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the cure for common medical misconceptions

February 9, 2013

A BOLD CLARITY: the cure for common medical misconceptions

A brief statement of “the problem” that we propose to resolve is this:

Currently, there is a certain way that it is popular to relate to health in general and, in particular, to the language of diagnostic labels (such as a phrase like “incurable scurvy”). I am identifying that way of relating as “resigned,” “despondent,” and “helplessly victimized.”

People tend to think of diagnostic labels as “having power over them.” They say things that fit the “logic” of statements like this: “I have incurable scurvy which is causing my vitamin C deficiency.”

Now, let’s investigate very briefly how this issue is important to you, then how this pattern of relating to diagnostic language developed, and finally what is available for those who mature beyond that “old model” of how to communicate about well-being. First, here are some more examples of the kind of statements that people may make without really thinking about what they are saying:

Cure For Baldness?

Cure For Baldness? (Photo credit: D’oh Boy (Mark Holloway))

“Well, clearly you have no hair because of your baldness.”

That is obviously nonsense, right? But next let’s look at a very similar linguistic construction that may seem “obviously true” simply because it is so familiar….

“You have a tumor because you have cancer.”

That is simply false. Cancer is a diagnostic label, not a physical substance. Cancer does not cause tumors. Cancer is a label for the presence of physical tumors, like “receding hairline” is simply a label for the presence of a certain pattern of hair growth. When people say “you are genetically predisposed to cancer,” could they be making any inaccurate presumptions about epigenetics (how an issue of gene EXPRESSION is often mistaken as an issue of actual genetics)?

“Your tonsils are inflamed because you have tonsillitis.”

Tonsillitis is merely a label for an inflammation of the tonsils. The label for the symptom does not cause the symptom.

“You have high blood sugarbecause you have diabetes, which runs in your family.”

That is also false. Diabetes is a diagnostic label, not a physical substance.

“You are deficient in Vitamin C because you have contracted scurvy, probably from one of your parents. You do know that scurvy is contagious and incurable, right?”

Again, that is all simply absurd. Furthermore, all that follows from such an absurd misunderstanding of diagnostic labels will be actions that are, at best, inefficient.

So, I gently rebuke those who make the naive presumption that when people notice a set of symptoms and then invent a label for that set of symptoms, then that might mean that the new label (such as “scurvy, cancer, diabetes, etc”) is an incurable pathogenic demon that is “possessing” the organism, thereby causing the various symptoms. That is absurd.

Consider that the label on a jar of of food does not cause the jar to have a particular kind of food in it, does it? If one removes a label from a jar, does that change the contents? What if one adds a second label or covers an old label with a new label? What happens to the contents of the jar when altering the labeling of the jar?

Now, when a diagnostic label is invented for a particular physiological pattern, that label is used to distinguish that physiological pattern from other physiological patterns. That is all. The label does not intrinsically cause physiological patterns or alter physiological patterns.

If you take your dog to the veterinarian and the vet says to the dog “your tonsils are inflamed because you have tonsillitis,” then does that effect any inflammation of the dog’s tonsils? Labels simply do not cause symptoms! So, cancer does not cause tumors. Cancer is a label for the presence of tumors.

Likewise, the diagnostic label “diabetes” does not cause blood sugar imbalance or “insulin resistance.” Diabetes is simply a label for the presence of blood sugar imbalances and insulin resistance and, eventually, for all of the predictable effects of the excessive presence in the blood of simple sugars and complex sugars (carbohydrates)- which all arise very predictably from a single cause: the consumption of excessive amounts of carbohydrates.

Notably, the vast majority of diagnostic communications seem to me to be based on a basic lack of comprehension of the nature of diagnostic labels. Saying things like that “baldness causes hair loss” is absurd. That is simply faulty logic (as in “voodoo” science or “psychopathological” pathology).

Clearly, baldness is clearly not a physical substance, but a linguistic unit (a label). However, because physical brains can respond to language, that means that the “curses” of the licensed high priests (toward whom I have the utmost respect for their technical expertise, but no reverence whatsoever) can be very powerful (creative).

So, to summarize, my purpose for sharing is to clearly establish that our culture’s primary context for relating to diagnostic terminology is presumptive, naive, inaccurate, and disempowering. People who “get” this content will no longer be at the effect of diagnostic terminology (dissolving the sincere “curses” of demonic possession by “allegedly pathogenic” diagnostic labels). They’ll have a huge breakthrough in peace of mind and freedom.

Plus, new actions will be recognized as relevant and so new outcomes will be available. We will detail a variety of well-established resources, such as The Institute of Functional Medicine, as well as offer a brief catalog of the recoveries produced in the work of www.ppnf.org, Dr. Nora Gedgoudas, Dr. Cate Shanahan, & Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD, MMedSci (neurology), MMedSci(human nutrition).

First, I will feature a short version of the recovery (from Multiple Sclerosis) of medical doctor Terry Wahls. To tell recovery stories is powerful, so I will tell several of them, including the story of my own overnight recovery of the ability to walk (after suffering “from” Multiple Sclerosis- as in after I experienced the symptoms that would be labeled as “Multiple Sclerosis”).

