Sunday, July 3, 2011

An Alternative Viewpoint


An Alternative Viewpoint

As much as I appreciate and commend Mike and his Health Rangers Newsletter for the great work they are doing, sometimes from a Nature Cure, and Natural Hygiene view point, the articles become a little skewed, being based, as I would see it, upon contemporary medical scientific thinking, and not upon that of Alternative Scientific thinking. Alternative Scientific thinking having its origin in the theories of the scientists who subscribe to pleomorphism, against mono-morphism. That is, that the bacteria are not the cause of disease, they are a part of the process of recovery, and take on many forms, according to the media they have to deal with. That (acute)disease is our bodies response to the conditions we have provided. On this basis is my response(below) to the following article.

NaturalNews) As most NaturalNews readers probably already know, there is a rapidly-growing resistance to antibiotics that has given way to antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP), and even the strongest antibiotic drugs available have all but lost their ability to treat even the most common infections that afflict people today.

However, a research scientist from the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI in Leipzig, Germany, has discovered that simple, natural amino acids work better than antibiotics at treating infections, and they do not cause harm to healthy cells in the body.

For their study, Dr. Andreas Schubert and his colleagues from Fraunhofer tested the effects of amino acids in vitro and found that they broke through bacterial membranes and penetrated them quicker and with less of a required concentration than antibiotic drugs. And the best part of all was that the amino acids caused no cell damage, unlike antibiotics which kill off beneficial bacteria in the system as well as harmful bacteria.

                                Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032825_amino_acids_antibiotics.html#ixzz1QbPq3vZa

                                       My Response

The first question we require to ask ourselves, when looking to find the answer to the so-called benefits of amino acids in these circumstances, is “What is (acute) disease?” And from a Nature Cure and Natural Hygiene viewpoint, it is the process by which our bodies heal themselves(restore homeostasis), from trauma. The trauma having originated either, physiologically(poor nutrition, lack of sunlight, accumulated toxic waste, etc.),physically(lack of physical activity, accident,etc.) psychologically(psychogical trauma, lack of adequate skills for dealing with stress etc.). Or a combination of any of the afore-mentioned – which it usually is.

The stopping(suppression) of this process by whatever means, be it antibiotics, or amino acids, as mentioned in the above article, is harmful, and fraught with danger in-so-far as in an extreme situation, could cause death to occur. And in all instances can, and will most certainly be, the pre-cursor to chronic disease at a later stage in life.

So that far from being  life-saving, and life-preserving, as this article implies, amino acids only contribute further to our ill health, and may well be the basis of our eventual demise if persevered with long term.
John Fielder DO,DC,ND(Adel)
Osteopath & Lifestyle Consultant
Academy of Natural Living



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