Report Preamble 11th October,. 2019
Dear Member, or Site Explorer,
I often get the question, “What is Holistic Medicine? – What does it mean?”
Although I do have a longer, more complex and detailed answer for another day, my answer today is surprisingly, even shockingly simple:
“It´s an all-inclusive medicine, that will use any method or approach that offers the shortest and most comfortable way to the desired result, without afflicting any harm to the patient”.
There are no other requirements, nor any dogmas or tabous to navigate around.
In other words,“Use anything that works, with an all-inclusive perspective on the problem.”
I dislike the term Alternative Medicine, for the reason that it sets up a division between Main Standard Medicine on the one hand, and an Alternative to it on the other. And I don´t like conflicts and divisions when it comes to the art of curing sick people. We should all work humbly together.
Where the solutions of allopathic school medicine are the best available, and do no harm, by all means let´s use them. And when a combination of methods offers the best result for the patient, then that´s what should be chosen.
Medicine should not be about schools or prestige, or money, or titles, it should be about offering the patients the most effective, most gentle and supportive treatments that can be found, whatever classification or name someone wants to give them. And where a combination of various schools, traditions or techniques offer the best solution for the patient, then that´s what should be used, if possible.
My new report applies an overview of our present health situation, and how a holistic approach to health and medicine is required to deal meaningfully with our growing global health challenges.
WHY A HOLISTIC APPROACH IS KEY TO REAL CURES
During the last century people in technically and economically advanced countries have experienced two opposite trends as regards statistics on survival and general health.
On the one hand we experienced important advances in survival statistics, mainly due to the discovery of anti-biotics. To a lesser degree due to better hygiene and nutrition. Which in turn can be attributed to better education, better communications, and better economy. And to a much lesser degree,– if at all – due to vaccinations.
However, in the US the rising trend in life expectancy has stopped and is now in reversal since around 2015. Though there may be several factors involved, one that is very visible is the increase in obesity in the US. It´s now generally recognized that obesity correlates largely to diabetes, which in turn leads to all kinds of fatal illness, among them Alzheimer´s, stroke, heart attacks, kidney failure, cancer etc. Now, the holistic health detective will not be satisfied with this explanation. S/He will first of all be aware of the fact that correlation does not equal cause, and then want to know what, in turn, are the causes of the obesity epidemic.
To say obesity is due to eating too much is not enough. Saying it´s eating too much fat, as was the fashion for decades not long ago, is even more misleading, in fact totally untrue. Eating fat does not make you fat at all, no more than eating greens makes you green. No, the cause of obesity is probably at least three-fold: The most obvious one is eating too much fast-metabolized carbohydrates, especially sugar, which has been copiously added to nearly all industrially produced food items during the last half century or so. And refined sugar is a highly addictive substance, which in excess is poisonous to the human organism.
