A large capital expenditure plant doesn't make any money to pay the stockholders when you cut off the power... if you pull the plug 25% of the time, they just lost 25% of their gross revenues and probably more than 25% of their profits... So that means electricity has to be, roughly, over a quarter of their expenses and has to practically be free, to interest them.
It's very important that the investors always get their cut, or they won't let us have any toys.
Nikola Tesla may have been right about everything else, but we're quite fortunate that he was wrong about his wanting to extract energy from the "wheelwork of nature". Imagine the chaos if "investors" had to support themselves with work instead of "investment".
Imagine the chaos if THAT black swan took flight.:)
Some humans have a fully developed ability to consciously 'see' electromagnetic/etc energy fields around biological systems. I've seen flashes of auras before, but not all the time.
Many devotees of Scientism deny that the human body has energy fields that science doesn't know how to measure, but they do concede that magnetic fields are created by electrons in motion, and that nervous tissue communicates with electrical impulses. Electrons are in continuous motion in the human body, so that's a very complex magnetic field that's generated! All tissues have quantum field effects too...
We have to ask ourselves if keeping grandpa alive for another week (unconscious or in sever pain or zonked out of his gourd ) is really benefiting him.
My one grandfather got a pacemaker/defibrillator circa 2003. It had a defective battery, and his cardiologist replaced it circa 2007.
Grandma passed away in 2005, and by 2007 Grandpa was mostly ready to go himself. But his Cardiologist saw "low battery", Medicare and United Healthcare were covering the $50k for the replacement pacemaker, and by that point Grandpa was just along for the ride.
He went anemic ~2 weeks after the replacement surgery. I took him to the hospital, where they found a bleeding tumor in his stomach. He started hospice care later that week, and lived for another 2 years (hospice care was good to Grandpa - we think he liked the attention).
Medical prices are so obfuscated, people just don't have any idea what things really cost and therefore, they have this cost is no object mentality.
I think it's more, "if someone else is paying, why should I care what it costs?"
I believe there is a very strong desire among most adults to replicate.
A person can learn a lot from their kids. Raising children is a learning experience unlike any other. Some people don't want to go there, and that's fine for them.
... But with smoking, there is no analogue that is healthier.
I don't smoke, never have, and don't like being around smokers much. But if I was going to smoke, it'd be with organic tobacco in a pipe.
If you search for "radioactive tobacco", you can read about how the US Federal Government took away the tobacco industry's fertilizer supply in WWII, to make munitions. The tobacco industry switched to fertilizing their crops with rock phosphate. Tobacco concentrates radioactive elements in the leaves, and rock phosphate happens to have a lot of radioactive elements.
I think organic tobacco farmers fertilize using traditional methods - manure & the like.
The other problem with cigarettes are the filters. When used, they release microscopic filaments into the lungs.
I'm usually the type who will go out & find supporting links, but I have some other things to attend to this evening. If you're interested they're rather easy to find.
Furthermore, many people know a non-smoker who came down with lung or throat or mouth cancer. WTF? The problem is that humans had been using butter, tallow and lard (animal fats) for a thousand generations. Then the seed oil industry, threatened with extinction because their primary customer (paint industry) switched to petroleum in the 1950's, waged a propaganda campaign against the fats humans have consumed forever. Somehow "saturated" fats became a heart-attack-on-a-plate, when those "paint oils" are actually much more hazardous to human health.
Butter, which is has a large proportion of stable "saturated" fat, semi-stable monounsaturated fat, and a wee-little bit of unstable polyunsaturated fat, is much less cancer-provoking than "goes rancid as soon as it is made" corn oil or soybean oil or rapeseed oil or linseed oil or...
I wonder what the European doctor's native tongue is. There are some clues that English isn't it. I'd guess "German".
Isn't Bayer German? Look at the treatment options he/she gives:
> I don't contradict myself. I'm just saying that if it's not organic > (meaning: real tissue damage treatable with conventional > medicine/surgery/pharmacology), (emphasis added)
Whatever happened to nutrition? This and other factors don't matter to conventional doctors, their job is to support the medical-industrial complex by selling pills and buying fantastically expensive equipment like MRI machines.
I believe Abraham Flexner (lookup "Flexner Report") & the Carnegie foundation modeled American medical education reforms off the German system. Or maybe I'm confusing that with what John Taylor Gatto said about standardized schooling being based on the German schooling. ?
As a medical professional (neurologist-in-training, so I know about pain and "pain") these stories make me mad.
I know you 've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on your medical education, and the system is set up so only the most brightest of all candidates get into medical school. But there will be patients who you won't have answers for, and "you must unlearn, what you have learned" to help them.
I'm just explaining to you in a rational way that many diseases and maladies are sometimes psychosomatic in origin and extension.
There's only so many details that you can put in a slashdot post.
Origin: head trauma and near drowning that resulted in 14 days total amnesia. Onset of symptoms did not start for about 13 months after initial injury. Extension: "college sucks" (psychosomatic escalation of trauma incurred at the lake 1 year earlier).
You throw "psychosomatic" around as if it explains something, and it does, but you probably don't appreciate that it's the tool that you use with EVERY patient. Did you see the recent story that says placebos can work even when the patient is told they're getting sugar pills? It's all in the language that the doctor uses and the expectations that he has.
you didn't have anything really serious (organic) going on. And that's good news.
No one ever thought to run a Antinuclear Antibody test (when I actually had a problem).
