.  This study was done by Standford University doctors and it states there was no funding from an outside source of the study.  It is published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Here is one; we have a study we cite that we like because the author looked at 50 years of  literature comparing the nutrient values of conventional and organic crops.  It was published in 1998 in Alternative Therapies.  That’s right.  The quack rag that has actual unsponsored studies to bring to the doctors who seek this kind of info.  In this case the author is clinical nutritionist who served on the board of the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.  There was a trend in the data indicating higher nutrient content in organically grown crops.  The author called for further research.  She did note “Animal studies showed  better growth and reproduction in animals fed organically grown feed compared with those fed conventionally grown feed.”

This attack on organics might come from a relationship with a business interest contrary to good food and organics.  Maybe a chemical company.  Sounds just like the naysayers who always say your food is enough for your health needs and that you do not need additional vitamins and minerals.  You know if you have adequate vitamins and minerals and other important nutrients you do not become ill as readily and it cuts across the sale of drugs and trips to the doctors.  Having a strong immune system is better than a vaccination.

I, for one, am a Mom and us moms know something about food and health.  In our medical center I hear people commenting about the benefits of avoiding junk food and eating whole, organic foods.  They are stronger.  After all, people do know their own mind and should rely on their own experience.  I have serious concerns about chemical contamination but more seriously the effects of genetically engineered crops throughout our food supply.

International College of Integrative Medicine is holding a conference September 21-23 where these issues will be discussed.  Check out Diet and Nutrition: What a Clinician Needs to Know about Nutrient Density, Pesticides and Genetically Engineered Foods- Dr. Andersen was first a soil scientist and agricultural consultant, then a physician. He specializes in nutritional management of crops and advises farmers in “building biology.” His book, Real Medicine, Real Health, draws on his wide-ranging expertise to share a vision of healing based on creating a sound body through solid nutrition and a healthier environment.

A Number of Messes Caused by Health Care Policy

First of all you may not know the full extent of care available from the different medical specialities.  Common treatment and diagnostic options are forwarded in strong marketing campaigns by giant medical/pharmaceutical  business interests and those become the most utilized by patients and supported by insurance companies.  You know those options well.
What may be a confusion for you is the growing, changing paradigm of complementary, alternative, wholistic, holistic, anti-aging, natural, functional medicine!  My point. This exciting and fruitful side of medical care has been unsuccessful in naming itself clearly to identify a parting of the ways with conventional common medical care, while remaining “medical” in nature.   There are many self care treatment modalities that are very effective but there are also licensed physicians ready to help you when self care is not quite enough.  People who are responsible for their life style and health may find that they need something more than self care at times and some think there is no avenue for non-pharmaceutical treatment within the community of medical centers and licensed physicians.  But…there is.

In company with Dr. Maulfair there are hundreds of doctors across this great country, probably within a few hours drive of  most locations, who are dedicated to finding the real causes of their patients ills, who choose searching diagnostic tools that look at the function of the body and whose treatment modalities turn away from medical drugs towards the building blocks of real health.  Did you know that if you had muscle aches and pains or high blood pressure you could benefit from a series of intravenous treatments of magnesium?  Did you know that the same treatment can relieve the problems of depression for some?  Were you aware you could request bio-identical hormones to make those years of passage full and free from sleep disturbances and tiredness as well as benefit your heart and circulatory system?

Our nation has recently consolidated physicians practicing medicine into hospital consortiums and with those connections the private, independent physician is harder to find.  This is a planned attack on the freedom of physicians and yours.  With hospitals as the umbrella of all these docs, you do not have to write hundreds of letters to each doc when you want to regulate something within the health care system, you write one letter to the hospital and control hundreds through the hospital policy.  There are protocols approved by the government that physicians must follow when presented with specific symptoms with a list of pharmaceutical drugs to recommend so physicians are losing the decision making battle.  They are pressured to conform more than ever.

No independent physician has an objection to emergency medical care or surgeries and medication when it is called for but those treatment modalities have a very poor track record in helping people with the problems of aging and chronic health problems.  No one disagrees with the use of pharmeceuticals when they are needed but ignoring other options, that do not harm the body but support the immune system and health, is dangerous.

Exert your freedom and speak up, talk to your physician and to your politicians.  We should demand health care and not disease care.  Let’s prevent a few things ourselves but when faced with a persistent problem see someone licensed or not for a gentler answer.  Join us in demanding control of your choices over your own body and your health.

Health Care Notes...key information

Just a quick note to let you know there are things you can do to stay ahead of the health care reforms and all the problems they will inject into your life.  Please visit Americans for Prosperity for the place and time of meetings in Delaware and Pennsyslvania planned to help inform you about the aspects of Obamacare you may not know about.
Jon Rappoport has a series of articles whose content you do not want to miss.  He is a health freedom fighter of immense understanding and the information in his blog is a must read, go here, www.jonrappoport.wordpress.com.   There is also a group of physicians and surgeons website is aapsonline.org  They have information on the content of this law and what can be done to reflect the blows to your health.  This is a group of free enterprise physicians and very smart dialogue you can access and refer your doctors to as well.

Our polls show that people want and expect their physicians to get to the bottom of their health problems.  They want doctors who search for and find the cause of their problems and not just offer a drug to mask symptoms.  Is that inline with your interests?

There is no better advice to give at this point in our country’s history than to implore you to seek information on the content of the health care law that is about to descend on us.  The harm is clear and we are dedicated to help in the dessemination of the sources of truth on the content of this complicated and complicating law.  Your health and the health of generations to come depends on your actions.  Please, please inform yourself and others.

It Might Be The Drugs...

You have aches and pains and you go to the doc and he says you have fibromyalgia and should take a psyche drug.  When that “treatment” does not work well but gives you more side effects and problems he recommends you see someone because you are now depressed having felt ill for so long.  You “see someone” and they give you another psyche drug and a pain killer.  Now you are often dizzy and feel unstable and you are still in pain but now you have a bigger problem because you are taking addictive drugs.  Sound familiar?
This is malpractice.  Really is, no matter how common.  So start here.  What is fibromyalgia?  Look it up.  Fibro means of, or relating or characterized by fibers.  Myalgia means pain in a muscle or group of muscles.  You have a diagnosis that is just a description of the problem you already knew you had. You have pain in the fibers, muscles.   You went to doctor because you had unsolvable, indescribable pain and he tells you you are in pain.  Is that meaningful?  Do you want to know why?  How will the drugs treat the cause of the pain since he never investigated what might be causing the pain.  Were you checked for Lyme disease?  Did you have a thyroid or other hormone evaluation?  Are you usually dehydrated or deficient in minerals?   Did you discuss your old injuries?   Did he refer you to a physical therapist or chiropractor?  Did you get the idea you would be on medication the rest of your life?  Do you realize he may just be giving you the treatment in “the guidelines” for your symptoms?  Do you realize these very same drugs are known to cause suicide and homicidal ideation?  If you are taking a cocktail of drugs no doctor on the face of the earth can predict what might happen when you mix two together yet it is the primary stock and trade of the medical care you find in most offices in the US.

The US is 4.5% of the world population yet we take 90% of the world’s stimulants, 63% of the world’s anti psychotics, 51% of the world’s antidepressants.  We spend more on disease care than most countries yet rank lower than most developed nations in health outcomes.  Could it be that drugs are not the answer to what ails us?  Could it be that drug based treatments are making us worse, not better? 

I want to live in in a society where most of us feel good so the crabbiness and ill will dies down.  I want to live in a society where people are at peace pursuing their business and personal goals and winning.  I want to live in a society where mass murders do not occur because people are drug free and too busy and happy to contemplate such things.