What's Wrong With Going To The Doctor?

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What's Wrong With Going To The Doctor?

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. 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 42 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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