by John Hamer
Do you not find it absolutely amazing that someone who is paid a very substantial salary from the public purse to look after human healthcare, firstly did not know or understand anything about the effect that good or bad nutrition has on our bodies and secondly was prepared to ‘push’ a pharmaceutical drug on to me without a second thought or to consider the implications of introducing an unnatural, artificial substance into my body? He knew nothing of course about nutrition and so was unable to help in that respect, but the question remains, how much does he really know about that drug other than what the local pharmaceutical rep had told him or what the accompanying leaflet or DVD had said and how reliable is that information likely to be? ‘Not very’, is the answer to both questions I strongly suspect.
I also strongly believe that we are conditioned and encouraged to pay a visit to our doctor for the slightest ailment to which we are subjected. An itch on your leg? Go to the doctor, he or she will give you some patented product or other to ‘cure’ it. Severe headache? Go today and get some industrial-strength painkillers.
I am sure you get the picture. However, I am absolutely convinced that this is a huge mistake. Our bodies possess a remarkable ability to heal themselves given a little time and encouragement and many small (or even large in some cases) ailments can be ‘cured’ by allowing the body a little breathing space to work its own magic. The problem is that once we embark on a course of pharmaceutical treatment, this then interferes with and interrupts our bodies own natural curative abilities, prolonging and even exacerbating the issue. This of course is exactly what Big Pharma wants, because their profits are greatly enhanced by this state of affairs. Instead of allowing ailments to be naturally soothed away, how much better for their ‘bottom-line’, that we undertake a course of treatment which will in many cases make the problem worse and require further drugs to counteract the sometimes catastrophic side effects of the first one and so it goes on.
There has recently been much new independent research into the efficacy of pharmaceuticals in general, leading to the inescapable conclusion that most of them work only in the same way as do placebos and that is because the recipient actually expects them to work and not because they have any beneficial chemical effect on the body. For example, when controlled test subjects were told that they were not receiving pain-killing medication, even though they were, the medication proved to be completely ineffective.
In other words it is the mind of the patient that controls the effectiveness of the treatment and not the medication itself.
“These findings call into question the scientific validity of many trials. It completely blows cold randomised clinical trials, which don't take into account expectation." George Lewith, Professor of Health Research, University of Southampton, 2011
“But it all brings up a question: If many pharmaceuticals only work because the mind makes them real, then why do some drugs appear to out-perform placebos in clinical trials?
The answer to that will probably surprise you: It's because when people are in randomized, placebo-controlled studies, they're usually hoping to get the real drugs, not the placebo. And how do they determine whether they're getting the ‘real’ drugs? By the presence of negative side effects! As those side effects begin to appear - constipation, sexual disorders, nausea, headaches, etc - then those participants convince themselves that they received the ‘real’ drugs! And from that point, their mind makes it real! So the blood pressure actually then starts to go down, or their cholesterol numbers drop, and so on.
The patients make real whatever expectation they were given when they were recruited for the drug trial in the first place. Even the act of recruiting people for drug trials sets an expectation in their minds. Patients, after all, are recruited for a ‘cancer drug trial’ or a ‘blood pressure drug trial’ or some other trial in which the expected outcome is made evident during the recruitment phase.” Mike Adams, Natural News, 22nd February 2011
Please indulge me once again whilst I relate another story from my own experience. In 1999 and before my subsequent research led me to become aware of what was really happening in the world today, I was diagnosed with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) commonly known as a swelling of the prostate gland and very common in males over the age of 40. The main symptoms were an increased frequency plus a greater urgency in passing urine and a severely reduced ability to ‘shut off the flow’ as it were. For those of you who have not experienced this condition personally or are of the female persuasion, I will describe its effects. Although not at all painful, it is extremely disruptive to one’s life due to the need to be a maximum of 30 seconds from a toilet and even worse, being awoken five or six times each night with the urge to ‘go’. This has a quite a serious effect on both one’s physical and mental welfare due to lack of sleep and frustration at being unable to live life fully.
So, to begin the story, I visited my local doctor’s surgery in early 1999 and after a short examination, he diagnosed the problem as BPH. He prescribed a drug to cure the problem, but after several weeks it became obvious that the problem was getting worse not better. His response to this was to increase the dosage and this he did progressively until the manufacturer’s ‘maximum recommended dosage’ figure was reached about six months later. By this time, I was in a bad state both physically and psychologically, my life quality had markedly deteriorated due to problems with my job (it is virtually impossible to hold down a job in this condition) and this had a knock-on effect on my family and thus my general mental state. In short, I was desperate. About six months later still, in the midst of my despair and searching for possible solutions on the Internet, I came across a ‘natural health’ website that was to change my life. I now know that it is just one of many thousands on similar themes, but at the time it was truly ‘ground-breaking’ for me.
