Healing has but one side effect: its negative impact on profit from within the medical industrial complex. Somewhere between the suffering patient and the hysteria to make more money the science about how the body heals collects dust. Sound holistic healing principles are not taught in their congruent whole in medical school. The textbooks contain most of these facts but they present in ways designed to groom the doctor's mind in a way favorable to the complex.

Power complexes historically begin to falter before their particular elite realizes that the oppressed are organizing. Czarist Russian elitists did not fully appreciate the formidable force created by organized peasants. The French revolutionaries similarly surprised their oppressors by the magnitude of underground support for a new way of doing things. The uprising against the dominant medical industrial complex has the same old slumbering elitist components.

While the elitists smugly continue pandering symptom-control methods, which always have side effects, a better way continues to gather momentum. Slowly, but surely, the downplayed art of healing has been rediscovered and is increasingly practiced within the growing holistic community. More Western humans with each passing day leave the dominant medical treatment model. Often their departure centers on a sense that something very important is missing from mainstream medicine's approach to health versus disease.

The medical industry is a profit-oriented system. Logically, these multi-conglomerates exist to make money. What is for sale is therefore sensationalized through the media. However, the downside (the side effects and toxicities) remains minimized. The pursuit of maximum profit provides the disincentive for sharing more effective healing strategies.

Along these lines, it remains consistent that a profit-driven medical system would stoop to conduct various disinformation campaigns. The media has advertising revenue to consider, and consequently, often become all too happy to promote these half-truths, which propagate fear in those who seek alternative counsel. Common methods include the results of a poorly run study against various alternative modalities, the professional opinion of 'certified' experts and the mantra about the lack of scientific data when they know all along that they control which data is collected. Dr. John Lee mentions in the introduction of his book, Some Things Your Doctor May not Tell you about Menopause, that his reputation initially suffered at the hands of the complex. However, he adds that the complex underestimated the power of the international women's network regarding what works.

An insight into the consequences of a medical system run by the profit interests of the complex is analogous to junk food. Although junk food taste like real food, it will harm the body if it is continuously ingested. American owners are bombarded by clever advertising schemes that encourage the consumption of these injurious ingredients. Most owners now know that these processed foods are harmful, but until recently everyone seemed to eat them. Slowly, but surely, more owners have become aware that processed foods, which are altered by chemicals, hormone mimics, and nutrient depletions-will injure the body. The food industries' media campaign still touts the latest clever come on, but there are less vulnerable owners with each passing year. Similarly, the emerging health care revolution cultivates awareness for the consequences from following the profitable dictums of mainstream medicine.

Part of the success for perpetrating the dominant medicine paradigm arises by incompletely educating physicians on what science has revealed. I, too, was a victim of my complex funded education. Without realizing it, I became a believer in the corrupted mainstream view of the medical universe. I have been unintentionally guilty of prescribing treatments that were not in my patients' best interest. I believed in a system of health care where side effects and toxicities were treated with more medications and procedures. I regretfully remember discouraging patients from continuing or seeking alternative treatment modalities. However, I thank several of my doggedly stubborn patients who continually pointed out to me the inconsistencies of my educational paradigm. To my credit, I kept mulling over in my head the unexplainable outcomes toward patient healing when they adhered to fringe advice. As the years ticked by, I continued to collect inconsistencies that were unexplainable by the mainstream view of health versus disease.

A major breakthrough occurred when I married my wife, Brenda, about eleven years ago. Brenda is a chiropractor. Initially, I humored myself by offering her space in my office. I still remember with humility witnessing what two hands accomplish compared to my medical training for a variety of afflictions. My wife also began to instruct me about the importance of medicinal herbs, colon health, and nutritional supplements.

Over the last several years I have had time to heal myself, study newer versions of my medical textbooks and contemplate what is missing from these books. Sometimes it is not missing but it presents in a disorganized format or as isolated 'pearls' that are not indexed. Tedium describes the hours of detective work needed to uncover and weave together a more holistic perspective for what happens to the body around middle age.

The middle-aged body wants to heal itself. Around middle age there are seven interrelated principles of health that tend to falter. Unless all are attended to the chronic degenerative diseases of middle age begin to insidiously propagate their deterioration on the body form. Common examples of these imbalances which arise from one or more faltering principles of health include: obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, asthma, arthritis, hormone imbalance, and diabetes. Each of these common diseases can be healed without side effects when all seven principles of health rebalance. The achievement of balance requires the afflicted owner's active participation. When this first requirement continues to be ignored symptom-control medicine remains the only treatment possibility. However, in owners who are willing to take an active role in their disease solution there are many cases where the above diseases heal or at least stabilize.

The seven interrelated principles are:

1. Prevent rust formation within the tissues
2. Prevent hardening processes within the blood vessels
3. The hormones giveth and the hormones taketh away
4. You become what you supply and absorb
5. Take out your cellular trash water
6. Avoid "low voltage cell syndrome"
7. Maximize the ratio between the energies that heal contrasted against the energies that maim the body tissues

Each of these principles of health is explained in my earlier book, The Body Heals. Although these principles are touched upon in this book the focus here will be to help the reader understand the missing educational content that allows the perpetration of symptom-control medicine. Doctors, in general, possess an innate and keen intelligence. This creates a formidable ongoing challenge to keep them dumbed down. The revolution in health care emerging today seeks to recall what science already knows about how the body heals.

The revolution in health care choices begins with principle seven. Principle seven concerns the quality of the life energies' integrity. Mainstream medicine almost completely ignores this important consideration always operating within a diseased body. This dominant approach can be likened to the slab of meat approach. The slab of meat is all that is left when the mysterious life energies are removed from consideration. Fortunately, these important energies form a common denominator between many alternative-healing modalities. Chiropractic, homeopathy, acupuncture, massage, yoga, meditative prayer, and chakra energy work all, each in their own way, reinvigorates the life energy field. The life energy field improves because these modalities have in common that they facilitate a release of the chaotic energies while facilitating the rhythmical energies.

Neglecting to consider the rhythmical energies describes one consequence of living within a profit driven health care system. The fallout of this makes important scientific information largely inaccessible in its congruent whole. Profit considerations influence which universities receive the pharmaceutical companies' research funds. This financial reality in turn influences the way medical schools educate physicians to think about disease. Of course physicians like myself have very little reason to doubt our educations until our patients begin providing living inconsistencies about how the body heals. Some physicians become tired and invested in the complex's way of doing things. I am living proof of how kind and informed patients can point the way to better methods. One of the better methods involves the rhythmical life energies.

A re-inclusion of the rhythmical life energies pulsating within each body cell bridges a common denominator between many alternative-healing modalities. The health care revolution bears the burden of educating those who are unaware. Like other times of exponential change, the dominant power elitists are largely unaware of the strength and conviction within the holistic health care movement. Other than the first chapter, the remainder of this book discusses and explores the other side of what science has revealed but continues to ignore. A little woo woo before all the hard science helps to balance the scientific discussion of health against the mystery of the unfathomable.

William B. Ferril, M.D.

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