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The focus of this book is how we can get better using practical, effective and safe natural therapies. The effective use of nutritional supplements and natural diet saves money, pain and lives. This title provides information on: Nutritional therapy for more than 80 health conditions; How to improve one's health through changes to diet and lifestyle; Practical tips on juicing and growing a vegetable garden; The latest scientifically validated supplement recommendations.

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Santé et bien-être

Diététique

Santé du quotidien

Santé au quotidien

Alternative Therapies

Health

Fitness

diététique

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	01 décembre 2005
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781591205937
Langue	English

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Fire Your Doctor!
How to Be Independently Healthy
Andrew Saul, Ph.D.
Foreword by Abram Hoffer, M.D.
The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the author. It is not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician or other healthcare provider. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should be done under the direction of a healthcare professional.
The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes the information in this book should be available to the public. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned, the author and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
Basic Health Publications, Inc.
28812 Top of the World Drive
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
949-715-7327
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Saul, Andrew W.
Fire your doctor! : how to be independently healthy / by Andrew W. Saul; foreword by Abram Hoffer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59120-593-7
ISBN-10: 0-59120-138-1
1. Self-care, Health. 2. Health. 3. Medicine, Popular. I. Title.

RA776.95.S28 2005
613—dc22
2005022059
Copyright © 2005 by Andrew W. Saul
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner.
Editor: John Anderson
Copyeditor: Susan Andrews
Typesetter: Gary A. Rosenberg
Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Foreword by Abram Hoffer, M.D.
Preface
Part One—Tools for Healthy Living
A Pep Talk to Get Started
Educating Yourself
A Quick Start to Better Health
Three Steps to Health
Go Meatless
Tips for Healthier Eating
Juice Fasting
Supplements and How to Use Them
Discovering the Nature-Cure
Part Two—Natural Healing Protocols for All-Too-Common Health Problems
Acne
AIDS
Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Arthritis
Behavior and Learning Disorders
Bipolar Disorder (Manic-Depressive Disorder)
Caffeine Addiction
Cancer
Cardiovascular Disease
Chronic Fatigue and Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS)
Chronic Pain
Colitis, Ulcers, and Other Gastrointestinal Problems
Constipation
Coughing
Down Syndrome
Earaches and Ear Infections
Eczema (Atopic Dermatitis)
Emphysema and Chronic Respiratory Diseases
Fever
Fungus Problems
Gallstones
Headaches
Herpes, Cold Sores, HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), & Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
Indigestion
Lupus
Macular Degeneration
Motor Neuron Diseases
Muscular Dystrophy
Osteoporosis
Prostate Problems
Psoriasis
Respiratory Infections
Sinus Congestion
Sore Muscles
Sugar Cravings
Tobacco Addiction
Tooth Care
Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
Weight, Excess
Yeast Infections
Fire Your Doctor! Health Truths
Quick Reference Guide to Additional Health Conditions
Adrenal Exhaustion
Alopecia
Anorexia Nervosa
Bloody Nose
Burns
Conjunctivitis (“Pinkeye”)
Dandruff
Diaper Rash
Drug Addiction
Ear Wax
Epilepsy (in Children)
Esophagitis
Eye Twitches
Fingernail Spots
Food Poisoning
Glaucoma
Gums, Receding
Hepatitis
Loss of Taste and Smell
Lyme Disease
Memory Loss
Menstrual Cycle Irregularity
Molluscum Contagiosum
Mononucleosis
Motion Sickness (Airsickness)
Nausea
Nightmares
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Postpartum Depression
Postsurgical Swelling
Rosacea
Sciatica
Scleroderma
Sleep Disorders