To cut this long story short, I decided that I would visit my doctor again and ask him to wean me off the drug I was on. How much worse could things be, I reasoned with myself. Of course, he was not happy with this idea. I suppose when you are conditioned all your life to believe that the whole premise upon which your career is built, that pharmaceutical cures are the only answer to health problems; then understanding that there is sometimes possibly a different, better way is not going to be easy to even consider as a possibility, let alone accept. At first he tried to talk me out of it and gave me plenty of ‘reasons’ why I should stay on the drugs, but I persisted and he reluctantly agreed. And so, in the space of the next three months I was drug-free.
The one thing I noticed immediately was that reducing the drug dosage made absolutely no difference. In other words, the condition was just as bad on 50% or 25% of the original dose as it was on 100%. Then, once I was free of the drug, very, very slowly at first I began to notice that I was a little better. Within another six months I was back to normal and my life had improved immensely. Even now, more than a decade later, I am convinced that had I just waited a couple of weeks or even a month or two, then my problem would have cured itself naturally without fuss. Once I started on the course of drugs, did they contribute to prolonging the problem by confusing and obstructing my body’s natural defences? We will never know conclusively, but one thing is for sure, when I was taking them, they certainly did not help the situation one jot. I have never been back to the doctor (any doctor) for any form of treatment since that time and he certainly did not contact me to see how my condition was progressing without the drugs.
Actually, in July 2011 I did make another visit to see a doctor – accompanied with and on behalf of my recently-bereaved 86 year old father who is registered blind and extremely frail. I went along with an open-mind and prepared to be conciliatory and non-confrontational although I had more than an inkling of what to expect. The reason for our visit was that I had been concerned for a long time that the doctor had been prescribing medication on medication to my father until it had reached the point where he was taking multiple doses of sixteen, yes sixteen different medi
cations every day including 3 different anti-depressants, 3 different pain-killers and 2 different cholesterol-lowering drugs! Is it not absolutely staggering, that a supposedly intelligent, highly-skilled medical practitioner could actually believe that this situation could possibly be in anyone’s best health interests?
Anyway, I began by asking him the obvious question and that was… “How could the drug companies actually know that taking all these medications in combination would be guaranteed to be safe? Surely it would be impossible for them to clinically trial every combination of all these drugs and in any case these drugs were provided by many different companies?” If I had not been there to hear his answer in person, I would not have believed it possible, although actually thinking about it; maybe I would, knowing what I know now about how these absolute charlatans in suits operate.
He sat in his expensive leather chair in front of us mere mortals, wearing his £1000 suit, his Rolex watch and his £300 shoes and with a smug, supercilious smile on his 30-something year old face actually said, pointing at his computer screen... “We don’t need clinical trials. These days we have a piece of software that tells us whether drug combinations are safe.” Pardon me? To be honest, at this point I was dumb-struck. Did I actually hear him correctly? Does he actually believe or even understand the implications of what he just said or was it simply a fob-off for those imbeciles like me who just don’t have the intellectual capacity to comprehend these things. My somewhat delayed reply was a little abrupt to be honest. I said, “Have you never heard of an acronym from the IT world, garbage in, garbage out?” (Meaning that a computer programme is only as reliable as the data that it has input to it? How can a ‘piece of software’ possibly come to a reliable conclusion unless the data with which it was working was accurate and how could that data possibly be accurate unless clinical trials had been performed in the first place?)
I could now see by his face that I had definitely outstayed my welcome in his office. This beautifully coiffured, smartly-dressed, ‘highly-educated’, ‘intelligent’ young professional whom I dare bet has never had a single independent or semi-radical thought in his entire life was actually being questioned by some scruffy, late-middle-aged oik wearing denim jeans, a T shirt and trainers and worse yet was actually disputing ‘facts’ upon which he had based virtually all of his highly lucrative career, if not his whole life. I don’t believe for a minute he had ever questioned this scenario in his own mind and nor was he prepared to start discussing it now with someone with no medical training whatsoever. We were more or less dismissed with a wave of the hand and an instruction to make an appointment on the way out for a formal ‘medication review’. ‘Bye then’!
The ‘formal medication review’ which took place the following week and which I also attended, given by another doctor in the same medical practice incidentally, literally consisted of the following exchange (in its entirety):
Doctor to my father: Hello, please sit down. You are here for a medication review I believe?
Me (after a short silence): Yes. (My father did not hear what he had said).
Doctor (briefly perusing his computer screen): Yes, that’s all fine.
Me: Is that it?
Doctor: Yes, goodbye and thank you.
