What clearblue and Yvsa said.
Getting healthy and curing disease is about supporting your immune system and getting rid of parasites. Disease usually first appears where a person is genetically the weakest, and is the first sign that a body needs relief and support. Provide this relief and support and the body will heal itself.
Kill the parasites, take appropriate vitamins and nutrients to energize the body, lay low on the poisons for a while and the body will flush toxicity out as soon as it gets the chance to catch up with what we dump in every day. This is what fasting does: it halts the daily burden of digestion and allows the body to catch up with housecleaning. You do clean up your house once in awhile if you don't maintain it daily, right? So why not your body?
One can get a new lease on life for 6 months to a year's worth of effort. Not bad.
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Modern medicine treats symptoms until it is time to hack something out. Then they refer you to a surgeon. Everybody gets a piece of your wallet. Treating, not to mention curing, illness is symply a by-product of achieving the lifestyle that the physician wanted. Hence all the unnecessary hysterectomies over the past three decades.
Why would medicine allow for a cure for cancer when Gov't supplies billions in funding every year to cure it? Why would a doctor put people on a year's worth of Essaic tea and vegetables to cure cancer when his patients could go through a nice long stint of expensive chemotherapy to buy him another BMW?
Why would you cure the common cold and give up trillions in revenue covering up the symptoms???
The bottom line is to to actively help your body heal itself by treating it to a break from the daily grind. The human body is much smarter than any physician. Hell, we still don't understand why we need sleep every night...
I don't believe drug companies/most practicing physicians care any more about people than tobacco companies: You can hire a hooker to perform services on your body at set rates, but she doesn't have to care about you.
Doctors spent three years telling my best friend that the pain in her abdomen was 'feminine problems' or psychosomatic pain from depression. After three years of going to doctors, a naturopath diagnosed a weak immune system and she found out she had cancer. Surgeons removed 2 meters of her large intestines last month.
A good friend and co-worker got injured at work: broke three vertebrae and a couple of ribs. He was flown to a hospital where the spinal specialist proceded to bolt the back-brace to his spine UPSIDE DOWN. He also left a bunch of bone fragments in the man's spinal column and a threaded stainless steel bolt rubbing against his aorta every time his heart pumped. They sent him Stateside for a million-dollar fix in exchange for him not pressing a lawsuit against the hospital. He died three times on the operating table. To this day he doesn't know whether his partial paralysis is due to the accident or the doctor.
I spent three years in heartburn pain while doctors kept selling me more and more expensive acid blockers and antacids. A friend sent me to a naturopath and I cured it in 2 months. While she was at it, she diagnosed me with wheat intolerance and cured my abdominal pain and bloating. I lost 10 pounds in two weeks.
My grandfather underwent a quintuple bypass a couple years ago. The doctor put that scope that scope through the artery in his leg and then put him on blood thinners. He was in deep trouble 'til the mistake was caught.
Doctors are just people, and most of them are just as God-damned dumb as you and I.
I have had weird chest pain now and then over the past year or two. Twice over a year they told me it was heartburn. I know heartburn intimately, and it doesn't feel like this. After my first vist to Emergency I was told that people 'just have pain now and then for no reason'. Yeah right: my body's warning system is having a test of the 'emergency broadcast system'??

. I spent an evening bent over double sweating like a pig while my chest ached horribly and that was normal?

The info that I got from my Emergency visit: my heart was working normally. However the pain was beginning to subside when I got there and they did no blood tests or further investigation. The end result is that I still don't know what this is. I'm scared, but I have to figure this one out too, as Doctors again are proving to be of limited usefulness.
I have never had a doctor speak to me for more than five minutes. Snappy solutions are the result of years of Medical Training, right? Somehow I doubt it. I got an hour with the Naturopath for 30 bucks. She figured me out and I am 70% better now. I need to talk to her about this new development...
Doctors got it right once when it was food poisoning, but I knew that 5 hours after eating stale McNuggets, and basically told him. It's not everyday that a 30 year-old man throws up for 16 hours and craps his pants in the morning...

All he did was apply the label, "Gasteroenteritis", tell me to drink Ginger Ale, and bill the Province for another job well-done.
Yeah I'm jaded.
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Now I believe the only way to deal with my health is to use doctors as consultants and do most of the leg work myself.
Ok, I'm happy now.
Sorry about the long post. Had to get it off my chest.
Phil
EDIT: I think on the whole doctors do good work and save lives. They did save my Cousin(chemo) and Grandfather(bypass), and in the end might save my best friend's life too (though I blame them for blatant incompetence in the matter). But I think that they miss way more than anyone knows. Most of my friends have not had good results when they left their responsibility for their lives and health strictly up to a doctor. We need to work on it ourselves too.