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Critiques and Criticisms of the Dis-ease Management System

Title for this episode: Reflections on Dr. Wright Interview OR If It Isn’t Biological, It Isn’t Logical!

Drugs – pharmaceuticals – are ’space alien molecules’: As Dr. Jonathan Wright described them on last week’s show, drugs are foreign to earth and foreign to our bodies. Drugs aren’t ‘just another consumer product’ advertised on TV. They affect our metabolism – our ‘bio-chemistry’ – powerfully and profoundly.

Will the Real Alternative Medicine Please Stand Up? Drugs – as recent inventions – are the real ‘alternative medicines’ (alternatives to natural therapeutics).

Alien Molecules Have Alien Effects: Dr. Wright asked: “Any time we take a molecule that has never been found naturally on the planet (and thus never found in the human body) and give it to humans, what should we expect?” Answer: Expect ‘alien effects’ on our chemistries (our biochemistries). We can’t and shouldn’t throw out all drugs, but it’s time to put more emphasis on science-based natural therapies.

If It Isn’t ‘Bio-Logical, It Isn’t Logical: We think our baby boomer listeners need to remember that we’re all animals living in nature, and we need to start integrating into our own health care plans a lot more of the molecules and modalities which nature has to offer, including lifestyle medicine approaches (we’ll cover lifestyle on upcoming Start-a-New installments).

Control Means Power, Power Means Control: Listen and learn why patent medicines – pharmaceuticals, drugs – give the FDA extensive power, and why the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry have so much control over our health care choices. Why are drugs so entrenched into US health care, while many effective, inexpensive natural products continue to struggle for a place in the market? And why do patent medicines set the FDA up for corruption by pharmaceutical companies? We discuss why.

Approval Power Means Control: We highlight the natural omega-3 fatty acid, DHA (docosahenoic acid) as an example of a natural product (for prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia) which – due to FDA politics – is unlikely to ever get FDA approval, and thus to ever become ’standard of care,’ and covered by our health insurance policies.

We Become Silent (the movie): click here. Government intrusions into our freedoms and privacy aren’t just from of the effects of 21st century religious terrorism, but also from issues around natural therapies. See why our federal government and global forces – the W.T.O. and U.N. – want to take control of the supply of natural products with Codex Alimentarius. What’s the simplest way to acquire that control? Simply reclassify natural products as drugs. Now there’s a twist.

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Patent Medicines – human-altered or human-synthesized chemicals, designer drugs, which can be patented. Nature holds the ‘creative rights’ to natural molecules, which therefore cannot be patented.

Next week’s show: 1st installment of History of Killing/History of Healing – the real history of medicine – to continue laying the foundation for That’s Good Medicine.

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Critiques and Criticisms of the Dis-ease Management System

Name for this episode: Interview with Jonathan Wright, MD – continuing to lay the premise for That’s Good Medicine.

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Tahoma Clinic FDA Raid: We discuss the historic Tahoma Clinic raid of 1992 when armed FDA agents stormed Dr. Wright’s medical practice during clinic hours. What onerous things was Dr. Wright doing to his patients to incite the wrath of a federal agency to terrorize him and his patients? He was administering intravenous (IV) vitamins and recommending the amino acid tryptophan to some of his patients. The FDA agents confiscated Dr. Wright’s patient records, his computers and medical supplies and didn’t return them for 3 years. The FDA doesn’t have the authority to regulate patient care. What’s amazing is that Dr. Wright was never charged of wrongdoing. The raid on Dr. Wright’s clinic was one of the first forays in a campaign of terror by the FDA to send messages to integrative medicine doctors and natural product companies that they could be raided and shut down too. How would you feel if the FDA confiscated your medical records from your doctor? Why did this really happen? Is this sort of despotism by our federal government a thing of the past? Maybe not. Dr. Douglass thinks Congressman Ron Paul for President was (is?) one of our only hopes for protecting health freedoms.

Interview with Dr.Jonathan Wright: What’s the real ‘alternative medicine’? Hint: It’s about ’space alien molecules.’

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Patent Medicines. What we know as pharmaceuticals, or ‘drugs,’ are really patent medicines (‘space alien molecules’ – as Dr. Wright described them). The FDA essentially approves only pharmaceuticals (’designer drugs’), not natural products. And this approval process gives the FDA tremendous power.

Next week’s show: Part3 of this 3-part Dropping the Bomb series. We’ll reflect on what Dr. Wright taught us during today’s interview, and why patent medicines (’drugs’) give the FDA so much power. And why this is important for you to understand, as we explore – on future installments – the global power play between conventional (’allopathic’) medicine and integrative medicine.

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Critiques and criticisms of the dis-ease management system.

Title for this week’s episode: It’s time to mainstream ‘integrative medicine’ – the premise show.

Learn the whos, whats, whens and whys of That’s Good Medicine:

Why: To teach science-based health and healing modalities – especially natural approaches – not just drugs and surgery. And to help listeners sort through the plethora of health information. Imparting health wisdom for making wiser choices.

Who: Dr. Douglass and host, Kevin Kilpatrick are introduced, as are medical social worker Kathy Jo King and audio engineer Chester Cruise. And who are in our target audience? Intelligent, open-minded baby boomers around the world (folks born between 1946 and 1964, currently between 44 and 62 years old).

What: Content will consist of ‘integrative medicine’ topics (previously called ‘alternative’ or ‘complementary-alternative’ medicine). Employing topic-specific installments (such as this ‘Dropping the Bomb’ series) we’ll look at the science behind subjects like nutrition, herbal medicine, energy medicine, stem cell therapy, body work, detoxification strategies, and lots more.

When and How Much: Weekly 15-20 minute shows.

Good Medicine Word of the Week: Integrative Medicine – integrating the best evidence-based therapies from all medical disciplines.

Next week’s show: On the second part of this 2-part Dropping the Bomb series, we’ll interview medical maverick and integrative medicine pioneer Dr. Jonathan Wright. Focus: the concept of how ‘modern man’ uses – almost exclusively – only synthetic, artificial medications in our system of disease care – drugs which are not only foreign to the body, but foreign to nature too. We’ll discuss why this has come about. Prior to the interview we’ll discuss the famous Tahoma Clinic FDA Raid of 1992 when Armed FDA agents smashed through the door of Dr. Wright’s clinic during clinic hours and confiscated patients’ records, the clinic’s computers and Dr. Wright’s medical/nutritional supplies. And what was Dr. Wright’s ‘crime’? He was administering intravenous vitamins to his patients.

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