A new approach to cancer

[Guest guest]

Hello:

On the Huffington Post just now, there's an article on how we've "lost the war on cancer" because we've been treating the wrong things in the wrong ways. Instead, the focus should be on (and I quote):

"functional medicine, which is a systems-biology approach to personalized medicine that focuses on the underlying causes of disease. That definition of functional medicine is a mouthful. But in a word, it is the medicine of WHY, not WHAT. /

Conventional medicine is focused on naming diseases based on geography, body location and specialty, instead of by the cause, mechanism or pathway involved. Doctors say you have a liver, kidney, brain or heart disease. But this approach to naming disease tells you nothing about the cause, and it is quickly becoming obsolete as we understand more about the mysteries of human biology. /

Instead of asking what disease you have and what drug should be used to treat it, we must ask WHY the disease has occurred--what are the underlying causes that lead to illness and how do we look under the hood to find out what's going on. Modern medicine is like trying to diagnose what's wrong with your car by listening to the noises it makes without ever looking inside to see what's going on. Functional medicine allows us to look under the hood. It gives us a method for identifying the conditions in which disease arises and shows us how to begin changing those conditions." (The full article is at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/cancer-new-science-on-how_b_779936.html.)

In short, "now" they're discovering what everyone on the iodine group is doing and has been doing for years :-). I was both depressed by the article because I have so many loved ones who are doing it the "old way," but also cheered because I feel like I got on the right path a couple of years ago, and hopefully I'll stay there.

Thanks for listening--it might be the kind of article that would help with relatives and friends who don't want to believe that something as simple as the iodine protocol could help prevent serious disease.

Adrienne in Texas