Western Medicine Vs Alternative Wellness, Alternative View 1

[econowage]

What a stupid moron. I could say so much, but I will just mention the complete idiocy with respect to how "western medicine" works. Firstly, it's primary difference from alternative medicine is that it is based on the scientific method. Secondly, and importantly, it targets the illness, so in that sense it isn't holistic. But of course you target the illness. That is exactly why my disease has been nearly cured, because 1000s of compounds were tested to find one that corrected my genetic defect.

[jns124able]

The disclaimer at the beginnng says it all...for entertainment only

[42Unknowns]

hey!  I just did an essay on this, researching it was really interesting.

[Arizona4Christ]

Wow after watching this video it sounds a lot like bull shit. Saying that adopting a alternative medicine perspective will help you live longer is crap. Look at Dr oz, he is all more modern medicine and adopting a healthy diet. All you need is a good life style and some modern medicine along the way, asprin ext can benefit you. All this alternative medicine has almost no evidence and a lot of it has been debunked already.

[ryno2085]

@Arizona4Christ Cannabis has proven time and time again its the best medicine for a healthy lifestyle, scientifically, spiritually and physically. And if you really think this video is a load of bullshit you should do some real research, ive read through your comments, you come across as a really sheltered individual, but with a name like "Arizona4Christ" I can understand why. No offense intended.

[Arizona4Christ]

@ryno2085 Yes. As my name is complete sarcasm as you would be able to tell from the video on my page. You are the one that needs to step out of the conspiracy box and start to use critical thinking. I have done "real" research and cannabis has some real benefits....IDK about spiritually IDK what that mean nor do I know what lifestyle means. There is simply medicine...there is no alternative. If it was medicine it would be testable and not called alternative.

[Arizona4Christ]

Its simple. One works and one doesn't. Alternative medicine is only a placebo at best. Well I would say 99% of Alternative medicine works, and thats being generous.

[fairlightdawn112]

Balance is everything ! There is room for both Western and Alternative methods. I have benefited from both. :-)

[MrsBooker100]

I had pneumonia back in January of this year. My sickness was a virus from a unknown outside organism. The doctor gave me antibiotics. After a week and a half of completing the antibiotics, my symptoms came back. I decided to get a detox tea, and Beta Glucan capsules. My pneumonia went away and never cam back.

Western medicine does not work. It just keep people drugged up.

[pamelahicks]

This woman needs to review basic biology before she talks any more shit about "western medicine". All this video does is take legitimacy away from natural treatments.

[akkill8]

As far as taking the wrong herbs thats what holistic healers are for,they muscle test you to see what your body needs,youre never supposed to give yourself a self perscription in any case

[julingy]

have these people not seen the dramatic rise in life length since the explosion of medical technology and treatment. ask your grandparents!

this is crazy! remember when people used ST johns wart and then a ton of people died because of liver failure.

- bad food now adays?

- natural treatments are very good in certain aspects BUT THEY ARE NOT REGULATED!

- which ends up in a teething baby getting "natural treatment" that dont numb the gums but actually just drug the baby into a diluted state

[gigiontube]

julingy

Obviously you have no clue what is in your food and obviously you don't know anything about natural medicine.

The "dramatic raise" you see is a raise in demented people, in wheel chairs, lots of them being kept alive on machines just long enough to get the last dollar out of their bank account.

Why do you think we build more and more hospitals, have more and more chronic diseases, why 1/2 of children have some kind of learning disability if things are as great as you see them ?

[julingy]

man the dramatic life length is the life length of all people... why would you think its just of demeneted people in wheel chairs? that makes no sense, what do you mean by demented people? there are not a whole large amount of people being kept alive on machines.

- ask yourself this.... if you were trying to get money out of people would you leave them on a machine that is worth 2 grand a day? those machines are very carefully used.

- go to college, learn something, get some actual facts,

[gigiontube]

julingy,

you are funny. Me to go to college or you who don't know what demented means.

Demented is from dementia. Have you heard of Alzheimer disease and other mental diseases that affect most of the old population. Why do you think most of the old people are locked up in nursing homes ? Because they love it out there, right ? No! It's because they are not able to take care of themselves. And 90% of the problem is not physical but mental. Dementia.

