MEDICINE

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Philosophy of Medicine and Dentistry

by

T. Hansen, D.M.D., FACAD

(Comprehensive Dental Center)

I have always been amazed at the intriqual complexity of the human body. We are composed of trillions of cells, millions of which are replaced, repaired, or eliminated every single day. Each of these cells has a specific function and are all intricately connected together with lines of information and communication to each other so that their specific function is modified for the greater need of the whole organism. Yet each has the power to act independently to perform specific functions. In addition most cells can adapt to a constantly changing environment, replicate and repair, and protect and defend the entire whole that is the human organism. And all this started with the combination of just two cells. Life is truly a miracle! Throughout time scientists and healers have struggled with the questions of what causes the breakdown of this miraculous system (disease) and what can be done to maintain the harmony and balance so that each body function is optimally maintained (health). Today our society is facing difficult health challenges with the rise of degenerative, neurologic, cancer, and heart diseases. What goes wrong to prevent the system from functioning as it was designed by our creator; and what makes it degenerate and age? Likewise, what is health and what can be done to preserve it as well as keep the organism functioning for as long as its full biological potential.

There has always been differing opinions and theories over what causes disease. One theory, held by many in Europe, is that all disease of the body comes from within caused primarily by microzymes or "endobiants". Under certain conditions they adapt and, depending on the environment of the body and the adaptation of the microzyme, would determine which disease would occur for that particular patient.

Another theory, proposed by Pasteur, said all disease comes from outside the body. He said the blood and body are basically sterile and only when invaded by outside influences and organisms does disease occur. This has become the basis of modern day allopathic medicine. The foundation and teachings of this medicine is to fight the infection, cancer, or disease with drugs and/or radiation to kill it or cut it out with surgery and get rid of it.

More and more we are finding that this approach is not working. Catalyzed by the fact that we are losing the war on infectious disease and that degenerative disease, cancer, and the like are increasing, a new approach to treating and preventing disease is emerging. Microbes have been on this planet for hundreds of millions of years - much longer than humans. They can adapt and evolve very quickly to any changing environment especially when challenged. More and more we are finding antibiotics to be ineffective stop gap measures; cancer, neurologic and degenerative disease is on the rise; and medicine seems to be spending more time trying to plug holes in it's sinking ship.

Infectious disease - bacteria, virus, and parasites, while they most certainly can be aggressive and virulent may not be the ultimate causative factor from the outside that causes all disease as Pasteur suggested. They may be symptoms. Each and every day we are exposed to these bacteria, viruses and parasites from everything we touch, eat, drink, or breathe. Our remarkable defense/immune systems recognizes the threat, adapts, builds antibodies and eliminates the threat. It is our body's own ability or inability to react to an invader and mount an attack by a strong immune system that many times is the problem. As we abuse our bodies, have poor nutritional habits, get polluted by heavy metals, pesticides, etc., have poor functional regulatory systems, i.e., digestive, hormonal, immune, and have emotional or mental attitudes that set the stage for disease, our biological terrain is so compromised that opportunistic pathogens can then take over. Bacteria, viruses and parasites are these opportunistic invaders that will walk in and set up housekeeping in any area of the body weakened and not able to defend itself and eliminate the threat. So what starts what? Does the bacteria, virus, or parasite from outside cause a disease or is it merely a symptom of a weakened system incapable of mounting an adequate defense and becomes receptive to these opportunistic pathogens that then can take over? Thus disease occurs first as imbalances within our biological terrain caused by physical and mental pollution which prevents systems in our God given bodies to function resulting in disease. So with this new paradyme we must focus our diagnostics and treatment options on areas other than what traditional allopathic medicine has been doing.

Part of the solution revolves around a change in our thinking about disease and our ability as practitioners to stop disease. What makes us think that when we give antibiotics we have "cured" an infection? Why do we believe that giving a drug for any purpose "fixes" the body? Why have we assumed that by cutting out a damaged organ, which obviously has some purpose to the body, we are "fixing" a problem? The fact is non-of these "cures" a disease or "fixes" the problem. The body fixes the body! All of our interventive measures do nothing more than help the body do its job. The antibiotic reduces the infection to where the body's own immune system is now able to deal with the invaders. Drugs taken aid the body cope, repair, or eliminate a problem and can help make the body better able to perform its own miraculous recovery. Surgery helps to eliminate dead tissue, or cancerous growths that the body cannot attack and may help the body repair and regenerate, provided that the insult of the drug, surgery or radiation does not hurt the body's ability to defend and repair itself.

Yet in each case the body is the deciding factor on health and healing. Without a body's ability to heal nothing we do will ultimately succeed and all we will accomplish is a delay of the inevitable. It is therefore important to recognize that any of our therapies or interventive measures should not block, interfere, or prevent the body from doing its job. And if we do something that may hurt the body we must help it deal with the trauma and insult of our treatment and support it through its crisis.

This miraculous body that God has created seems to have an almost limitless power to defend itself, repair and regenerate, and continue its precious life free of disease. As health practitioners we must see ourselves as only its support mechanism and not assume that we are fighting the battle for the body. It is the patient and their own body that must defend itself and repair. Therefore any treatment rendered or drug prescribed must work with the body and not fight it or suppress its own ability to defend, repair and regenerate. As such our roles as practitioners become very simple:

1. Remove and eliminate negative influences to health, i.e. toxins, heavy metals, pesticides, and other toxic chemical materials, electromagnetic, geopathisys, mental, emotional and spiritual etc. (support lymphatic drainage, detoxification and elimination systems.)

2. Support health, immune function, repair and regeneration. I.e. Nutrition, water, oxygen, energy flow and alignment, blood supply, etc. (Immune system, digestive absorption, hormonal regulation, circulatory system, etc. )

3. Create a mental and emotional environment that eliminates the negative focus on the self and the disease state of the physical and instead nurtures and develops the balance, harmony, and positive focus on health, repair and regeneration of the mind, body and spirit.

Diagnosis becomes a matter of first understanding what the body systems are supposed to be doing. Then evaluating what they are not doing, not just at a superficial level, but at its foundational, functional, cellular level that includes mental, spiritual, nutritional, biochemical, and energetic. Look at the biological terrain and environment that surrounds non-functioning or diseased tissue. Look at accumulated stagnant buildup of toxins, metals etc., in our interstitial matrix, neurological and elimination organs, and assess our foundational health-immune systems, hormonal regulation, digestive function and energetic, emotional/spiritual health mechanisms. (Our information collecting, processing and delivery systems).

Treatment basically consists of five categories. First, eliminating waste and toxic interferences to health. Second, normalizing basic regulatory function - hormonal, immune, digestive, and energetic. Third, providing the body with proper fuel and building blocks of health through nutrition. Fourth, utilizing normal allopathic medicine, drugs, surgery, and radiation, only as needed to remove overwhelming body burden when other means are not effective. Fifth, and probably the most important, restore the mental, spiritual, emotional balance and harmony. Without this all other healing may be limited, temporary, and less than effective. In order to accomplish these tasks, we must have a logical, systematic approach for supporting, restoring, and normalizing body function.

Applying these same principals in Dentistry has allowed us to achieve unparalleled success by helping reduce the trauma of Dentistry by support of systems prior to dentistry lymphatic drainage, increase circulation, nutritional support we can eliminate the need for dentistry.

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