I suggest getting Dr. Robert Zieve's book (don't know what happened to his web site... I didn't check it when I originally posted, and it seems to be down now). Also read the first two chapters of Dr. Weil's Spontaneous Healing... The doctor who finally helped me is apparently good friends with "Andy" [Weil], and learned a lot from his apprenticeship with Dr. Fulford...
But you probably won't look into these resources. cest la vie. Regardless of your individual actions, true health wisdom will prevail. You can choose to ride the wave, or drown in the tsunami.
Even conventional doctors use touch for diagnosis. How is "Dr. Watson" supposed to compete? There's more to the practice of medicine than matching symptoms with pills.
Years ago I experienced a tremendous amount of pain when I was using the keyboard... Started when I was a freshman in college. I'm sure Slashdot was to blame, somehow... But anyways, it started with shooting pains up and down my right arm, so I switched to using my Thinkpad's trackpoint with my left index finger. Before long I had shooting pain up & down my right forearm too. But it wasn't so bad, so I just switched between index fingers on the trackpad, and added an external mouse...
I was more or less okay until I started my final CS2 project the night before it was due (deadline was at 8am, iirc). Spent all night working on it, had to start over at 1am because my first solution was hopelessly broken. Before long I had shooting pains across my shoulders and down my spine too.. Neck cracked constantly, and I was quite miserable.
The next semester I went t the campus health center... Doctor said I didn't have carpal tunnel syndrome, and that there was nothing wrong with me that a little exercise wouldn't fix, and prescribed me some double-strength ibuprofen.
The pills didn't touch the pain, and neither did exercise help. Went to another doctor, and got brushed off with the same useless platitude about exercise. I could have gained a dozen pounds, for sure, but my problem was not related to lack of exercise.
Drifted around for a few years... Went to seven chiropractors, who all agreed that I had a problem, but their treatments were not helpful. Eventually I went to a book signing by Dr. Zieve, and mentioned that I was looking for a member of the other profession that had a strong history for manual medicine. He asked "why", so I said something about the pain I experienced when using a keyboard. He said that my intended course of action might be appropriate, that there was only one such doctor locally, and whenever he needed that kind of care he went to see someone 100 miles away.
Eventually went to see this other doctor, and his skills were incredible. Told him why I was there, he asked if I'd ever broken a bone and I said 'no'. The first thing he found was that my left hip was an inch or an inch and a half higher than my right. None of the 7 doctors or 7 chiropractors had noticed that. One chiropractor said that one of my legs was longer than the other, but the last doctor I visited said he'd only had 2 or 3 patients over his 30 years of practice that actually had a leg-length disparity - all the rest had imbalanced hips, and when the muscle that was torquing the hips was calmed down, the hips leveled out and the leg-length disparity disappeared.
Then he had me lie down on is table. "You have a rib or two that's broken back here." What? I'd never broken a rib, as far as I knew...
"Like, an old break that's all healed up now?" The good doctor confirmed that this was the case.
The treatment continued as the doctor investigated why my hips and shoulders were torqued. Eventually he found the muscle (or 'twist' in the connective tissue) that was most responsible, applied just the right amount of pressure in just the right location, and felt a release.
There are 650 to 850 muscles in the human body. A doctor who specializes in hands-on treatments knows this anatomy by touch, and can feel (through the skin) when something is not like it should be. This is something like how you can tell if the road your car is driving on is iced over by the feedback you get through the steering wheel.
Smoking itself isn't so bad, it's certain aspects of the modern world that make smoking such a killer:
1. the radiation from the rock phosphate fertilizers (tobacco concentrates radiation) 2. micro filaments from cigarette filters enter the lungs 3. lipid-peroxidation-triggering polyunsaturated fats have replaced safer saturated fats (butter, lard, and coconut oil) in the western diet. These get incorporated into the lung tissue, and contributes in some significant matter to the lung cancer epidemic. Many cases of lung cancer happen in people who don't smoke, and polyunsaturated fatty acids are the cause.
I myself have spent quite a bit of time wondering who gets to decide what wisdom is "conventional". I bet it's another case of "follow the money". Thoughts?
It's much easier to hide things in an underground cavern than in a building on the surface.
There are various levels of secret. Classify everything; declassify "low-grade" secrets first.
The base that didn't exist except in the minds of "conspiracy nuts" has been partially admitted to. I wonder what other "secrets" are out there, and where they're hidden. And when will they open Area 51 for tours?
Standardized, age-separated schools treat kids as if they're all ready to learn the exact same thing at the same time. The Socratic approach to education involves helping the individual discover their world.
Here's that essay that you didn't bother to look up: The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher. I know people can't click on every link they see, so here's a section that discusses the implications of the seven lessons Mr. Gatto taught in his standardized government school:
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It is the great triumph of compulsory government monopoly mass- schooling that among even the best of my fellow teachers, and among the best of my student's parents, only a small number can imagine a different way to do things. "The kids have to know how to read and write, don't they?" "They have to know how to add and subtract, don't they?" "They have to learn to follow orders if they ever expect to keep a job."
Only a few lifetimes ago things were very different in the United States; originality and variety were common currency; our freedom from regimentation made us the miracle of the world, social class boundaries were relatively easy to cross, our citizenry was marvelously confident, inventive, and able to do many things independently, to think for themselves. We were something, we Americans, all by ourselves, without government sticking its nose into our lives, without institutions and social agencies telling us how to think and feel; no, all by ourselves we were something, as individuals.
