New Miracle Cure Found: It's You!

As politicians debate the issue of reforming America's "health care system," I find myself perplexed. What health care system? Do we really want to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic? When it comes to the true state of our health in America, we are in deep trouble.

The magic pills that we were promised would give us quick-fix solutions are simply failing. Almost every major disease has increased over the last century despite trillions of dollars spent on research and treatment. 1 out of every 3 adults has some form of cardiovascular disease. Roughly one out of every two men and one out of every three women will get some form of cancer in their lifetime. Statistics show that over two thirds of the people in our nation are overweight and a large percentage of them are considered clinically obese. One third of children born after 2000 will contract type II diabetes and the increase in the incidence of diabetes is directly proportional to the increasing rates of obesity. Even the American Cancer Institute says about one third of cancer deaths in 2006 were related to improper nutrition, physical inactivity and being overweight -- and could have been prevented.

As the overall health of this nation continues to plummet, it is very clear that no so-called system has answers to our health care crises. In fact, giving away our personal power to ANY system is where, I believe, we made our first mistake. We are in a state of fear and confusion and literally dying for the truth. I learned this first hand.

As a boy in Miami, my mother found a small lump in her breast. She was diagnosed with cancer and immediately rushed into conventional treatments. I watched in horror as she slid into a tortured, humiliating death and my innocent question, "Why does my mother have cancer?" was completely ignored. On her deathbed she asked me to dedicate myself to making sure no one else suffered as she had, and that's what I've done.

As if her death was not shocking enough, my father died suddenly of a heart attack just a few years later. During these traumatic and challenging years, I suffered from a painful skin condition as well as debilitating headaches that were finally proclaimed "incurable" by my doctors. I knew I had to learn what caused my own health problems in order to save myself... fast.

My Dad was an exterminator and fireman. Most weekends during my childhood years I had worked by my father's side, soaking in toxic doses of Dursban, Chlordane, Malathion and DDT. Common sense told me that these pesticides could be contributing to my health problems. I also observed that I predominantly consumed the Standard American Diet of quick fix processed and refined foods and beverages. Like most Americans, I had become accustomed to this as a way of life. Meanwhile, for every health problem my doctor instructed me to take some kind of pill and my situation just got worse.

Eventually, my race to save my own life led me right back to the perfection of nature, and when I began to follow those principals my body began to heal. I cured myself by using the real health building blocks made for the human body, the untouched and unprocessed foods coming directly from the earth. Hippocrates, the father of medicine, was right when he said, "let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food." He meant...REAL FOOD.

In our quick-fix, take-a-short-cut society we have wandered away from the basic way our body works to keep us healthy -- and we're paying the price with our own lives. It's time to take back our birthright to dynamic health. The truth is the truth is the truth. By wandering away from the perfection of nature, I was the cause of my own health problems. By taking personal responsibility and literally stepping up to the plate, I was also the cure!

As a researcher using naturopathic principles I've taught the basic methods of curing illness and restoring vibrant health naturally to thousands of people, including well-known celebrities who could have afforded any method of treatment. Many of these people were diagnosed with "incurable" diseases and were told that they had only one option to treat their disease. When they learned for the first time how simply and effectively their own body works to protect and cure them, most people chose to trust their own body's healing power and many of their stories were called "miraculous." I call them normal. What ISN'T normal to me is waiting for any health care system to make us well.

The truth (that word again) is, NO system can handle the extraordinary ill-health that is killing this nation. It's time to save ourselves - in fact, time is truly running out.

My message -- and the dedication of my life -- is to show you how to be your own first line of defense, to re-connect your body with the natural resources that have always been there, and to teach the simple yet extraordinarily effective ways you can reverse disease and restore vibrant health. Remember, you were born into a body that possesses the innate intelligence to heal itself, cure itself and care for itself. Simply understanding this message is your first step to powerful health. The more you understand the truth, the more empowered you will be.

