Gents, here’s a somewhat off-topic item and with little to do with prostate cancer treatment directly but it is nevertheless important in the general scheme of things and augers well for the future recognition and acceptance of holistic medicine.

It has always been my contention that given time, allopathic medicine would have to give way to natural therapies. Physicians and medical doctors will then be required to take the holistic approach to health, looking at preventative measures, including nutrition, instead of simply treating the problem and not the cause.

Other than for the huge wealth and resources of the drug companies and their considerable financial influence and control of the various medical associations, medical journals, research entities and the media in general, it would surely have happened by now.

With the advent of the internet and the world wide web, and the tremendous amount of knowledge and information now available to everyone at the push of a few buttons, people are now able to see the huge differences between high risk, side effect prone, prescription medicine and that which is available from nature itself.

They can now recognize how drug companies invent new diseases simply in order to push a new drug. How drug companies ‘test’ new drugs on the unknowing poor peoples of third world countries, hiding the number of deaths that ensue from it. How the Food and Drug Administration FDA, derives 70% of its income from drug companies and is directly under their influence. And how many FDA executives retire to become directors of drug companies, cementing the symbiotic relationship even further.

Well, times are changing, folks.

News from Switzerland tells us that the country went to the polls recently, that is on 17th May 2009, and 67% of the population voted for a constitutional amendment supporting the use of complimentary medicine within Switzerland’s health system.

This is encouraging news indeed and should encourage other countries to show some mettle and follow suit quickly.

Today’s quote:

“There is no better example of the weakness of our dominant medicine than its clearly ineffective War on Cancer. There is no better example of the superiority of a complementary approach than in the management of this dread disease….we are equally concerned about whether mainstream medicine’s demand for proof works to maintain it at its current level of ineptitude.”—Dr Atkins, M.D. 22 June 09

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