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Orthomolecular med. for starved kids in Africa » Squiggles

Posted by KayeBaby on April 3, 2007, at 5:27:47

In reply to Re: Orthomolecular medicine, posted by Squiggles on March 27, 2007, at 14:06:59

Hmmm..I'm thinking that replenishing nutrients, vitamins and minerals to these starving children is an excellent model of orthomolecular medicine.
So many of their ills owe directly to a spectrum of deficiencies brought about by the inability of their bodies to procure and process essential nutrients. Provide them with the right molecule in the right dose and much healing will commence.

By mouth, by vein, via yams and meat deliver the building blocks of life to these children. This is the right medicine for them.

On the other hand you could treat their lethergy with dexedrine, depression with Zoloft, give them antibiotics, anti-virals whatever handfuls of pharmacopia you will, it is unlikely to be of much help until they are fed the molecules that are missing, none of the drugs will be able to save the starving child.

Nutritional medicine is fundamental not futuristic. How long ago the discovery that V-C banished scurvy. Amazing to them then that citrus fruits could heal such poor health.

Rickets, Beri Beri, and more. Brought on by nutritional deficiency. How about Schizophrenia, depression, PMDD, etc. Could nutritional imbalances cause or contribute? It's only wise to at least make sure the body has what it needs before overpowering it with drugs.

Feeding is the simplest form of OM medicine that we practice everyday. Allopathic medicine is emergency medicine.

If you have low iron anemia eat meat, cook in iron skillets and add supplements (iron V-C)

If you cut off your finger a Dr. will staunch the bleeding, provide you with pain killers, infection control and mabe even be able to re-attach it for you. Hooray for Modern Medicine!!!

Our bodies need a dynamic inflow of nutrients for optimal health. Which nutrients and in what amout varies considerably. Using tests, observations and trials OM medicine attempts to give a body what it need to do it's job properly. When these needs have been addressed we can then see what illness survives a nutritionally balanced body to be treated further with modern therapies and drugs.

Squiggles,
I was unaware that we were engaged in a debate. I thought we were sharing info and I was trying to offer encouragement to you as you expressed an interest is something that I have been immersed in that has provided me with remarkable benefit. Thats all.

I have respect for your position. I have had an aversion to particular methods and meds before and I honored that in myself. I didn't have to have a concrete reason. Inner wisdom. I trust it.

Peace,
Kaye
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> And one more thing -- with one and a half million kids starving in Africa, i think a meal with water, approximating the average nutritional needs, would be scientifically acceptable to them, thank you very much -- you can go to Oxfam.org for that. The orthomolecular research is for the future benefit of mankind - very future.
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> Squiggles


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