We've had a society increasingly under central control in the United States since just before the Civil War and such a society requires compulsory schooling, government monopoly schooling to maintain itself. Before the society changed, schooling wasn't very important anywhere. We had it, but not too much of it and only as much as an individual wanted. People learned to read, write, and do arithmetic just fine anyway, there are some studies which show literacy at the time of the American Revolution, at least on the Eastern seaboard, as close to total. Tom Paine's Common Sense sold 600,000 copies to a population of 2,500,000, 20 percent of which was slave and another 50 percent indentured.
Were the colonists geniuses? No, the truth is that reading, writing and arithmetic only take about 100 hours to transmit as long as the audience is eager and willing to learn.schools preempt the time of children for 12 years and teach them the seven lessons I've just taught you.
you end up too free-spirited for a business to hire you,
There, fixed that for you.
Government schools train people to be cogs for the machine (ref: John Taylor Gatto. "The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher" essay is also very good, and is on any number of sites). Some people rebel against being slotted into a position in life (the group you refer to who "crash hard" at age 25), while others recognize the game and make their own rules.
One must "learn the rules" in order to avoid the cog/machine outcome in their life. Gatto's Underground History of American Education (free at the site above) is a good start.:)
There is currently no cure. No alternative to insuline pump ou injections
The gallbladder apparently has a roll as a backup insulin-producing organ. Had you heard about that? The alternate to insulin injections is to eat foods that don't require insulin, and allow the gallbladder to take care of the body's reduced insulin needs.
So, until the medical establishment decrees that diabetes has been cured, then there is no cure.
There, fixed that for you. A cure could be staring you in the face, but diabetes is much more profitable for teh medical establishment to treat than to cure. Good luck waiting for them to fix it for you.
Did you see AC's response to your post?
Wow. Typical shit a doctor would say: "Diabetes is something you're never cured from."
1. Not YET, dammit! 2. AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, for god's sake! The proper statement is:
"Diabetes is something you can not yet be cured from, As far as I know."
There could be a cure right now, that you just haven't heard of, or chose to ignore. A cure could be available by tomorrow, if someone suddenly comes up with one. Which is likely to happen in the future.
I know you're super-confident in your beliefs about how incurable diabetes is, but I maintain that there are options. And lookie at what I just read on the wikipedia:
In 2009, it was demonstrated that the gallbladder removed from a patient expressed several pancreatic hormones including insulin.[5] This was surprising because until then, it was thought that insulin was only produced in pancreatic -cells. This study provides evidence that -like cells do occur outside the human pancreas. The authors suggest that since the gallbladder and pancreas are adjacent to each other during embryonic development, there exists tremendous potential in derivation of endocrine pancreatic progenitor cells from human gallbladders that are available after cholecystectomy.
The real problem with western medicine is that it leaves no room for "hope". You've accepted medical dogma that you'll be injecting insulin for life, baring some magic pill or other outside therapy. Beliefs create our personal realities.
Put simply, I think that, in general, D.O.'s tend to have more tools in the toolbox when it comes to diagnosis.
Some D.O.s have a more tools in their toolbox when it comes to treatment, too. All Osteopathic medical students are required to take courses in "Osteopathic Manipulation", which is very appropriate in many cases.
http://osteohome.com/ is a nice site run by a D.O. who actually uses his hands-on training... Most don't, some use it occasionally, and a few specialize in it. Cayce sometimes advocated osteopathic treatments, and Dr. Reilly has a very nice book: http://books.google.com/books?id=nZHTAJDgozoC
So which is it? Fight or flight, or the change in diet? You say it's one thing, then immediately say it's another.
Both are important. The twentieth century saw both the dietary oil switch, and the rise of an environment with which our bodies are evolutionarily unequipped to deal with (thereby triggering the fight-or-flight response).
I'm confident a cure will be found within the next decade or two. The hospital where I do my checkups is making very good progress on a targeted immunosuppressant.
You can wait on that. I've seen my dad work with his patients diabetic patients, and the end stage isn't pretty (I assume you still have all your toes). Me, I much prefer to help train my body to have a more productive immune response.
I had an auto-immune condition too, but it wasn't easy to classify & treat like yours, so my doctors brushed me off. Best thing that ever happened to me, as I had to find my own answers.
Pharmaceutical companies are the ones who take horse piss, perform alchemedic voodoo dances, mark it up 10000x and sell it at your neighborhood pharmacy.
as a type 1 diabetic I'm sick of hearing I can be cured by wishful thinking and cow's piss
Good way to ignore the rest of that comment. Type-1 Diabetes is an auto-immune condition. Auto-immune reactions are always related to an overactive fight-or-flight system (Triple Warmer meridian). What was happening in your life when your immune system took out your pancreas?
My favorite biochemist talks about how to induce diabetes in mice by using a drug that takes out the beta cells. And how mice given a certain type of protective food are prevented from becoming diabetic when given the drug. This is the food that was displaced in the great dietary switch that led to the present Lipid Peroxidation epidemic.
Even if you can't fully recover your body's insulin-producing capacity, there are always things that can be done to improve your condition.
But never mind anything here. There's no hope for you. You probably ought to go eat a Hagen-Daaz ice cream bar, and inject some insulin.
Did you ever hear about the time that one brand of doctoring felt threatened, and formed a lobby to make their competition illegal?
