Medical Myth #1: “There is nothing wrong with modern medicine”

Summary: You believe there is little room for improvement in modern medicine and that conventional healthcare is at the best it can be. You feel that if there were other possibilities or solutions your doctor would know

Let’s face it, the real reason you’re reading this article is because you want to know how you can get results, either for your own personal problem or for your family, friends or patients. For every illness you want a cure and you want it now. You want to be strong, agile and full of energy because it’s your birthright.

The fact that you’re here tells me you’re probably dissatisfied with what conventional medicine, and maybe even complementary and alternative medicine, has to offer us. It is critical to note that there are obviously many situations in which the medical profession save lives. This is undeniable. If I were to break my leg or start to feel unwell I would be one of the first to get straight down to A&E or consult with my GP.

However, this doesn’t mean that we can’t examine our outlook on disease and question what goes on within the medical community, especially when it concerns what for many people is the most important thing in life; our health and the health of our loved ones.

But how many of us actually do? Seeing as you have taken the time to read this I believe you may be one of the few.

Time and time again I come across people who are sick and tired of the expensive chemical pill-popping culture which for the most part, merely masks the symptoms we experience and ends up creating more (and often worse) problems down the road.

Then there are the side effects. When side effects are so common that people expect them you cannot help but wonder: “Are these side effects or are they actually some of the main effects, if not the main effects?” In many cases the term ’side effects’ really means “the price you have to pay to get rid of your original symptoms”

‘Magic pills’ do not exist and yet it seems that this is what many of us believe. We live in hope that the media will one day announce that the miracle cures we’ve all been waiting for have finally been discovered! Then all we have to do is swallow a pill or get an injection and we can be done with these dreadful diseases once and for all!

We optimistically hope for this to happen because we learn to believe that the drugs we already do have ‘cure’ our diseases. But is this the case or not? Lets quickly look a couple of examples…

Belief: “Pain killers and paracetamols cure your pain and headaches”

Reality: They disable and shut down parts of your central nervous system (’CNS’) so you can no longer sense or feel the pain. Whilst this can be handy in some situations, ignoring something that your body is trying to bring to your attention does not happen without consequences. It’s like getting a computer virus and disconnecting the monitor… you can’t see it anymore but it’s still there.

Belief: “Prescribed medication for acute diarrhoea cures your diarrhea”

Reality: In a nutshell, this treatment works merely by blocking up your digestive system

Instances such as these commonplace. Do surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy ‘cure’ cancer? No, the cancer is cut out and removed through invasive surgery or targeted with deadly radiation and chemicals which affects the growing cells of your entire body (the origin of chemotherapy, by the way, was on the battlefield of World War I and went under the name of mustard gas!)

What am I getting at here? The purpose of this article is to help you move from a negative view of disease to a positive one so I won’t linger on this topic, nonetheless it’s plain to see that our health is suffering and modern medicine is struggling to provide us with long term answers that don’t do us any harm in the process.

And if you disagree or are skeptical of this medical myth allow me a final question before we move on…

Do you know what the number one cause of death is today?

If you answered cancer or heart disease you’d be close. Cancer affects 6-7 Million people worldwide and is on the increase according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Heart disease is on the rise too and is the second most prevalent illness after the number one biggest killer which is:…

– Medical intervention –

And yes you did read that correctly, medical intervention (comprising of: adverse reactions, unnecessary treatment, incorrectly prescribed medication and correctly prescribed medication) is, and has been for several years now, the number one cause of death in developed countries. Specific figures are rarely mentioned but if one digs deep enough they can be found

“Do what you’ve always done and you get what you’ve always got”

Clearly, something isn’t right. With the old adage above in mind and as a result of the growing rate at which information is being created and transmitted; more and more of us are now looking for something else, a different explanation about disease and what we can do about it.

“When the number one killer in a society is the healthcare system, then, that system has no excuse except to address its own urgent shortcomings. It’s a failed system in need of immediate attention - beginning at its very foundations”

- Martin Feldman MD et al