Today I am thrilled to add a post by Dr. Briggs. His insight is accurate and necessary at the time when media and the news fill our hearts with fear about pretty much everything: economy, health, government, taxes, etc. You name it, they are the forefront shouting about it. But we, especially those of us who believe in God, should not be guided by the emotion of fear—after all, we should know Who is in control…
Enjoy the article.
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Today I had a patient who related how one of their associates was seriously considering not flying due to the flu scare. It's amazing how the media has hyped the flu to the point that people put their lives on hold. Few take the time to figure the fact that the mortality rate for this influenza outbreak is extremely small. When considering the large number of malnourished in this country and those taking immunosuppressive drugs, it's amazing there aren't more deaths.
If you take care of your health, how much more resistant you will be to these diseases. What have we to fear, but fear itself. One of my favorite scriptures is Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. As you see, fear involves bondage. When we live in fear, we live under the bondage of those who instill fear in our lives.
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What motivates you?
Truly successful people are motivated by burning desires that cannot be extinguished by someone else's imposed fears. Isn’t it amazing how our media pedals fear into our society? When moved by fear, success is rare because you're focused on failure. What you meditate on, you ultimately will experience.
The use of scares like swine flu and human papiloma virus, serve to influence a population into blindly accepting vaccines which are unproven, untested, and usually, unsafe. The major fear annually stirred up over the flu stems from the millions that died in the flu pandemic of 1918. Scientists recently found it wasn’t the flu, but secondary streptococcal infections that occurred concurrent with the flu, that caused the exceptionally high mortality rates. Today, we are well able to deal with these secondary infections. This makes the flu, a little more than a nuisance.
The drug Tamiflu which people have been clamoring for, has been banned for children in Japan, and has been reported to have reactions every bit as severe as the very disease it’s being given to prevent. Why is it that Japan has more common sense than we do here in America?
In America, the majority of medicine is directed at symptom control. Rarely is a patient put on medication with the intent of eventually getting that patient free of the drug. This is the tragedy of our failing medical model. Instead of restoring the patient’s health by finding the cause of disease and correcting it, we find ourselves taking drugs to mask symptoms in hopes the problem will eventually go away.
This head in the sand approach adds up to a mountain of financial expense and continued damage to our liver and kidneys. Doesn’t this sound similar to our nation’s financial disease? We don’t want to deal with being more disciplined in our spending, we just want to keep spending.
When I address the primary foundation of disease to my patients, (their diet), I find them to be in one of two classes. Either they’re serious about getting and staying well and are quick to comply, or they just want a pill to make it all go away so they can continue to eat the very foods that have been making them sick.
The most common cause of chronic disease in America today is failure of the digestive system, causing an overloaded liver. This promotes malnutrition and all the diseases that accompany it. Americans are among the most severely malnourished, over-fed people on the face of our planet. The person carrying an additional 50, 100, or 200 pounds is malnourished and over-fed. The best approach to health for such a person is to correct their diet and heal their liver.
When more people die from swine flu vaccine than from swine flu itself, it should be in all the papers. Why isn't it? Wake up America! No one will care for your health better than you will. When it comes down to ethics or making billions on drugs that mask your symptoms, drug companies are concerned with only one thing; Profit!
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Dr John A. Briggs N.D.
20 N.E. Lillich St.
Clatskanie, Oregon 97016
503-728-4732
Enjoy the article.
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Today I had a patient who related how one of their associates was seriously considering not flying due to the flu scare. It's amazing how the media has hyped the flu to the point that people put their lives on hold. Few take the time to figure the fact that the mortality rate for this influenza outbreak is extremely small. When considering the large number of malnourished in this country and those taking immunosuppressive drugs, it's amazing there aren't more deaths.
If you take care of your health, how much more resistant you will be to these diseases. What have we to fear, but fear itself. One of my favorite scriptures is Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. As you see, fear involves bondage. When we live in fear, we live under the bondage of those who instill fear in our lives.
________________________________________
What motivates you?
Truly successful people are motivated by burning desires that cannot be extinguished by someone else's imposed fears. Isn’t it amazing how our media pedals fear into our society? When moved by fear, success is rare because you're focused on failure. What you meditate on, you ultimately will experience.
The use of scares like swine flu and human papiloma virus, serve to influence a population into blindly accepting vaccines which are unproven, untested, and usually, unsafe. The major fear annually stirred up over the flu stems from the millions that died in the flu pandemic of 1918. Scientists recently found it wasn’t the flu, but secondary streptococcal infections that occurred concurrent with the flu, that caused the exceptionally high mortality rates. Today, we are well able to deal with these secondary infections. This makes the flu, a little more than a nuisance.
The drug Tamiflu which people have been clamoring for, has been banned for children in Japan, and has been reported to have reactions every bit as severe as the very disease it’s being given to prevent. Why is it that Japan has more common sense than we do here in America?
In America, the majority of medicine is directed at symptom control. Rarely is a patient put on medication with the intent of eventually getting that patient free of the drug. This is the tragedy of our failing medical model. Instead of restoring the patient’s health by finding the cause of disease and correcting it, we find ourselves taking drugs to mask symptoms in hopes the problem will eventually go away.
This head in the sand approach adds up to a mountain of financial expense and continued damage to our liver and kidneys. Doesn’t this sound similar to our nation’s financial disease? We don’t want to deal with being more disciplined in our spending, we just want to keep spending.
When I address the primary foundation of disease to my patients, (their diet), I find them to be in one of two classes. Either they’re serious about getting and staying well and are quick to comply, or they just want a pill to make it all go away so they can continue to eat the very foods that have been making them sick.
The most common cause of chronic disease in America today is failure of the digestive system, causing an overloaded liver. This promotes malnutrition and all the diseases that accompany it. Americans are among the most severely malnourished, over-fed people on the face of our planet. The person carrying an additional 50, 100, or 200 pounds is malnourished and over-fed. The best approach to health for such a person is to correct their diet and heal their liver.
When more people die from swine flu vaccine than from swine flu itself, it should be in all the papers. Why isn't it? Wake up America! No one will care for your health better than you will. When it comes down to ethics or making billions on drugs that mask your symptoms, drug companies are concerned with only one thing; Profit!
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Dr John A. Briggs N.D.
20 N.E. Lillich St.
Clatskanie, Oregon 97016
503-728-4732