The lobby is still alive today. It's known as the "American Medical Association". Many of the competing philosophies have disappeared, or are completely marginalized, even though the therapies they used were vastly superior to the treatments that were then-advocated by the American Medical Association: bloodletting and quicksilver (mercury).
In the 1840's, 1850's, anyone could set up as a doctor. There were hundreds of medical schools. Some were good, some were okay, some were diploma-mills. In the early 1900's, the AMA got some help from the Carnegie foundation to form standards for medical education. This was after they'd successfully lobbied for state licensing laws.
This is the classic analogy about asking the fox to design fortifications for the hen house. The Carnegie foundation's goals were to concentrate wealth and power. Half the medical schools in the country closed due to the Flexner Report. Mr. Flexner was NOT a doctor, and didn't know anything about medical education. He was just a tool for the Foundation. Today doctors spend years learning about conditions and diseases, what to prescribe and how to do surgery. They also spend a week or two learning about the biochemistry of nutrition. They learn how to use their hands for diagnostics, but hands can be used to heal too (massage, ostepathic manipulation, etc).
The Osteopathic profession survived the Great Medical Purge, and during those flu outbreaks in 1918 or so, allopathic hospitals killed their patients by medicating fevers away and mixing flu patients with everyone else, while the Osteopathic hospitals made special sick wards, did their hands-on treatments, and allowed the fever as the body's natural defensive mechanisms. Osteopathic hospitals lost a handful of patients, but they were much more survivable than the AMA's death-houses, whose doctors were trained by the Carnegie Foundation.
There's a good link or two on that wikipedia page. I like 'How the Cost-Plus System Evolved': Part IPart IIPart III.
Diabetes is something you're never cured from. No matter what such and such a diet might say, it may greatly improve things, but the diabetes is still there.
There is no pill to cure diabetes. But a good "acupuncturist" can balance the body's energy systems well enough to make it a complete non-issue (when combined with personal self-healing initiatives, like changes in diet and activity levels). And stopping the lipid-peroxidation chain reaction (which is caused by the great 20th-century switch in dietary fats from animal-sources to seed-oil) helps too.
Doctors are very smart people, but their education is tailored to make them servants to the pharmaceutical industry. There are better options than pills, for all chronic conditions (emphasis on CHRONIC - drugs are great in an emergency), but all the best health options are marginalized because they're relatively cheap.
"Basically, there's a new physical effect that I think was found in the lab more than 20 years ago by Fleischmann and Pons [University of Utah electrochemists who were later derided for their work on cold fusion]," said Peter Hagelstein, an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science and one of the most mainstream proponents of cold fusion research. "It was not accepted by the scientific community. It's been laughed at and criticized. However, over the years the effect has continued to be seen."
As Max Planck said, "science advances on funeral at a time." Wall Street and the ghost of JP Morgan (Tesla-suppressor #1) are not going to be happy once these things hit mass production...
It'll make US's debt crunch look like a drop in a bucket.
China has state-owned banks. That means it owes the debt to itself.
The U.S. has privately-owned banks. That means we owe our debt to our financiers, who create money in the fractional-reserve monetary system by making loans.
There are people who share Tesla's dream of extracting energy from the aether. They don't grok physics like Tesla did, and there is active resistance from the devotees of materialist-based science, which is why progress has been so slow. The Pure Energy Systems wiki is the best place to go if you want to get a better idea of what innovations dreamers are thinking up. I saw my acquaintance's truck on the front page one day...:)
What's most interesting to me is how many people, who've been trained in the Heaviside/JP Morgan version of electromagnetism and science grounded in materialist philosophy, are allergic to the idea that thermodynamics is just a special case & that the universe also has organizing principles. Science was switched to assume that "matter is all there is" sometime in the early 19th century by 2 or 3 guys in their 20's (I'm sorta trying to figure out who these three men were, but I don't really care that much - maybe I'll write the speaker).
Hence the search for a "smallest" particle / building block of matter. The alternate view is that matter's fundamental nature is not something "hard", but simply interacting force fields. Conventional Science already knows that atoms and protons and neutrons are mostly "empty space", and E=mC^2, so the leap is very, very small at this point.
I don't grok aether physics but know at least two people who do, and two more who would be up for sainthood if they'd lived 600 years ago in Europe (after they'd been burned at the stake, of course).
All the evils of the switch to a materialist-based philosophy of science have been unleashed in the world today. The only thing left in Pandora's box is "hope". The heirs to JP Morgan won't allow the DOE to invest in fundamentally "game changing technology" that would make the hydrocarbon-based energy economy completely obsolete, but there is still hope that the forces of Tesla's vision of energy will be unleashed. As soon as I figure this all out I'm going to revise my domain, .:)
There's a quote from Timothy Leary about "reality tunnels". This is basically the set of beliefs an individual has about the world we live in. Wikipedia has a few paragraphs on the topic.
I used to "believe" in the scientific consensus too, but then it became an obstacle. Medicine based in materialism is okay for some conditions, but it is severely limited. Every culture, excepting the "scientific materialism" that guides the western approach to health, describes energy systems that serve as the body's blueprint. These work well for most people with most conditions (as appropriate, of course), sometimes even in spite of a negative placebo effect.
Tesla's vision is going to win out, eventually. I have an acquaintance who doesn't care about the gospel of thermodynamics, and his prototypes are coming along nicely.... I'll have to go for an update, thanks for the reminder.:)
Thermodynamics applies to closed systems. The physical universe is not a closed system. Once Heaviside & Company's bastardization of Maxwell's 20 Equations are corrected, this will be considered common knowledge.