[gigiontube]

So, you learn something, visit a nursing home and ask yourself: this is how I want to end up when I get old? If not, start reading the labels on your food. If you can't pronounce something.. it is not food, it's a chemical your body does not need.

Eat organic whole foods if you want your body and your mind to last for a while. Peace!

[julingy]

you dont call people with dementia people who are demented.. unless you were a doctor back in the 40's. you call them people with dementia...

- most old people locked up in old folks homes.. actually only about 3 percent of North Americas middle to old old (that is the correct name for that sector of our population) are in out of home care. so thats 97% at home living their lives.

- without vaccines, modern drugs, surgery. our lives would be shorter and less livable. you obviously know nothing

[julingy]

people that end up in nursing homes are unable to care for themselves due to mostly medical reasons like you said Dementia and Alzheimer's. and yes eating good food will do great things for your body. but only in combination with an active life style and utilization of modern medicine.

- back in the good ol farm days people ate well and got lots of exercise. .. so why was the average life expectancy around 45?

- its because we couldn't treat disease and illness as well. *life balance*=health

[Arizona4Christ]

@julingy I hate when people use the life expectancy thing. The reason it was 45 is because we have less premature deaths. No one really just up and died at 40 years old back then. Look at the founders and former presidents....

I do however agree with you.

[42Unknowns]

@julingy well, it was cleanliness, soap was invented in just 1840 so before then people had to clean without it and prone to more infecious disease.

[c1utchballer]

"Perhaps each cell does have consciousness"

ahahahahhahaahahaha

[radicalcontroversial]

SHUT UP FUCKING BITCH!!!

[Liwwybetty]

People using western treatments don't live as long? Excuse me? Was there a reference to a trial there? When did science get thrown out of the window?

[Liwwybetty]

By western medicine you mean Modern medicine right? Because alot of the treatments used in "Western Medicine," come from Asia, India, Africa.

[m001900]

a scientific handjob :o

[BaileyLush]

There is a time and place for conventional, and there is a time and place for alternative. They should be used in conjunction with eachother. Think about how many of us would already be dead without anitbiotics... Yoga is not gonna cure a severly fractured bone, a trauma injury, or various other maladies.

[slbluestarfish]

too much antibiotics can cause problems because if you rely on antibiotics every time you get sick, and then suddenly you don't have them to fall back on anymore, your own immune system will not have the ability to get rid of that bacterial infection on its own. therefore you will just keep getting sicker and sicker.

[slbluestarfish]

However if you choose not to rely on antibiotics, and you instead try something like exercise or herbs that will boost your own natural immune system, then you could prevent catching the things that make everybody else around you sick all the time.

[slbluestarfish]

I agree that they should be used together, because it is very difficult if not impossible to set your own broken arm. if you go to the emergency room at your local hospital and have them set it, they will usually do a very good job, because they have the training and equipment to do it correctly. But it is better not to rely on them for the treatments of that broken bone. Yoga may not cure it, but herbs would if you are using them correctly.

[slbluestarfish]

and what do they give you after they set the bone and put it in a cast? pain pills that you could get addicted to. I'm not saying that pain pills are bad, they just use them waaay too much. they should be used only when absolutely necessary. many of my friends have died from overdoses on pain pills. where do they get them you ask? ask these idiotic doctors who give them out like candy.

[slbluestarfish]

also, there is a natural antibiotic that grows all over the world that can be more effective than any of these synthetic antibiotics that you get from the doctor. it is called garlic. look it up sometime.

[BaileyLush]

And many other substances that have anti microbial properties- and/ or endogenous anti microbal properties. Still not as strong as a prescription. Go get Staph, and treat it with garlic. Tell me how it works out for ya pal.

[slbluestarfish]

Staphylococcus is a bacterial infection, and it is an internal problem. The bowels and the blood must be cleansed, and a healthy diet maintained to effect a meaningful cure. An abundance of raw organic garlic would play a major role in these processes if eaten regularly, by improving the body's own natural immune response. And it won't kill off all the beneficial bacteria that a synthetic antibiotic would. can you say colitis?

[slbluestarfish]

"Bacteria shown to be susceptible to garlic in the test tube include species from Staphylococcus, Escherichia, Proteus, Salmonella, Providencia, Citrobacter, Klebsiella, Hafnia, Aeromonas, Vibrio and Bacillus genera.

