There is no Disease
by Robert O. Young
Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and
misinform patients about disease prevention.
There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to name a
set of symptoms a disease. I was recently at a compounding
pharmacy having my bone mineral density measured to update
my health stats. I spotted a poster touting a new drug for
osteoporosis. It was written by a drug company and it said exactly
this: 'Osteoporosis is a disease that causes weak and fragile bones.';
Then, the poster went on to say that you need a particular drug to
counteract this 'disease.'
Yet the language is all backwards. Osteoporosis isn't a disease that
causes weak bones, osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis
of weak bones. In other words, the weak bones are the result of
excess acidity, and then the diagnosis of osteoporosis followed.
The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and
then you get weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And
that's how drug companies want people to think about diseases and
symptoms: first you 'get' the disease, and then you are 'diagnosed'
just in time to take a new drug for the rest of your life.
But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just
a made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicate you are
over-acid which causes your bones to get fragile.
As another example, when a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that
results in a symptom such as high blood pressure, that symptom is
actually being assumed to be a disease all by itself and it will be given
a disease name. What disease? The disease is, of course, 'high blood
pressure.'; Doctors throw this phrase around as if it were an actual
disease and not merely descriptive of patient physiology.
This may all seem silly, right? But there's actually a very important
point to all this.
When we look at symptoms and give them disease names, we
automatically distort the selection of available treatments for such
a disease. If the disease is, by itself, high cholesterol, then the cure
for the disease must be nothing other than lowering the high
cholesterol. And that's how we end up with all these
pharmaceuticals treating high cholesterol in order to 'prevent' this
disease and lower the levels of LDL cholesterol in the human patient.
By lowering only the cholesterol, the doctor can rest assured that
he is, in fact, treating this 'disease,' since the definition of this
9;disease' is high cholesterol and nothing else.
But there is a fatal flaw in this approach to disease treatment: the
symptom is not the cause of the disease. There is another cause,
and this deeper cause is routinely ignored by conventional medicine,
doctors, drug companies, and even patients.
Let9;s take a closer look at high blood pressure. What actually
causes high blood pressure? Many doctors would say high blood
pressure is caused by a specific, measurable interaction between
circulating chemicals in the human body. Thus, the ill-behaved
chemical compounds are the cause of the high blood pressure,
and therefore the solution is to regulate these chemicals. That's
exactly what pharmaceuticals do -- they attempt to manipulate
the chemicals in the body to adjust the symptoms of high blood
pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms, not the root cause.
Or take a look at high cholesterol. The conventional medicine
approach says that high cholesterol is caused by a chemical
imbalance in the liver, which is the organ that produces cholesterol.
Thus the treatment for high cholesterol is a prescription drug that
inhibits the liver's production of cholesterol (statin drugs). Upon
taking these drugs, the high cholesterol (the 'disease') is regulated,
but what was causing the liver to overproduce cholesterol in the
first place? That causative factor remains ignored.
The root cause of high cholesterol, as it turns out, is primarily
an over acidic diet. A person who eats foods that are acidic will
inevitably cause the body to go into preservation mode and
produce more cholesterol to neutralize the excess acid thus
showing the symptoms of this so-called disease of high cholesterol.
Its simple cause and effect. Eat the wrong foods, and you'll
produce too much acid which will cause the body to release
cholesterol from the liver to bind up that acid which can be
detected and diagnosed by conventional medical procedures.
You see it is not the cholesterol that is bad it is the acid producing
food we eat that is bad. Reduce the acid producing foods like beef,
chicken, pork, dairy, coffee, tea, soda pops, etc and you will reduce
the protective cholesterol that is saving your life from excess acid
foods.
Yet the root cause of all this is actually poor food choice, not some
bizarre behavior by the liver. If the disease were to be accurately
named, then, it would be called Acidic Food Choice Disease, or
simply AFCD.
AFCD would be a far more accurate name that would make sense
to people. If it's an acidic foods choice disease, then it seems that
the obvious solution to the disease would be to choose foods that
aren't so acidic. Of course that may be a bit of simplification since
you have to distinguish between healthy alkaline foods and unhealthy
acidic foods. But at least the name AFCD gives patients a better idea
of what's actually going on rather than naming the disease after a
symptom, such as high cholesterol. You see, the symptom is not the
disease, but conventional medicine insists on calling the symptom
the disease because that way it can treat the symptom and claim
success without actually addressing the underlying cause, which
remains a mystery to modern medicine.
But let's move on to some other diseases so you get a clearer
picture of how this actually works. Another disease that's caused
by poor acidic food choice is diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the
natural physiological and metabolic result of a person consuming
refined carbohydrates and added sugars in large quantities,
undigested proteins from beef, chicken, and pork without
engaging in regular physical exercise that would compensate
for such dietary practices.
The name 'diabetes' is meaningless to the average person. The
disease should be called Excessive Acid Disease, or EAD. If it
were called Excessive Acid Disease, the solution to it would be
rather apparent; simply eat less sugar, eliminate all animal
proteins, eggs, dairy, drink fewer soft drinks and so on. But of
course that would be far too simple for the medical community,
so the disease must be given a complex name such as diabetes
that puts its solution out of reach of the average patient.
Another disease that is named after its symptom is cancer. In
fact, to this day, most doctors and many patients still believe
that cancer is a physical thing: a tumor. In reality, a tumor is
the solution of cancer, not its cause. A tumor is simply a
physical manifestation of bound up acidic cells so they do not
spoil other healthy cells. The tumor is the solution to cells
damaged by acids not the problem. The truth is cancer is not a
cell but an acidic liquid. When a person 'has cancer,9; what they
really have is a latent tissue acidosis. They are absorbing their
own acidic urine. It that would be a far better name for the disease:
Latent Tissue Acidosis or LTA.
If cancer were actually called Latent Tissue Acidosis, it would seem
ridiculous to try to cure cancer by cutting out tumors through surgery
and by destroying the immune system with chemotherapy. And yet
these are precisely the most popular treatments for cancer offered
by conventional medicine. These treatments do absolutely nothing
to support the patient9;s immune system and prevent the build up of
acids in the tissues. That's exactly why most people who undergo
chemotherapy or the removal of tumors through surgical
procedures end up with yet more cancer a few months or a few
years later. It's also another reason why survival rates of cancer
have barely budged over the last twenty years. (In other words,
conventional medicine's treatments for cancer simply don't work.)
The main reason is current medical science wrongly perceives cancer
as a cell when in reality cancer is an acidic liquid, like lactic acid.
This whole situation stems from the fact that the disease is
misnamed. It isn't cancer, it isn't a tumor and it certainly isn't a
disease caused by having too strong of an immune system that
needs to be destroyed through chemotherapy. It is simply latent
tissue acidosis. And if it were called latent tissue acidosis disease
or urine in the tissues, the effective treatment for cancer would be
apparent.
There are many other diseases that are given misleading names
by western medicine. But if you look around the world and take a
look at how diseases are named elsewhere, you will find many
countries have disease names that actually make sense.
For example, in Chinese medicine, Alzheimer's disease is given
a name that means, when translated, 'feeble mind disease.' In
Chinese medicine, the name of the disease more accurately
describes the actual cause of the disease which is caused by
acids or urine on the brain, whereas in western medicine, the
name of the disease seems to be intended to obscure the root
cause of the disease, thereby making all diseases sound far
more complex and mysterious than they really are.
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