There isn't anything more sure than the laws of thermodynamics. As long as you live, you will never see them broken.
There was a story on faith a week or so ago, maybe you missed it.
* Look at the housing market. How do we determine the value of a house? Look at who wants it, how much they are willing to pay. Those are the only two variables that matter.
Very few people pay cash for a house. The variable that matters more than any other is how much a "home buyer" can afford to borrow (from JP Morgan).
If electricity were free, then people would have more money to spend on... *finite resources.* Consequently, the price of those resources would increase
If electricity were free, all resources would be essentially limitless. We could afford to desalinate water and pump it into the desert to make an artificial oasis, etc. Surplus has been a 'problem' for quite a while now (due mechanization & automation reducing the amount of labor required for many of the products humans need)...
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A large capital expenditure plant doesn't make any money to pay the stockholders when you cut off the power... if you pull the plug 25% of the time, they just lost 25% of their gross revenues and probably more than 25% of their profits... So that means electricity has to be, roughly, over a quarter of their expenses and has to practically be free, to interest them.
It's very important that the investors always get their cut, or they won't let us have any toys.
Nikola Tesla may have been right about everything else, but we're quite fortunate that he was wrong about his wanting to extract energy from the "wheelwork of nature". Imagine the chaos if "investors" had to support themselves with work instead of "investment".
Imagine the chaos if THAT black swan took flight. :)
Some humans have a fully developed ability to consciously 'see' electromagnetic/etc energy fields around biological systems. I've seen flashes of auras before, but not all the time.
Many devotees of Scientism deny that the human body has energy fields that science doesn't know how to measure, but they do concede that magnetic fields are created by electrons in motion, and that nervous tissue communicates with electrical impulses. Electrons are in continuous motion in the human body, so that's a very complex magnetic field that's generated! All tissues have quantum field effects too...
The term is cognitive dissonance.
We have to ask ourselves if keeping grandpa alive for another week (unconscious or in sever pain or zonked out of his gourd ) is really benefiting him.
My one grandfather got a pacemaker/defibrillator circa 2003. It had a defective battery, and his cardiologist replaced it circa 2007.
Grandma passed away in 2005, and by 2007 Grandpa was mostly ready to go himself. But his Cardiologist saw "low battery", Medicare and United Healthcare were covering the $50k for the replacement pacemaker, and by that point Grandpa was just along for the ride.
He went anemic ~2 weeks after the replacement surgery. I took him to the hospital, where they found a bleeding tumor in his stomach. He started hospice care later that week, and lived for another 2 years (hospice care was good to Grandpa - we think he liked the attention).
Medical prices are so obfuscated, people just don't have any idea what things really cost and therefore, they have this cost is no object mentality.
I think it's more, "if someone else is paying, why should I care what it costs?"
I believe there is a very strong desire among most adults to replicate.
A person can learn a lot from their kids. Raising children is a learning experience unlike any other. Some people don't want to go there, and that's fine for them.
... But with smoking, there is no analogue that is healthier.
I don't smoke, never have, and don't like being around smokers much. But if I was going to smoke, it'd be with organic tobacco in a pipe.
If you search for "radioactive tobacco", you can read about how the US Federal Government took away the tobacco industry's fertilizer supply in WWII, to make munitions. The tobacco industry switched to fertilizing their crops with rock phosphate. Tobacco concentrates radioactive elements in the leaves, and rock phosphate happens to have a lot of radioactive elements.
I think organic tobacco farmers fertilize using traditional methods - manure & the like.
The other problem with cigarettes are the filters. When used, they release microscopic filaments into the lungs.
I'm usually the type who will go out & find supporting links, but I have some other things to attend to this evening. If you're interested they're rather easy to find.
Furthermore, many people know a non-smoker who came down with lung or throat or mouth cancer. WTF? The problem is that humans had been using butter, tallow and lard (animal fats) for a thousand generations. Then the seed oil industry, threatened with extinction because their primary customer (paint industry) switched to petroleum in the 1950's, waged a propaganda campaign against the fats humans have consumed forever. Somehow "saturated" fats became a heart-attack-on-a-plate, when those "paint oils" are actually much more hazardous to human health.
Butter, which is has a large proportion of stable "saturated" fat, semi-stable monounsaturated fat, and a wee-little bit of unstable polyunsaturated fat, is much less cancer-provoking than "goes rancid as soon as it is made" corn oil or soybean oil or rapeseed oil or linseed oil or...
I wonder what the European doctor's native tongue is. There are some clues that English isn't it. I'd guess "German".
Isn't Bayer German? Look at the treatment options he/she gives:
> I don't contradict myself. I'm just saying that if it's not organic
> (meaning: real tissue damage treatable with conventional
> medicine/surgery/pharmacology), (emphasis added)
Whatever happened to nutrition? This and other factors don't matter to conventional doctors, their job is to support the medical-industrial complex by selling pills and buying fantastically expensive equipment like MRI machines.
I believe Abraham Flexner (lookup "Flexner Report") & the Carnegie foundation modeled American medical education reforms off the German system. Or maybe I'm confusing that with what John Taylor Gatto said about standardized schooling being based on the German schooling. ?
As a medical professional (neurologist-in-training, so I know about pain and "pain") these stories make me mad.
I know you 've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on your medical education, and the system is set up so only the most brightest of all candidates get into medical school. But there will be patients who you won't have answers for, and "you must unlearn, what you have learned" to help them.
