Because
opinion, theory, and marketing gimmickry make up the bulk of
what is represented as truth in matters of human health, it
has become almost impossible to obtain truly reliable information.
Making outlandish health theories seem valid is a new art form
created by "experts" who urge us to ignore self-evident
facts and indulge in practices that are known to cause sickness.
Most of what we hear about health is not intended to inform
us, but rather to manipulate or influence us into buying something.
Conventional wisdom tells us that the cause of disease is elusive
and indeterminable. Many people would even say that disease
has no cause, and that it chooses its victims randomly. This
is not the case. The field of human health is no different from
any other area of scientific inquiry, in that there are immutable,
fundamental truths that can be known and relied upon. One of
those is that disease is subject to the same laws that govern
all life, including the Law of Cause and Effect which dictates
that where there is effect there must be cause, and vice versa.
The
causes of disease ARE known, they just aren't known by doctors.
People have mistakenly come to expect guidance about how to
be healthy from doctors. If doctors were experts on health,
one would expect them as a group to be very healthy. Instead,
they suffer from disease even more than the rest of us, and
die younger on average. The truth is, doctors only study health
from the very limited perspective of learning how to suppress
symptoms. Expecting them to know about healing is like asking
a car wash attendant to fix your transmission.
Although
symptom suppression is often confused with healing, the two
are NOT the same, and are, in fact, opposites. Acute symptoms,
like those associated with "colds"
and "flu", are the outward expression of body-initiated
restorative processes. In other words, symptoms are healing.
Acute symptoms are the body's self-limiting emergency system
for eliminating accumulated waste. When we stop symptoms, we
thwart the body's efforts to restore optimal function. Drugs,
herbs and supplements appear to "cure" disease, but
in reality there are no "cures". The body, and only
the body, can heal itself. What we're really doing when we ingest
these substances is forcing the body to discontinue its healing
efforts in order to defend against the new threat: the remedy.
Stopping
acute symptoms with remedies allows the further accumulation
of waste that would otherwise be eliminated, which leads to
degenerative disease like arthritis, fibromyalgia, multiple
sclerosis, diabetes and cancer.
Unlike acute symptoms, the symptoms of degenerative disease
are not constructive but are the result of actual physical,
long-term and slowly accumulated damage that has been done to
tissues and organs because the self-cleansing mechanisms of
the body have not been allowed to perform their life-preserving
functions, or have not been able to keep up with the cumulative
burden.
That
the very harmful practice of symptom suppression is so commonly
employed illustrates the level of misconception that exists
in our culture concerning disease. The reality about disease
is so far from what we are taught, in fact, that it seems alien
and unbelievable when we first hear it. The
Germ Theory, for example, which forms the foundation of
modern medicine, has never been proven, nor could it ever be.
In bacteria and viruses, doctors have found the perfect scapegoat
for disease, an unseen enemy who is never defeated and can be
relied upon to promptly show up whenever and wherever disease
is present. In truth, however, there are gaping lapses of logic
in the contagion theory of disease. Most of us never hear of
them because in the health care profession the idea that disease
can be transmitted from one person to another enjoys unquestioned
acceptance. This fact alone serves to perpetuate the theory,
since admittedly it is difficult to reconcile how so many people
could be so wrong. Yet, wrong they are. Unanimity doesn't change
that. Even the theory's exalted progenitor, Louis Pasteur, admitted
he was wrong during the latter years of his career.
For
the most part, acute, constructive diseases are the ones that
are said to be "infectious." Chronic or degenerative
disease is thought to be inherited. All diseases fall into one
of these two categories but the truth is that disease is never
contagious, and it is never inherited.
Like
contagion, the connection of disease to heredity is similarly
taken for granted as truth, but the closest it can come is that
we inherit certain physiological weaknesses that may determine
where in our bodies disease will form if we indulge in disease-causing
lifetyle habits. Whether we will become ill is not in the province
of heredity except in the sense that it is from our families
that most of us learn the harmful diet and lifestyle practices
which cause disease. We are the creators of our own health,
and we are the creators of our own disease, through our very
own choices.
Medicine
promises healing but delivers only lifelong management. And
it not only does NOT cure disease, it always adds to the harm
done by the original causative agents. This includes so-called
"natural" or naturopathic medicine, which operates
on the same false premise that equates symptom suppression with
healing. For those who have come to understand that symptoms
are just the effects of unhealthy lifestyle choices, medicine
has little to offer. What we need is practical instruction on
how to remove the cause of disease and build health in its place.
It has become very clear that the health care industry is not
the place to look for that information. If we want to get well
and stay well, we need to look elsewhere.
As
you will discover, what one needs to know in order to live healthfully
is not complicated or difficult to understand. The principles
of health can seem overwhelming at first because in many ways
they are opposite of what we are taught. One of the biggest
challenges in getting healthy is UN-learning all the ideas we
have about health that are based on belief
rather than correct knowledge. The truth always leads to simplicity
where health is concerned, unlike medicine, which only gets
more contrived and complex as one looks deeper into it.
Although
the general field of human health seems hopelessly entangled
in misunderstanding and falsehood, there is also plenty of accurate
and truthful information available. RawSchool.com offers the
following selection of articles and essays which were chosen
for their accuracy, clarity and eloquence, and/or because they
discuss topics that are either under-addressed or commonly misunderstood.
