Health Freedom - Ideas for Change in America

I have an invested interest in Natural Medicine: My Life and my right as a human being dependent on the life support provided by this Earth.

The quality of my life was improved by 90% by the application of natural therapies when I thought I was on the brink of complete disability or death – therapies that are older than our modern synthetic-pharmacology based medicine and upon which, ironically, our medicine was originally based, until the advent of synthetics in medicinal science, which now has become an institution for its profitability. To lose access to natural therapies would be the equivalent to enslaving me to a life of slow degenerating illness - in effect, living a dead life.

Medical science and orthodox doctors have proven they CANNOT help my condition (as well as the hundreds of thousands like me) after consulting with them for 14 years, except supply me with laboratory work and diagnose known diseases. I consult with and need a Naturopathic Doctor, naturopathic dentists, nutritional consultants, chiropractic doctors, energy medicine and applied kinesiology practitioners, Energy Psychology, massage therapists, Healing Touch practitioners and equivalent, any and all related appliances and equipment used in healing modalities, organic nutritional supplements, organic herbs, organic oils, certified organic produce, chemical free food products, chemical free water, and others… for the very quality of my life existence.

To limit or ban these is the equivalent to taking my basic rights away - of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

In order to suggest solutions that sound meaningful, I need first to express their rational through some facts.

As once a medical assistant and bi-lingual interpreter assisting various specialty doctors with a total average of 125 patients a day, and personally assisting an average of 40 a day, I can testify that 90% of those patients successfully utilized natural remedies before thinking of (and after) seeing a doctor. AND most of these would have preferred seeing a natural doctor had it not been that insurance does not cover them, and they could not afford the fees. But this valuable patient information does not get recorded anywhere, and patients are reluctant to continue to confess to the skeptical and often authoritative doctors who are majorly dismissing of the subject - a major inhibiting factor in doctor/patient relationship for the benefit of the goal of discovery and healing, and ultimately the promulgation of healing modalities – which is supposed to be medical sciences’ goal?

My own personal experience testifies that when I healed myself, in just 5 days, of a growth the size of a golf ball behind my navel, that formed after a tubiligation to prevent conception, using merely a well known and ancient oil upon the external area, Castor oil, my testimony to a doctor did not cause him any amount of curiosity to pursue the causal factor of this otherwise medical impossibility, nor an interest to report it. There is simply no interest, nor system of recording, nor studying these everyday occurrences - a major mistake of rational on the part of our highly exalted medical science, in my opinion.

Decisions are made for the majority of us by the few elite who have the power to make these decisions manifest… these decisions become an institution that the majority of us are then forced to comply by, whether these ideas have been shared with We The People for acceptance or not – most are not. My mother was advised by the institution of Medical Science to not breast feed when she gave birth to me and my sisters here in the US. They in fact tightly bandaged her breasts so as to stop the production of milk –a painful procedure as recounted by her. She complied as she was indoctrinated by the mainstream that the progress of medical science of that era was far superior to her rural and natural upbringing, which had supposedly been the culprit of her own migration to the US for seeking better opportunities, and therefore infant formula was the leading-edge way to go. And as her offspring, I too complied with my own children and now there are two generations of immune system weaknesses.

We now understand how breast milk is so important to a developing child’s immune system, and thus to that of every grown adult (thanks to NATURE) – now promulgated by the very institution that had scientifically proclaimed it useless. That truth is reflected in my resulting compromised immune system since a child and in that the far superior medical science of today, ironically after 57 years of progress and leading-edge thought since, has found no answers to correcting that huge mistake of its ego (yet it does take very well care of its astronauts) that ultimately served to only propagate more disease. To add insult to injury, their institution of Medical Insurance does not provide coverage for the natural sciences that WOULD help that mistake – and yet I am still found liable for the responsibility of my health and that of my children under these present institutions … and so is every war veteran who’s health and off-springs have been compromised by government’s use of war chemicals and forced experimental vaccines.