[LostMente]

Becareful of the spiritual side of yoga, I've heard that the various alignment positions are symbolic of various deities (to me deity means set of ideals). If you put faith in chakras, which has a lot of logic, then recognise the forms as what they represent

[enograf]

ima 43year old male who is now dealing with 22 years worth of sideeffects from prescribed medicine,,my body told me to stop all my strong analgesics b4 the liver specialst did..and yes,,,my liver is recked,,,.allternative iz my only choice in what life i have left....so b4 u chritisize this video,,,ask some questions first,,,why wealth b4 health,,,.peace

[LostMente]

I really despise this dichotomy between the spiritual and the physical, they are indistinguishable! neither proceeds the other, it is the unity, the yin and yang, the inner and outer.

I just want to make the point that all the alternative medicine requires a great deal of discipline for ones way of life...its spiritual, its diet, its lifestyle.

Taking that much control of ones existence will be liberating for sure, it does not mean its what you are doing thats great, just that you are doing it

[BaileyLush]

Although I agree with you, that is a personal belief. It's also spirtual to respect other people's opinions, even IF they might be of the more empirical persuassion.

[LostMente]

a fair call, i can well respect them. then again

nothing is sacred, i am everything

everything is sacred, i am nothing

[bestamerica]

why NO closed captioned in here video,,,

put it on closed captioned

[vermeergirl]

Wow I was gonna write some kind of intelligent until you started to talk about manifesting disease and the emotional body. You insult your intelligence. You're not completely wrong, but just aren't thinking about what you're saying...

[Chick6517]

hahaha loved it!

You guys are the best and you always make my day awesome!

Thanks for posting!

[vcxshgfd]

I would trust my doctor more than I would trust a silly alternative medicine kook. No offense to anyone but really a lot of that stuff is silly. Just consider Trudeau's stuff and wonder if you're not being conned.

[Vigatos]

No offense, you just called her a kook. You ignorant bigot.

[anthonyw713]

before things happen in the body it happens in the mind. The mind controls heart lungs nerves ect. When you are mad heart beats faster lungs breath harder without any effort. to think that prolonged anger or depression can cause high bloodpressure is really so far off? there are outside sources than influence the body fights car wreck ect but the mind heals the body. The mind heals the cuts on ur hand and so on. is it so far fetched to believe how you think affects you?

[vcxshgfd]

Folate is also important for cell generation. Without the REAL, PHYSICAL substances, your mind will not heal the cuts. I'm not saying everything is wrong in this 'spiritual healing', but just realize that science is what debunks/confirms what you're saying. It's only spiritual until science discovers why. And the 'kooky' ideas are normally abandoned at that point, unless you are seriously a kook.

[anthonyw713]

well you have this instinct called hunger. Folate is in vitimans found in food. All i was saying is what and how you think also has an effect on the body. weather you want to admit this or not. Again is it so farfetched that how you think affects you body. I am not implying its a cure all. If science cant measure it science denies it. Thoughts cant be measured but i bet you have them. But i am implying how you think matters.

[j0hnwi11iams]

If people in alternative medicine would simply tone down the claims they wouldn't have so many detractors.

[juetto]

visionary why are u posting so much??

[11visionary11]

I couldnt get my comment across in one post. Why do you think?

[BeachedWhale09]

Polio was disappearing on its own until the vaccine gave it to people not to mention the cancer viruses in the vaccine SV40 i believe its called. And there are lots of goodies in there for you like mercury, formaldehyde, aluminum, proteins (cause auto-immune diseases), and more.

[transtlantic]

beachedwhale09... you are an idiot

[BeachedWhale09]

Way to formulate an intelligent response lol. Here is the CDCs own website with the lists of ingredients in vaccines. cdc(dot)gov/vaccines/pubs/pink­book/downloads/appendices/B/ex­cipient-table-2.pdf

[transtlantic]

you keep being an idiot

go to FDA and check what you have in food, herbs and drinks, you'll find there Vitamins, also an ingrident of vaccines

don't be dumb beached. toxicity is dose related

[BeachedWhale09]

Are you retarded? Yes thats an ingredient. So because there are vitamins in there it makes all the poisons ok. And you dont want ANY mercury AND formaldehyde AND MSG. More just means its worse. You fluoride heads have been dumbed down so much you cant even think anymore.

