Drugs and Medications

In the Western world, we have become almost completely dependent on drugs as healing agents. Certainly drugs often confer upon the afflicted a beneficial response. But the problem with drugs is that they also, invariably, deliver undesirable responses—side effects.

Chief among the organs affected is the body’s gatekeeper—the liver. The drugs pass through the liver, and leave behind residues, causes congestion and damage that eventually must be repaired.

Another problem with drugs is that once you take one, you often must take another to counteract the side effects produced by the first. This leads to another set of side effects, which are treated with another drug. And another, and so on. Soon you find yourself taking six or seven different medications per day, with each addressing the undesirable responses caused by another.

My goal is to help people avoid medications and drugs. Medications are designed to treat symptoms. I’m trying to address root causes.

Proper Body pH

The Tricarboxylic Acid or Kreb Cycle

Our bodies use oxygen and glucose. These are our fuels, and they get transported via the bloodstream to our cells. This process of fuel production and transport is mediated by enzymes. If the enzymes do not function properly at this level, the health of the body is compromised. Metabolism; digestion; hair growth…every aspect of life is impacted. Our bodies spend a lot of energy regulating their internal temperatures. This is done to protect the integrity of enzymes. If you get too hot or too cold, the enzymes get de-natured, with potentially catastophic results. It’s the same with the body’s pH, the balance between acid and alkaline. When the pH is altered too much, enzymes don’t work as well. Keeping your body in an alkaline state enables the enzymes to work better. This is what I’m really trying to do: maintain the proper level of alkalinity in the body by maintaining good colon bacteria and eating the right foods. Colon bacteria inhibit the growth of acid-producing organisms. When the colon bacteria are growing and flourishing, the bad organisms die off. So the whole body is rendered less acidic.

People who are more generally alkaline are healthier. Acidic environments are those in which cancers grow. Cancers cannot grow in an alkaline environment. They also prefer an anaerobic environment, as oxygen kills cancer.

I strive to introduce more alkalizing foods into peoples’ diets, and determining what these are is often difficult…counterintuitive, even. Take lemons, for example. One would think that they are highly acidic, but when the body digests them, they are alkalizing in impact. In fact lemons are one of the most alkalizing foods.

Next time: The Impact of Drugs and Medications

Body Ecology

e–col–o–gy (n) 1. The branch of biology dealing with the relations and interactions between organisms and their environment, including other organisms.

I first became acquainted with the concept of Body Ecology during my years at school. I was immediately struck by the scientific soundness of the thinking. This soundness has been proven and reinforced over the ensuing years by the evidence of case studies and my own, first-hand experiences with my patients.

Body Ecology begins with the concept that effective healing cannot be achieved simply through the treatment of individual symptoms, but can only occur when the root cause of the illness—the fundamental source of the symptoms—is identified and addressed. This requires the analysis of more than what the body communicates about its health through symptoms…how the body is interacting with the external environment is equally important. The term ‘ecology’ is uniquely apt here, because the body, with all its ceaselessly interacting internal components, is simultaneously ingesting and absorbing elements of the greater, external environment.

There are two regions of the anatomy—two organs—the condition and operation of  which have far-reaching effects on the degree and frequency of the experience of illness: the liver and the colon. The general health and functioning of these organs is of primary—though not exclusive—importance in the consideration of Body Ecology as it relates to health and wellness. They are, in a manner of speaking, the ‘base of the pyramid’. When these ecologies are clean, the functioning of the rest of the anatomy—dependent on these for their own efficiencies—is improved.

Whenever illness is reported, the liver and the colon must be analyzed, diagnosed, and restored in order for patients to feel better.

Next, I'll discuss the diagnostic process.