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Why Has Modern Medicine Failed Us - Part 1 by Tony M. Isaacs
More than a few years and several
thousands of hours ago, I started what has been a rather amazing
and eye-opening journey: researching ways to live longer and healthier
lives. No doubt, the beginning of this journey can be traced to
the time that this baby boomer finally came face to face with
the realization that I would not be young and immortal forever
after all, nor could I take for granted that I would always be
healthy and disease free.
When I first began my research, I had a healthy amount of respect
for natural healing – but I would have to say that by and
large I believed that the best medicines and cures were found
in FDA approved “real medicine” and that herbs and
alternative healing were at best poor substitutes for real medicine,
and at worst snake oil and rip-offs. Was I ever wrong!
In future issues, I will share with you in greater detail what
I found out about modern medicine, the world pharmaceutical trade
and the true role played by government and the FDA. For now, I
will just tell you this much as a preview: All for profit businesses
want to make money and expand their business. That means increasing
the demand for their goods and services while making sure that
nothing erodes the existing demand level. Unfortunately for those
of us in western civilization, the marketplace for the trillion
dollar world pharmaceutical companies is our body. Think about
that for just a minute.
If the drug companies invented and sold medicines that cured and
eliminated many diseases and illnesses, they would be shrinking
their own market, wouldn’t they? By the same reasoning,
if doctors told patients to merely go home and make healthy changes
in their diet and lifestyle, perhaps take a few natural supplements
and then seldom if ever have to come back, you wouldn’t
see all of the established doctor practices that are no longer
accepting new patients (because their practice had reached it’s
capacity with patients who were not being cured!).
Do you think that sounds too cynical or perhaps like the ravings
of some radical conspiracy theorist? I might have thought as much
myself not many years ago. But then I ran up against some very
hard questions:
• Even though mankind and medicine is the most scientifically
advanced ever, what exactly have we cured in the past 40 or more
years?
• Why is the overall death rate for cancer and other major
diseases pretty much unchanged despite promises of cures being
just around the corner for decades now?
• Why can we not make better medicines? Even if we can’t
cure most serious diseases and our medicines mostly only treat
the symptoms, why are those medicines so imperfect that over 95%
of them (there are now over 15,000 FDA approved medications) have
side effects that often lead to even more medications, more side
effects, and a lifetime of doctor visits to constantly adjust
and add medications?
Perhaps the answer to those questions, and the reason that so
many of us past our mid-forties have an overnight bag full of
prescriptions and over the counter medications goes back to the
first part of the last century. That was the time period when
the world pharmaceutical giants, then located in Germany (and
most still are), got together and formed the I. G. Farben cartel,
whose purpose was to control the world drug trade and replace
natural remedies with their own synthetic lab-produced compounds.
With the way that modern medicine and society has taught us to
frown on nutrition and natural healing these days, would you say
that they have succeeded?
We’ll be visiting those issues in depth in future issues
of this newsletter, but for now I will close by sharing one of
the most eye-opening quotations that I have ever come across:
"The FDA 'protects' the big drug companies and are subsequently
rewarded, and using the government's police powers they attack
those who threaten the big drug companies. People think that the
FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what
the public thinks it is doing are as different as night and day."
Dr. Herbert Ley - Former U.S. FDA Commissioner
Ouch! Well, stay tuned - much more along those lines, as promised,
in later editions.
Tony M. Isaacs is the author of “Cancer’s
Natural Enemy”, “Collected Remedies”, and numerous
health articles and is a regular contributor to this newsletter.