Is this rational, progressive, leading-edge thinking?
No.
It is thinking bound and limited by the factor of profit making , ego, fame, and greed, as is the promotion of synthetic infant formulas, patented pharmaceuticals, vaccines, flu shots, genetically modified produce, cloning, amalgalm, fluoride…

Why synthetic produce?The Earth has limitless ability to feed us – IF we care and treat it appropriately. It creates an abundance of supply. If one apple tree in my backyard yields an abundance for all my neighbors to enjoy, as well as does a bush of tomatos, and plenty left to putrefy unconsumed, imagine the addition of several more crops. The argument that food supply is scarce is simply an untruth. It is well known through the grape vine that the government allows agriculture to destroy tons of crops that are not sold – while many die of so-called famine. (By the way, genetically modified crops cannot be controlled and restricted to a certain area, as natural cross pollination by insects and birds cause these strains to be spread far and wide, affecting as well many other plants besides targeted crops.)

The ultimate rational fact remains: If we don’t eat – we die. What is the only substance on Earth that keeps our bodies alive, even prior to science?
FOOD.
The life sustaining components in ORGANIC FOOD VIBRATE into our cells – but anything added to this food, or ingested by the body ALSO VIBRATES into our cells …that includes poisons, chemicals, Drugs, pesticides, bad bacteria, viruses, mold, parasites – all finding a way into your body and into cells that create – repeat – that CREATE your body. Every single cell of your body, including all your organs, are replaced by newly created ones – pure scientific FACT (notice I said PURE).

What goes INTO your body determines the CREATION of your body.This is true preventive care.

We don’t have to imagine what is going into our bodies that may be creating our INCREASING diseases (hey! what happened? I thought our progressive leading-edge science was eradicating disease?),we don’t have to imagine because all we need to do is take a walk down every single supermarket aisle and READ THE CHEMICALS that are testifying on EVERY product label on the shelves that we are INPUTTING into our bodies to CREATE or rather vibrationally degenerate the cells in our bodies. Let’s briefly look at this: For every product there are at the minimum 3 chemicals being consumed (as you can verify yourself, that is a conservative number).

So add that up:
Breakfast - 4 products minimum X 3 chemicals each = 12 chemicals
Lunch - 6 products minimum X 3 (or more) chemicals each = 18 chemicals
Dinner – 6 products minimum X 3 (or more) chemicals each = 18 chemicals
(this doesn’t count spices and other added ingredients)
TOTAL = 48 foreign chemicals in ONE DAY of our lives
If you snack after every meal, add to that:
2 items per after-meal X 3 meals = 6 snack items X 3 min
chemicals each = 18 more chemicals
48 reg meal chemicals + 18 snack chemicals = TOTAL = 66
chemicals in ONE DAY of our lives !
That’s a consumption of 462 – f o u r H U N D R E D   a n d s i x t y   t w o – chemicals in ONE WEEK!
Remember… many of these products have MORE than 3 chemicals each, some as much as 10, that have NOT been counted here. In addition, add the chemicals in the water (get a report from your water company) of over 10 chemicals from industrial pollution not only ingested from the water you drink, or cook in, but also absorbed in your daily shower through your skin; also the poisons leaching from your amalgalm filled teeth, mercury, especially with every chew; add also pollution in the air, the dozens of chemicals in your shampoos, conditioners, cosmetics, deodorant, and toiletries and perfumes absorbed through your skin (these have been tested to be found in your blood – verifiable), and the extra hormones we absorb through our poultry and meat, etc.

Did all that sound like rocket-science to you?

Our bodies are truly an amazing creative and miraculous machine that it still strives to keep living to the bitter end!! But it DOES DIE. …OF DISEASE.

And THIS bombardment of chemicals is WITH FDA regulations that allow products to NOT have to reveal chemicals if they are under a certain allowance, or those additives that have NOT been PROVEN to be poisonous.
Remember… these chemicals are NOT found naturally in our foods… these are invented, created by man, and added intentionally to our products. By the way, did you know the FDA does NOT regulate products applied to our skin – as much as it is an ABSORBING MEMBRANE… and that it does NOT pre-test every chemical it allows in the market?

