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"But as utilization of modern medicine increased, the focus on using food as medicine declined. We have embraced the convenience of statin drugs for reducing cholesterol, when the inclusion of foods with innate heart-protecting properties—such as fatty fish, oats, almonds, and beans—might be just as effective. And many of the shortcuts of modern medicine are not without their costs. In fact, Americans who visit physicians following adverse reactions to medications account for well over two million physician visits each year!" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Before the advent of modern medicine, the family was dependent on a mother's XV intuition accompanied by her time-honored remedies as the first line of defense in preserving the family's health and well-being. Going to see the doctor at the first sniffle, cough, or other sign of distress used to be "Plan B," not "Plan A." But as utilization of modern medicine increased, the focus on using food as medicine declined." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"The power of thought underpins many wellaccepted disciplines in every reach of life, from orthodox and alternative medicine to competitive sport. modern medicine must fully appreciate the central role of intention in healing. Medical scientists often speak of the "placebo effect" as an annoying impediment to the proof of the efficacy of a chemical agent. It is time that we understood and made full use of the power of the placebo. Repeatedly, the mind has proved to be a far more powerful healer than the greatest of breakthrough drugs." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Despite modern medicine and technology, the quality of life for those with a weakened heart muscle and chronic CHF is compromised, and their very survival often remains guarded. I have found, however, that many of these individuals do improve when I combine conventional medical approaches, such as use of diuretics, digitalis, and ACE inhibitors, with complementary approaches, such as coenzyme Q10 treatment. Remember the cardiovascular benefits of coenzyme Q10 are primarily due to its role in the following: ?Directly supporting ATP (energy) recycling in the mitochondria of the cell, ?" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Despite all the marvels of modern medicine, CHF patients are fragile. Their quality of life is most often compromised, and their survival remains guarded. I have found that many of these patients improve when conventional drug therapies (such as diuretics and digitalis) are combined with coenzyme Q10, L-carnitine, and D-ribose supplementation. Congestive heart failure and dilated cardiomyopathy are conditions in which the heart muscle is so weak it cannot effectively pump blood to the various areas of the body." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "These two factors, more than any other, stand in the way of any near-term broad clinical acceptance of this vital nutrient, which could have such a significant impact on modern medicine. Another factor limiting broader acceptance is the relative lack of fundamental understanding that many researchers have about coenzyme Qio- Like any medical research, scientific studies on the value of coenzyme Q10 in treating disease have had their ups and downs. Most studies reported in the medical literature have been overwhelmingly positive, but some negative reports can also be found." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "It's apparently difficult for highly trained medical personnel, well versed in pharmacology and technology, to believe that anything so simple and so natural could be as effective as the highly engineered drugs modern medicine has to offer. Most American cardiologists cannot acknowledge that a natural substance not manufactured by pharmaceutical industry giants could be so valuable. These factors have rendered therapies including D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Qio victims of politics, bias, insufficient marketing, economics, and ignorance regarding the results of real science." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Amidst the extravagant technology we now have in modern medicine, it often strikes me that the most effective therapeutic intervention for those coping with dementia is a caring clinician who will listen. Second appointment with the doctor After you've been tested, you will return to the doctor to receive a clinical opinion about your condition. Sometimes more than one clinician may be involved. I call these follow-up meetings "summary conferences," and their purpose is to go over test results and integrate what we've learned into the ongoing story of your brain aging." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"We're modern people living in the 20th century, with modern medicine." Then, as he looked directly into the eyes of the woman who had asked the question, he repeated the sentence that had drawn me to the group only moments before: "The best way to hide something is to keep it in plain sight." As the words left his mouth, I could see the twinkle in his eye. He was letting her know that while "officially" the medicine people no longer practiced, their wisdom remained—safe, sound, and protected from the modern world. Now it was my turn to ask a question. "I heard you say that earlier," I said. " - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"The traditional approaches of modern medicine form the foundation of our care, but we can build on the strengths of unconventional approaches, and build in the power of spirituality, which so many patients bring to the healing process. Scientific medicine tends to want to go to war with nature, whereas integrative approaches are more ecological and see human beings as a part of nature rather than somehow separate." