Western Medicine
Although Western medicine has made some remarkable scientific discoveries and developments in the past 50 years, it has very much focussed on the suppression of symptoms of diseases after they have been contracted, using drugs which themselves are toxic to the body and have side effects. You would never give them to a well person because they would damage the body, but they are given to sick people!!

The other common approach is to cut it out or replace it if it's a problem. The cut, burn, poison approach is sometimes successful, sometimes not, but the side effects and associated trauma are most undesirable to say the least. Antibiotics, which were once hailed as wonder drugs, and have in fact been largely responsible for the decline in death rates from infectious diseases, adversely affect the immune system and so have a downside which can lead to the development of a more serious disease than the one being treated.

The medical profession has made a huge contribution to the treatment of injuries, diagnosis of disease, alleviation of symptoms, etc. It also has a huge contribution to make (not yet fully realised) in the area of disease prevention. Fortunately many medical practitioners are now realising this and are taking a very active interest in the latest medical research into such specialities as nutrition.

If your doctor admits that he knows nothing about nutrition (and many do) and what's more doesn't want to know, then find a new doctor. If you don't, your general health will continue to gradually decline until you eventually die. But if you find a doctor who is prepared to keep up to date with the latest medical research into nutrition, your general standard of health is likely to improve significantly.

Read on to see some examples of well known people who have learnt how to keep the human body free of disease.