This is an article that was written by Dr. Eliezer Ben-Joseph and was published in Journal of the American Naturopathic Medical Association, Volume 14 Number 1 April/May, 2010 issue. I thought it may be of interest to anyone that is interested in natural health.

 I think this is a very good article and it fits right in with the RBTI.

 I hope you enjoy this article and in the future I want to present more topics like this to my clients.

I Have Seen It All And
I Have Seen Enough!

By: Dr. Eliezer Ben-Joseph

“GREAT SPIRITS HAVE ALWAYS ENCOUNTERED VIOLENT OPPOSITION, FROM MEDIOCRE MINDS”. Albert Einstein

"If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that much better for our patients and that much worse for the fishes." Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, MD

I have seen the foolishness of the medical profession with their conventional wisdom as it pertains to only disease care. I have seen the hospital feed pork chops, French fries and a glass of milk to a patient with liver cancer and "Jell-O" as a snack and Kool-Aid to drink to a patient with leukemia. I see all of the local grammar schools feed garbage lunches full of sugar, white bread, and fried foods to young kids who then can’t sit still for more than five minutes. I have seen those same children line up later at the school nurse’s office for hyperactivity drugs, and we wonder ‘what’s wrong with those kids’, I have seen enough.

I worked, as a consultant to a group of psychiatrists, who thought it was OK to let a patient go 28 days without a bowel movement and told it was OK and even normal for some people! He was being treated for depression, I looked at those psychiatrists and said, “you people are crazy, anyone not having a bowl movement for 28 days would be depressed”. They told me, “I was anally fixated and the constipation had nothing to do with the depression”. I have seen patients who were told that they have six months to live when they actually lived sixty months. I have seen people recover from serious illness only to have their physician yell, scream and embarrass them for having used natural healing methods to do so. I have seen infants spit up cow milk formula while their mothers were advised not to breast-feed. I have seen better ingredients in dog and cat food than in the average school or hospital lunch. I have seen enough!

One of the most dangerous weapons in the world is the table fork. Don't bother looking in the history books for what has killed the most Americans. Look, instead, at your breakfast, lunch, and dinner table. There's an old saying: "One fourth of what you eat keeps you alive, the other three fourths keep your doctor alive." We eat too much of the wrong things and not enough of the right things. Do you know anyone that eats the government standard of 9 to 11 servings of fruit and vegetables per day? Scientific research has now confirmed that there is rampant nationwide vitamin and mineral deficiencies in all age groups. We spend over one trillion dollars each year on disease care in America and almost nothing on prevention. Is it any wonder we are the fattest nation on earth. I have seen doctors spend 5 minutes with their patients give them a prescription, send them on there way and do it 50 time in a day. Is it any surprise that doctors consistently place among the very highest per capita income levels in the country and the citizens of this country are some of the unhealthiest in the world? I have seen enough!

"And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases." Plato

About 55 thousand U.S. soldiers were killed in the Vietnam War, having faced an enemy armed with machine guns and hand grenades. The horrific slaughter of this war went on for years. Yet, the medical profession kills hundreds of thousands of patients per year just from prescription drugs and unnecessary procedures. That’s enough people to fill 2 to 4 jumbo jets, dying every day. I have seen enough!

During all of the American Wars, in which millions of soldiers died, three times as many soldiers died from infections and disease as from battle. Today, alcohol, tobacco and junk food kill nearly as many Americans in one year as the Wars. Today, we lose more than a million Americans each year to cancer and heart disease. These are staggering statistics. So know that disease is the real enemy and most of the time it is self-induced.

Results are all that matter. Naturopathic and Alternative medicine works. The results from the natural treatment of most illness are accomplished safely, inexpensively, and effectively. We have all been taught that safe inexpensive herbs, vitamins and minerals, cannot possibly be truly effective against "real diseases." We have all been taught to trust and believe in the “doctors’ they know best, it is time to stop this nonsense and to see for yourself what really works.

My work does not involve only taking a prescription. It involves education, description and information. The only thing that counter-acts ignorance is knowledge. We are a free people and it is important for us to be free to decide to utilize any reasonable health care approach that we deem viable. To make an educated decision, we need more education.

Natural healing is not about avoiding doctors. It is about not needing to go to doctors in the first place. To follow a proper lifestyle is to prevent disease. A dentist is not upset when you are cavity-free. A Naturopathic doctor is not upset when you are healthy they are excited, yet the medical system thrives on sickness and disease to continue. The whole idea is to be healthy. The first step must be in the desire to want to be healthy. The old Chinese saying is "When you are sick of sickness, you are no longer sick." That is the start to wellness. Naturopathy is the only profession that teaches the clients to need you less and less.

Do something to improve your health. Each of us is ultimately responsible for our own health and wellness and we need leave nothing unturned in our search for how to have better health. I believe that you get out of your body what you put into it. Your body will respond to your efforts to improve your health. It is up to you and no one else, you are responsible for how you live. The only thing that gets rid of the ignorance about what your body needs and how to live healthfully is knowledge and that takes effort, effort that you must put in.

Each treatment program I utilize in my practice is not exclusively mine. I do not stay up late at night making all this up. Most of the ideas are not original; they are generally not new, either. They are a culmination of all the work of all the early pioneers in the Naturopathic and Alternative health field. This is the foundation upon which I continue to build in my practice. I invite all of you, both practitioners and laypeople, to take advantage of my radio show and my website, www.naturalsolutionsradio.com. I have collected, and continue to collect, the safest and most effective healing approaches that I can find from physicians worldwide. There are now 27,000 articles on all aspects of natural health that have been posted on the site. I hope you find them to be as helpful as they have been for my listening audience, my patients and my family.

The time to start is right now. Another old saying: "If not now, when? If not here, where? If not you, then who?"