Oh but wait! Youre going to tell me fluoride is good for the teeth and thats the reason the nazis and soviets used it in the prison camps water supplies! It wasnt because it lowers IQ or makes a person docile NOOO. They cared!

[chrisbord]

Tell that to the millions of children who used to get polio.

[biguy617]

Tell your stories to the girls with Gardasil injuries.

[lilmissglentoran]

And the vast majority of chemical substances are hijacking our body's own receptors.

My own research is in the metals in plants and if they can interfere with the cell signaling of the body.

More than that, half the problems of modern pharma is that they are essentially the lead compounds but they've had the other beneficial compounds taken out, for example aspirin is more acidic as the pharmaceutical preparation, in the plant, it has compounds which make it less irritating on the stomach

[lilmissglentoran]

Actually these chemicals are more dangerous than the herbs, I am both a biological chemist and a holistic chemist and the hormones used in western medicine is chemically incompatible with our body, plant's contain hormones which our bodies can recognise and I am surprised on how many problems can be linked to one thing - VACCINES, if we take out the metals which have been put into us, there would be no heart diseases as ultimately it is these metals effecting our natural endocannabinoid system..

[skinerd0001]

you have to understand that eastern philosophy is very different than western philosophy. Eastern philosophy treats people without cutting them open and western does. It helps to think about happy cells :) makes alternative medicine work better

[chrisbord]

Riiight. How do you explain that human mortality only began to plunge exactly when WESTERN medicine began to progress and take over the (non-hippie) world?

[biguy617]

"a real doctor" The problem is the medicine. Big pharma is becoming worse than the disease.

[biguy617]

Better to take Vioxx and celebrex even tough people have died on it. Moron.

[dave24ie]

vitamin feak so..? i agree with part of this. if you need meds though and you might say mask the problem.. yet so what you have too make up ur own mind on this only!

[kwazy349]

dont trust this video. its complete lies

[biguy617]

It is better to take drugs like Vioxx or celebrex. Drugs that have side effects that are worse than the disese. You are a idiot.

[shadeofteal]

Western medicine is good at piecing together broken bones. Anything else, it can do nothing about but mask symptoms. At best. It's not about healing. It's about fixing the machine, so it runs until it breaks down next time, because the root of the problem never gets addressed.

Thanks for posting this!

[deliciousonionsoup]

I so agree. Going to a "Health Service" in the west brings you into contact only with sickness. That in itself is not going to make you feel any better. We need to be taught models of wellness instead of being given pills and psychobabble.

[prospero811]

Western medicine also cured polio and invented vaccines for smallpox and chicken pox, among thousands of other things, like inventing antibiotics like Penicillin, and curing people of cancer.

[biguy617]

vaccines suck now. They have mercury, either and antifreeze in them. Just ask Rpobert F Kennedy Jr and Jennifer McCarthy.

[chrisbord]

And without them, you would probably die if you got many of those diseases. Sure they contain that stuff, but in very small amounts, and you only take them every few years at most.

Tell that to the millions of children who used to get polio.

[11visionary11]

I know someone who suffered from polio as a child and now is deformed. He would have been fine and been able to walk without aid if he had had the vaccine my mother had. Some ppl wont get it until it effects a loved one...then they bitch bc modern med dont do enough ..lol.

[biguy617]

Tell the polio stories to the victims of the vaccine injuries. I am sure the Gardasil victims would love to hear it.

[11visionary11]

So western medicine masks symptoms but a "natural path" who deals with herbs and good thoughts and needles cures? LOL...plz....

So using "chemicals" to let ppl with depression and bi-polar lead normal lives is masking? Cutting out tumers is masking? Sewing an arm on after an car crash is masking? "chemicals" to help with bloodpressure isnt as good as a tea? LOL....it must be nice to have never NEEDED a real Dr...but for some me ppl with actual health issues, REAL medicine works best.

[11visionary11]

A good Dr with "chemicals" and drugs can be the difference between LIFE and death. Teas and positive thoughts are great, but it doesnt cure.......

[chrisbord]

Feel good morons.

