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Despite claims that modern medicine has extended and improved our lives, many don’t feel the benefit. How many people do you know with cancer or incurable diseases? How many in their 60s look and move like octogenarians or struggle with arthritis and uncontrolled Type II Diabetes?

Are we really healthier than the generations just a few short decades ago?

Look at our grandparents and great-grandparents – at their health and longevity of those who lived even 50 years ago without crippling diseases, morbid obesity, heart and cancer diseases and early death. Most of those who survived childhood lived well into their 90’s, often still spry, sharp minds, and able to care for themselves, unlike elderly population today.

What gave them that longevity? How did they treat themselves when illnesses arose? Were there simple, natural remedies that existed over that course of time? What about foods and the consumption of seasonally available edible plants? Did they have supermarket and long distance hauling to provide a tropical fruit to a temperate climate store all year round, or did they grow their own?

And was it easier to grow more plants, or increase cattle production?

In the late 1800’s to early 1900’s our perspective of food was itself altered radically. “Simply put, it was to manage the supply of food in the direction of more production to employ food as a commodity…In order to make food pay, it had to mass produced. To produce in that way, everything about its natural environment had to be altered, substituted, and manipulated…The problem was, the “improved” food was more devoid of one essential ingredient: its life energy.¹

Dr Hazel Parcells

When foods became a commodity in the western culture is when our health began to decline.

Animal fats and proteins were replaced with seed oils and plant or plant-based proteins. The seed oils altered the consumption of the equal balance of Omega-3 and Omega-6 to a 20:1 ratio, making linoleic acid (Omega-6) the dominant fat in the modern diet^A. And it imbalanced the precarious mitochondrial redox in our gut^B leading to such diseases as dysbiosis, inflammation, and insulin resistance among other health issues.

Cheaper plant protein alternatives were introduced in an active campaign to remove animal proteins and the more expensive production of beef and other animal proteins creating a greater profit margin for the producers. But the affects on human health is just now beginning to be recognized^C.

The increase of the use of chemicals has been necessary in this explosion of plant based foods. One of those is the hotly debated Glysophates used to eradicate not only weeds^D, but the microbes in the soil^E basically causing it eventually to become lifeless^F. The poison also has been found to contaminate waterways^G as well as the food itself which is ingested by both animals and humans^H. And it’s constant use builds up in the soil over time^I.

And this is only one of many chemicals used to treat the soil. Chemical fertilizers have replaced organic, natural fertilizers furthering the destruction of the once nutrient rich soils^{J, K} and plants. The plant foods sold in the stores today are no longer as rich and vibrant as the ones bred in the past. Nor are they as nutrient dense.

What can be done about all this?

Carlo Petrini in the 1980’s began a movement in Italy to combat the “fast food” culture of the West trying to take control of the food culture in his native country. His idea was to reach back into the past to influence the outcome of the future. In the words of Cal Newport,

…Petrini’s two big ideas for developing reform movements – focus on alternatives to what’s wrong and draw those solutions from time-tested traditions – are obviously not restricted to food in any fundamental sense. They can apply to any setting in which a haphazard modernism is conflicting with human experience…

(Slow Productivity, The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, 2024)

Can this idea be spread to other necessities of life?

In a culture where food and medicine have seen rampant changes in both production and distribution, there has been a profound shift in how we view basic necessities of life. Instead of providing for the fundamental support of healthy living, there is a dominant force which requires duties to the “shareholders” before demanding quality of the product for the consumer.

In the 1950s, food shifted from a necessity to a commodity, compromising the taste and nutritional value of their predecessors. If you grow your own garden, you will understand that a tomato purchased in a supermarket does not taste or have the texture of the one you grow in your backyard. It is hard, tasteless, and almost chalky in texture.

The reason is that it is grown in states or countries far away from the distribution facilities to provide availability of the product to consumers year-round. In order for it to endure the travel, it was hybridized or genetically altered to withstand the early picking, boxing, and shipping to the stores with minimal damage to the fruit. Apricots, peaches, pears once picked from local trees were sweet and juicy. Today, they are as bland, tasteless, and hard as the humble tomato.

The solution should logically be to grow your own food or buy locally. But that idea doesn’t seem to have picked up steam in the West as much as in Italy.

What about the medical industry?

That, too, has taken a twist from healing to profit. And it isn’t to our benefit.

In 2018, Goldman Sach’s report entitled, entitled “The Genome Revolution”^L said that curing patients was bad for business. One shot genetic cures were considered unprofitable for business. Such real cures, like one which had an above 90% cure rate for Hepatitis C, have proved that point. By 2025, many of the biotech research companies which have cures for other disorders are struggling because the pool of customers grew too small as the numbers of recipients dwindled from the cure^M.