Any wonder now why so much illness??

Does not the solution look very simple to your civilian and human evolutionary intelligence?
So WHAT is the solution you ask?

SOLUTIONS:
From today, DO NOT add any chemicals to our foods, products, and water supply.From today, REMOVE all chemicals from our foods, products, and water supply.
THIS IS TRUE PREVENTIVE CARE!
The preventive care that exists (mammography, vaccines, screenings of all sorts) is not preventing anything. If anything, they are creating more disease. True prevention starts from what goes into our bodies to create our cells. Inform yourself of Natural medicine… natural means. Inform the PEOPLE.
Switch our consciousness from creating from synthetics, and artificial means to a consciousness of creating from natural, organic means – for the good and health of ALL.
We don’t have to create from that already invented. We can begin to create from new inventions – that is, the structures that exist have been created around a few inventions and these inventions have become institutions whereby we have become dependent, they’ve become standards, ONLY because other inventions were then not allowed to interfere or compete with these institutions.Example: petroleum and automotives. As we have seen, there HAVE ALWAYS BEEN other possibilities for fuel all along – possibilities that would have rendered petroleum use virtually obsolete while also changing the face of automobiles. But if one doesn’t let the cat out of the hat – one never learns the existence of the cat (or other means). (One of those cats is water… yes, water. Water has been found to be the sole source of fuel needed for a car. There was one man who invented the machine and drove around in it in the 80’s. Why don’t we all know that? Look it up.)Instead of looking at our environment and creating from what we see already invented, let’s look at our environment and create from our imagination for what is NEEDED.

When we do create our new inventions, let these be that they may not create by products that are not biodegradable or reusable and imposing a detrimental cost to our environment or health . This is already proven to be happening – so it IS POSSIBLE! In addition, there already exists inventions that are and have been SURPRESSED (by those ruling institutions). Tesla, Rife… to name only a few known ones. (Look that up.)

SOLUTION:
In the Medical field, changes must begin from the ground up, that is to say from the college level, the institution that breeds our doctors’ skills, knowledge, and beliefs and opinions – institutions that are lead by the medical opinion of senior doctors themselves as well as driven by their connections to major pharmaceutical companies. As a conflict of interest, donations, gifts, scholarships, investments, funding into colleges should not be allowed from pharmaceuticals companies. Such has been the culprit that the curriculum of colleges have revolved around the study of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of disease rather than around the study of the CAUSE of disease. (A friend of mine dropped out of medical school because of this – didn’t appear like a healing institution to him. As a matter of fact, a chiropractor has 3 years experience in the study of anatomy (working with cadavers), a medical student has only one!) ) Let’s face it, money and a luxurious lifestyle can tempt any evolutionary mind.Look up colleges for Naturopathic Medicine, let their curriculum be an example.

SOLUTION
The best and most logical path to this end is to go directly to “the horse’s mouth,” that is, to study the ALREADY EXISTING MEANS of those patients who have had success in eradicating their disease, as well as studying those already existing means that certain doctors, particularly natural medicine doctors, have applied on diseases which have yielded positive and restorative results for their patients – or even cured them. Thousands of these people’s experiences are just being ignored. I am one of them. You have a humungous database of knowledge with these people and protocols already proving healing, ready to be acknowledged and implemented – and NOT BEING HEARD BY THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY and thusly being kept away from We The People.. WE WILL NOT DISAPPEAR OR GO AWAY – WE HAVE ONLY BEEN GROWING IN NUMBERS - WE WANT HEALING. That is why natural means have only been growing in the marketplace – and the reason for some quacks who want to get in on the huge wave. But quacks are everywhere. I have worked for orthodox doctor quacks who didn’t understand what they were doing but would not quit because the money was good and they didn’t want to start over again.   It was easy to spend all day looking up diseases in medical and pharmaceutical books and write prescriptions.As it may be found, learning from natural medicine will result in seeing a wide range of modalities, but variety has never limited truth. As we have seen, the variety of different forms of fuel did not minimize their applications – they all mobilize automobiles. As many routes may lead to Rome, so many modalities may lead to health. Let the consumer be the judge of that. Scientifically, not all people react the same to the same drug, as we have differences in our chemical compositions – so experimentation is nothing new in the medical field. When a doctor prescribes a drug to a patient, and that doesn’t work or gets him SICKER, he prescribes another one – until the right one works for the patient (or seems to –or as we’ve seen, killed them). No agency went running to report him to the FDA! And I haven’t heard of any pharmaceutical company owner being jailed for the mass deaths either!   What’s wrong with this picture?

