The Separation of Medicine and State

When they were working on the Constitution, George Washington's personal physician asked that they include the right to freely choose one's provider of health care and type of health care. He suggested that one type of provider might eventually push to the top of the heap of medicine and force the others out and use government regulations to outlaw all others and allow only for one type of provider to legally practice.

This would allow them a monopoly in the field and limit the choices of the average consumer of health care and medicine. At that time there were many different types of health care providers and the writers of the Constitution felt that his concerns were unwarrented and concentrated on other rights and freedoms. They failed to include the separation of state and medicine. As a result, we now have the allopathic doctors holding a monopoly on health care limiting our choices and even sometimes forcing patients to undergo treatments through the courts. The FDA, the AMA and the large pharmaceutical companies collude to continue that monopoly and force their particular brand of health care on the rest of us. They falsify research data to "prove" the efficacy of their treatments. They hide or destroy research data that shows any detrimental effects of their treatments. They take parents to court who attempt to find alternate treatments for their sick children. They force hospital patients to undergo treatments that they, themselves, would refuse if they found themselves in a similar situation. The mistakes made in hospitals around the country kill or injure thousands of American citizens every year, but no one raises a voice to question their authority in all things pertaining to medicine. There is so much suppressed research out there proving the efficacy of cheap, unpatentable and readily available treatments for many, many diseases that afflict us. The bottom line of the pharmaceutical companies and the deep pockets of individual providers are much, much more important in the consideration of the data than the improvement of the lot of the average Joe who finds himself diagnosed with one illness or another. With some diligent research and time spent it is quite easy to find out how to live healthily and long and avoid the major pitfalls that afflict many people in the Western world. The first thing that one must do in order to stay healthy and live a long life is to question every single word that comes out of the doctor's mouth. When he says, "cut out the fat and salt and exercise" the first question to ask is, "why?" "where is the research?" There is none! and when he/she can't produce it, ask again, "why?" So much in medicine is based on "that's the way it's always been done" instead of on solid, well designed research studies and their accurate results. Question everything and maybe even your doctor will learn something.

There are 77 minerals, 16 vitamins, 12 amino acids and 3 to 4 fatty acids that are known to be essential for the bioligical process performed by the human body in order to maintain proper structure and function. These nutrients are not patentable and therefore not a good source of income for pharmaceutical companies. It is well known that vitamin C prevents and cures scurvy, that vitamin B prevents and cures beri beri, that vitamin D prevents and cures rickets, that essential fatty acids prevent heart disease and heart attacks, that selenium prevents certain types of cancer, that calcium (if in the presence of it's needed cofactors) prevents and cures osteoporosis, however, under the current regulations of the FDA, all these statements are illegal. It is not legal to state that any nutrient can prevent, cure or treat any illness. The FDA is working hard to list all nutritional supplements as "drugs" so that they can belong to the pharmaceutical companies and be available only through a prescription from your doctor. This will drive up the price, limit the availability and further increase the "sickening" of the poor. Selenium is still considered by allopathic medicine to be a poison and is actively advised against by those providers. Selenium has been shown by good, well designed research studies to be preventive of cancer, heart disease, muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis. It is necessary for proper functioning of the immune system. The School of Pharmacy from the University of Georgia released a study in August of 1994 that concludes a human selenium deficiency is related to the onset of full blown AIDS in chronically infected HIV patients. According the their report, HIV requires large amounts of selenium for replication and in selenium deficient patients, the virus competes with the patient for limited amounts of the essential mineral. The HIV patient actually dies of selenium deficiency encephalopathy, liver cirrhosis or cardiomyopathy. Long term HIV patients (20 years or more) that never develope full blown AIDS supplement with relatively large amounts of selenium. And yet, thousands of people dying of AIDS in Africa and around the world, that could be helped with relatively inexpensive (unpatentable) treatments are never let in on the secret. Thousands of "AIDS orphans" living in orphanages could be happy, living with one or both parents if only they had been let in on the secret. Study after study, both here and abroad, have shown selenium to reduce by hundreds of percents the incidence (not the risk, but the actual occurance) of prostate, breast and colon cancer, but again, the unpatentable, inexpensive treatment doesn't line anyone's pockets and so the research goes under or unreported and we continue to follow the false and ineffective advice regarding prevention and treatment for cancer that costs our insurance companies thousands of dollars, costs us months of suffering and eventually costs us our lives. Arthritis is a billion dollar a year industry, causes relentless suffering and pain for millions of people and is easily treated with cheap and unpatentable nutrients that are hidden in plain sight in the grocery and health food stores. Glucosamine is a major component of cartilage as is collagen. Joints can be rebuilt with adequate amounts of calcium, glucosamine, chondroitin and collagen and their necessary cofactors. Taking regularly available products will not be effective as they do not contain all the cofactors necessary for the absorption and assimilation into the body. People frequently buy the cheapest, least effective, single nutrient product they can find and stop taking it after one bottle saying, "it didn't work." Just a little home research and the right products in the right amounts and the difference in the amount of suffering and pain would be unbelievable. The rheumatologist would be out of work. The billions of dollars spent on treatments that don't work could go toward incidentals like food, education, mortgages, even entertainment. A whole industry would be gone along with huge amounts of suffering and pain. We need to insist, as citizens of America and the world, on our rights as human beings to free exchange of knowledge and information. Knowledge is power and acting on knowledge is superpower. We have the right to be the controlers of our destiny. When we leave our destiny to those that would control the information our suffering increases exponentially. We have the right to the information we need to decrease our suffering and the suffering of our fellow human beings around the world. We also have the responsibility. So far, we are still allowed to protest and insist on our rights. While that is still the case, we have the responsibiltiy to speak for the voiceless around the world. Those too sick, imprisoned or suppressed around the world that would benefit from our free exchange of ideas and information.