Proof is crucial when people go around claiming healing from serious diseases, people have an obligation to supply proof

In a message dated 5/23/05 7:15:47 PM, SS writes:

Hi, Rhio:

A few years ago a woman named Ann Thompson, who had hypo-thyroidism, wrote to you saying she was able to cut her medication in half after just 2 months on a raw-food diet.

I've got the opposite health condition, HYPER-thyroidism, and I've been eating 100% raw for a little over a month. I was doing fine and saw a few improvements. Then, all of a sudden two people close to me who eat the SAD diet put fear and worry in me. I became anxious and despairing that the diet will work for me. Plus, I keep trying to go off my medication and I simply can't do that right now; I become very sick when I do.

My question is, do you know anyone else personally that has had hyper-thyroidism who healed it through a raw diet? (Igor Boutenko, of Raw Family, is one, but the book has limited information on what he experienced, and as far as I know he never went to a doctor to have his thyroid levels medically verified.)

Also, have you heard from Ann Thompson lately? Her letter to you is on your website under "hypo-thyroidism."

Forgive me for being skeptical, but I do think proof is crucial when people go around claiming healing from serious diseases. People also have an obligation to supply proof. Just "feeling" you're healed isn't enough.

Thanks,

SS
Houston, Texas

Dear SS,

I promote the raw food diet and lifestyle as Nature's way to stay youthful and healthy. Oftentimes by following along this path, many former disease conditions either improve substantially or fall away altogether.

I am not a practitioner of any kind, so your question really should be directed to a practitioner. Please accept the following only as an exchange of ideas and information.

Ann Thompson has not kept in touch with me, and I did not solicit her letter in any way. It was spontaneously shared because of my challenge at the lecture that I gave.

I don't feel that individual people who have benefited from the diet have any obligation to supply proof. They have made the lifestyle work for them and God bless them. That doesn't mean that they are then obligated to even tell anyone about it, because

1) for the most part other people are not really interested in listening unless or until they get into trouble with their health themselves, and

2) When they do tell their story, many times they are met with resistance, doubt and "skepticism", and

3) They may not be inclined to make "spreading the information" their life's work as some of us have.

4) Some people who have spread the information (doctor verified) about their healing have been prosecuted. Check out the case of Jason Vale who healed himself of cancer by eating apricot kernels. He was sentenced to prison for selling apricot kernels and trying to help people by telling his story. I believe his case is on appeal.

5) Why would an individual have an "obligation" as you say to prove anything to you? Don't you think the allopathic doctors should supply some proof about how they are healing people? But they never do, because they do not heal today. They just "manage" your disease by keeping you on drugs forever. And if you think that Allopathic doctors heal people, just check out the deplorable statistics from the Centers for Disease Control.

No, I do not know anyone personally who has reversed this condition except for Igor, or at least I don't recall anyone offhand.

Igor Boutenko is off medications, and never had another operation. He and his wife Victoria have been thoroughly tested by Dr. Luigi Fontana at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who did a recent study comparing 18 raw food enthusiasts against 18 people on the standard American diet (SAD).

I feel that you do not really understand the raw diet fully and have let your well-meaning friends shake your resolve to continue, even though you say you were seeing "a few improvements." A month of raw eating does not undo a lifetime of SAD. And it is not a reasonable expectation. Each person's body is very individual and will heal on different timetables according to their own body's pace and wisdom. Nature's foods and systems are indeed miraculous but it does take time. If you would have more faith to continue and then find a practitioner that could slowly wean you off the medications or at least reduce them as you improve, that is the wisest way to proceed.

I do understand your skepticism... it starts with what we learn in school and continues with massive media programming... but I do not concur with it. The scientific information for the validity of the raw food diet is out there, you just have to dig through the research to find it. Much research these days is funded by big pharmaceutical companies which look to discredit natural systems of medicine or healing, so I would look for truly independent research in the area of biology or microbiology. Somewhere to start is with the work of Antoine Bechamp, Claude Bernard and Gunther Enderlein who discovered our true biology which is based on pleomorphism, instead of monomorphism (such as Pasteur's erroneous germ theory of disease). Disease is caused from within... not without.

However, that said, the functioning of our thyroids can be affected by forces from without, such as radiation leaks from microwave ovens, nuclear power plants, airplane flights, pesticides, chemicals and medical tests which are lethal such as mammography and others. All of us are at risk of developing thyroid problems from these technologies. The raw food diet with all its nutrient density, of course, would be protective, especially some sea vegetables which supply iodine which protects the thyroid from radioactive forms of iodine.

To get more information on the thyroid, go to: www.mercola.com (Dr. Mercola has a lot of articles on his site)
Also, www.wilsonsthyroidsyndrome.com (this site supplies herbal supports for thyroid functioning as well as some doctor-prescribed alternatives to the common forms of thyroid medication, which are too harsh.) Also, you could subscribe to the Hippocrates Health Institute's (West Palm Beach) newsletter which comes out a few times a year. In it there are numerous testimonials from people who have healed all kinds of conditions. This is a form of evidence-based studies, meaning that if you have a certain number of people who all heal up after following a healthier lifestyle then for most people, that would be proof that a = b.

At the Hippocrates Health Institute, the director Brian Clement says, in his lectures, that there are a certain small percentage of people that do not get healed because their mind set prevents it. One of the laws of life that I have learned is that: In order to see, you have to believe. Unfortunately, most people have it backwards - they think they have to see in order to believe. This latter is the scientific way. However, we are not children born of science and technology, but children born of Nature.

I wish for people to reconnect with the wisdom that is within and trust it. Nature did not give us these magnificent bodies so that we would be sickly.

Wishing you much success in your quest for renewed health,

Rhio

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