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Ed. note: Several weeks ago, I published the first installment of this piece by Raine Saunders, Does Fundraising for Disease Pay Off?, questioning whether or not industry fundraising for cancer, diabetes, and auto-immune disorders’ research really does what it’s supposed to do. In this second installment, Raine gives her take on what we might do instead to cure – or prevent – these diseases that doesn’t take millions of dollars of research and years to discover.

What’s the solution?

Although I won’t claim that there is any absolute cure for any disease, I know from my own experience, my own research, and the testimony of others that a healthy lifestyle with a diet full of real foods certainly will go a long stride to help prevent and avoid disease.

Before I eliminated processed foods from my diet, I had many health problems that plagued me on a daily basis. All the drugs that were prescribed to me never helped my situation, and in many cases, made problems worse. By the time I saw a nutritional therapist, I was desperate for help. She told me if I didn’t change the way I ate I was headed for cancer and other degenerative disease. She was seeing hundreds and hundreds of clients who were in the same condition.

I know one thing for certain – medication doesn’t prevent disease. Medications are man-made substances from laboratories that are intended to eliminate symptoms that occur because of some problem in the body – often caused by some type of deficiency. Drugs also have a long list of side-effects. On the opposite end of the spectrum, food contains naturally-occurring nutrients that keep body functions in optimal states to prevent disease from starting in the first place. Real food heals and has no side-effects.

Other “Natural” Treatments

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Can the same can also be said for many natural treatments? Even though they might be better for people than toxic medications, is the root cause of the problem actually being addressed? Can an herbal treatment, homeopathic treatment, or “natural treatment” like acupuncture or chiropractic care actually “cure” a disease or ailment?

In some instances, I believe a natural treatment can aid in the body healing itself. But if the body lacks the foundational means to generate healing because of a deficiency, or if it is overloaded with toxins – for example, as in problems with the digestive tract (which is the foundation for all health), a treatment, whether complimentary or allopathic, is probably not going to solve the problem. I know this first hand because I have taken both, and my general experience is that if my diet is poor, no amount of “treatments” is going to make my problem go away.

Here’s example: when the body’s largest digestive organ – the liver and its auxillary organ, the gallbladder – become filled with toxins and rendered unable to keep the body healthy, drugs definitely don’t help, and natural treatments may or may not work.

If your liver and gallbladder are full of stones and toxins from a poor lifestyle (one of the main culprits of disease in the body), the answer lies in a detoxification regimen that will eliminate stones and toxins from these organs. The liver and gallbladder have a major job of keeping your health in optimal condition because they process everything you eat. Your healthy diet will only help your body so much and you will only be able to absorb a certain amount of what you eat if you have liver and gallbladder stones in your body.

When we begin to understand the origins of disease and what causes them to occur, we can understand how to preserve and maintain health. No amount of fundraising, research, or new drug development will accomplish this task.

Who is ultimately responsible for your health?

Modern medical wisdom tells us that we should place our health in the hands of doctors, nurses, and other health professionals like dietitians, scientists, fitness instructors, and personal trainers.

The Saltines will save us
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Do you feel as though the advice you’ve been given by people in these fields has improved your health? Why or why not? When you are prescribed medications for health problems, do these drugs make your problems go away, or do you find that you don’t get the results you want?

Many people have experienced frustration and lack of solutions while under the care of conventional medical professionals. What about when you have taken decisions regarding your health into your own hands? Have you had better results?

How many billions and billions of dollars have people raised in the name of research and funding to “cure” diseases and ailments, and just how much more money do we need to raise to find a miracle drug or “cure” for the diseases that plague us? Is it possible that no magical cure exists, but that what we really need to do is to employ prevention and preventative measures in our viewpoints and daily habits toward keeping ourselves healthy?

There is no such thing as perfect health, but by living a healthy lifestyle and putting things in and on our bodies that are as natural as possible, we can go a long way toward keeping ourselves from experiencing the massive disease rates as we do in modern society.

Do you think the research for these diseases is necessary or pointless?

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