Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and misinform patients about disease prevention

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Disease names like diabetes and osteoporosis are misleading and misinform

patients about disease prevention

 

There is a curious tendency in conventional medicine to name a set of symptoms a

disease. I was recently at a compounding pharmacy having my bone mineral density

measured to update my health stats. I spotted a poster touting a new drug for

osteoporosis. It was written by a drug company and it said exactly this:

" Osteoporosis is a disease that causes weak and fragile bones. " Then, the poster

went on to say that you need a particular drug to counteract this " disease. "

 

Yet the language is all backwards. Osteoporosis isn't a disease that causes weak

bones, osteoporosis is the name given to a diagnosis of weak bones. In other

words, the weak bones happened first, and then the diagnosis of osteoporosis

followed.

 

 

 

The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and then you get

weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And that's how drug companies

want people to think about diseases and symptoms: first you " get " the disease,

then you are " diagnosed " just in time to take a new drug for the rest of your

life.

 

But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just a

made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicate you've let your bones

get fragile.

 

As another example, when a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that results in

a symptom such as high blood pressure, that symptom is actually be assumed to be

a disease all by itself and it will be given a disease name. What disease? The

disease is, of course, " high blood pressure. " Doctors throw this phrase around

as if it were an actual disease and not merely descriptive of patient

physiology.

 

This may all seem silly, right? But there's actually a very important point to

all this.

 

When we look at symptoms and give them disease names, we automatically distort

the selection of available treatments for such a disease. If the disease is, by

itself, high cholesterol, then the cure for the disease must be nothing other

than lowering the high cholesterol. And that's how we end up with all these

pharmaceuticals treating high cholesterol in order to " prevent " this disease and

lower the levels of LDL cholesterol in the human patient.

 

By lowering only the cholesterol, the doctor can rest assured that he is, in

fact, treating this " disease, " since the definition of this " disease " is high

cholesterol and nothing else.

 

But there is a fatal flaw in this approach to disease treatment: the symptom is

not the cause of the disease. There is another cause, and this deeper cause is

routinely ignored by conventional medicine, doctors, drug companies, and even

patients.

 

Let's take a closer look at high blood pressure. What actually causes high blood

pressure? Many doctors would say high blood pressure is caused by a specific,

measurable interaction between circulating chemicals in the human body. Thus,

the ill-behaved chemical compounds are the cause of the high blood pressure, and

therefore the solution is to regulate these chemicals. That's exactly what

pharmaceuticals do -- they attempt to manipulate the chemicals in the body to

adjust the symptoms of high blood pressure. Thus, they only treat the symptoms,

not the root cause.

 

Or take a look at high cholesterol. The conventional medicine approach says that

high cholesterol is caused by a chemical imbalance in the liver, which is the

organ that produces cholesterol. Thus the treatment for high cholesterol is a

prescription drug that inhibits the liver's production of cholesterol (statin

drugs). Upon taking these drugs, the high cholesterol (the " disease " ) is

regulated, but what was causing the liver to overproduce cholesterol in the

first place? That causative factor remains ignored.

 

The root cause of high cholesterol, as it turns out, is primarily dietary. A

person who eats foods that are high in saturated fats and hydrogenated oils will

inevitably produce more bad cholesterol and will show the symptoms of this

so-called disease of high cholesterol. It's simple cause and effect. Eat the

wrong foods, and you'll produce too much bad cholesterol in the liver which can

be detected and diagnosed by conventional medical procedures.

 

Yet the root cause of all this is actually poor food choice, not some bizarre

behavior by the liver. If the disease were to be accurately named, then, it

would be called Fatty Food Choice Disease, or simply FFCD.

 

FFCD would be a far more accurate name that would make sense to people. If it's

a fatty foods choice disease, then it seems that the obvious solution to the

disease would be to choose foods that aren't so fatty. Of course that may be a

bit of simplification since you have to distinguish between healthy fats and

unhealthy fats. But at least the name FFCD gives patients a better idea of

what's actually going on rather than naming the disease after a symptom, such as

high cholesterol. You see, the symptom is not the disease, but conventional

medicine insists on calling the symptom the disease because that way it can

treat the symptom and claim success without actually addressing the underlying

cause, which remains a mystery to modern medicine.

 

But let's move on to some other diseases so you get a clearer picture of how

this actually works. Another disease that's caused by poor food choice is

diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the natural physiological and metabolic result of a

person consuming refined carbohydrates and added sugars in large quantities

without engaging in regular physical exercise that would compensate for such

dietary practices.

 

The name " diabetes " is meaningless to the average person. The disease should be

called Excessive Sugar Disease, or ESD. If it were called Excessive Sugar

Disease, the solution to it would be rather apparent; simply eat less sugar,

drink fewer soft drinks (see related ebook on soft drinks) and so on. But of

course that would be far too simple for the medical community, so the disease

must be given a complex name such as diabetes that puts its solution out of

reach of the average patient.

 

Another disease that is named after its symptom is cancer. In fact, to this day,

most doctors and many patients still believe that cancer is a physical thing: a

tumor. In reality, a tumor is only a side effect of cancer, not its cause. A

tumor is simply a physical manifestation of a cancer pattern that is expressed

by the body. When a person " has cancer, " what they really have is a sluggish

immune system. And that would a far better name for the disease: Sluggish Immune

System Disease or SISD.