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Dr. Brantley is the author of The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life. Additional information may be found at www.BrantleyCure.com.

Comments

[anathea]

Mainstream medicine has become the continuation of the Holy Inquisition: Cutting, burning and poisoning were the its principles. In cancer treatment you find all three together: operation, radiation and chemotherapy. The medical profession - dentists and psychiatrists included - have become terrorists. The use of mercury in dental amalgam and vaccines (thimerosal) has led to the epidemic of autism, hyperactivity and Alzheimer's (see Teri Small's interview with Prof. Boyd Haley). Ignoring all environmental triggers for depression (water fluoridation as the cause of thyroid underfunction, low-level ionizing radiation, microwave radiation, pesticides in food, mercury, monososodium glutamate, aspartame etc), psychiatrists drug patients, doing more harm than good. Consumer choice is increasingly denied in health care. The Codex alimentarius agenda, secretly driven by the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, is the road to hell on earth. Most people are completely unaware of it. See Dr Rima Laibow's talk 'Nutricide'. If we don't wake up to the reality of the crimes the medical-industrial complex has already committed, we won't be able to escape their henchmen's clutches.

[kellygrrrl]

so when my kid breaks his arm should I just go out to the garden and get some fresh greens?

while the basic premise of your article is true, you cannot deny that WE NEED a fair and stable Health Care System.

not EVERYTHING can be prevented or cured by food.

[Writerchick]

Jeez, what's with the negative comments? Somebody out there got glowing orange fingers from "real" processed cheese snacks?

What you say is true. I was on the right track for a while, and then got back on the "easy, junk-eating" diet and feel worse for it.

The doctors always want to give you pills or surgeries to "cure" illness, and they look at you cross-eyed if you suggest healthy eating and supplements.

I would probably be dead right now if I had gone the conventional route, and instead opted for healthier eating, Yogi healing tea, and Solgar Vitamin D.

So, yeah, we ARE the cure. Look around. See the fat people. See the very fat people. In the non-Hollywood neighborhoods, they outnumber the lithe and limber.

As depressing as it may seem, eating properly, exercising and taking some supplements (particularly Vitamin D...especially in the Northeast and most especially if you are dark-skinned) can save your life. YOU can save your life, and make it a lot more enjoyable than the inevitable decay that comes earlier in life to computer potatos and couch potatos alike. And speaking of potatos...­.mmm...got­ta cut back on those lovelies.

While we're on the subject of healthier eating, how come it costs so much for less processed foods than for conventional ones? Why does it cost MORE if there is LESS of something in foods? And why are not foods labeled better as to country of origin?

I read Newstarget Insider, which is a great source of info for the health-conscious. Yeah, it's a tad anti-everything conventional, but there is a weath of health info and maybe even hope for our waddling, quack-doodle population.

Just one person's opinion. I am not a medical professional, and am speaking about my own experiences, here. So take it for what it's worth.

P.S. I cannot give up ice cream. Cannot, and WILL not. It is too perfect at the end of a tough day. Or a good day. Or a day that ends in the letter "y."

[rini]

I am a medical professional.

I think it is important to live a healthy lifestyle. There is no substitute in a pill.

However, I do know that for many reasons, people do need treatment for illness. Sometimes "a pill" can be lifesaving, life improving, and/or life prolonging. My sister, despite everything she does to help herself, might not be with us if it weren't for Zoloft, and believe me, she has tried everything else. She has tried things I wouldn't have tried, such as intensive group therapy and unproven herbal treatments. Zoloft has given her her life back.

[lisakaz]

I'm glad to see this here. I have been diagnosed with MS and conventional medicine can't do squat but try to get me hooked on anti-depressants. Food sounds better and from what research I've done so far, the only legitimate option I have.

[CintiBlue]

lisaakaz,

Keep up your research. From all I've learned, so many of the additives, preservitives, artificial this and that have very direct results on a condition like MS.