The total elapsed time of the meeting from entering his room to leaving it was approximately 30 seconds. I simply could not be bothered questioning this process as to do so would no doubt have antagonised him and possibly jeopardised his professional relationship with my father, whom I judged that at that time of his life, would not have benefitted from conflict with his doctor. So we shuffled out of his office and back to the extreme drugs regimen to which my father has now been subjected for the last five or so years. In this time, I have watched him change from someone with a sound mental and physical constitution (for his age) into a frail, bewildered, partially blind and deaf, wreck of a man. Although I concede that some of the deterioration in his condition could be put-down to the natural aging process, the extreme changes in him would seem in every way possible to belie that conclusion, definitively. For my own part, I will never, ever allow myself to ingest a pharmaceutical drug of any kind, ever again, whilst still in possession of my full mental faculties.
Please do not misunderstand me. The vast majority of doctors are extremely well-trained, professional, thoroughly competent and knowledgeable in the area of physical, bodily issues such as fractures, sprains and muscular problems, in other words mending physical ‘broken’ bodies. I would not hesitate to return should I find myself in need of a ‘physical’ remedy but the track record of first-world doctors in treating or preventing general bodily ailments and diseases is nothing short of scandalous and a disgrace to a so-called civilised society.
We have become so conditioned and propagandised to regard pharmaceutical solutions to health issues as being the ‘norm’ or the ‘only way’, that we now regard the treatment or prevention of disease through nutrition and balanced vitamin-rich diets as a form of ‘quackery’ or witchcraft. Indeed this is how Big Pharma attempts to portray natural health solutions, putting them on a par psychologically with the mediaeval practices of using leeches and the ‘bleeding’ of patients.
“...doctors and health ‘experts’ have astonishing gaps in knowledge that should be considered basic health information in any first-world nation. Parents, too, lack any real literacy in nutrition and health. That's largely because medical journals, health authorities and the mass media actively misinform them about health and nutrition issues, hoping to prevent people from learning how to take care of their own health using simple, natural remedies and cures.” Natural News, 2009
Pharmaceutical companies are certainly not in business to maintain human health at its optimum levels. They are there to make money for their Elite owners and shareholders and maintain health levels at an appallingly low level in order to further their drug sales agendas. They certainly excel at both of these activities. Big Pharma companies are among the richest if not actually the richest organisations in the world. In recent research conducted to determine the top 100 wealthiest organisations world-wide, 51 were corporations and only 49 were countries, which in itself is truly staggering information. Included in the top 10 were the ‘big 4’ pharmaceutical companies.
So, here we have a situation where companies that have more disposable income than most countries and are concerned with profits to the detriment of all else are dictating to the medical profession how to conduct a successful health regime and in the process are making colossal profits based on that philosophy. What is wrong with this picture?
“The medical practice of today is anything but a healing modality. It is geared toward maximum profit generated by those for whom disease is a growth industry. They poison the environment and encourage you to eat bad food, simply because they are invested in your becoming sick.” Les Visible, musician and researcher.
Your body never becomes ill because it lacks artificial, pharmaceutical, allopathic drugs. It becomes ill through lack of proper, correct nutrition or because it has become infected with an outside agent such as a bacteria or a virus, often exacerbated by incorrect nutrition. So why do we rush to dose ourselves with more often than not, harmful chemicals at the first sign of any problems or anything untoward with our bodies? I suggest that it is because both we and our doctors alike are conditioned by ‘the system’ engendered by Big Pharma, so to do.
Sadly, I have to remind you that as I stated in the introduction to this book, that the giant, multi-national pharmaceutical companies have completely infiltrated all of the important healthcare organisations from cancer research charities such as the hugely corrupt American Cancer Society (ACS) to the equally corrupt American Food and Drug Administration (FDA), to the British and American Medical Associations (BMA and AMA) and even medical education establishments across the Western world with the primary intention of deceiving the world about healthcare. Indeed the FDA is provably culpable for allowing highly-profitable yet
highly-toxic, substances into the food chain in what can only be described as at best, irresponsible and at worst, criminal activities.
Our healthcare system does not exist to make you well. It exists to profit from your illnesses and keeps you just well enough to stay alive so it can continue to push drugs on you. The last thing the Elite want is a healthy, well-nourished, physically and mentally strong population able to think clearly and look after themselves and their families. What they actually do want is a sickly, malnourished society, totally dependent on them and their poisons and unable to act and think freely for ourselves, so they can exploit our helpless situations to the maximum in the cause of reaping their huge annual profits. Unfortunately, over time, this is exactly what they have managed to achieve. As a main thrust of this policy, they also do not want you to understand nutritive disease prevention as there is little or no profit to be had from prevention, but plenty from ‘cures’.