There are actually proven cancer CURES that have been ignored by the medical community because they are based on herbs that cannot be patented.   Simple formulas. These formulas have been banned from use simply for their true claim that they cure cancers – because the FDA only approves compounds that can be patented. Patenting provides ownership – ownership provides exclusive personal profits. It also seems that it is of the scientific mind that if something is not complex and complicated, it is not worth studying. Look at my example: a simple dab of Castor oil removed the mass the size of a golf ball – and I’ve used it for many more applications involving swelling and infection all with perfect results- and NO side-effects… when drugs never worked! AND this needs NO STUDYING... just simply APPLY IT! It needs no breaking down into simpler compounds for patenting and marketing – it simply needs APPLYING!

By what means does science think that we have evolved and survived insurmountable environmental conditions for millions of years?? Thuh…Would undisturbed nature have something to do with it?

President Obama – it will be a HUGE mistake to hire as Surgeon General of the US someone who’s endeavors have been backed by pharmaceutical companies. Make yourself INFORMED. Talk to senators who have had medical problems not addressed by modern medicine. There are many celebrities who have been assisted with natural means in Switzerland and other countries.

SOLUTION : The Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease and Control must be overseen by independent agencies. Members who have links to pharmaceutical companies must be banned from the FDC as a conflict of interest. This is already widely known, yet it is allowed to exist. The FDA and CDC are actually inhibiting our access to means that benefit our health, by banning natural products, by arresting those who are the only ones really helping people heal their diseases… the only ones with the applicable and proven knowledge of the very herbs and solutions that science should be studying and applying to the masses. If you want to learn about horses, DON’T STUDY THE COWS!!Read the latest here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123142562104564381.html http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_110/110nr383.shtml

SOLUTION: Just ASK We The People. Bring We The People - not one not two, but the thousands of us who are getting BETTER - to the courts of those accused of selling so-called quackery. Let their own customers – the users of these natural means – be the judges. If there is corruption within the FDA and CDC, the FDA and CDC are NOT going to fix it.

SOLUTION: The existing protocols of current clinical trials of natural medicine must be overseen by natural medicine doctors to correct the mistakes and prejudices of orthodox doctors and scientists. Orthodox medicine doctors and scientists have not been educated in the natural sciences.

SOLUTION: Create another website inviting testimonials of We The People healing and healed from natural means –this should become more than substantial evidence.

SOLUTION: Create a website collecting doctors’ experiences with known natural cures and have these tested exactly the way they are used in clinical trials overseen by both sides.   More overwhelming evidence.

SOLUTION: Create a symposium… unite the healers and natural practitioners of the world and listen first hand to their experiences with healing – if you go to the cows, you won’t hear from the horse’s mouth.

SOLUTION: Give licensing to Naturopathic Doctors to treat in ALL 50 states and incorporate them into health insurances, as does Europe and Canada – it will only be more cost effective to the insurance companies.

I’m probably forgetting a lot, but I think I covered the top ones… I can go on and on.I only hope we ARE being heard – my life depends on it.