Obviously food won't cure you, but I firmly believe if you concentrate on whole foods, healthy fats and oils, and no sugar or artificial sweeteners you'll give yourself a good basis. If your body is well nourished, you give yourself a leg up on your diagnosis, and the body doesn't waste precious effort dealing with poison additives.

Good luck, lisakaz.

[Wiredwilly]

Right On. I had virtually the same experiences.
Dad died of cancer. He was an artist. Ended up working in a store to pay bills.
He died of depression. He died of an indifferent society & my mother's anger.
I was a kid, no one would listen. They wouldn't even look into the possibility I was right. He died. Oops,sorry. Maybe we're not as omnipotent as we think. Here's the bill.
My mom died of heart failure.
Different actor, more or less the same story. Loving, but very angry person.
Sorry we couldn't help. Here's the bill.
Diet may or may not have been involved. Both ate horribly. Hamburgers , cakes.
My grandmother ate worse , she lived to be 98. Go figure.
I've given up on the medical system totally.
If it was up to the Medical system I'd be dead.
I've been turned out of Emergency rooms because of lack of insurance and left to die on the streets. To hell with them. Now I take care of myself, study with the Dalai Llama, try to eat better. Act in a more sane way. When I die, I die. That's it.
I'm not going to live in bondage to Corporate medicine.
You go to the Doctor, who wants the deed to your house, & car to do a simple blood test, and you walk out feeling worse than when you went in.
As a boy I had a wonderful Doctor, who came to the house because he was healthy and you were sick. I remember. God bless Dr. Wynn.
Now they want the sick to crawl to them.
You'll never get peer review on the infinite mystery of being.
Amazingly, we were somehow born without the benefit of peer review.
Science is an exploration of the architecture of being, not being itself. Something is basically wrong. In spite of it all, we still die.
Of course there is progress. Nanotechnology and stem cells show great promise.
But we are not machines.
We feel. We can die of heartbreak & loneliness.
Science should listen more and talk less.

[rini]

I do agree that a healthy lifestyle is important. The typical american diet has over nourished us. We eat too much protein, carbohydrate and fat. We are big and strong without many of the diseases of malnutrition.
Unfortunately, we are prone to cancer, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. All of which have genetic components, but are also increasing in incidence as a result of the typical western diet.

One caveat.

Although lifestyle is important and may even cure some disease. Once a disease, such as hypertension, or cancer, treatment with conventional medicine may be lifesaving. Don't make someone who is suffering feel guilty for their disease by telling them that a natural diet will definitely cure them, unless you are a medical professional.

My sister has severe depression. Nothing terrible has ever happened to her. Since early childhood (I think the day she was born, or before), she has been miserable. She has tried everything, including yoga, meditation, extensive therapy with multiple therapists, dietary changes and herbal treatments. She has gone on group retreats and immersed herself in holistic medicine.

Despite all this, when she is off Zoloft (even before she ever went on it) she goes through hell. She cannot sleep. She thinks of suicide. Although I fully appreciate the hypocrisy and greed of the pharmaceutical companies, I still am thankful for the existance of this medication. She is now pregnant. I am excited that my kids are going to have a nephew. I know, though, that without Zoloft, my sister wouldn't even be able to take care of him. On Zoloft, she'll be a great mom. Who knew?

[hsk01945]

Nothing new or earth shaking here - his message- seems in fact an echo of numerous health practitioners who have widely discussed the advantages of eating natural foods along with exercise, meditation, etc. to achieve better health though self-healing. (For example, Dr. Andrew Weil, among others). Yawn....

[sempersanus]

We are lacking a general approach for individual health maintenance and optimization. In this area we are still where Hippocrates was 25 centuries ago: "If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health."

Without improvements in individual health maintenance and education we are not going to make progress in having longer healthier lives. This unfortunately forgotten field of medicine should be developed in parallel with patient care if we want to have better long-term results.