That’s where this content will begin to have you saying things to yourself like “there really is something I can do to have power and produce new results with my health and well-being!” The resignation that most people have been trained to have about well-being and even so-called incurable conditions… will simply vanish.

 

on demonic possession by pathogenic diagnostic labels

February 9, 2013

My super-brief statement of “the problem” that I propose to resolve is this:

“…I rebuke those who make the naive presumption that when people notice a set of symptoms and then invent a label for that set of symptoms, then that means that the new label (such as “scurvy, cancer, diabetes, etc”) is an incurable pathogenic demon that is possessing the organism, thereby causing the various symptoms (… which the word was invented to label as distinct from other sets of symptoms). That is simply faulty logic (as in “voodoo” science, pathological pathology).

case in point: “well, clearly you have no hair because of your baldness.”

 

Sarah Kay responded (after requesting that I write about this subject):

“AWESOME!! I got it.”

 

I then added:

Notably, the vast majority of diagnostic communications seem to me to be based on a basic lack of comprehension of the nature of diagnostic labels. Baldness is not a physical substance, but a linguistic unit. However, because physical brains can respond to language, that means that the “curses” of the licensed high priests (toward whom I have the utmost respect, but no reverence whatsoever) can be very powerful (creative).

“You have a tumor because you have cancer.” That is simply false. Cancer is a diagnostic label, not a physical substance.

“You have high blood sugar because you have diabetes.” That is also false. Diabetes is a diagnostic label, not a physical substance.

“You are deficient in Vitamin C because you have scurvy.” Again, that is simply absurd. Furthermore, all that follows from such an absurd misunderstanding will be actions that are, at best, inefficient.

 

Then, just moments ago, Sarah called me and asked me to re-state the purpose of me sharing all of this. She took these notes from what I said to her and typed them up to have me refine them:

 

“(My purpose for sharing is to) Establish that our context for listening (to or relating to diagnostic terminology) is inaccurate (presumptive, disempowering).  People (who “get” this content) will no longer be at the effect of diagnostic words (“curses” of demonic possession by “allegedly pathogenic” diagnostic labels). They’ll have freedom. (New actions will be recognized as relevant and so new outcomes will be available.)

List out the resources. . . (such as The Institute of Functional Medicine, http://www.ppnf.org, Dr. Nora Gedgoudas, Dr. Cate Shanahan, etc)

I [will] present a short version of the recovery (from MS) of Terry Wahls, M.D.. To tell recovery stories is powerful, so I will tell several.

That’s where it is gonna start to enter the realm of “there is [really] something I can do to have power. . .!” [The resignation that most people have been trained to have about well-being and even so-called incurable conditions... will simply vanish.]

 

 

 

 

the foolish worship of shame (and the idea of demonic possession by a “dis-ease”)

March 23, 2012
Cross section of a human liver, taken at autop...

Cross section of a human liver, taken at autopsy examination, showing multiple large pale tumor deposits. The tumor is an adenocarcinoma derived from a primary lesion in the body of the pancreas. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I do not believe in diseases like cancer as many others do. I believe having cancer is like having a scab or having a scar maybe. It just means a certain kind of an accumulation of waste material.

The cancer is not really very important, nor is it especially mysterious or interesting- though probably at least a little interesting. It may mean that more vitamin B-17 in particular and better nourishing of the organs in general would help the overall well-being by cleaning out some waste material that is currently beyond the capacity of the eliminative systems to remove quickly. As demonstrated for thousands of years, adapting the diet, adapting the breathing, and adapting the language all produce clear distinct results in the well-being of the organism. The laws of nature (including physiology) may actually be very simple, even in the intricacy of their genius.

