No. It works, but we have almost everyone against us. People refuse to believe something this cheap will cure them. And "doctors" refuse to lose their money/business.
I work with alt. medicine, and I tell you:
1. This is CHEAP (well, almost all alternative methods are cheap), these places where they charge you alot are total scam! Don't take them as a reference point for those of us who practice REAL alternative medicine.
And 2. Yes, we can HELP cure cancer... I said help, not totally cure... ie. it is a complement to a real treatment, not a substitute.
There is definitely much confusion and misconceptions surroundiing alternative medicine. Of course there are the zealots that avoid all conventional intervention and on the other end of the spectrum you have the rigidly empirical if-i-dont-understand-it-it-doesn't-exist type of people who claim everyone involved in holistic/alternative/homeopathic medicine is a fraud. The reality is somewhere in between those extremes. There are definitely many snake-oil salesmen, and people out to make a buck by defrauding others. However, there are also many, many practitioners of legitimate forms of treatment/therapy. It's best to become educated as much as possible on different schools of medicine and therapy, a t o seek out knowledgeable experts with a long track record of professionalism and success.
And more to the point, nothing can 'cure' cancer. Modern medicines and radiotherapy only aim to reduce cancerous growths in the body so that you can eek out a few more years, or get back on top of your immune system, depending on how your luck and mental positivity are. To ignore the effect of the mind on the body is folly, but current orthodox cancer treatments take it out of the equation altogether. There is nothing negative about placebo, except that if people realised they didn't need to swallow something to control their bodies they'd be better off in the long run.
So-called alternative therapies aim not to 'fight' battles they can't win, but instead work with the body's own immune system. To batter oneself with radioactivity is a last resort.
What patients and others must understand is that we give ourselves cancer, or at least cancerous growths, as there are damaged (cancerous) cells in everyone at all times, but in healthier people there are less, over which the immune system has control.
Jobs probably has a stressful schedule, and that combined with his anal attitude toward his products and perhaps a poor diet go a long way to explaining his cancer.
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Or, don't bother with alternative medicines at all. If they actually worked, they would just be called "medicines", wouldn't they?
No. It works, but we have almost everyone against us. People refuse to believe something this cheap will cure them. And "doctors" refuse to lose their money/business.
I work with alt. medicine, and I tell you:
1. This is CHEAP (well, almost all alternative methods are cheap), these places where they charge you alot are total scam! Don't take them as a reference point for those of us who practice REAL alternative medicine.
And 2. Yes, we can HELP cure cancer... I said help, not totally cure... ie. it is a complement to a real treatment, not a substitute.
There is definitely much confusion and misconceptions surroundiing alternative medicine. Of course there are the zealots that avoid all conventional intervention and on the other end of the spectrum you have the rigidly empirical if-i-dont-understand-it-it-doesn't-exist type of people who claim everyone involved in holistic/alternative/homeopathic medicine is a fraud.
The reality is somewhere in between those extremes. There are definitely many snake-oil salesmen, and people out to make a buck by defrauding others. However, there are also many, many practitioners of legitimate forms of treatment/therapy.
It's best to become educated as much as possible on different schools of medicine and therapy, a t o seek out knowledgeable experts with a long track record of professionalism and success.
DarkLight,
And more to the point, nothing can 'cure' cancer. Modern medicines and radiotherapy only aim to reduce cancerous growths in the body so that you can eek out a few more years, or get back on top of your immune system, depending on how your luck and mental positivity are. To ignore the effect of the mind on the body is folly, but current orthodox cancer treatments take it out of the equation altogether. There is nothing negative about placebo, except that if people realised they didn't need to swallow something to control their bodies they'd be better off in the long run.
So-called alternative therapies aim not to 'fight' battles they can't win, but instead work with the body's own immune system. To batter oneself with radioactivity is a last resort.
What patients and others must understand is that we give ourselves cancer, or at least cancerous growths, as there are damaged (cancerous) cells in everyone at all times, but in healthier people there are less, over which the immune system has control.
Jobs probably has a stressful schedule, and that combined with his anal attitude toward his products and perhaps a poor diet go a long way to explaining his cancer.
bob: You're right and wrong...
Wrong: It CAN be cured (as in totally cured)
Right: Everything else you said..