Prequel to "How to Leave Big Pharma Behind"

Prequel This is my third book. It is an updated and refined compilation of the first two, plus new information. The first book was called “The MD Emperor Has No Clothes.” Nobody knew what that meant, so in its 2nd edition I changed its title to “Everybody Is Sick, and I know Why.” My second book was called “Attempt A Cure with Wholistic Medicine.” Both of these books needed their metaphorical rough edges sanded down. New information was added into the mix as well. The result of this refining process you are reading now. I trust that you find it worthy of your time and money.

The intention of this book is to show you, most probably for the first time in your life, the bigger picture of medicine. In order to understand this subject, you must unlearn many things which you have been taught (which are categorically untrue). This process is not for the faint of heart. It is a rare individual who can see the forest for the trees, buck the tide, and go against the grain of their cultural conditioning. For the last 15 years I have been lecturing all across the USA and Canada about the topics discussed in this book. Approximately 15% of the people who were exposed to this message actually took it in, understood it, and acted on it.

Perhaps you yourself will join these ranks and become a proud member of the open minded, red-pill taking, action-oriented minority of human beings – which is not a small accomplishment at all.

Perspective is important. It allows us to see things clearly, and to better understand complicated issues. As a society, we need a better perspective on the types of medicine that we use to help us overcome our health issues. Even though we have a number of health treatment choices: Allopathic medicine (what the MDs practice); Naturopathic medicine (what I practice); Homeopathic medicine; Chiropractic medicine; Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese medicine; and Ayurvedic medicine (to name a few), because of a medical monopoly that has been in place for over 100 years now, as a culture we lean heavily in the direction of allopathic medicine. Most people just trust that their MD knows what’s best for them and leave it at that.

But what if your MD doesn’t know what’s best for you? What if your MD only knows what he/she has been trained in, and what if that training only constitutes a small percentage of actual medical science? In a situation like this, you are basically just rolling the dice and hoping against hope that your MD has the correct knowledge and tools to help you. Often, wagers like this fail. As evidenced by a recent Journal of the American Medical Association article, (JAMA 1998; 279(15):1200-1205) the 3rd leading cause of death in the U.S. is MD supervised medical errors! Furthermore, when you add this number to all of the infections, side-effects and deaths occurring in hospitals and medical clinics, the MD profession itself becomes the number one killer of people in the United States. This means – you go to your MD with a health complaint, the MD prescribes a treatment, and you get sick or die from it. Imagine for a moment what would happen if an “alternative” medical practitioner killed just one patient with their

treatment. There would be public outrage, congressional hearings and imprisonment of the doctor. But when an MD prescribes a treatment that hurts or kills someone, everyone just accepts it as part of the deal, nobody loses their job, and nobody goes to jail. This is cultural conditioning “par-excellence,” and is testimony to the sad fact of how much we have been culturally conditioned into believing that MD directed allopathic medicine is the only valid medical system of the 21st century.

In every culture there exist preconceived and fixed beliefs - hidden biases that inform the worldview of the population - the forest that hides the trees. Here are a few examples: Women are not smart enough to vote; Slavery is OK, because black people are just soulless animals; Child labor is a valid economic necessity. These suppositions seem absurd to us today, but not that long ago they were accepted as facts, and very few people questioned them. One of the hidden cultural biases we are suffering from now is the (false) belief that MD directed allopathic medicine is the only valid system of medicine in the world, and that all other systems of medicine are inferior (read: ‘alternative’) to it. Cultural conditioning, misleading PR campaigns, and business affiliations between pharmaceutical companies, legislators, medical schools, medical insurance providers and hospitals have had us hog-tied to the MD-As-King belief for over 100 years. You may like to think that you are immune from this type of thinking, but when push comes to shove, if you become afflicted with a serious or painful illness, like Pavlov’s dog salivating at the sound of the bell, you will most likely run to your local neighborhood MD for help – even though the odds are strong that the medicines he/she prescribes will only manage your condition, not cure it, and will ultimately hurt you. It is about time that we all collectively “snapped-out-of-it” as the saying goes.

This book is divided into 3 parts. Taken as a whole it is designed to help you “snap out of” your false belief in the superiority of the MD method; and to become the hero of your own health recovery. The first book of this trilogy pulls back the curtain on the evolution of the medical monopoly and outlines the distinctions between what I and my colleagues do and what the MDs do. You need a clear perspective on the philosophies and treatment strategies of each of them in order to make an informed choice regarding your health. The second book is a deepdive of sorts into the nature of the healing process itself. The third book is a self-help-healthrecovery resource, outlining treatment protocols which are the result of over 3 decades of my clinical work (and centuries of my colleagues’). Because these are all very heady subjects, and because all throughout this book I am attempting to dissuade you from “wrong-thinking”, I will also attempt to make you laugh. Laughter helps the brain to reset itself. From the proper perspective, everything becomes crystal clear. Let’s begin.

If you are wearing a seatbelt, I would tighten it right about now.