{"id":3836,"date":"2016-09-14T14:56:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=3836"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T15:29:22","slug":"learning-to-die-with-your-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/learning-to-die-with-your-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Die with Your Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"owls-in-pepper-tree-learntodie\"<\/a>Have you heard the latest ‘medical wisdom’? It’s become a mantra for chronic\u00a0diseases, from arthritis, to diabetes, to depression to dementia. \u00a0“Learn to live with your disease.” But it’s a lie. \u00a0What is really being said is “Accept the fact that you are going to die with your disease.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Learn to die with your disease. There are no cures for chronic\u00a0disease.<\/p>\n

Modern medicine has abandoned cures.<\/a> There are lots of reasons cures are problematic, but it’s not what you think.<\/p>\n

It’s easy to imagine conspiracy theories about drug manufacturers. \u00a0They want to sell us drugs, not cures, because drugs that cure don’t sell much – they work themselves out of business cure. The best selling drugs are those that don’t cure. <\/a>But it’s not so simple.<\/p>\n

The truth can only be found in opposites. What’s the opposite of ‘learn to live (die) with your disease’? \u00a0Cure your disease.\u00a0But modern medicine has a few simple problems. Most medicines don’t cure any disease. Most diseases simply cannot be cured by medicines.<\/a>\u00a0Not only that, ‘cured’ is simply not defined for most illnesses – especially those that are easily and often cured by health, like the common cold, measles, and influenza.<\/p>\n

So,\u00a0most medicines can’t cure, and most diseases can’t be cured by medicines, what’s to be done?\u00a0Promote “learn to live (die) with your disease’<\/em>. Bonus: When patients learn to live (die) with their diseases – there’s a steady cash flow for sick care. \u00a0The medical market is booming. And the proof is easy to find.\u00a0There are organizations raising funds to help you ‘learn to live with’ every disease. Lots of money is being raised. But no one is looking for cures:<\/p>\n

Diabetes.org<\/strong> “Living with Diabetes”. “There is no cure for diabetes, but it can be managed.<\/em>” \u00a0Learn to live (die) with your diabetes.<\/p>\n

Obesity.org<\/strong> “The Obesity Society is committed to improving the lives of those with obesity<\/em>” Learn to live (die) with your obesity.<\/p>\n

Heart.org<\/strong> “We provide science-based treatment guidelines to healthcare professionals to help them provide quality care to their patients.<\/em>” so they can Learn to live (die) with their heart disease.<\/p>\n

Arthritis.org<\/strong> “Living with Arthritis<\/em>”\u00a0Learn to live (die) with your arthritis.<\/p>\n

What would happen if there was a cure for diabetes, obesity, heart disease, arthritis, cancer, and more? \u00a0These organizations would be out of business. \u00a0But as long as we accept and promote\u00a0‘Learn to live (die) with your disease<\/em>.’\u00a0Donations, and business are booming.<\/p>\n

Cancer.org<\/strong> “Mission: The American Cancer Society is dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem.” But farther down the cancer.org web-pages, we see: “When a headline from a major, respected news organization shouts ‘Cure,’ all of us need to stop \u00a0and take a breath.<\/em>” Translation: There is no cure, cure is not defined for cancer, if someone claims a cure, stop and take a deep breath. But we are working to help you: Learn to live (die) with your disease.<\/em><\/p>\n

I could go on… I often do. \u00a0Multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, hypertension, chronic migraines, lung disease, Chron’s, asthma, allergies, and more. Learn to live (die) with your disease.<\/p>\n

You might ask if there is a\u00a0Cure.org, and what is there mission. \u00a0Actually, there is a Cure.org, and a Cure.com. \u00a0 Cure.com<\/strong> sells car insurance. TheCure.com<\/strong> is a rock band.\u00a0\u00a0Cure.org<\/strong> is a religious organization dedicated to ‘Healing the sick <\/em>(children) and proclaiming the kingdom of God<\/em>‘. There is no medical or scientific organization that studies the science of cures. Learn to live with it.<\/p>\n

Take note: Sometimes people actually cure their disease. It’s not hard to find people who have cured their obesity, their arthritis, their Parkinson’s, even their cancer. \u00a0But they can’t prove their disease is cured – because ‘cured’ is not defined for these diseases. It is not possible to prove a cure, only to wait and see, only to ‘Learn to live with<\/em>” the fact that your disease might not be cured.<\/p>\n

What happens to people who cure their disease? They disappear. <\/a>They are simply ignored. Every single cure is a single case, a single event, an anecdote. There is no disease to be attended. \u00a0Nothing to see here. Move along, move along, we’ve got work to be done. There are lots of sick people in need of\u00a0medicines.<\/p>\n

Disease organizations raise a lot of money. But if there are no cures, what can they do with the money raised? \u00a0Invest in cures? Not likely. Medicines simply can’t cure most diseases. Most diseases are cured by health, not by medicine. Cures are hard. We\u00a0can’t put health in a bottle and sell it. \u00a0What’s to be done? Invest in\u00a0new medicines that don’t cure. Make them\u00a0newer, better, faster, stronger. No. They don’t cure, but they\u00a0“don’t cure” better than the old medicines that don’t cure.<\/p>\n

You might give up and accept the fact that you must\u00a0‘learn to live (die) with your medicine’, but that doesn’t actually work either. Every medicine that doesn’t cure actually creates a new side illness. They’re not called illnesses, though, they’re called ‘side effects’. \u00a0A side (illness) effect is simply an illness caused by a medicine.\u00a0There are always ‘newer’ medicines that don’t cure. \u00a0Just when you get comfortable with one medicine, along comes another one that “doesn’t cure<\/em>” even better. And it has fewer documented side (illnesses) effects, because it’s new.<\/p>\n

Maybe you should\u00a0try an ‘alternative medicine’. Sorry. The medical establishment is often telling the truth, just not the whole truth, when they claim “alternative medicines don’t cure<\/em>“, the truth is a bit longer sentence. “Most medicines don’t cure, and most alternative medicines don’t cure either.”<\/p>\n

Alternative medicines might “not cure” better than conventional medicines, because their side (illnesses) effects are less dangerous. But if a disease can’t be cured by a medicine, it can’t be cured by an alternative medicine.<\/p>\n

If we want to cure a chronic disease, we need healthicines, not medicines. Chronic diseases are caused by chronic, unhealthy habits. They can only be cured by healthy habits. A\u00a0healthicine is not a thing you can manufacture and test in clinical studies and put in a bottle. It is the practice of healthing. \u00a0The practice of making yourself healthier. It is the only cure for many diseases – and the only cure for all chronic diseases.<\/p>\n

But today, there are no healthicines. When a healthicine cures a chronic illness, the cure is not noticed. There is no market for healthicines. There isn’t even an approval process for healthicines, only for medicines.<\/p>\n

to your health, tracy<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"reddit\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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