There's only so many details that you can put in a slashdot post.
Origin: head trauma and near drowning that resulted in 14 days total amnesia. Onset of symptoms did not start for about 13 months after initial injury.
Extension: "college sucks" (psychosomatic escalation of trauma incurred at the lake 1 year earlier).
You throw "psychosomatic" around as if it explains something, and it does, but you probably don't appreciate that it's the tool that you use with EVERY patient. Did you see the recent story that says placebos can work even when the patient is told they're getting sugar pills? It's all in the language that the doctor uses and the expectations that he has.
No one ever thought to run a Antinuclear Antibody test (when I actually had a problem).
I suggest getting Dr. Robert Zieve's book (don't know what happened to his web site... I didn't check it when I originally posted, and it seems to be down now). Also read the first two chapters of Dr. Weil's Spontaneous Healing... The doctor who finally helped me is apparently good friends with "Andy" [Weil], and learned a lot from his apprenticeship with Dr. Fulford...
But you probably won't look into these resources. cest la vie. Regardless of your individual actions, true health wisdom will prevail. You can choose to ride the wave, or drown in the tsunami.
HTH, HAND.
Even conventional doctors use touch for diagnosis. How is "Dr. Watson" supposed to compete? There's more to the practice of medicine than matching symptoms with pills.
Years ago I experienced a tremendous amount of pain when I was using the keyboard... Started when I was a freshman in college. I'm sure Slashdot was to blame, somehow... But anyways, it started with shooting pains up and down my right arm, so I switched to using my Thinkpad's trackpoint with my left index finger. Before long I had shooting pain up & down my right forearm too. But it wasn't so bad, so I just switched between index fingers on the trackpad, and added an external mouse...
I was more or less okay until I started my final CS2 project the night before it was due (deadline was at 8am, iirc). Spent all night working on it, had to start over at 1am because my first solution was hopelessly broken. Before long I had shooting pains across my shoulders and down my spine too.. Neck cracked constantly, and I was quite miserable.
The next semester I went t the campus health center... Doctor said I didn't have carpal tunnel syndrome, and that there was nothing wrong with me that a little exercise wouldn't fix, and prescribed me some double-strength ibuprofen.
The pills didn't touch the pain, and neither did exercise help. Went to another doctor, and got brushed off with the same useless platitude about exercise. I could have gained a dozen pounds, for sure, but my problem was not related to lack of exercise.
Drifted around for a few years... Went to seven chiropractors, who all agreed that I had a problem, but their treatments were not helpful. Eventually I went to a book signing by Dr. Zieve, and mentioned that I was looking for a member of the other profession that had a strong history for manual medicine. He asked "why", so I said something about the pain I experienced when using a keyboard. He said that my intended course of action might be appropriate, that there was only one such doctor locally, and whenever he needed that kind of care he went to see someone 100 miles away.
Eventually went to see this other doctor, and his skills were incredible. Told him why I was there, he asked if I'd ever broken a bone and I said 'no'. The first thing he found was that my left hip was an inch or an inch and a half higher than my right. None of the 7 doctors or 7 chiropractors had noticed that. One chiropractor said that one of my legs was longer than the other, but the last doctor I visited said he'd only had 2 or 3 patients over his 30 years of practice that actually had a leg-length disparity - all the rest had imbalanced hips, and when the muscle that was torquing the hips was calmed down, the hips leveled out and the leg-length disparity disappeared.
Then he had me lie down on is table. "You have a rib or two that's broken back here." What? I'd never broken a rib, as far as I knew...
"Like, an old break that's all healed up now?" The good doctor confirmed that this was the case.
The treatment continued as the doctor investigated why my hips and shoulders were torqued. Eventually he found the muscle (or 'twist' in the connective tissue) that was most responsible, applied just the right amount of pressure in just the right location, and felt a release.
There are 650 to 850 muscles in the human body. A doctor who specializes in hands-on treatments knows this anatomy by touch, and can feel (through the skin) when something is not like it should be. This is something like how you can tell if the road your car is driving on is iced over by the feedback you get through the steering wheel.
Smoking itself isn't so bad, it's certain aspects of the modern world that make smoking such a killer:
2. micro filaments from cigarette filters enter the lungs
3. lipid-peroxidation-triggering polyunsaturated fats have replaced safer saturated fats (butter, lard, and coconut oil) in the western diet. These get incorporated into the lung tissue, and contributes in some significant matter to the lung cancer epidemic. Many cases of lung cancer happen in people who don't smoke, and polyunsaturated fatty acids are the cause.
I myself have spent quite a bit of time wondering who gets to decide what wisdom is "conventional". I bet it's another case of "follow the money". Thoughts?
or is everything else officially accounted for?
It's much easier to hide things in an underground cavern than in a building on the surface.
There are various levels of secret. Classify everything; declassify "low-grade" secrets first.
The base that didn't exist except in the minds of "conspiracy nuts" has been partially admitted to. I wonder what other "secrets" are out there, and where they're hidden. And when will they open Area 51 for tours?
Schools don't train , they educate
Not the schools I went to.
Standardized, age-separated schools treat kids as if they're all ready to learn the exact same thing at the same time. The Socratic approach to education involves helping the individual discover their world.
Here's that essay that you didn't bother to look up: The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher. I know people can't click on every link they see, so here's a section that discusses the implications of the seven lessons Mr. Gatto taught in his standardized government school:
Oh noes, the corporate machines won't hire me.
you end up too free-spirited for a business to hire you,
There, fixed that for you.
