Article 7 of 7 Accidental discovery of Antibiotics as related to the natural elements

This final article covers general aspects of the system including the question; do we really need a major change in the health care system? Also, the importance of natural compounds and why they are not currently being widely researched. There are numerous other critical items listed that are not discussed here in detail here.

A medical information system, as outlined here in these articles will eventually happen"it's inevitable, you can't continue to ignore advancing technology forever--it's just a matter of time. The problem is, do we want to wait for another fifty or seventy five years for something that could so dramatically affect our lives now? In my opinion, not to pursue such a system at this time, with the technology being available, is almost a crime against humanity

Another question also comes up in some people's minds: Why change the present system when they are promising such wonderful breakthroughs to come? Maybe we won't really need anything else? Well, just remember, that most of those so called breakthroughs we hear about involve helping you with a disease only, not large scale prevention or wellness programs.

Also, let me read you some comments about those promises from some very prominent experts in the medical field.

1) Dr. Deepak Chopra (a very prominent and brilliant endocrinologist and author) wrote in his book Quantum Healing that he felt the so-called bullet type approach to curing cancer is very unlikely to succeed, and gives several pages on why. Basically, he feels the body is far too intelligent and sophisticated for these simple types of approaches to be effective. He also mentions the failure in the 1950s of chemotherapy's promise to eradicate cancer within a generation, and then again the failed promise of the seventies, with the so-called great breakthrough of interferon, which of course also failed.
2) Joseph Califano,
3) Bailor MD PhD
To observe opinions by these experts please click on link (page 8) at the end of this article.

The system promoted here has a number of strong endorsements by holistic doctors who are MDs, but primarily practice preventative medicine. One is a professor on the faculty of the University of Minnesota Medical School. He stated that the proposed system is 20 to 30 years ahead of its time and strongly encouraged me to continue to promote the system to the public.

The proposed medical information system would also be very helpful in terms of further advancing CLS research itself, by providing an ideal mechanism for the testing of new advanced constituents.

Another thing we hear very little about now days is any serious broad scale research of natural compounds. Another major part of the proposed system is its sophisticated means for a very rapid and accurate evaluation of natural elements to see what effect they would have on human health. What are the possibilities involved here? For example there is over 260,000 chlorophyll based plants alone on earth that still need evaluating for possible health benefits. In addition, scientists estimate there are over 50 million invertebrates in the rain forests alone, to say nothing of the oceans. Shouldn't we be seriously attempting to see what they might have to offer us, what they might contribute to our well being? Unfortunately, under the present profit-based system, there is extremely limited motivation to do any broad scale research into this area, because natural elements cannot be patented. We have no idea what this may be costing us in terms of our health, medical expense or for that matter even our future (more details in book on this).

There is limited research by the pharmaceuticals to find natural healing plants that can be analyzed for active chemical ingredients with the hopes of developing patentable pharmaceuticals. Looking at the broad picture, however, this is an extremely limited approach.

If there is a question in your mind about the value of natural compounds and the need for a systematic means of exploring them, let's consider the discovery of antibiotics for a minute.

Penicillin of course came from mold, a form of fungus--a primitive plant. Penicillin was accidentally discovered in 1928 by Dr Fleming in England. While running some bacteria slides in his lab, he went on vacation and accidentally left a window open. The weather took an unusual turn which allowed for mold to develop and drift into the lab and contaminate his slides. The slides were thrown in the garbage, however, fortunately when Dr. Fleming returned, a friend happen to stop by and ask about his research, and so the slides were retrieved from the garbage, and he then discovered what had happened"the mold had killed the bacteria. Even though we need to give Dr. Fleming credit for discovering penicillin, do we want to wait another 50 to 100 years for another outstanding accident? It's essential that we move ahead with natural environmental research, on a large scale basis. It is highly likely we will find many more very valuable health related elements in nature. Furthermore, many of them would likely be available for the price of herbs.

As a final overview, I don't have time to discuss these items now, but I do want to mention them. The following are just a few areas of interest that are incorporated into the proposed system and discussed in the book:

Solving hereditary deficiency problems
Solving Weight control problems
Fine tuning your body for optimal health, and intervention
Option of using the fee for service health care system, as opposed to only HMOS
Addiction control
Direct reliable testing of all chemicals manufactured in the United States and those shipped in on products as well
Direct reliable testing of all types of remedies for effectiveness and safety"including pharmaceuticals, natural compound remedies and even such considerations as the effects of meditation
Highly sophisticated second and third generation fully automatic home health testing equipment
Also, effective built-in accountability features for the present health care system
Many current day hospital problems and concerns such as in hospital staph infections etc.
Programs and means of selecting the safest hospital, including knowing what their in-hospital infection rates are
Effective program involving the selection of the right doctor and or surgeon

To wind up, I would like to read you a short paragraph from the book that helps to bring this all into perspective--Fireman's analogy.