What is currently known? In aging, for example, we have age-related symptoms (i.e. caused by the enigmatic aging process like white hairs and wrinkles, some familial disorders, etc.) and age-associated (increase in body weight, blood pressure, cholesterol, etc.) symptoms.

Knowledge about family history of disease, functional tests for pre-disease condition at young age, ways to delay overt disease and treatment optimization could help with the familial component of individual aging. On the other hand, exercise and/or restricted calorie diet could correct the conflict between (1) sedentary lifestyle and plenty of tasty food and (2) our made-to-su­rvive-hung­er human bodies.

Importantly, whatever is done for patient's benefit (or whatever an individual does for his/her health) is based on probabilism (the doctrine that certainty is impossible, but that probability suffices to govern belief into action, definition from Webster Dictionary). The doctor could only give you the general direction, based on peer-reviewed and replicated scientific research.

Whether the treatment (single or a combination of actions) is indeed working for a particular individual is decided ex juvantibus (Latin for "from which that helps") by monitoring or selfmonitoring. Based on the monitoring the treatment could be optimized or abandoned.

So, we should try to dissociate the topics of health care statistics and individual health. Repeating largely known facts should be replaced by individual protocols of what, when and how much I do for myself and what do I measure to convince myself it’s working.

[democracydiva]

People don't want to pay attention to common sense or their bodies because they'd have to change their habits of eating fried food, rich food, fatty food and all in the same meal. They're puzzled why they feel bad afterwards. Duh.
And who would want to live on hospital machines? Doing some reading and a little changing - slow not all at once - will improve you life and your health. I work with an obese person who started dieting and after a couple weeks, she said that her ankles stopped hurting her and if she'd known that, she would've started dieting long ago. Check out Weight Watchers for overweight problems; it's the best.

[arjuna108]

Though many people do rely on peer review as a criteria for assessing the legitimacy of study result, the few studies comparing the quality of studies selected by peer reviewed vs non-peer reviewed journals have not shown a tremendous benefit to peer review. Another example of common sense hitting the wall of reality.
I would also like to hear the interesting story behind why the author's mother was living as a boy in Miami.

[arjuna108]

We ought to rely on common sense! So for the author common sense is to eat whole raw organic foods, for one poster it is to limit protein, for another it's the avoidance of all artificial colors and flavorings, for yet another it is to eat the weeds in your back yard instead of food from the store. So which is the common sense that is the real common sense? Answer: Common sense is a mythical concept that people appeal to when they have nothing else to support their argument. It is a very effective ruse. If you point out that the person is appealing to a fantasy to support their opinion they can scoff at how you don't have the sense to believe in common sense!
The above article and the replies are a great example that we are frequently presented with but almost always ignore. After the appeal to common sense multiple versions of what the common sense on this subject is are immediately presented. So which is the "real" common sense. Everyone above honestly believes that their version of the common sense is THE common sense. Are they all right?
Common sense has proven wrong so many times but it seems it will never stop being used by people who wish to mislead and those who would rather not make an effort to understand what is actually known about a subject.
By the way, peer review is a process that takes place at a scientific publication prior to deciding which studies to publish. Naturopathy can't be peer reviewed. It is a field of study and not a paper awaiting publication. One might look for studies from peer reviewed journals that support or fail to support some aspect of naturopathic care but the whole field can't be peer reviewed.

[NickHP]

I would have thought that critiquing published articles also allowed for further review, beyond the prepublishing peer review stage. I've heard of published articles being withdrawn because their results were shown to be faulty.

[RandyRanson]

Mother Nature's got the cure.

Our artificial, chemically induced synthetic society is catching up with us big time, as we drop off from turning into the powder we are ingesting, and all we're told to do is 'read the label'. May as well read our tombstones.

[SILVANUS]

Most illness is mental or spiritual illness, period, manifested as a "physical" equivalent. And it's mentally ill to eat crap you damn well know is poison, or caused undue suffering to warehouses of tortured creatures, unlike our ancestors who blessed a creature when they killed it for food.