Afterword
Select Bibliography
Internet Resources
Endnotes
About the Author
To my best teachers, the ones who took me seriously.
And to my beloved parents, who really had no choice.
Foreword
Why do we need a book educating patients on how to stay healthy? Is it not the responsibility of the medical profession and other allied health professions to look after all our needs? Are we not all supposed to be medically pious, meaning that we look upon medical advice as the word from all high, as writ in stone? To answer these questions we need only to read the headlines in the daily press, where constant and recurrent cries are heard about the costs of treating the sick, the number of sick, the death rates, the increase in cancer, the resurgence of tuberculosis, the great calamity of HIV/AIDS, the number of Alzheimer’s patients. If the healthcare professions were able to maintain our health, then why are we in such poor shape?
The main problem is that often the best information gathered so painfully by the professions remains hidden within the obscure journals that were rash enough to publish them, and most people have not heard of, nor know how to use, the findings. This is still the hangover from the centuries-old tradition of guilds who maintained their secrets at all costs.
Modern medicine has failed, not in discovery, but in effectively bringing the attention of the people to the discoveries that have been made. The one field that has not failed in its educational effort is the drug industry, which has an enormously successful history of informing the public about the advantages of the drugs that they sell. The other discoveries, those dealing with nutrition, with herbs, with innovative treatment, remain buried in the tons of literature published every year. We need books such as this one by Andrew Saul to fill in the gap, to bring to the public what they need to know to get well and stay well, and to learn this in spite of lack of medical interest.
Even worse are the attempts of the medical profession to suppress valuable information if it does not conform to the conventional viewpoint. It takes at least forty years for major paradigm shifts in medicine, and while the battle of the paradigms rages, patients are deprived of the information that may save their lives. Excessive conservatism is very costly. When my colleagues and I first published our paper on the use of vitamin B 3 for treating schizophrenia in 1957 (Hoffer, A., H. Osmond, M. J. Callbeck, and I. Kahan. “Treatment of Schizophrenia with Nicotinic Acid and Nicotinamide.” Journal of Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology 18 (1957):131–158), it was mostly ignored because the popular paradigm did not consider schizophrenia to be a biochemically based disease. Rather, it was a way of life and therefore could not have any connection with the use of simple vitamins in above-average doses. But as we continued to publish our findings, based upon double-blind studies, orthodox medical resistance actually began to mount. By the 1970s, the bias of the American Psychiatric Association had denounced orthomolecular (nutritional) psychiatry. Their position has been used as a shield to protect psychiatry from the vitamin heretics like myself, who found that patients truly recovered with nutritional treatment.
Orthomolecular medicine involves active participation between people and the professions, for it involves dietary and lifestyle changes, which cannot be done by the doctor alone. There is a keen need to educate the public, and motivate people to read and learn for themselves. Fire Your Doctor! is precisely about this (and certainly not about performing one’s own thoracic surgery, as a hostile critic might choose to mistakenly presuppose). The great orthomolecular educators, like Linus Pauling, have long aimed their work directly at the general reader. They did so because life-saving knowledge is too important to be passed over, and the academics, physicians, and physician associations were not listening. In this tradition, Fire Your Doctor! takes it straight to the people.
In 1945, we were taught to write prescriptions in Latin. Over the past sixty years, things have changed enormously. Now patients have access to whole libraries of material via the Internet. There are so many different information sources that many people get confused. We are flooded with new books for every known disease. Treatments are described in detail and for every known condition. The whole diversity of modern medicine, including the alternatives, is so diverse that it is impossible for lay people to properly assess the value of the treatment described.
The information world has changed from one with hardly any useful information written for the public to one where there is too much, and it is accumulating ever more quickly. We are compelled to turn to people who are knowledgeable and trustworthy, and who are more interested in healing the sick than they are in prestige or money. Such people sift the amazing amount of information, blow away the chaff, and harvest the kernels of truth.
Health-promoting information must include the correcting of misinformation that is so prevalent in the current medical literature. A professor of medicine once started his lectures by advising his students that only half the information he would give them was correct and he was not sure which half it was. I once opened a lecture at Columbia University by telling the students that most of the stuff they were being taught in psychiatry was wrong. The third-year medical students got up and gave me a standing ovation.
Misinformation is used to support, or to attack, a popular belief system. When it came to nutrition, the dietary evils of sugar and chemical food additives were supported by misinformation to counter the facts. When vitamins were found to be very helpful, the establishment quickly mobilized and released tons of misinformation about nonexistent evils of vitamins. Vitamin C was all