Government schools train people to be cogs for the machine (ref: John Taylor Gatto. "The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher" essay is also very good, and is on any number of sites). Some people rebel against being slotted into a position in life (the group you refer to who "crash hard" at age 25), while others recognize the game and make their own rules.
One must "learn the rules" in order to avoid the cog/machine outcome in their life. Gatto's Underground History of American Education (free at the site above) is a good start. :)
There is currently no cure. No alternative to insuline pump ou injections
The gallbladder apparently has a roll as a backup insulin-producing organ. Had you heard about that? The alternate to insulin injections is to eat foods that don't require insulin, and allow the gallbladder to take care of the body's reduced insulin needs.
So, until the medical establishment decrees that diabetes has been cured, then there is no cure.
There, fixed that for you. A cure could be staring you in the face, but diabetes is much more profitable for teh medical establishment to treat than to cure. Good luck waiting for them to fix it for you.
Did you see AC's response to your post?
Wow. Typical shit a doctor would say: "Diabetes is something you're never cured from."
1. Not YET, dammit!
2. AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, for god's sake!
The proper statement is:
"Diabetes is something you can not yet be cured from, As far as I know."
There could be a cure right now, that you just haven't heard of, or chose to ignore.
A cure could be available by tomorrow, if someone suddenly comes up with one. Which is likely to happen in the future.
Everything else is extreme arrogance.
- http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2134108&cid=36057670 (emphasis added)
Thanks for the thread. :)
I know you're super-confident in your beliefs about how incurable diabetes is, but I maintain that there are options. And lookie at what I just read on the wikipedia:
The real problem with western medicine is that it leaves no room for "hope". You've accepted medical dogma that you'll be injecting insulin for life, baring some magic pill or other outside therapy. Beliefs create our personal realities.
Anyhow, good luck with those injections.
Put simply, I think that, in general, D.O.'s tend to have more tools in the toolbox when it comes to diagnosis.
Some D.O.s have a more tools in their toolbox when it comes to treatment, too. All Osteopathic medical students are required to take courses in "Osteopathic Manipulation", which is very appropriate in many cases.
http://osteohome.com/ is a nice site run by a D.O. who actually uses his hands-on training... Most don't, some use it occasionally, and a few specialize in it. Cayce sometimes advocated osteopathic treatments, and Dr. Reilly has a very nice book: http://books.google.com/books?id=nZHTAJDgozoC
So which is it? Fight or flight, or the change in diet? You say it's one thing, then immediately say it's another.
Both are important. The twentieth century saw both the dietary oil switch, and the rise of an environment with which our bodies are evolutionarily unequipped to deal with (thereby triggering the fight-or-flight response).
I'm confident a cure will be found within the next decade or two. The hospital where I do my checkups is making very good progress on a targeted immunosuppressant.
You can wait on that. I've seen my dad work with his patients diabetic patients, and the end stage isn't pretty (I assume you still have all your toes). Me, I much prefer to help train my body to have a more productive immune response.
I had an auto-immune condition too, but it wasn't easy to classify & treat like yours, so my doctors brushed me off. Best thing that ever happened to me, as I had to find my own answers.
Pharmaceutical companies are the ones who take horse piss, perform alchemedic voodoo dances, mark it up 10000x and sell it at your neighborhood pharmacy.
as a type 1 diabetic I'm sick of hearing I can be cured by wishful thinking and cow's piss
Good way to ignore the rest of that comment. Type-1 Diabetes is an auto-immune condition. Auto-immune reactions are always related to an overactive fight-or-flight system (Triple Warmer meridian). What was happening in your life when your immune system took out your pancreas?
My favorite biochemist talks about how to induce diabetes in mice by using a drug that takes out the beta cells. And how mice given a certain type of protective food are prevented from becoming diabetic when given the drug. This is the food that was displaced in the great dietary switch that led to the present Lipid Peroxidation epidemic.
Even if you can't fully recover your body's insulin-producing capacity, there are always things that can be done to improve your condition.
But never mind anything here. There's no hope for you. You probably ought to go eat a Hagen-Daaz ice cream bar, and inject some insulin.
Did you ever hear about the time that one brand of doctoring felt threatened, and formed a lobby to make their competition illegal?
The lobby is still alive today. It's known as the "American Medical Association". Many of the competing philosophies have disappeared, or are completely marginalized, even though the therapies they used were vastly superior to the treatments that were then-advocated by the American Medical Association: bloodletting and quicksilver (mercury).
In the 1840's, 1850's, anyone could set up as a doctor. There were hundreds of medical schools. Some were good, some were okay, some were diploma-mills. In the early 1900's, the AMA got some help from the Carnegie foundation to form standards for medical education. This was after they'd successfully lobbied for state licensing laws.
This is the classic analogy about asking the fox to design fortifications for the hen house. The Carnegie foundation's goals were to concentrate wealth and power. Half the medical schools in the country closed due to the Flexner Report. Mr. Flexner was NOT a doctor, and didn't know anything about medical education. He was just a tool for the Foundation. Today doctors spend years learning about conditions and diseases, what to prescribe and how to do surgery. They also spend a week or two learning about the biochemistry of nutrition. They learn how to use their hands for diagnostics, but hands can be used to heal too (massage, ostepathic manipulation, etc).