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The test was negative, but the doctors who administered it neglected to test her for the much more common condition of allergy. modern medicine is often myopic, with doctors seeing the world only through the lens of their own specialty. Unfortunately, the new childhood epidemics are invariably caused by multiple factors, and require generalism, not specialism. Keri's other problems included poor digestion, which was linked to her allergies. She also had a deficit of calcium, which was related to both poor digestion and to allergies." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"People with what is considered a terminal illness defy the textbook description of their disease progression and the prognoses of their doctors and beat it virtually overnight, without the aid of the tools of modern medicine. The Institute of Noetic Sciences has gathered together all scientifically recorded cases of so-called miracle cures.68 Although the received wisdom is that these cases are rare, a scan of the medical literature is instructive. One in eight skin cancers heals spontaneously, as does nearly one in five genitourinary cancers." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Although there are five primary organs of elimination in the body, both herbalists and practitioners of modern medicine agree that the liver is the primary organ of detoxification. It's the main hub where toxins are transformed, dismantled, neutralized, or reassembled to hopefully be eliminated through one of the four channels of absolute elimination: the lungs, the intestines, the skin, and the urine. If you have any weakness or debility in your liver, it will impact every other organ or system." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Similarly, the image of two snakes spiraling around each other is found not only in shamanic art but also in modern medicine's Caduceus symbol, which consists of two serpents spiraling in a double helix around a rod—the rod carried by Mercury and the physician Asclepius. The energy movement around the chakras (energy vortices of the body) also creates a double helix spiral of downward, involution-ary energy movement that is spirit becoming matter, and an upward, evolutionary energy movement that is matter becoming spirit." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"We also do not understand where modern medicine is helping Americans live longer lives and where it is actually killing them. "Medical interventions have to be based on better science and in medicine that means investigating when something goes wrong," Dr. George D. Lundberg, the former editor of The journal of the American Medical Association, wrote in his 2000 book Severed Trust. "The place to begin is the autopsy." A backlash against the autopsy began in the 1970s, he said, as more physicians became annoyed with what pathologists were discovering in autopsies. " - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Reducing a person to her molecular-genetic profile seems a profoundly dehumanizing turn for modern medicine to take. These misgivings have been confirmed by many of my patients, particularly one woman who came to see me for genetic consultation in neurology. While undergoing a preventive cardiology workup at another health-care institution, this woman had been identified as having genetic risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD)." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Overall, there must be more honesty from scientists and physicians about the limits of modern medicine and the uncertainty of present medical knowledge. By exaggerating the benefits and minimizing the risks of treatment, the health care establishment has spread an undoubting belief in medicines, a confidence that is unwarranted and hurting people far more than they know. Strengthen the FDA. If a drug doesn't work, it can only harm. That is why Dr. Michael Elashoff, a biostatistician at the FDA, recommended that his agency not approve a drug for the flu called Relenza." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Just when modern medicine had almost eradicated the traditional childhood epidemics of measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, polio, and tetanus, these even more insidious new disorders began to haunt our children with unprecedented occurrence. The end of one set of epidemics and the beginning of the other was not a coincidence. The medical technology that defeated the old epidemics was created by America's burgeoning industrialism, and this industrialism also created the ubiquitously toxic environment that has indirectly triggered the new epidemics." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"One of the most ominous trends in modern medicine is the widespread prescribing of statins to lower cholesterol. Statins work by limiting the action of an enzyme called HMG-CoA reductase in the liver, which is also responsible for the manufacture of C0Q10. In our rush to lower cholesterol levels, rather than looking at the cause for elevation, we have created a population with dangerously depleted levels of C0Q10 in muscle cells." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Frankly, I believe there is far too much reliance upon pharmacology in modern medicine. Doctors and patients too often seem to be searching for the mythical magic bullet. I do not view medication as a panacea. Even so, meds can sometimes do things that other therapies simply cannot. The Three Unique Elements of Medication Medications can work wonders. Pharmaceutical medications, in particular, can produce fast, robust, and lasting changes. However, some integrative physicians have a visceral distaste for pharmaceutical medications." