{"id":6296,"date":"2019-07-04T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T14:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2019-08-13T13:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T13:10:18","slug":"does-big-pharma-hide-cures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthicine.org\/wordpress\/does-big-pharma-hide-cures\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Big Pharma Hide Cures?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Maybe you\u2019ve noticed, maybe not? What\u2019s the latest cure discovered by Big Pharma? What\u2019s the most important disease cured in the last year? The last 5 years? The last 10 years? The last 20 years? We hear lots of news about \u201cpotential new cures<\/em>\u201d, \u201cpromising new treatments<\/em>\u201d, \u201cmoving closer to a cure<\/em>\u201d, as well as \u201cwalk, run, jump, swim, bike\u2026 for a cure<\/em>\u201d. Sometimes the press, in desperate enthusiasm to find a cure, reports a cure. Look closer, read carefully. Most are simply \u201chope for a future cure<\/em>\u201d, because cured is not defined.<\/p>\n

Where are the cures? Where are the cured?<\/h1>\n

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Now that we\u2019re thinking about it\u2026 What was the last important cure discovered by Big Pharma? After the discovery of antibiotics, I can\u2019t think of one since insulin was supposed to \u201ccure\u201d diabetes. We still use insulin. It still doesn\u2019t cure diabetes. It\u2019s a treatment. Many diabetics still get their legs cut off to stop gangrene and still die from other complications.<\/p>\n

So\u2026 Where are all the cures? Surely, in the past 20 or 30 or 40 years, Big Pharma has discovered a cure for something? But no. It\u2019s worse than that.\u00a0Cures are disappearing. Diseases we used to cure easily\u200a\u2014\u200afor most cases\u200a\u2014\u200ahave become incurable.<\/a><\/p>\n

Like depression.<\/h1>\n

Depression used to be cured naturally, within a few months, in most cases. Today, the DSM-5, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says we should work together to \u201cadvance the treatment and eventual cures for these conditions.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>It does not recommend a single cure. It does not contain a general definition of cured, nor a definition specific to any disorder. Today, we treat mental disorders for decades. We never cure. How can this be?<\/p>\n

Cured is not defined for any mental disorder. Not defined. Cured cannot be proven in clinical studies. Clinical studies measure the effectiveness of treatments on signs and symptoms of depression. But no Big Pharma study of depression treatments can find a cure. There is no test for depression cured.\u00a0There are lots of ways to cure depression. But no medicine.<\/a><\/p>\n

What happens when a case of depression is cured?\u00a0The patient gets cured, and the cure gets lost.<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s not just depression.<\/p>\n

A Scientific Definition of Cure<\/a><\/h1>\n

Cured is not scientifically nor medically defined for ANY non-infectious. Not one. Arthritis, Alzheimer\u2019s, bloat, cancer, Chron\u2019s, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, gout, hypertension\u2026 I could go on. I often do. Big Pharma can\u2019t find cures for any of them. Cured is not defined.\u00a0Many medical dictionaries do not contain an entry for the word cure.<\/a>\u00a0Cured cannot be tested. Cannot be proven. So cures can\u2019t be found.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s not Big Pharma\u2019s fault? What about the FDA? But, the FDA doesn\u2019t have a definition of cured either. If Big Pharma submits a cure to the FDA, the submission must define cured. But cured is not defined. What about our medical associations? Not one has a definition of cured for any non-infectious disease.\u00a0None of our medical bureaucracies has a definition of cured.<\/a>\u00a0None are working on a definition of cured.<\/p>\n

Cured is defined for some diseases. But it\u2019s not so bad. It\u2019s worse. Cured is defined for a few infectious diseases, cured by a poisonous medicine that kills the infection. But that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

Can Health Cure?<\/h1>\n

\u201c\u00a0There is no cure for the common cold (influenza, mumps, measles).<\/em>\u00a0\u201c They are cured by health. When we are healthier, we cure these diseases faster. When we are less healthy, we get more colds, more flu, and curing them takes longer.<\/p>\n

But Big Pharma can\u2019t put health in a bottle and patent it. Health isn\u2019t poisonous. It doesn\u2019t fit the current definition of a medicine. It\u2019s against the law to prescribe health for many diseases. Insurance won\u2019t pay for prescriptions of health. Even if they cure.<\/p>\n

As a result, Big Pharma can\u2019t find cures for these diseases either. Big Pharma markets treatments that \u201cwork\u201d, but don\u2019t cure, can\u2019t possibly.<\/p>\n

Big Pharma doesn\u2019t need to hide cures. No one can find them. But now the strange part.<\/p>\n

I’ve Been Cured.<\/h1>\n

We’ve all had a cold and cured it with health. Most of us have had the flu, and cured it with health. I’ve had measles – twice – and mumps once, and cured them with health. Everybody knows diseases are cured.<\/p>\n

But we don’t know it all? Every year many people claim to have cured their diabetes, arthritis, fibromyalgia, even cancer and more. There’s just one problem.<\/p>\n

Cured is not defined for diabetes, arthritis, or cancer, obesity, depression, or scurvy either. These people can’t prove they have been cured. Even when a cure occurs – none can be proven.<\/p>\n

Big Pharma can’t investigate cases of cured, because cured is not defined. No cures can be found to hide.\u00a0There’s nothing to hide.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to define cured. Our medical systems contain many of our most intelligent people. Surely, it can\u2019t take long to define cured. When we define cured, and someone claims to be cured, we can test for a cure. But today, there is no test for cured. Clinical studies measure benefits of \u201ctreatments\u201d statistically. But, without a definition of cured\u200a\u2014\u200awe cannot determine if a successful treatments is moving the illness towards cured, or away.<\/p>\n

A cure isn\u2019t a statistic. Every cure is a single case. Every cure is an anecdote. Big Pharma ignores anecdotes, because it ignores cures, or perhaps it ignores cures, because it ignores anecdotes.<\/p>\n

Cure Defined<\/h1>\n

It\u2019s not hard to define cure. Of course some illnesses are simple, some are complex. Some cures can be simple, others need to be complex. There are three basic types of illness, and three types of cures.<\/a> But conventional medicine, and Big Pharma can\u2019t find cures. Big Pharma doesn\u2019t hide cures, it just ignores them.<\/p>\n

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

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