Tom Ballard, ND

This channel is for expanding awareness of natural medicine or what I call Green Medicine: Ecological, sustainable, organic and effective treatment of disease by addressing the cause. The world is shifting away from the 19tth century model of medicine that suppresses symptoms with drugs. Symptoms are like fire alarms: You wouldn't turn off a fire alarm and let the fire spread, so why do we treat disease this way?

To use the green analogy, we all know whats needed for restoring our environment: an ecological approach that restores the natural habitat. We are ecological beings and our health depends on restoring ourselves to ecological balance. 

The whole-system model is now integrated into other scientific disciplines, from city planning to astrophysics, it's now time medicine does the same. As the scientifically-repressive medical-industrial complex falls apart, "natural medicine" will become "medicine."