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.
