The Passion That Drives Me - An Introduction

Welcome to my Blog and health and nutrition newsletter.
Thanks for dropping in! I hope your visit here will prove
not only informative, but also inspirational .

By way of introduction, let me quickly tell you a little about
myself and how I became such a passionate advocate
for the alternative health and nutrition sectors.

I am a trained respiratory therapist by trade, and have
been involved in the medical field for over fifteen years
in that capacity.

Over the years as I worked in the hospital setting, I began
to see that conventional medicine offered very little hope to
those myriads of patients suffering from a diverse group
of chronic diseases.

I found that conventional medicine takes a very narrow view
in the way it treats the average patient.

In the eyes of the majority of physicians, there are only four
ways to treat a disease process:

1. Treat the symptoms with a prescription drug.

2. Treat the symptoms with an anti-biotic.

3. Treat the disease process by removing the "offending " organ or organs!

4. Treat by combining all three of the modalities above!


This is the "merry-go-round" process you'll get if you're unfortunate
enough to rent a room at your local hospital.

I couldn't possibly count all the times I witnessed this scenario,
as I watched one patient after another being passed through
the medical system.

I would see a patient come through the doors of the ER with
a pneumonia in both lungs. The doctors would treat with fluids
and of course begin a regimen of antibiotics.

If the patient was showing signs of respiratory distress, they
were admitted into the hospital and given the full antibiotic
treatment. After about three days, the patient was allowed to
go home, even though the chest xray showed that the pneumonia
had not completely resolved.

Of course they were sent home with another prescription for
antibiotics, along with a long list of various pharmaceuticals
to help them sleep at night, breathe easier, and diminish any
body aches they might be having.

Two weeks after this patient would be discharged from the
hospital, back he would come admitted through the ER again.

This time though, not only was his pneumonia fully involved
again in both lungs, but now he had a severe intestinal
infection because the antibiotics he had been taking to
combat the pneumonia had destroyed all his good flora in
his intestines. Now an insidious spore related to the
botulism and tetanus spore was left unchecked in his
gut.

The poor patient not only had his pneumonia back,
but he also has to battle against a potentially life-threatening
diarrhea that had been caused by the overuse of antibiotics.

Back into the hospital he goes. This time he has to go into an
isolation room. Now he finds himself behind a closed door, and
all the hospital staff must come in garbed in blue plastic gowns
and yellow masks to "treat" him.

Now here's where it gets interesting. Remember the intestinal
infection he picked up was due to overuse of antibiotics. What do
you suppose the choice of drug is to "stop" the microbe causing the
problem?

You might have guessed it, another potent antibiotic! Yes, give
this poor patient another antibiotic to counter the disease that
the antibiotics brought on in the first place! Huh??


This is the thinking of conventional medicine- "Treat the symptoms,
and then treat the symptoms again that come from the body reacting
to the pharmaceuticals and antibiotics that have been ingested."

This is like bringing your car to a mechanic because the warning light
had come on telling you that you had a potential problem, and without
saying a word, the mechanic opens the hood of your car and proceeds
to clip the little red wire that leads to the warning light.

He then tells you that everything should be fine now, that the light
won't come on anymore on your dashboard and then hands you a
bill for fifty five dollars!

As I saw more and more of what I can only call a lack of interest
by the majority of the physicians in delving beyond the symptoms
of each patient they were seeing, and truly looking for the root causes
that were causing the symptoms, I began to look for answers myself.

In my research over the past five years or so, I have accumulated
a massive amount of information on alternative ways to treat both
chronic and acute medical conditions.

It is now my passion to get this information out to as many people as
possible so that they can make informed decisions and start taking control
of their health and well being.