[whiteclaudia9]

I read your posts, and I agree with you to a point. The fact is, every person is different. One treatment might work for one person, but not the next. Who's to say that ALL natural remedies aren't effective? If you wanna take pills, great. If you wanna use herbs and organic foods, fine. I say personalised treatments are best.

[kbonez2]

Absolutely WhiteClaudia. If you want to try and treat your disease with alt medicines (acupuncture, massage, anything else) then by all means go for it. I just don't get why alt. med. practictioners feel the need to demonize western medicine. They try and make it sound like Doctors WANT you to get sick and die, when the exact opposite is true. I studied to go to med school before changing my focus, and every single one of my peers was doing it for the same reason I was...to help sick people.

[MaQingYi]

this is true, i think there is often a lack of distinction between the medication companies and doctors, western doctors in general are very caring and helpful individuals, the companies are, and don't pretend to be anything other than, businesses, they create the products for profit, thus the radical prices for most drugs, and the general disdain for alternative health most eastern practitioners feel imposed upon them.

[8DX]

There is also a heavy "business" reason for drug companies to want their medicines to work: doctor's won't prescribe medicine that doesn't work (except as a placebo). If drug companies can convince the doctors that their drug works (putting it on severe double-blind clinical trials, getting it peer-reviewed etc, then they have no market.

[anthonyw713]

Do you even watch tv look at any add for pills? they have every known side effect. You have to take a pill to fix one problem then take another pill to deal with the side effects. Is it so far fetched to believe that how you think can effect your out come? Not to mention western doctors have not time for people without major medical. It is a known fact the drug companies dont make money off of cures they make money off of pills and dr visits.

[kbonez2]

Thats actually not a known fact. Drug companies stand to make billions off of cures for diseases. That argument that they WANT us to be sick doesn't hold up to any logical situation. The drug company that cures cancer will become the most profitable company in history. Also, do you realize that nothing you said had anything to do with what I was talking about? You've constructed a fairly simplistic straw man. I never said that alt med. should be abolished or is ridiculous.

[anthonyw713]

Alternative practitioners hate western dr.s due to the fact they dont respect the patients rights. a recent exp a boy and his mother were on the news running from unwanted kemo treatment. Instead of respecting there wishes not to take kemo the mother was arrested and the kid got kemo anyway. yet many american are begging for a chance to live but cant get it. and you ask why western doctors are demonized. how about respecting the patient for a change and quit pushing surgery everytime reguardless

[kbonez2]

This situation was ridiculous...on the mothers part. She was condemming her son to death due to her religious beliefs, despite the fact that western medicine can cure over 90% of cases of hodgkins lymphoma that were similar to his. The state saved his life. If he wasn't a minor then he has every right to refuse treatment, but for a mother to prefer a witch doctor over an MD is insane.

[BaileyLush]

Yeah. To bad the chemo will most likely give him another cancer in 10-20 years. Or a lovely cardio myopathy. Chemo is a brutal treatment man. Its bad for your body in the long run, regardless of if they cure the first cancer. It's actually a crock, and I seriously hope we can find better alternatives in the future.

[Arizona4Christ]

@BaileyLush Ya I agree. Maybe we should just pray and have the cancer go away. Modern medicine is the best we have. No magical alternative faith treatments will ever advance our race.

[cutes22]

@BaileyLush Don't knock chemo. A lot of people would be dead without it. Of course its bad for the body, but its all we have. There's no point in a healthy body if the cancer kills you quicker. You people are living in a dream world. Western medicine works and all that other crap is nothing but placebo. If not for western medicine, we'd still be dying of smallpox. Don't knock it.

[ryno2085]

@cutes22 Sorry to say, but thats a load of crap. More people die because of chemo than those who are helped by it and its not "all that we have" Fact. There is a phenomenal medication that has recently been shown to inhibit cancer cells while leaving healthy cells intact, has never killed a single human being in over 4000 years, and is 100% natural. Its called Hash Oil, it comes from the Cannabis plant, and it is proving its worth every day.

[Felidaise]

"I just don't get why alt. med. practictioners feel the need to demonize western medicine."

If they didn't, people would just go to the doctor, and the alt med. people would be out of business. ;)

It's a common business practice to try make your competitor look inferior.