 

If cancer were actually called Sluggish Immune System Disease, it would seem

ridiculous to try to cure cancer by cutting out tumors through surgery and by

destroying the immune system with chemotherapy. And yet these are precisely the

most popular treatments for cancer offered by conventional medicine. These

treatments do absolutely nothing to support the patient's immune system and

prevent further occurrences of cancer. That's exactly why most people who

undergo chemotherapy or the removal of tumors through surgical procedures end up

with yet more cancer a few months or a few years later. It's also another reason

why survival rates of cancer have barely budged over the last twenty years. (In

other words, conventional medicine's treatments for cancer simply don't work.)

 

This whole situation stems from the fact that the disease is misnamed. It isn't

cancer, it isn't a tumor and it certainly isn't a disease caused by having too

strong of an immune system that needs to be destroyed through chemotherapy. It

is simply a sluggish immune system or a suppressed immune system. And if it were

called a sluggish immune system disease or a suppressed immune system disorder,

the effective treatment for cancer would be apparent.

 

There are many other diseases that are given misleading names by western

medicine. But if you look around the world and take a look at how diseases are

named elsewhere, you will find many countries have disease names that actually

make sense.

 

For example, in Chinese medicine, Alzheimer's disease is given a name that

means, when translated, " feeble mind disease. " In Chinese medicine, the name of

the disease more accurately describes the actual cause of the disease, whereas

in western medicine, the name of the disease seems to be intended to obscure the

root cause of the disease, thereby making all diseases sound far more complex

and mysterious than they really are.

 

This is one way in which doctors and practitioners of western medicine keep

medical treatments out of the reach of the average citizen. Because, by God,

they sure don't want people thinking for themselves about the causes of disease!

 

By creating a whole new vocabulary for medical conditions, they can speak their

own secret language and make sure that people who aren't schooled in medicine

don't understand what they're saying. That's a shame, because the treatments and

cures for virtually all chronic diseases are actually quite simple and can be

described in plain language, such as making different food choices, getting more

natural sunlight, drinking more water, engaging in regular physical exercise,

avoiding specific food toxins, supplementing your diet with superfoods and

nutritional supplements and so on.

 

See, western medicine prefers to describe diseases in terms of chemistry. When

you're depressed, you aren't suffering from a lack of natural sunlight; you are

suffering from a " brain chemistry imbalance " that can only be regulated, they

claim, by ingesting toxic chemicals to alter your brain chemistry. When your

bones are brittle, it's not brittle bones disease; it's called osteoporosis,

something that sounds very technical and complicated. And to treat it, western

doctors and physicians will give you prescriptions for expensive drugs that

somehow claim to make your bones less brittle. But in fact, the real treatment

for this can be described in plain language once again: regular physical

exercise, vitamin D supplementation, mineral supplements that include calcium

and strontium, natural sunlight, and avoidance of acidic foods such as soft

drinks, white flour and added sugars.

 

In fact, virtually every disease that’s prominent in modern society -- diabetes,

cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, clinical depression, irritable bowel

syndrome and so on -- can be easily described in plain language without using

complex terms at all. These diseases are simply misnamed. And I believe that

they are intentionally misnamed to put the jargon out of reach of everyday

citizens. As a result, there's a great deal of arrogance in the language of

western medicine, and this arrogance furthers the language of separation.

Separation never results in healing. In order to effect healing, we must bring

together the language of healers and patients using plain language that real

people understand and that real people can act upon.

 

We need to start describing diseases in terms of their root causes, not in terms

of their arcane, biochemical actions. When someone suffers from seasonal

affective disorder or clinical depression, for example, let's call it what it

is: Sunlight Deficiency Disorder. To treat it, the person simply needs to get

more sunlight. This isn't rocket science, it's not complex, and it doesn't

require a prescription.

 

If someone is suffering from osteoporosis, let's get realistic about the words

we use to describe the condition: it's really Brittle Bones Disease. And it

should be treated with things that will enhance bone density, such as nutrition,

physical exercise and avoidance of foods and drinks that strip away bone mass

from the human body.

 

All of this information, of course, is rather shocking to old-school doctors and

practitioners of western medicine, and the bigger their egos are, the more they

hate the idea of naming diseases in plain language that patients can actually

comprehend. That's because if the simple truths about diseases and the causes of

health were readily available to everyday people, that would lessen the

importance of physicians and medical researchers.

 

There's a great deal of ego invested in the medical community, and they sure

don't want to make health sound attainable to the average person without their

expert advice. It's sort of the same way that some ultra-conservative churches

don't want their members talking to God unless it all goes through their priest

first. Doctors and priests all want to serve as the translators of " truth " and

will balk at any attempts to educate the public to either practice medicine or

talk to God on their own.

 

But in reality, health (and a connection with spirit) is attainable by every

single person. Health is easy, it is straightforward, it is direct and, for the

most part, it is available free of charge.

 

Don't believe the names of diseases given to you by your doctor. Those names are

designed to obscure, not to inform. They are designed to separate you from

self-healing, not to put you in touch with your own inner healer. And thus, they

are nothing more than bad medicine masquerading as modern medical practice.

 

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