dr joseph mercola
How to Achieve High Level Health and Wellness without Expensive
Drugs or Surgery
Your body is designed to self regulate and be healthy. If this
sounds like a preposterous statement, then you have been a
victim of a disease-focused mass media controlled by powerful
special interests that wants to convince you that expensive
drugs and surgery are the logical choices when confronting
health challenges.
When you shine a bright light in a dark corner
you remove the darkness. You simply can't have light and darkness
simultaneously. Similarly when you focus on health, disease
dramatically disappears. Disease and health can't co-exist.
When
you focus on choosing natural unprocessed foods, healthy water,
air, appropriate sun exposure, exercise, proper rest, emotional
balancing and avoidance of toxic chemicals and pollutants,
you will shine the light on disease and allow health to replace
it.
Are You Surprised By the Following Facts About Americans?
Two
out three are overweight
One of three has either diabetes or pre-diabetes
Cancer is now the number one cause of death
If you are surprised then the following facts help to explain
these statistics:
90% of the money Americans spend on food is
for processed foods
The number one source of calories in America is the sugar
in sodas
In a typical year the average Americans consumes:
Over 56 gallons of soda a year
150 hamburgers
200 orders of fries
Selecting the right foods to nourish you and avoiding the
toxic poisons that are loaded in commercially processed foods
are two of the most important choices you can make to allow
your body to repair the inevitable damage that you encounter
at some point from merely being alive.
However, most of us are
exchanging convenience for our health. While it is an easy
choice for most of us to make, it is regularly encouraged
and facilitated by the very industries that provide these
convenience options.
Drug and Food Industry are the Problem
Not the Solution
This year nearly five billion prescriptions will be
filled in the United States. That is on average one prescription
EVERY month for EVERY person in the US. We are spending nearly
two trillion dollars for care that is focused on the treatment
of disease rather than the promotion of health.
It is indisputable
that our current system has enormous benefit and value in the
treatment of acute medical emergencies that require the use
of trauma centers, skilled surgeons, and intensive care units
to help repair and heal us when we are injured. When this system
is applied to chronic degenerative health conditions that compromise
more than 95% of the health problems it becomes a miserable
failure.
Let me be more precise: it is a miserable failure for
you.
It is a stroke of genius for the drug and food industry
who distort the evidence to convince you that it is perfectly
logical to use the highly effective acute trauma approach
for chronic health conditions. Successful implementation
of this major philosophical shift allows them to create windfall
profits.
The drug industries have traditionally been one of
the most profitable industries on the planet, generating hundreds
of billions of dollars in profit annually.
This enormous amount
of capital has created the largest legislative lobbying influence
in Congress. That drug lobby has been able to manipulate U.S.
laws to maintain a system that perpetuates their influence
through tax breaks, a weakened regulatory system with the FDA,
and loosened marketing restrictions that allow them to target
their message to ever-growing segments of the population.
You
need to know that the current health care system is designed
to create fear. The illusion that is being created is that
it is being done for public safety and the enforcement mechanism
is a government-backed police force. Tragically many legitimate
objections to violations of your health freedoms are overpowered
in the name of national security.
Masterful Manipulation by
the Media
Have you ever had that nagging feeling that all those
drug commercials you see on TV and read in the magazines may
not be the best solution for your health challenges?
Did you
know that the US is only one of two countries in the world
that allows drug companies to advertise prescription drugs
to the public? (The other is New Zealand and they may change
that soon)
It is vitally important for you to understand that
these industries have conspired to deceive you with their army
of evil marketing geniuses, and controlling the media is
one of their most effective strategies.
I stopped watching TV
in my home for ten years, right after the Chicago Bulls finished
their six-time world championship series with Michael Jordan.
At that time there were specific FTC restrictions for marketing
drugs on television, just as there currently are restrictions
for alcohol and tobacco. Now the drug industry is spending
over three billion dollars every year to market their products
direct to consumers.
This masterful manipulation of the media
creates fear to motivate you to choose their expensive and
self-serving solutions. This is most recently demonstrated
by campaigns like the bird flu hoax in which President Bush
announced in the fall of 2005 that nearly two million Americans
could die from the bird flu and the best case scenario would
be 200,000 deaths.
These types of intentional psychological
manipulations and distortions of the truth have allowed them
to effectively convince most of the population to rely on their
Band-Aid solutions for health challenges.
There is HOPE -- They
Never Counted on the Internet!!
I did not share this information to discourage you.
Quite to the contrary: we are making a difference and changes
are happening.
Even with the best and most marketing money can
buy, though, the truth can only be concealed and suppressed
for so long. The drug companies' entire strategy is beginning
to implode because they never realized what a powerful force
the internet could be for educating and information the masses.
In
2004, Merck -- one of the most prestigious and conservative
of the drug companies -- lost $50 billion dollars in their
Vioxx scandal ... a scandal that, by conservative estimates,
was behind the deaths of over 60,000 people.
If you had been
one of my newsletter subscribers in 1999 you would have read
my warning to avoid Vioxx as it could lead to heart attacks.
It was the first public warning about the danger and many thousands
of lives were saved with this information.
You Can Help Change
the Fatally Flawed Health Care System
However, in 1999 not many people were online ? but
now internet access in most countries is becoming as common
as the phone.
I have been online since 1978, well before the
Web existed. Practical applications of computer technology
and health have been have been my passion for many decades.
In
1997 I started my web site, Mercola.com, that is now the most
visited natural health site in the world. By 2006 we had over
800,000 subscribers and over 5 million page views every month.
I created this site with no outside investors or advertising.
That
site filled a need and started the process but time and technology
change so I have created a new web site that allows all health
care professionals and users to interact and participate in
choosing the best health care alternatives to drugs and surgery.
Over
80% of the people on the Internet search for health information,
but unfortunately there is as of yet no destination spot for
health information -- and the field is loaded with fraud and
deception.
It is my hope to leverage all the past ten years
of work on Mercola.com into this new site to provide you and
the rest of the world with a treasure trove of knowledge and
health wisdom that will allow you to avoid the drug and surgery
model. Hopefully you will join me on this mission by participating
at this new site when we release it in the fall.