Pushing Sen. Gravel's stance on preventative and wholistic medicine

I think you are very wise, Lori, to avoid rising to the bait and debate on particular forms of therapy. I know that here in Thailand a lot of care is taken in massage therapy, for instance, that can change the life of a westerner, and his or her outlook on medicine in short order. I'm thinking of a friend who had terrible problems with his feet his whole life long and in his seventh decade tried a massage here in Thailand that cured, in your use of the term, his problem in about a week. Or less. Startling improvement in one day.

I have perhaps the same opinion as Al Bundy of homeopathy. But the point is to break the strangle hold of, not even western medicine so much as, "for-profit" healthcare in the sense that arpi is speaking of below. The kind of "for-profit" medicine that views disease and dysfunction as a profit-center. The kind of medicine that views a cure as the worst possible outcome.

Everyone has to make a living. No one has the right to make a killing.

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Do you know the guiding idea behind homeopathy? It's based on the idea that the more diluted a medicine is, the more potent it is. The average homeopathic remedy is diluted in 10 parts water or alcohol 30 times. If you've even taken high school chemistry, then you should know that bullshit. Avogradro's number is 6.02 x 10^23, which means that there's 6.02 x 10^23 molecules of water in 18 grams of water. If you dilute a substance in 10 parts water 23 times then you'll only have a few molecules of the substance in 18 grams of water. If you diluted it 30 times then in order to even find one molecule of the substance you'll need a couple oceans full of water. There is no active ingredients at all in homeopathic remedies.

Real holistic medicine takes into consideration the entirety of an organism. Humans have 10 trillion human cells but we have over 100 trillion bacterial cells both on and in us. The interaction between many of the symbiotic bacteria and us is not well understood. We know that many of these bacteria produce neurotrasmitters that can affect our moods but we don't really know to what extent. We know that there's E. coli living inside our intestines that help process waste and we've discovered that they can produce toxins but only when exposed to significant amounts of endorphins. Endorphins are of course created when the body is under stress and the only time when it gets into the intestines is when there's a very high concentration of it due to prolonged periods of stress. Understanding how endorphin can trigger these E. coli to produce toxins can obviously benefit us greatly but research of that kind is barely being done.

Combining science, medicine, and profit, cannot produce health when the emphasis is on profit.

 It was applied science that to led many medical discoveries and cures, but it is naturopathy that completes the healing process. Sometimes the reverse is true. They really work quite well together when given a chance, but medicine for profit eliminates a lot of opportunity for well being in general.

As alien as the concept may seem, profit and health will never make good bedfellows. If you had to chose between one or the other what would it be? Health? Then why are we given little choice but to opt for profit?

Where there is more emphasis on profit than health increased sickness is the net result. To avoid the kind of rationalizing that produces this insanity, health care must be the one place where politics is a 'silent partner'.

Canadians, Brits, the French, - we are watching our once much touted universal health care programs being 'inexorably' dismantled in the name of 'for profit' care giving. As lawyers and accountants take political control,  social 'sanguinity' keeps disappearing. Profit for a few - yes, but no socially redeeming values are being produced to replace those lost.

This is the real cost of the 'New World Order'... this is what HRC's headlining of the most highly orchestrated rip-off in history is producing.

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