[11visionary11]

Not true, every Dr. knows if your hormones or organs are out, you feel it in the whole body.

Alternative med.(herbs) is just not as effective as medications. Dr.s dont just make "chemicals", lol..they come from herbs! they just isolate and improve the parts that help...like aspren...its more efective to take an aspren than chew on the bark.

The reason they say not to have unpasterized milk(unless your on a farm or get it from the farm that day) is bc you cant put it in stores and ship it.

[11visionary11]

The way I look at it....where does EVERYONE go when they have a heart attack? They go to the hospital, not to an alternative medical center..lol...so...if you trust Dr.s with your heart at your most vulnerable...why not trust them all the time?

[deliciousonionsoup]

Because all doctors can really deal with is fixing broken bones and attempting to fix broken organs. When you go to a hospital what's the first thing you feel? It's anxiety. Why? Because it's full of sick people in sick environments around nurses who are too busy and too stressed and around relatives who are stressed and anxious. I hate hospitals! Hospitals these days so rarely are nice places in themselves. The beds are too close together, the patients are using movbile phones and watching tv.

[11visionary11]

So all a docter is good for is fixing a broken bone? LOL......good one:)

Ppl get anxious at hospitals bc they are SICK.

And what does hospital beds close together have to do with Dr.s knowledge vs a "natural path"?

If you or a loved one suffered bi-polar,depression,liver failer, heart attack, cancer,complications with childbirth,sevear allergic reaction, ...snd so on, where would you go? A natural path who doesnt deal with"chemicals" or a hospital?

[deliciousonionsoup]

Firstly, thank you for giving me the thumbs down. Secondly, I might go to a doctor but I'd sure as hell not take what the doctor prescribes as unquestionably correct. From experience I've seen how drugs don't help in mental and emotional issues. And I've seen howy talk therapy didn't help either. As for physical medicine - I've seen it's not an exact science and can go wrong and is often experimental - see the history of laparoscopic surgery for example. Now you can thumbs down me again.

[11visionary11]

I dont give"thumbs down", if I want ot comment on someones thoughts,I write. Noone has said medical science is perfect, neither is "alternative". But western science has allowed ppl to live longer and healthier lives.You say it all right there..."I might go to a doctor.."....Alternative "med" is great for small things, colds, mild constipation, muscles, you can controle SOME colesteral and blood pressure with foods and such, meditations good for nerves..ect..but anything serious ppl go to a Dr.

[11visionary11]

Chemicals" and medication have allowed ppl with bi-polar,deprssion,scitzafreni­a ect to lead better lives,even hold jobs. Herbs and needles dont. Thyroid malfunctions, tumers,cancers, exploding appendixes, difficalty in childbirth, birth defects,hearing loss, sight loss,cronic pain,loss of limbs,heart attacks, anxiety,twisted bowel,menapose...and much more are all helped by western med."

[11visionary11]

Everyoone here will go to a Dr if they or a loved one has a serious issue,not a natural path and you know it. Attacking the ppl who will help you is sad. Its self rightous,hypocritical,and pretentious. You want to feel "natural" and against "profit" and "corperations"..so you think herbs and positive thoughts can "cure"...if that were true, alternative med should "cure" scitzafrenia. You are false, if you truely beleived what you say, you would go to a naturalpath for a heart attack, you wont.

[MrFacet]

So if natural medicines are more holistic I assume they've been thoroughy tested right?

[AAL]

I hope more people start to follow this bullshit. Then my lines wont be as long at the doctors.

[prospero811]

Good point. The more people subscribe to this "woo" -- LMAO - "manifesting a disease in our organs because there is something that is out of balance...quite possibly something emotional..." -- so much for the germ theory of disease....

[patrick45]

What an excellent explanation of Holistic Healing and well-beeing.

Keep up that enlightend spirit Athena.

best wishes from Germany

Patricio

[nleck]

There is no such thing as "Alternative Medicine". Once something is shown to work it becomes "Medicine". Every thing that you refer to as "Alternative" has either not been tested or has been tested and has failed.

[boony68]

Well said doc.