Just because it sounds good, like specific diets and the recommendations by well-known medical communities, you need to look behind the curtain and find out what monetary gain is behind the scenes. Who is pushing these things and who is benefiting in the long-run? Rarely it is the consumer who gains.

So what’s the bottom line?

Monitor your own health and listen to your body. Don’t trust the judgement of those whose medical education was funded by corporate money. There is little doubt that reasonable and common sense simplicity has far more certainty than those influenced by the continual revenue streams anticipated by those graduating from their sponsored educational programs. Whether a person chooses to eat food emphasizing animal fats and proteins or plant only lifestyle, the choice to be made cannot be restricted to what is being pushed by the scientific and medical community. Every body is different. Every physiology and ethnic background is different. We don’t all react the same way to what is put down as a “standard” in front of us to follow.

And I’ve seen far too many friends and relatives chasing the proverbial rainbow for answers when the simplest and least complex answers lie in front of them. Most of them just end up sicker than they were when they started their journey.

Scientific Discoveries…

Conventional medicine is directed by research in the often pharmaceutical industry-run labs. They have successfully discovered new diseases and disorders and a very rapid rate. But what they have NOT discovered are the methods to treat or cure those problems. Worse, rarely are studies done that figure out how the parts and pieces of the body’s operations interact together. Nor do they take into account the nutritional component such as what foods affect the generation or reduction in the problems within the body. Instead, the focus is on which chemicals can be created to combat the symptoms or squelch the progress of certain diseases without understanding the affect on the body holistically.

But it isn’t a matter of taking drugs to mask the symptoms. It isn’t a matter of waiting decades for another scientific research paper to come out to debunk the last 15 that were in circulation for 50 years. It is learning to listen to the body, what it requires to operate efficiently and cleanly, and eating unadulterated, natural, whole foods in season.

After decades of discovering that, even with all the “research out there”, no one has the answers to the problems of health, and no AI is going to discover anything other than what already exists in its data compilations. The ones who made the most sense were the ones who lived simple lives and ate natural foods, worked in the sun, weren’t exposed to the increasing amounts of environmental stressors such as pollution, forever chemicals, dangerous household cleaners, and didn’t live lives of knowledge-based stress-filled jobs. Most of them had their hands dirty doing physical labor for a living.

Refocus on what truly matters: seek time-tested, natural solutions for health instead of profit-driven, unproven promises from the health food and pharmaceutical industries. Eat and live simply, and listen to your body.

You don’t have to grow old with arthritis and a walker. You don’t have to look like you’re 90 when you are only 65. You don’t have to be overweight or have Type 2 Diabetes. It isn’t even about how long you live – it’s how you live that matters.

Just a generation or two ago, the elderly looked younger than their years, and lived well into their 90’s. The high schoolers looked more mature in character and stature, nor did they endure the many modern problems such as acne and obesity so prevalent today.

Now there is an increasing rise in the rates of cancers, heart attacks, high cholesterol, arthritis, and other once-rare diseases that plague our civilization in our young adults and even children.

It’s time to take back our health and our life from the clutches of the profit makers. The solutions are often simple.

But we have to learn to look back to look forward to our own future.

I do not believe that there is a disease to which human flesh is heir but that somewhere there is growing a weed or an herb or plant that will cure it. Somewhere there is a remedy for the dread plagues of the human race, consumption and cancer. God has made the cure and is waiting for man to discover it…

If our scientists and medical colleges would put forth the same effort in finding the virtues in the “true remedies” as found in nature for the use of the human race, then poisonous drugs and chemicals would be eliminated and sickness would be rare indeed. If they would make use of only these remedies that God has given for the “service of man” it would bring an untold blessing to the world.” ²

Jethro Kloss, Herbologist and Healer, Back To Eden

Footnotes:

1 Hazel Parcells, Nutritionist and Healer, “Healer: the pioneer nutritionist and prophet” by Joseph Dispenza, pages 29-30

2 Jethro Kloss, Herbologist and Healer, Back To Eden

Sources:

A-https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26950145/

B-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667137925000098

C-https://ntkp.substack.com/p/the-decline-of-health-what-went-wrong

D-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389424032072

E-https://sites.psu.edu/soilmicrobiology/projects/glyphosate-impacts-soil-microbes/

F-https://biosafety-info.net/articles/assessment-impacts/ecological/the-impact-of-glyphosate-on-soil-health/

G-https://www.usgs.gov/centers/ohio-kentucky-indiana-water-science-center/science/pesticides

H-https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/09/weedkiller-glyphosate-cdc-study-urine-samples

I-https://nomoreglyphosate.nz/glyphosate-soil-accumulation/

J-https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4395/13/12/3062

K-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969724019247

L-https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patients-a-sustainable-business-model.html

M-https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/curing-patients-killing-biotech-business-lessons-from-denis-2q0af