Our body it not a machine
I grew up in an Australian farming family. My Grandpa was born in 1897. I remember him saying “if a man made it, we can fix it”. Ingenuity, innovation and skill were required to survive on isolated farms many, many miles from town on rough and often impassable roads in early 20th century Australia.
But man didn’t design or make our human body. Nor is it a machine with individual, removable parts that can be easily replaced like parts of a car or other machines.
Modern western medicine seems to treat our body as many individually functioning parts: cells, tissues , organs and systems.
This ignores our incredible synergy. Our body is far, far greater than the sum of its parts. The western medical model also ignores the often unknown effects of treating or removing single tissues and organs. Plus the magnified ripple effect of such treatments. Once again I feel duped by my previously naive professional trust especially in published “scientific evidence-based medicine”.
Myth of Diagnosis
Dr Mark Hyman, describes ‘The of Myth of Diagnosis’ as the biggest obstacle to changing the way we find answers to health problems. The medical naming and blaming game works to find the ‘disease’ then match the drug to the ‘disease’. However, this does not look for or treat the root cause of the ‘disease’. It only treats symptoms and then the ongoing often debilitating side effects the drug treatments.
Different causes for same disease
One disease can have many, many different causes, ALL of which manifest as the same symptoms. A good example is ‘depression’. Depression can be the result of multiple causes such as folate, B6 or B12 deficiency, low thyroid function, auto-immune response to gluten which inflames the brain, mercury poisoning, blood sugar imbalances, low testosterone or other sex hormones, deficiency of Omega-3 fats, excessive stress and other factors.
These issues are not resolved with a prescription for anti-depressants. Small wonder that exercise has been proven more effective than drugs for depression.
Same cause for different diseases
One cause may also result in many different diseases. Gluten is a prime example. Gluten is the general name for the proteins found in wheat, rye, barley and triticale. Gluten helps food maintain shape, it acts as a glue that holds food together.
My grandpa taught me to make a kite with brown paper, sticks and glue made from flour and water. Bit of a clue there!
You don’t have to have full-blown celiac disease to have serious health problems and complications from eating gluten. 30,000 patients were studied from 1969 to 2008. An extraordinary number of patients over 39 years and reported in the reputable Journal of the American Medical Association.
The Journal reported that 99 % of people who have problems eating gluten don’t even know. They attributed ill health or symptoms to something else.
The New England Journal of Medicine reported gluten sensitivity can cause 55 diseases including osteoporosis, irritable bowel disease, inflammatory bowel disease, anaemia, cancer, fatigue, canker sores, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis and almost all other autoimmune diseases. It has now been cited as causing over 130.
Gluten is also linked to many psychiatric and neurological diseases, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, dementia, migraines, epilepsy, neuropathy or nerve damage and has also been linked to autism.
Gluten sensitivity is actually an autoimmune disease that creates inflammation throughout the body.
In his 2013 book Grain Brain, Dr David Perlmutter exposes a finding that has been buried in medical history for far too long: carbs can destroy your brain. Even so-called healthy carbs like whole grains can cause dementia, ADHD, epilepsy, anxiety, chronic headaches, depression, decreased libido, and much more. Dr Perlmutter is uniquely qualified to make such claims. He is a neurologist, a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and internationally recognised for his work alerting the world of the above.
So, Dr Hyman’s claim is supported by multiple studies in highly respectable medical journals as well as international conferences such as the Gluten Summit in 2013. Have you heard or read this in main stream media????? Ask yourself why?
The above explains why simple changes in what you eat can make a huge difference in your life; despite what the mass media or “my doctor” says.
It also supports each of the three pivotal changes that turned my health around after stage 4 colon cancer and liver secondaries in 2008:
- Improve Nutrition
- Remove toxins
- Balance energy
Check it out
I have written a free e-book to help you identify some of the things which perhaps effect your health. A easy simple detox program helps to consider whether you want to remove things that are known to cause problems in homes and food.
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