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "The medical community's reaction to this drug is a great example of one of the more harmful phenomena of modern medicine: the bandwagon effect. The bandwagon effect takes hold when an early study reports very positive outcomes from a medication. Many doctors, wishing to find the proverbial magic bullet, jump onboard, and prescribe the medication to a broad spectrum of patients. Then later studies are done that have more equivocal results, and doctors start jumping off the bandwagon. When this occurs, the medication can develop a bad reputation. This happened with secretin." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"It is the leading cause of death in this country. modern medicine kills more people than cancer, heart disease, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks and cigarette smoking. modern medicine kills more people than all terrorists, murderers and automobile accidents combined. It is almost as if these conventional medical organizations have declared war on the American population, but it is a stealth war, because no one seems to realize it is going on. People volunteer to take drugs and undergo surgical procedures and they die from them." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"The methods of modern medicine don't fight disease, they fight the body. Disease is the body's way of healing itself, and modern treatment is a sure way to impair or even destroy this ability. Creating a Monster Where There Is None All this raises a very important question: could it possibly be that cancer is not a disease, but a survival mechanism of the body designed to remove something that does not belong there? If so, would it not make more sense to support the body in its natural drive to remove such obstructions rather than to suppress its effort with aggressive, destructive means?" - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Many people, doctors and patients alike, perceive the ability of modern medicine to interfere with the body on the cellular level as a "medical miracle," but this miracle has brought more destruction into the world than it has prevented or eliminated. We have created an endless vicious cycle by treating diseases that then cause other diseases which, in turn, require further treatment. This self-perpetuating system of disease generation is largely due to the "medical miracle" that promises quick relief of symptoms at the expense of long-term suffering and ailments, and possibly, even death." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Though those stages are incompletely understood by modern medicine, the first is often described as a rush of good feeling that is likely created by an immediate, powerful dose of endorphins and adrenaline. The second stage is a sense of calm. This calm is a culmination of multiple alterations in brain states evoked by true, authentically delivered giving. Giving and its emotional siblings, compassion and empathy, all focus our attention on now." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"Curcumin has been described as an anti-inflammatory that is half as strong as cortisone—a steroid that is one of modern medicine's most powerful anti-inflammatories. In research at Columbia University, researchers found that curcumin modulates proteins that suppress apoptosis and interferes with growth factors and angiogenesis, both of which promote cancer progression. Ginger, a relative of turmeric, is a pungent herb with documented pain-killing, anti-inflammatory effects." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Even though she had eschewed conventional therapy early on, now it seemed that she may have been taking comfort in the belief that modern medicine could rescue her if her disease got out of control. I also thought about her unwillingness (or inability) to engage in a doctor-patient relationship with me, and wondered whether she had been able to explore with anybody the important issues in her life. And I wondered whether her oncologist thought of death as the final defeat against which all-out war must be waged, even though there was no real hope of winning." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Perhaps the best example is the research that produced the polio vaccine, one of the truly great breakthroughs of modern medicine. In 1955, amid the great fanfare that accompanied the initial release of the vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk was asked who owned the patent. He replied, "Well, the people, I would say. Could you patent the sun?" American medicine has changed a lot since then, especially in the last 10 or 15 years. Many of these changes come not from medical science itself, but from the changed purpose for which medical knowledge is created and disseminated." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "One-third of Americans believed that "modern medicine can cure almost any illness for people who have access to the most advanced technology and treatment." And given their strong interest and faith in medical progress, Americans were overwhelmingly of the opinion that more rather than less money should be spent on "improving and protecting the nation's health," by an 11-to-l margin. Medical information was becoming available on the Internet, and the increasing media coverage of the latest "breakthroughs" in medical science further heightened public enthusiasm about the latest developments." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

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