Same thing for “having diabetes.” There is really no such substance as a diabetes to have. You cannot cut someone open and remove the diabetes, just as cutting someone open and removing a tumor does not “remove cancer,” given that malignant tumors can re-appear right after any old ones are cut out.
People do not really have diabetes. However, people do actually have a pancreas. It works however well it does. If the pancreas is not working well, we can say they “have diabetes,” which just means that the pancreas is not functioning well. “Having incurable diabetes” is entirely an activity of diagnostic labeling, an instance of black magic from the high priests of modern “scientific” witch doctoring.
It is like saying that someone without eyes has a blindness. They do not have a blindness. They have lots of thing, but maybe no eyes, so they do not have the capacity to see. That does not mean that they have a blindness or a diabetes or a cancer. They may have blood sugar levels and tumors, but maybe the issue is that they have identified with a curse.
If someone does have eyes, but the eyes and brain do not neurological function to perform the operation of sight, then someone has eyes but not sight. They still do not have a blindness. If they had a physical presence of a blindness, they could cut it out and remove it like it was a physical pancreas.
Proud and foolish idealists may think that cancer or diabetes is a bigger problem than pride and foolishness and idealism (which means ignorance to me). That is also a rather simple relationship to clarify. Within the context of being cursed, having cancer or diabetes is a curse, but one must be vulnerable to medical voodoo (ignorant) for one to identify with having such a curse as cancer or diabetes.
Anyway, I insist that scurvy is incurable and that humans must avoid putting their faces underwater because we cannot breath underwater and going underwater thus will result in death by drowning. Many worship cancer like that: “It is incurable! No, of course, I am sure. Someone who obviously doesn’t understand cancer told me that they understand that it is fatal. God damn it, why are you so stubborn in questioning my worship of the incurable fatality of scurvy, having your face underwater, or cancer? These things are obviously DEADLY and very very serious, while ignorance is bliss yet intelligence and grace have no value whatsoever, mostly because if I admit that that they might have value, then the hypnotic spell that I am worshipping about such things as cancer might come in to question, and I would be ASHAMED, which is the one thing to never ever be. I am proud. I am not ashamed. I am even proud of my cancer and how it victimizes me and makes me helpless- not just anyone that I know who has been diagnosed with having a cancerous tumor- but makes me helpless. Life itself makes me helpless and you too. It is just like sticking your face underwater. It is absolutely fatal!”
Is autism incurable? If there is no such thing as autism, then there is no such thing as curing it.
There is no curing blindness either. Blindness does not exist as a physical presence. It is just a label in language to contrast with the capacity for sight. So while blindness does exist to be cured, there is the possibility of restoring sight to relatively healthy eyes (like an operation to remove the internal scar tissue of glaucoma) as well as the possibility of developing eye organs and neurological networks that allow for sight.
First published on May 29, 2011
Underwater Fishes 4
Underwater Fishes 4 (Photo credit: Mr.Thomas)
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“incurable illness” is a linguistic fallacy

March 11, 2012

<this is from a comment on another blog of mine:
http://jrfibonacci.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/the-shaiming-animosity-of-my-god-can-beat-up-your-god/#comment-2233
You can go there to read the comment I was responding to, which makes reference to “fundamentalism” and superstitions about how demonic spirits cause disease.>

Daniel

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…if some [scientific] fundamentalist insists that there is such a thing as something like baldness OTHER THAN AS A LABEL, that is still fundamentalism. There is such a thing as hair, but there is no such thing as a baldness. Bald is just an adjective. Baldness is not an actual tangible something, so to say “my baldness was caused by ____” is a convenience in language, but is not literally sensible.

Baldness is not incurable. Baldness does not cause hair loss. Baldness is a label for hair loss (or no growth). Baldness does not need a ritual exorcism to remove it from someone’s head. There is no such physical thing or substance as baldness. Baldness is just a convenient label in language to point to a contrast with the physical presence of hair. Again, there is no such thing as “incurable baldness” (except as a convenience in language).

Likewise, as for those who insist that there is such a thing as scurvy and that it is incurable, those fundamentalists are just as idiotic as the ones who insist on the existence of diabetes or cancer or demons, then call them incurable. Entire linguistic models are fallacy from the beginning.

Scurvy is just a label. It is not a physical thing. It does not do anything like cause baldness (and baldness does not cause hair loss). Infants born without hair do not have a case of baldness. They have heads. Some heads have hair and some do not. That’s it!

As for scurvy, some organisms have lots of Vitamin C and some do not. There is no such presence as a scurvy to be “cured” or to be labeled as “incurable.” Same for cancer and diabetes and autism and all the various diagnostic labels for the natural physiological developments that correspond to particular metabolic and biochemical patterns.

Cancer does not cause tumors. Cancer is just a label in language. Tumors are the concentration of physical substance from when the immune system is overwhelmed (lacking the capacity to handle the removal of a particular amount of “waste”). In the presence of tumors, some idiot can come along and say “you are possessed by a cancer and now we need to do an exorcism and it will take 3 years and cost $300,000, but we will charge most of that to the taxpayers of Canada, so just relax.”

English: Retinol 3D structure

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In other words, “incurable illness” is a linguistic fallacy. So, for instance, is autism curable? No, autism is just a diagnostic label, like the label on a jar of “cured” pickles. We cannot cure a label on jar of pickles either.

However, if mainstream medical science advances to comprehend and incorporate the basics of nutrition and physiology, as taught by thousands of years by “witch doctors” and “shamans” sprinkled throughout time and space, then the physical patterns that have been given the convenient label “autism” can be reclassified in relation to the new understanding.

Similarly, people do not talk much lately about “catching scurvy.” There is no such thing as scurvy to catch. It is just a label like the label on a jar of pickles.

Why? Because finally mainstream medical models recognize that the diagnostic label scurvy just references the level of functionality of an organism when there are lots of things working and lots of vitamins and minerals present, but not Vitamin C. The absence of various nutrients results in the functioning of less and less organs and systems, resulting in the application of approximations in language called “diagnostic labels” which are useful in making a prognosis.

Vitamin C does not “cure” scurvy because there is no such thing as scurvy except as a label in language. Vitamin C does not even cure the label on a jar of pickles.

If anything, ignorance is curable. The presence of intelligence “cures” ignorance just like Vitamin C cures scurvy, which is to say, that is a figure of speech that could be useful, even if it is not literally precise, given that there is technically no such presence as an ignorance to be cured.

I took this photograph April 7, 2006. Edited w...

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