"What should we strive for? Happiness - to lead a good life, as long as possible, and to avoid suffering. The new nutrition can lead to elongation of the period of well-being."
Linus Pauling, circa 1950
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Preamble
Written on : March 2023
Edited last: January 2024
In April 2022, at the already ripe age of 82, a routine blood test showed that I had Leukemia (CLL). I refused to rush into tests, such as the bone marrow aspiration and biopsy tests, and I refused to rush with chemotherapy treatments. I knew very little about Leukemia and other cancers and thought that I should have learned more about my disease before rushing into any treatment. So I decided on a "wait and see" approach.
What influenced my decision was that a number of people close to me had succumbed to cancer rather quickly even though they had followed their oncologists advise to the letter. All the suffering caused by the surgeries, radiations, drugs and all the time taken to go to doctors and tests had all been in vain! This to me was evidence that our modern cancer treatments, notwithstanding all the fanfare surrounding them, cause a lot of suffering but do not work. Although I tended to be okay with surgeries, I was definitely not okay with radiation and chemotherapeutic agents as they are poisonous to the body as both focus on the killing of cells ... unfortunately indiscriminately as these treatments are not able to target cancer cells only. Deep inside me I have always believed that to heal a sick body, it has to be nurtured not poisoned!
For about one year I did not do much because I was too busy caring for my wife who was succumbing quickly to dementia at the relatively young age of 72 ... even though she always followed doctors advice and always took "religiously" the several pills prescribed to her. "How can this be?", I would tell myself, "with all these pills she should be in vibrant good health!". This terrible experience was making me increasingly more skeptical about following doctors advises.
A few months later, my wife was admitted into a long term care home. It broke my heart! But it gave more free time and redoubled my resolve to try to get to the bottom of what causes our Modern Diseases, such as my Leukemia and my wife's Dementia, and why the many medical drugs offered by Big-Med end up not working. And so I started reading medical books and articles on cancer and other diseases, and on the standards of care that our doctors use to treat them. The books and articles that I have read as of the time of this writing are listed in the page "Books and Articles". I am still researching and reading, and so this list will keep growing. But I start finding that the new books and articles that I am reading now are not adding much new useful information. They just keep reinforcing what I had already concluded, namely that:
1. With few exception, most medical books and articles are not honest. By the end, their authors succumb to the need to have to make a living (see the "The Need Imperative" discussed on page "Human Instincts"). And so, invariably, they start with good material but end up spinning it so that it makes them a living. And they accomplish this by not giving us advice that benefits our health, but rather benefits their own initiatives or advertises other various vested interest groups that make money only if we are sick.
2. We live in the age of scientific marvels and never before there has been more knowledge about the workings of our body and our nutritional needs. And yet Big Med, inspite of all this knowledge, has not come up with cures for any of our modern diseases which, inspite of all this knowledge, have reached epidemic proportions and getting worse.
3. It is evident from all the papers that I have read that the reason why there is no cure for any of our Modern-Diseases is because BigMed is not looking for cures. The focus of BigMed is to discover new patentable drugs to treat some dominant symptom of our Modern Diseases rather than cure their root causes. The difference between treating symptoms and curing root causes is discussed in page "Treating vs Curing".
prosper, Organized-Medicine, needs a continuous inflow of sick people in need of treatment continuously. And accordingly, medical research is focused on the discovery of new drugs to treat diseases rather than to cure diseases (see page "Treating Versus Curing Diseases"). As an example, consider Diabetes. The Diabetes treatment industries earned a whopping 79 Billion dollars in 2023 worldwide, and projected to grow at an annual compound growth rate of 4.2% (). I am able find several research papers on work to discover better drugs and on finding better ways to manufacture Insulin and better ways to dispense it to the diabetics, but I am not able to find a single article on research to find a cure for diabetes.
Throughout my life alwabecause I understand that it is poisonous and I believe that I could not regain good health by ingesting poisons , and I opted instead to confront my Leukemia with my regimen of good food, supplemented with large doses of vitamins , and supplemented with vigorous daily exercise. Most notable in my regimen has been my Vitamin C dosage which I have increased from the initial 6 grams in March 2023, to the current level of 12 grams per day.
I embarked on my regimen in March 2023. Ever since I have been enjoying an amazing sense of well being with plenty of energy and motivation for physical and intellectual activities. At the same time, several astounding improvements in my health have occurred as detailed on the page "Body Changes". By any measure, these improvements in my health are truly miraculous! And, at the same time, my blood counts have remained essential stable.
My initial reason for creating this website was to share my experience with the use of My Regimen based on nutrition, vitamins, minerals, and exercise to battle my Leukemia. The successful experiences that I started having and the many medical books and papers that I have been reading to "educate" my regimen, convinced me that I might have something worth while to say about how to prevent or cure Physiological Diseases. Because of this conviction, I was not able to resist the temptation of including in this website a discussion on my hypothesis of what I believe is wrong with the treatments offered by Big Med for physiological diseases, and of what we should be doing to stay healthy (Root of All Diseases).
I must emphasize that what I say on this website is not intended to detract, disrespect, offend, or otherwise insult the many dedicated medical researchers, doctors, surgeons and nurses working everyday in the "trenches" to help the sick believing in their hearts that they are doing the right thing. On a few occasions, I have been the "sick" and I thank all of these dedicated professionals for keeping me alive.
Clearly, Big Med is being amazingly successful with crisis (emergency) medicine. The focus of my discontent is the standard of care offered for the prevention and treatment of Physiological Diseases, and the aggressive push by Big Med to have everybody, even our kids, taking prescription drugs every day to prevent or treat these diseases. My experience, and that of many others, has shown that these diseases are prevented or cured buy good nutrition suited to the patients biochemical individuality (4,5). I believe that the hearts of our doctors are in the right place, but their prescription of drugs for daily use is wrong!!! I consider that these drugs (along with consumption of items such as Sugar, Super Processed Food, Lifestyle drugs, Recreational drugs, and Cosmetics) are responsible for the current prevalence of Physiological Diseases which have reached epidemic proportions.
My experiences over my entire life, including my current experience with my regimen to deal with my Leukemia, have proven over and over again that radiant good health flows from a lifestyle of good nutrition and physical activity, and not from daily medicine.
Website Contents
This website covers the following items:
1. The regimen that I embarked on to keep my Leukemia at bay: Pages under menu item "My Regimen".
2. The progression of my cancer: Pages under "MyBlood Tests".
3. Description of changes that I noted since the start of my regimen: Pages under "My Body Changes".
4. Background information that frame the reasons why I am writing this website: Pages under "Background".
5. My understanding and views on modern medicine and the importance of nutrition for good health: Pages under "Might Be Of Interest".
Disclaimer
In this website I report truthfully my experience with managing my Leukemia with Good Food, Vitamins-Minerals Supplementation, and Exercise. Based on this experience and the many books and articles that I have been reading, I also provide my hypothesis regarding the cause of physiological diseases and of how we can prevent, cure, or manage them. Because people are all somewhat different from each other (4,5), readers are to be warned that if something (such as food, vitamins, minerals, and exercise) is working for me, it will not necessarily work for other people used in the same way. Accordingly, the readers are advised that if they decide to use any information presented on this website for any purpose or for any reason, they will be doing so at their own risk.