From the Desk of Carolyn Dean MD ND
I’ve been introducing you to my latest publication, Death by Modern Medicine, where I’ve chronicled the outrages of modern medicine. These blogs give you digestible portions of the 15 chapters and an overall insight into the areas that are important to monitor and be aware of in your own life.
Chapter Seven: Death By Modern Science
One of my greatest frustrations when reading decades of research studies is the researchers’ inability to form a conclusion despite the presenting evidence. Almost every research paper you read calls for more research that investigators claim is vital. But is it vital to the research or to the public, or is it vital to continue getting grants for researchers to keep their jobs? In order to keep the granting process going, researchers can never come to a conclusion on anything they study.
As a result of their lack of conclusion, the population is not warned about crucial dangers to our health. Think of the dangers of DDT, tobacco, and the thousands of chemicals that cause cancer that we were not informed about until it was too late for millions of people.
Sound science around drug testing is sidelined by the commercial venture of drug companies who are eager to promote a flashy and lucrative finding. Think of Viagra which was accidentally discovered by researchers who noticed that the drug developed by Pfizer to lower blood pressure and treat chest pain caused long lasting erections in many of the subjects. According to Google AI, Pfizer brings in about $1.8 billion annually from the sale of accidental Viagra.
Something you likely don’t know about the drug industry is how they are pivoting to maintain their hold in the medical field. A senior executive with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in the UK stunned the medical world on December 8, 2003, when he publicly stated that most prescription medicines do not work on most people who take them.¹
Was this announcement mutiny or a carefully planned pivot? This senior exec was Dr. Allen Roses, worldwide vice-president of genetics at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was planning his promotion of a new class of genetic drugs. In order to make way in our minds for this new therapy, Roses admitted that 90% of drugs work in only 30-50% of people. And that’s because they’ve discovered that people’s genetic makeup interferes with the drugs being able to do their jobs. And further research into genetic drugs was the only answer.
Please dive into this chapter in Death by Modern Medicine and learn about the ways our genetics are being used in the development of targeted drugs. Meanwhile, alternative modalities and holistic treatment of disease are continuing to be suppressed and kept from the public.
Chapter Eight: Death By Cancer Inc.
I firmly believe that the fear of cancer drives it towards us, and it’s so much more prevalent now than it was in the mid ‘70s when I was in medical school. Of course, the condition of our air, food and water is a contributing factor. But I suggest that unresolved stress, depression and trauma set the stage for cancer, and I’ve seen many cases improving when patients begin to resolve their chronic stress and trauma.
In this chapter I share alternative ways of thinking about cancer. A major addition to my knowledge base on cancer and chronic disease is German New Medicine and its offshoots—Total Biology and Recall Healing. Studying this work greatly reduced my fear of cancer because now I can see the connection between conflict and cancer.
Cancer Inc.
My question continues to be: why do we keep using the same methods of attack on cancer when 40 years of the same approach has been disastrous? That is, if one questions whether our endpoint is to save more lives!
As much as there is a war on cancer, there seems to be a war against people finding out that there are alternative treatments to cancer and there are even more ways we should be mobilizing our society to prevent the disease in the first place.
The war on cancer exemplifies the rigidity of modern medicine and the extent to which the medical establishment and the pharmaceutical companies will go to maintain a monopoly on medicine, even if it is killing us.
In this chapter I review the statistics showing that despite the $14.4 billion spent on cancer research annually, long term survival of the more common cancers has barely shifted since the 1970’s.
Investigations have shown that cancer research is supremely flawed, with manufactured tumors in mice that are supposed to mimic human disease. Scientists make cancer cells and put them in mice. Then ‘cure’ cancer in these laboratory models over and over again with their chemotherapy drugs.
These “cures” do not translate into actual human patient drug trials. But there are no headlines that expose the endless failure of cancer research to improve the lives of people dealing with this disease.
Despite this being a difficult topic to read about, especially if you’ve lost loved ones to this disease, there is just so much in this chapter that’s essential to your wellbeing!
Chapter Nine: Death By Modern Chemicals
Over the past one hundred years, we have had a tremendous love affair with chemicals and electronics and a strange marriage with scientific methodology. It is safe to say that important advances in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and science in general came out of the World War II effort and space research. The unseen potential risks to the public were presumably outweighed by the crisis of the time.
~Carolyn Dean, The Magnesium Miracle, 2007
That love affair and comfort with chemicals was carefully constructed after WWII, with the highly noteworthy being the launch of crop dusters loaded with DDT “protecting” the crops of North America.
The toxic chemicals in our environment, introduced through pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides used in industry have polluted our soil and water table. The air emissions and effluents from commerce have contaminated our air and water, all of which have poisoned the food chain; plants, fish, and animals. Certain species’ life cycles and sexual reproduction are impaired, and they are becoming endangered.
This has led to a dramatic new condition in medicine called Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Disorders (MCSD). MCSD patients can be so sensitive to environmental chemicals that they are unable to read a newspaper because they can’t tolerate the smell of ink; can’t use telephones because they react to plastic; and can’t wear synthetic clothing that zaps them of their energy. I had one patient who would collapse every time she put on a pair of nylons.
I track the decades of information about these chemicals that have ultimately shown to damage our immune systems, helping to create autoimmune disease.
My third edition of Death by Modern Medicine is my ultimate argument for why you have to take charge of your own health and wellbeing. My websites, books, products, blogs, podcasts and articles all offer implementable actions to help you take charge!
Stay tuned for the next few articles where I continue to outline the 15 chapters of Death by Modern Medicine.
Carolyn Dean MD ND
The Doctor of the Future.
¹Connor S. “Glaxo chief: ‘Our drugs do not work on most patients.’” The Independent. December 8, 2003