Thank you for this opportunity!
Maryann Paredes

Suggested by Maryann Paredes on 01/20/2009 @ 02:12AM PT

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The FDA currently is controlled by special interests like the Pharmaceuticals and is not acting in the public's best interest on many issues. Such as combatting widespread adverse health effects related to mercury from dental amalgam fillings (www.flcv.com/damspr1.html) and due to mercury in sewers and water bodies (www.flcv.com/damspr2f.html )and mercury in fish (www.flcv.com/fishhg.html) Likewise rather than dealing with the common adverse effects of Pharmaceuticals, the FDA is primarily harassing use of supplements documented in the medical literature to be beneficial for chronic health conditions and alternative practitioners using means that have very little demonstrated harm and often major benefits. The FDA seems to have little regard for science and public concerns, but rather commonly promotes special interest over public interest. There needs to be major changes in the leadership at the FDA (and CDC) and a reassessment of what is important, what is dangerous, and what works, using science and clinical experience based methods.

Suggested by bernie windham on 01/19/2009 @ 05:16PM PT

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Wonderful comments above!  I see health freedom as an incredibly wonderful place to live, where no one would have the right to polute anyone else by means of chemicals, pesticides, synthetic substances, genetic alterations, vaccinations, irradiation, outgasing products (such as perfumes, plastics, etc.), coerced/mandatory surgical procedures and the like unless we as individuals permit this use for one's self only (freedom to choose), which does not include or affect anyone else. It would be like a fresh of spring air.

I see health freedom as full coverage insurance for all no matter the decision one chooses, since we each have are own beliefs, and the right to choice whatever alternative, complementary, integrative methods one chooses. However, I see an incredible new educational system for adults and children. This health educational system would include all aspects of health, including alternative, complementary and integrative knowledge, so that one can make their own fair conclusions concerning their own health.  Research and education should be the backbone of change.

With Health Freedom, we can live an incredibly richer life!

Suggested by Gloria Schexnayder on 01/19/2009 @ 04:23PM PT

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Single payer, affordable health care won't do much good until we demand a higher standard of health care than what is on record in Greeneville, TN Federal Court case no. 2:04-cv-375 which is nothing near what their misleading disgusting advertising says. MRSA should NOT be in our communities, but apparently as long as the Profit Machine and Politicians are taken care of, we the people don't matter. www.wisecountyissues.com

Suggested by Tim Mullins on 01/19/2009 @ 04:07PM PT

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When the income tax forms are mailed out to citizens every year, the federal gov't should include a TEN DOLLAR COUPON GOOD TOWARD A BOTTLE OF VITAMINS. For example, multi-vitamins, or, since many people already take a multi-vitamin, good for a bottle of VITAMIN D.
Most people world-wide are deficient in Vitamin D, and this vitamin alone can prevent up to 75% of all CANCERS! Plus, when people go to the vitamin sections at the stores, they will look at all the other available health supplements and will probably buy more, because having the coupon will increase awareness.
We MUST preserve our rights to be able to buy potent vitamins and other health supplements at reasonable prices, easily and readily available at any store! We must never, EVER succumb to Codex Alimentarius in any way that would violate these rights!
We must also completely overhaul the corrupt and useless FDA. As Vicki stated above, "The FDA has made its own regulation that states that: " Only a drug can cure, prevent, or treat a disease." "This, of course, is NONSENSE and not even based in reality! How have they gotten away with that for so long? Big Pharma power, that's how. The FDA as it stands now does NOT care about our health, but only about the profits of the prescription drug companies.

Suggested by Linda Cowls on 01/19/2009 @ 03:34PM PT

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Vaccines have not been proven safe according to the accepted standard scientific method used when studying drugs, i.e., the double-blind placebo-controlled method. A placebo-controlled investigation means that the safety of a drug is established by comparing it to a neutral substance (such as a sugar pill or a shot of sterile saline). But investigations about a new vaccine safety do not use a neutral substance as placebo. Instead, a new vaccine is compared to another vaccine with ''known safety profile''. Then, if the new vaccine adverse effects are the same as the adverse effects caused by the vaccine used as placebo, manufacturers state that the new vaccine is as safe as the placebo. This does not truly measure safety. Vaccines need to be shown as safe using the same standards applied to drugs, i.e., using a true, inert placebo. Until then, one cannot say that vaccines have been shown as safe according to accepted true inert placebo- controlled standard of scientific investigation.

