This subject hits very close to home for me. I am one of those that seems to be allergic to the 21st century and our modern way of live. There are so many conditions that bother people today that never existed years ago. I have also lost 2 grandparents to cancer and my ex-wife had colon cancer 12 yrs. ago. We feel she is alive today because she did NOT go through the chemo and radiation therapies. The doctors tried to scare her, were arrogant...made her cry by telling her she should think about our son! But if the chemo would have destroyed her kidneys or liver (like it did my grandfather) they would have said "those are the risks...we did did all we could". I say BULL****!

I could fill a book (or maybe a website) with all my family has experienced but I will try to keep this short. People are flocking to alternative medicine because conventional medicine has failed them or in the case of things like chemotherapy, the treatment can be worse than the disease.

Over the years, I have tried lots of things to improve my health. I made mistakes, some gains...but learned a great deal. The biggest thing I have learned is the simple things work best. No supplement I ever took made me feel better than when I started drinking lots of high quality water...yep, good ole H2O. I discovered why afer reading a great book called "Your Body's Many Cries For Water". No healing regimen ever helped me more than juice fasting...letting my body rest, heal and clean itself out. Read the testimonies at the Fasting Center International website. I never gained understanding into my own conditions until I was reading about what chinese medicine calls "liver fire" and the light bulb went off. Conventional doctors had no answers for me. I started eating better food....growing some of my own organically. Supplements CANNOT replace diet. Last but not least, I learned about the mind/body comnnection.

Alternative medicine is under attack. Just look at the Quackwatch site. It always has been. Inform but MAKE NO CLAIMS. One area getting hit hard right now is electronic medicine...using electronic devices to disable microbes such as HIV. I read The Body Electric years ago and have been fascinated by this ever since. I began to understand how chinese medicine worked by restoring our bodies electrical pathways. The quality of water in our bodies is SO vitally important to this.

People getting involved in this area REALLY need to educate themselves, ask questions, try the products. They need to be prepared to educate their customers. I think one growth area will definitely be products involving the best free radical scavenger there is...hydrogen...which our bodies get from the water we drink or products like Microhydrin. Water quality products like trace minerals and purifiers can be good too...IF the products themselves are good.

There are quacks in both alternative AND conventional medicine. The doctor who owns the quackwatch site promotes fluoridation which is the largest fraud ever shoved down millions of throats. It's toxic and carcinogenic effects are very well documented. I worked in the water/wastewater field for 11 yrs. Our fluoride was NOT naturally occuring calcium fluoride but sodium fluorosilicate that comes from fertilizer plants! Take anything you read on either side with a grain of salt...then find out all you can. It can be a rewarding experience....or a very bad one.

sorry for rambling,
Mark

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