[j0hnwi11iams]

Bottom line is that science depends on what is provable, and traditionally what is provable is obvious and not subtle. Much of that is changing and improving as they understand the underlying processes of a healthy body and can evaluate your health long before symptoms develop. DO NOT UNDERSELL SCIENCE OR WESTERN MEDICINE.

[biguy617]

western medicine is based on profit not science or treating disease.

[11visionary11]

Profit is what has allowed all the miraculas advances is medicine. Without profit we would still be blowing smoke rings over ppl and giving them teas when they had tumers.

[TuplaPekka]

NO. American medicine is based on profit not science or treating disease! look at france look at any of the scandinavian country. I pay about fifteen euros for every visit to the hospital, no matter what test they have to do to me. if I have to pay over sixhundred euros for medicine per year the goverment steps in and I get what ever medicine I need for under two euros. so you´re wrong! the reason why this new age shit is so popular in the states is because of their medical policies.

[transtlantic]

so true... and that's why these "alternative" practices don't spread much in europe.

the irony: china and india are 2 countries were western medicine is spreading by the hundreds per cent per year...

[j0hnwi11iams]

The deployment of health care is what is the most problematic in this country, NOT the technology. Private health insurance is vastly inadequate and must either be reformed to comply with social standards or be abolished.

[j0hnwi11iams]

You make it sound like the two are mutually exclusive. They are not. While I agree that US health care has focussed far too much on profit I do not see the two as fundamentally incompatible.

Or are you trying to say that these alternative medicines are NOT trying to turn a profit? HAHAHAHA.

[j0hnwi11iams]

You owe it to yourself to go for a physical where they can detect fundamental problems with your physiology before they appear as vastly worsened symptoms. Every person is different. There is no universal healthy lifestyle because each body has it's own strengths and weaknesses that must be utilized or overcome.

[j0hnwi11iams]

I view western medicine as existing to service urgent needs and as such is unrivaled. A massage is not going to revive you if you suffer a heart attack or are run down by an automobile. It is by no means the only health alternative as far as long range strategies are concerned. I do subscribe to whole body medicine, however, I think western medicine still has a lot to contribute here, as well.

[kbonez2]

Very logical statement John, and yet the people on here are marking down everything you say. Shows how ridiculously biased the alt medicine crowd is. What I would like to ask the people who gave you a minus 1 on this comment is whether they would go to a masseuse for a heart attack, or whether they would call 911? I hope we all know the correct answer to that question.

[slbluestarfish]

I would call a paramedic first, and then take a tablespoon of organic cayenne pepper in a glass of hot water, and I would be very surprised if the heart attack did not stop long before the ambulance got there.

[gigiontube]

slbluestarfish,

It seems like you have read well the work of Dr. Christopher, one of the greatest herbalist of this country. Good for you dear!

I carry a small jar [one portion of jam, that kind of jar] in my purse with organic cayenne pepper. I also have a bottle of water in my car all the time. Best wishes to you :)

[Xanubi]

To anyone taking herbs... please tell your doctor... and make sure you do your research... just because they are "natural" doesn't mean they can't have horrible side effects and interact with each other... Peace!

[wiskawind]

Thirty years ago they told me my back would never be right unless I had a back operation; I had taken a bad fall on pavement and broke my pelvic and messed up my lower disks.

I refused, and fought the doctors and my husband; it took years, but my back is right as rain. (smile)

And best of all, I can still ride my horses.

[wilsonpwt]

Over 100,000 people die each year from prescription drugs. The FDA protects Big Pharma and wants to regulate natural health means out of business.

The fact that Vioxx killed roughly 60,000 Americans and another 80,000 suffered life-threatening heart attacks while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had multiple opportunities to prevent this harm but did nothing is just another example of the governments failure to "protect" us.

Do you think corporate governments really care about people?

[wilsonpwt]

The US media are assiduously silent on the matter of Codex Alimentarius (World Food Code). Under the helpful cover of the medias information blackout, Codex Alimentarius Commission meetings are regularly attended by officials from the Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services, State, Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Office of US Trade Representative, and the US Codex Office.

This is NOT in our best interest. Paul Turner

[alphaprocyonx]

you dont really believe in this coxed alementarius?..., where big brother is gonna make vitamins illegal?... so that the only real source of vitamins and minerals will be "organic" food which will be too expensive for most of us...