For more on the vaccine safety issue this please see the thoroughly researched and referenced work 'The Vaccine Safety Manual' by Neil Z. Miller and Dr. Sherri Tenpenny's books 'Saying No to Vaccines' and 'Fowl! Bird Flu: It's Not What You Think'
No one should be forced to be vaccinated with a product whose safety has not been scientifically established and that can cause the disease it is are designed to prevent.

Suggested by Maria Howard on 01/18/2009 @ 05:28PM PT

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Attention Health Freedom fighters: There is a move on www.change.gov right now that is trying to "debunk" NIH funds for integrative health research; thanks to Alison Rose Levy of Huff Post for providing the link :http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewIdea.apexp?id=087800000004y2f

Let's make our voices heard- voting ends at 6pm tonight, Sunday
Thanks Alison

Suggested by Dr Mary Zennett on 01/18/2009 @ 12:59PM PT

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I would love to see a commission to study the safety and long term outcome of conventional vs midwifery and home birth model birthing practices. This commission would use a retrospective model to gain statistical information on any correlations between conventional practices such as epidurals, pitocin induction, cesaerian,vacuum extraction , vaccinations, etc and incidents of ADD, ADHD, Autism, mental retardation etc. This commission would then have information to redefine the meaning of a "good baby" from a live baby to a healthy baby by doing follow up studies up to at least 6 years of age on a cohort population. This commission would also study the effects of emotional, physical, and socio economic stress on pregnancy and birth outcome and caculate the cost to our health care system over the life span of babies who are born with and without major learning and/or health challenges/disabilities. This commission would also study the effects of conventional practices such as neonatal intensive care vs kangaroo care models and short term maternal infant separation vs no separation on bonding, attachment, and later developmental and adjustment outcomes. Creating room for gentle birth choices can have an immense impact on health care costs but more importantly on the level of aggression vs peace that is generated by an adrenalized vs a calming nervous system response such as is programmed during gestation and birth. With the information provided by this commission, families will be able to make educated decisions regarding how they want to birth their babies and the current biomedical birthing paradigm will expand to include an wider array of options.
Dorothy Mandel PhD.

Suggested by Dorothy Mandel on 01/18/2009 @ 10:32AM PT

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I strongly support movements to move the way we eat towards healthier diets and greater food security, including local and organic foods.

However, there are a few components of this idea that are scientifically inaccurate and pose public health threats. Principal among them is the suggestion to allow parents to opt out of required vaccinations. All currently mandatory vaccines are scientifically proven to be safe, and rumors that vaccines lead to autism or any other disease have been shown to be entirely untrue. But by refusing to vaccinate children, we senselessly put them at risk to lethal diseases, and we put others at risk because unvaccinated children can spread disease to the greater population.

We need fundamental food systems changes to combat our public health and food security problems, but it is important that we distinguish between initiatives that are scientifically shown to be beneficial versus those that have scientifically been shown to be dangerous.

So I oppose significant parts of this idea.

Jake Rosenberg
MD Student

Suggested by jake rosenberg on 01/18/2009 @ 09:42AM PT

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I agree with this the world if filled with toxins and dangers, Health is number one and always should be number one. People are dying because we have poor health care system and we don't think about health when we do things. Its all about making the right choices and not the wrong ones. This Earth is a beautiful place lets make it better by limiting the amount of toxins go into the air that we breathe and the water we drink. People also need to educate themselves that things we eat are not always healthy for us and that we live in a world of dangers. Danger is everywhere we just dont realize it until it happens. people die and people are born its a rapid process. We all should be thankful we live for as long as we can. I say lets educate ourselves daily and take care of ourselves daily. Health should be our freedom and first choice I agree.

Suggested by Lawrence Decoste on 01/17/2009 @ 07:33PM PT