The Osteopathic profession survived the Great Medical Purge, and during those flu outbreaks in 1918 or so, allopathic hospitals killed their patients by medicating fevers away and mixing flu patients with everyone else, while the Osteopathic hospitals made special sick wards, did their hands-on treatments, and allowed the fever as the body's natural defensive mechanisms. Osteopathic hospitals lost a handful of patients, but they were much more survivable than the AMA's death-houses, whose doctors were trained by the Carnegie Foundation.
There's a good link or two on that wikipedia page. I like 'How the Cost-Plus System Evolved': Part I Part II Part III.
100 Years of Medical Robbery has a really nice overview too.
Diabetes is something you're never cured from. No matter what such and such a diet might say, it may greatly improve things, but the diabetes is still there.
There is no pill to cure diabetes. But a good "acupuncturist" can balance the body's energy systems well enough to make it a complete non-issue (when combined with personal self-healing initiatives, like changes in diet and activity levels). And stopping the lipid-peroxidation chain reaction (which is caused by the great 20th-century switch in dietary fats from animal-sources to seed-oil) helps too.
Doctors are very smart people, but their education is tailored to make them servants to the pharmaceutical industry. There are better options than pills, for all chronic conditions (emphasis on CHRONIC - drugs are great in an emergency), but all the best health options are marginalized because they're relatively cheap.
The real interesting work is being done by the "low energy nuclear reaction" researchers.
Did you hear about the Italian, Rossi? He's fusing a nano-nickel powder and hydrogen to create copper. Newest Cold Fusion Machine Does the Impossible ... Or Does it?:
As Max Planck said, "science advances on funeral at a time." Wall Street and the ghost of JP Morgan (Tesla-suppressor #1) are not going to be happy once these things hit mass production...
It'll make US's debt crunch look like a drop in a bucket.
China has state-owned banks. That means it owes the debt to itself.
The U.S. has privately-owned banks. That means we owe our debt to our financiers, who create money in the fractional-reserve monetary system by making loans.
Big difference.
Libya has a publicly owned bank, which may be why the imperial faction has targeted it for regime change: Libya: All About Oil, or All About Banking?
There are people who share Tesla's dream of extracting energy from the aether. They don't grok physics like Tesla did, and there is active resistance from the devotees of materialist-based science, which is why progress has been so slow. The Pure Energy Systems wiki is the best place to go if you want to get a better idea of what innovations dreamers are thinking up. I saw my acquaintance's truck on the front page one day... :)
Here's an article that's on the PESwiki front page right now, about Tesla Coils unleashing the aether.
What's most interesting to me is how many people, who've been trained in the Heaviside/JP Morgan version of electromagnetism and science grounded in materialist philosophy, are allergic to the idea that thermodynamics is just a special case & that the universe also has organizing principles. Science was switched to assume that "matter is all there is" sometime in the early 19th century by 2 or 3 guys in their 20's (I'm sorta trying to figure out who these three men were, but I don't really care that much - maybe I'll write the speaker).
Hence the search for a "smallest" particle / building block of matter. The alternate view is that matter's fundamental nature is not something "hard", but simply interacting force fields. Conventional Science already knows that atoms and protons and neutrons are mostly "empty space", and E=mC^2, so the leap is very, very small at this point.
I don't grok aether physics but know at least two people who do, and two more who would be up for sainthood if they'd lived 600 years ago in Europe (after they'd been burned at the stake, of course).
All the evils of the switch to a materialist-based philosophy of science have been unleashed in the world today. The only thing left in Pandora's box is "hope". The heirs to JP Morgan won't allow the DOE to invest in fundamentally "game changing technology" that would make the hydrocarbon-based energy economy completely obsolete, but there is still hope that the forces of Tesla's vision of energy will be unleashed. As soon as I figure this all out I'm going to revise my domain, . :)
There's a quote from Timothy Leary about "reality tunnels". This is basically the set of beliefs an individual has about the world we live in. Wikipedia has a few paragraphs on the topic.
I used to "believe" in the scientific consensus too, but then it became an obstacle. Medicine based in materialism is okay for some conditions, but it is severely limited. Every culture, excepting the "scientific materialism" that guides the western approach to health, describes energy systems that serve as the body's blueprint. These work well for most people with most conditions (as appropriate, of course), sometimes even in spite of a negative placebo effect.
Tesla's vision is going to win out, eventually. I have an acquaintance who doesn't care about the gospel of thermodynamics, and his prototypes are coming along nicely.... I'll have to go for an update, thanks for the reminder. :)
Thermodynamics applies to closed systems. The physical universe is not a closed system. Once Heaviside & Company's bastardization of Maxwell's 20 Equations are corrected, this will be considered common knowledge.
There isn't anything more sure than the laws of thermodynamics. As long as you live, you will never see them broken.
There was a story on faith a week or so ago, maybe you missed it.
HTH, HAND.
* Look at the housing market. How do we determine the value of a house? Look at who wants it, how much they are willing to pay. Those are the only two variables that matter.
Very few people pay cash for a house. The variable that matters more than any other is how much a "home buyer" can afford to borrow (from JP Morgan).
If electricity were free, then people would have more money to spend on ... *finite resources.* Consequently, the price of those resources would increase
If electricity were free, all resources would be essentially limitless. We could afford to desalinate water and pump it into the desert to make an artificial oasis, etc. Surplus has been a 'problem' for quite a while now (due mechanization & automation reducing the amount of labor required for many of the products humans need)...