Doctor's pills give you brand new ills.

Big Pharma = Satan. Master hypnotists.

Dan Rather: "A new disease which attacks people in their prime... blah, blah"

THREE WEEKS LATER AFTER YOU FORGOT DAN PROGRAMMED YOU---

Dan rather: "A new drug company now has a new pill for that new disease--" blah blah

WE SCRIPT YOUR LIFE UP EVERY DAY--- bah, bah, sheep.

[Babs67]

Rosy - no one has said eating processed foods was "evil". But to some people with impaired metabolisms they are like poison. They may have an impaired liver function or insulin levels that are too high. So if we change your sentence to say instead, "It doesn't mean that sometimes eating poison is going to do something drastically bad to your health." That doesn't sound so good now, does it? And can you quantify "sometimes"? Is that once a week? Once a day? Just how often is it okay to eat crap?
You may think my diet is extreme, fine. I refuse to poison my body just because it is easier or more convienent than packing a cooler with healthy fresh foods.

[sonofsamstone]

I tend to agree with Rosy, moderation is the key. Maybe I should say "moderation for MOST PEOPLE is the key". For some people, esp. with celiac disease or other extreme intolerances or reactions, moderation isn't an option. For most of us, a little poison won't hurt. A LOT of poison will kill.
It's impossible to quantify "sometimes" for somebody else, if you listen and pay attention to your body and how you feel (and it seems you do, so good on you)....you'll know when too much is too much.
I don't think Rosy was trying to take a shot at anybody.

[mommamia526]

Any kind of food can be poison. For example, if you take diuretics against fluid retention, you may become sensitive to proteins and purines and get gout, even if you take these products in moderation. Meats, proteins, eggs, beans, sardines, etc. are fine food for others. Actonel and other medications taken to prevent osteoporosis may cause problems in some patients, such as abnormalities of the blood. For most people they are fine, and recommended.

[asnevitt]

Yes, Babs67, these considerations have to be individual. I've long been more sensitive to refined sugar than others around me. One dessert and I'm hung over in the morning. But now I have advanced neuropathic Lyme disease and I can't put any sugar in my body without strong deleterious effects.

Moderation may mean something different to each person. But the problem is twofold: 1) our bodies become addicted and we aren't able to judge moderation for ourselves, and 2)the economic dependence on the production of these toxic products. Take alcohol. Our society believes that alcohol is socially acceptable if used in moderation. But an alcoholic can't self-monitor. Plus, would anybody produce alcohol if it weren't for the problem drinkers? The statistics say that 20% of the consumers are problem drinkers, but they consume 80% of the alcohol. So, anyone making a living from the production of alcohol is doing it at the cost of the problem drinker's health. This is true for processed/synthetic foods, as well.

The big debate is: in a land of "freedom", do we take action? What kind? It is a conundrum regarding our competing senses of right versus rights.

[poorotis]

...would anybody produce alcohol if it weren't for the problem drinkers?" Wha??? That's hogwash. Man has been brewing and distilling since forever. Do you think the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock for that thin, stony Massachusetts' soil? Our Puritan Forefathers had run the Mayflower dry of ale, and needed to come ashore to brew up a new batch. NOBODY in the cities of Europe back then would drink the water. Dysentery, caused by dirty water, has killed more U.S. Presidents than any other disease. The Founding Fathers hammered out our beloved Constitution inside of the taverns of Philadelphia at the end of the day after their longer, formal sessions were done. Fact is, Americans are woefully unaware of alcohol's crucial import to civilization. The pyramids of Egypt were built by manpower fueled primarily by bread, onions and beer. Mmmm, beer.

[NickHP]

It is not only the processed foods. Sometimes there are 'natural' proteins (nuts) and oils that affect people. These are not processed but still cause great distress.

[zizyphus]

People would be healthier eating the weeds in their lawns and gardens that anything in the middle aisles of the grocery store.