[Frenchforever2009]

cant wait for the second part...

grat vids

totally agree

what you say its real

[blueyegirl]

JUst wondering where you get your information that people who practice alternative medicine live longer than people who practice western medicine?????

[kbonez2]

And even if the claim is true its useless. Its a corrolation at best. People who practice alternative medicines likely pay more attention to nutrition and exercise then the general population. The claim would only have meaning and usefulness if they compared alt med. practicers with people who eat lots of unorganic fruits and veggies and get plenty of exercise. Its more typical pseudoscientific claims used to market their own profit minded promotions.

[ZepMan63]

Organic food costs more because it's more expensive to produce, not because "they" don't want us to have it 4:00

There's been war, deception, lies and coverups in all recorded history and I'm sure even long before that. 6:25

Only the brain has consciousness 6:55. This statement is utterly absurd, however, our brain does control over our entire body but to say that "perhaps each cell has consciousness" is just asinine.

Yes, the organs do have a communication system, it's called your brain.

[DoJaenin]

I don't know how it is in your country but here they cut the subsidies for organic farming a few years back and started giving more money to farmers who use GMOs instead. Sounds pretty planned to me.

[ZepMan63]

Organic farming is not heavily subsidized here. I don't know if they cut it or if it wasn't heavily subsidized to begin with, however, the rest of the video is ridiculous.

[8888Duke8888]

i wonder if in Asia they have something called "early Western medicine".

they could act like it was all hip and foreign and shit and then they would be all like - "oh, the hole in the top of your head is to let the demons out!"... and then, they would be like - "how foreign and interesting!".

*drill starts up......

[InbetweenTheReality]

LOL :)

[koolbossjock]

I am a Pharmacy student,before BIG Profit Pharmacy Chineese Herbs was medicine,then came big Pharma with its BULSHIT disease like GERD/Acid reflux..Wrestless leg syndrome etc.NOW a lot of Doctors are fed up with bullshitting people and practicing alternative medicine as well .But be smart at the same time.If your apendix ruptures they are not going to give you an herb.

[8888Duke8888]

I'm not quite sure if you were agreeing with me or flaming me. Nonetheless, i was joking. I am sure that many traditional medicines work.

Just as with most things, the truth lies between the two extremes.

[Xanubi]

I wouldn't call GERD a "bullshit" disease when it can cause real esophageal harm and cardiac damage... Same as many other diseases. Sure, people should take more control of their life and try to actively be healthy by diet, exercise, and rest... but if someone is seriously screwed up by a disease, medicines can really help them, and often saves their lives.

[hypnofan35]

i think modern medicine does what it must to maximize profit in treatments. Hence the entire system tends to maximize convolution. It's like hierarchies gone wild, 'cept you don't want to see them nekid.

[Frances3654]

western medicine=science

psychiatry & alternative=pseudoscience.

[DRDNIBOY]

Western medicine and psychiatry= Abusing the patient and the system to make $.

Alternative medicine= Time trusted techniques that benefit the ENTIRE BODY to heal ones body , mind and soul.

[abyssquick]

"Alternative" is a misnomer. 5 billion people the world over rely on phyto/plant medicines for primary care and treatment. It's not all chicken bones and other voodoo.

Pharmacognosy utilizes traditional medicines- locating them, extracting them, creating analogs, and patenting them for profit.

Traditional medicines can and do work very well if one knows what they are doing.

Lumping plants in with "alternative" claims like reflexology, crystal healing, acupuncture, etc... is not appropriate.

[koolbossjock]

YOU are an Idiot and know nothing.You cannot even use the right words.I will NOT reply to you since you are so ignorant.Oh and do not forget to get the toxic flu vaccine this fall.You might as well hook up a hose to your exhaust pipe and breath in.Maybe for you thats a good idea.

[abyssquick]

This is response to me? I work in Alt. medicine. "phamacognosy" is an actual word, and is intended.

Could you maybe specify instead of lashing out compulsory internet venom?

[8888Duke8888]

lol, exactlty

[ShadowBritt]

what utter nonsense.

[RiouInsuiko]

Interesting, though I do feel that your presentation dragged down your report.

[VioletClub]

You guys need to put less light on your greenscreen. It should be darker than the subject by about half.

[airdreamlove]

I agree 100%