Preface

Science has made an amazing discovery that the American medical community does not want you to know.  It cannot afford for you to know; the implications are far too reaching. 

The general public knowledge of this Nobel Prize winning discovery would revolutionize the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease.  But the treatment of cardiovascular disease—I should say, the ineffective treatment of cardiovascular disease and the multiple co-morbidities it generates—is the core of modern medical economics.  The stability of the entire industry depends upon it; and it is no exaggeration to suggest that the cure would affect the very survival of allopathic medicine as it currently exists.  This orchestrated neglect of your health is paramount to the industry’s continued success.  Simply stated, A CURE IS NOT WELCOME.

This is not to say that all physicians are crooks or even that they are simply in it for the money.  Many physicians, indeed in my experience, the vast majority of physicians truly believe they provide an essential service and they have a genuine concern for their patients’ wellbeing.  Their education teaches them to dispense drugs. It is all they know and in their myopic view they truly believe they are doing good.  But despite their honest intentions physicians often do more harm than good; for unwittingly they are part of a faulty philosophy with a religious adherence to intervention as the first and only line of action.  Justification for an intervention is not the concern; the mere act of intervention is the principal.

Allopathic physicians—better known as medical doctors—speak of health but in reality they know little and care even less about it.  Disease is their business and money is the bottom line.  They are trained to diagnose (although accuracy is optional) and treat disease. Disease is a negative thing; healthcare is a positive thingit is not their facility, nor even their interest. 

Barring relatively few, nearly miraculous and mostly surgical procedures (for which a minority of capable doctors deserve great praise), the medical doctor’s mission is to seek and destroyto detect disease and kill it, or a least arrest it.  The preferred weapon is some sort of toxic pharmaceutical intervention. 

A plethora of approved, money-making, disease-seeking tests are available for the hunt.  Even the least grounds for suspicion can justify a disease exploration.  For example, after a coffee and donut preceded by indigestion for the past week, a patient arrives in the emergency room with acute upper gastric pain.  The initial antacid yields no relief; but the electrocardiogram is normal and the routine precautionary cardiac treatments with oxygen, nitroglycerin, baby aspirin and morphine fail to alleviate the pain, thereby effectively ruling out a heart attack.  Ultimately a medication that inhibits gastric secretions relieves the pain, thereby confirming a gastric disorder.  Nevertheless, the patient is admitted to the hospital and put through a cardiac workup complete with lab studies, cardiac monitoring, a cardiac stress test and an echocardiogram before the gastroenterologist performs an endoscope and ultrasound.  Forty-eight hours and thousands of dollars later the patient leaves with a simple prescription for Pepcid. 

Why all of these unnecessary tests?  Simple.  Because they are approved for reimbursement.  Of course the solemn, authoritative argument is made that even though it clearly appears to be a gastric disorder, the cardiac possibility must be ruled out.  That this was already ruled out by the initial, inexpensive cardiac interventions in the emergency room is overlooked as an insignificant detail.  But nobody complains; indeed, the physicians are praised for doing such a thorough job.

In this disease hunt, often no suspicion at all is necessary to justify a quest.  Something as simple as age, gender or race is sufficient.  It is a win-win situation, even if no disease is found a fortune is made looking for it.  In addition, many contrived disorders (albeit normal life conditions) are approved for medication therapy; for at all costs, the physician’s primary role is to pimp drugs for the pharmaceutical industry. 

It is for this reason that, although physicians know unwarranted antibiotic therapy generates strains of super resistant microbes, they continue to prescribe antibiotics for upper respiratory viral infections. Of course nothing is accomplished, nothing beneficial anyway.  But it does affect great damage to the overall health of the patient and ultimately to the overall health of the nation.

This mindless philosophy of artificial intervention is also the reason physicians advise cholesterol lowering drugs to anyone with even a modestly elevated cholesterol.  That biochemical cholesterol is the body’s natural attempt to contain the effects of advancing cardiovascular disease is of little concern; nor is there concern that these unwarranted drugs wreak great havoc on the body’s liver; nor that the drugs are associated with many deaths. 

What physicians are concerned with is that this is the current party line—the current therapy dictated by the industry and they comply unquestioningly, albeit ignorantly.  But even in their ignorance they honestly have the patient’s wellbeing in mind.  Since physicians genuinely believe, with religious fervor, in the doctrine of the pharmaceutical industry, in their minds compliance with the party line is essential.  Curiously, that these doctrines change as often as the policies of third-world governments, and that the new doctrines often contradict the old, is also of little concern.  But such is the nature of blind faith.  

Interspersed with some admittedly anecdotal accounts from my personal thirty-year experience in the business and clinical world of allopathic medicine, you will find solid research citing allopathic discoveries and disclosures about its ineffective and often harmful practices.  You will also learn of the simple, effective but ignored, treatment for cardiovascular disease based upon research for which the 1998 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology was awarded.  Knowledge of this research could save your heart, and your life.

Desmond Allen, PhD, ND, MBA

    

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