Symptoms
alone can be misleading when it comes to finding root causes in illness.
The story of changes in diagnoses over the last few decades is an example
of the uselessness of diagnosing on the basis of symptoms.
In the 1960s,
one of the common diagnoses in Western societies was hypoglycemia, also
called low or fluctuating blood-sugar. (Blood sugar is composed of
glucose, a sugar which is metabolized from protein by the liver, although
sugar from sweets and refined carbohydrate powerfully affect blood sugar
levels too). Doctors told their patients simply to eat more protein, more
frequently.
While it is
true that low blood sugar can be the result of inadequate protein intake,
no one ever suspected it could be the result of an inability to digest
protein completely. So even if you increase someone’s protein intake, what
good is it doing if they cannot digest it adequately? Was it a protein
deficiency or a digestive deficiency which caused the low levels of
protein leading to hypoglycemia? And what was the cause of the digestive
problems?
In the 1970s,
vitamin B12 deficiency was a popular diagnosis. Many of the symptoms of
B12 deficiency match those of hypoglycemia. These include fatigue,
inability to concentrate, irritability, headaches, confusion, tremors and
even cold sweats. Patients were given vitamin B12 shots to alleviate the
symptoms. (A major concern with vegetarianism is the high incidence of
vitamin B 12 deficiency that’s been documented. Unfortunately, taking
synthetic B12, which is what is available in most vitamin tablets, doesn’t
help.)
Moving into
the 1980s, almost everyone with chronic health problems had apparently
become infested with yeast/fungal organisms and/or parasites. (Normally,
various micro-organisms inhabit the digestive tract and are kept in
balance by "friendly’ micro-organisms like Lactobacillus and
Bifidobacterium.) Many of the symptoms of this new diagnosis were, again,
very similar to hypoglycemia and vitamin B12 deficiency.
As the 1990s
progressed, many sick people (again with similar symptoms to those of
hypoglycemia, vitamin B12 deficiency and gut infestations) were told they
must have an environmentally induced illness, which could include
allergies and hypersensitivities. They had to avoid everything they were
allergic to and take enormous amounts of supplements. Usually this
resulted in extremely limited diets and very expensive bills.
New "energy"
techniques were also developed supposedly to remove blocked energy and
rewire the nervous system to allow for accepting the allergen into the
body without the overt reaction. (This usually had the same effect on the
body as getting knocked out in the boxing ring would have, since it relied
on preventing the body from reacting to something it didn't seem to like.)
Decade after
decade, the medical world failed to ask why more and more people were
having difficulty maintaining healthy immune system functions. The medical
world continued to fail to look at causes, rather than symptoms. They
claimed they were diagnosing better, not that more people were ill.
Yet most
medical disease-labels are just a mixed bag of different symptoms thrown
together. People feel "better" when they given a label for their health
problems. They assume that, if there is a label for their problem,
something can (and will) be done about it. And many disease-labels are
invented for chronic health problems – in the medical world chronic means
"incurable but not life threatening". Yet these labels have little or no
meaning and even less benefit.
No one person
has all of the symptoms listed for arthritis or low thyroid, for example.
And anyone can find their own symptoms in lists for at least two different
disease-labels. Not only that, but diagnoses seem to change every decade;
the diagnosis of hypoglycemia in the 1960s, followed by vitamin B12
deficiency in the 1970s, then digestive tract infestations in the 1980s,
and allergies in the 1990s is all about using smoke and mirrors to deflect
the attention of patients away from the fact that no cures were being
provided.
Even worse, studies of post mortem findings routinely
reveal that 40 per cent of the original diagnoses were incorrect. So it
isn't even remotely possible in those situations that the toxic drugs
prescribed could have helped. Only their nasty side effects would be
"enjoyed" by the millions of patients who are routinely mis-diagnosed
every year.
From a
holistic point of view: If we look at
all these health challenges from the point of view of increasing toxicity,
it becomes apparent why so many of these techniques work only temporarily.
For long-term improvements, it is necessary to detoxify.
Energy Detox
gives the body the needed boost to start to return integrity to
the body,
enabling it
to reverse the decades of accumulated poisons.
It does not
treat disease.
