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I was forwarded a post titled 'Quantum Medical Update' published in the Townsend Letter. I'll come back and post the link if anyone replies they'd like to see it - after I've made the obligatory 15 posts...

Anyway the article is all about a dietary theory from a naturopathic point of view.

It’s also a perfect example of reducing genius to idiocy. No effort was spared to take an otherwise perfectly comprehensible process and transform it into a literary sequence that does an admirable job of concealing basic errors in thinking and some hideous omissions while making the actual research appear to be beyond casual human comprehension.

The entire process described apparently assumes a normally functioning digestive system free of blockages - an extremely rare condition. Without dealing with stored pus and mucus in the system, no amount of life forces, harmonic energies, polarities, probiotics or any other frivolous non-core issues you care to mention are going to make a profound or lasting difference. Not a single mention was made with regard to bowel movements, regularity and how vital the process of elimination is not only to good health but to the issues author Paul Yanick Phd. was talking about. Without including this in the discussion Yanick's premise collapses like a house of cards. When you read the entire article, you're left with the conviction that the doctors and researchers involved in various initiatives achieved a degree of success without a single shred of understanding why their efforts gave the results they did. This is very common in medical research since the researchers are too often trying to steer their research to prove a predetermined conclusion. Then they doctor the process to make it support their theory. In the end, when they acheive remarkable results, they completely misunderstand why they got those results.

Most people would look at Yanick's information and assume that the person who wrote it actually understood what he was talking about when in fact; he reveals he barely has a grasp of the issue. He understands some of "in" but almost none of "out". It's amazing what you can do when you arm your vocabulary with a little technical jargon, dress it up in a spanky new argument and send it on its way in published form to the multitudes who know even less than the author does. Having the letters Phd. after your name has come to excuse prose that lapses into cloaked nonsense. If cars were built on the principles Yanick espouses, they'd blow up right after you stepped on the gas.

Calling it Quantum Medicine is another beauty. How do simple processes that predate the human race suddenly get elevated to Quantum status? Quantum meaning exactly what in this context? Quantic Harmony? Biological and Zoological Harmony existed before the industrial age but have long since disappeared from the natural world. Nothing Yanick can do or say can bring it back. As for the human body no longer being in symbiosis with nature; I have news for him. Nature is no longer in symbiosis with itself either. Without symbiotic harmony in the natural world, there can be no Quantum Harmony. It's an oxymoron.

The other thing is that there is nothing innate about Naturopathy - another oxymoron. If Naturopathy was innate, we wouldn't need Naturopathics or most of the medical profession. If our health were under the control of our innate Qi or vital life forces, once again we wouldn't need naturopathic intervention. The simple truth is that our health is under control of the conscious mind. That's because it's the conscious mind that makes the decision about what to put in one's mouth or not put it in. Everything after that is a bodily function of chemical, hydrological and electrical teamwork. Luckily for the medical profession, medical researchers, homeopaths and naturopaths everywhere, the conscious mind has only a rudimentary idea of what constitutes healthy food and drink and is easily fooled. Certainly, the subconscious has a say in preferences, but as I said, even preferences are not necessarily based on what's good for the total being. Life on this planet depends on primarily opportunity, not Qi and not reciprocal polarities. Reciprocal polarities are merely part of the physiological mechanism that facilitates life in animate beings and not at all requiring of deep thought or understanding in order for the average individual to enjoy optimum health.

The decision to put or not put something in one's mouth has a direct effect on what if anything comes out the other end. That essential final result - the removal of waste has little to do with polarities or his hilarious description of enzyme research. It has everything to do with that plain old workhorse - dietary fibre or lack thereof. And by dietary fibre, I don't mean the stuff that comes in pill form. There is no good substitute for dietary fibre that is delivered as a living part of the nutritional package - the raw vegetables and fruit consumed.

Reformulating ancient Chinese medicine to deal with the onslaught of modern chemicals is laudable and laughable at the same time and demonstrates a complete failure to understand the nature and limitless variety of the chemicals found in oil age pollution. There is no naturopathic antidote of any description to the benzene family of chemicals of which there are hundreds of thousands of derivatives for just that one chemical. There are hundreds of thousands of other chemicals in play as well; each with their own multitude of derivatives. Every year approximately eighteen hundred new chemicals are invented and introduced to the environment with or without regulatory blessing. Not one of them generally speaking, is good for you or the environment. They are the chief culprits in immunological collapse. They are so dangerous there is no known level of safety. They recombine in the atmosphere, in water and in soil into new unknown substances that disrupt natural processes. They destroy genetic integrity and cell function. Around the world, for decades, many societies, likely including Asian societies, used straight benzene as heating and cooking fuel because it was so cheap and smelled "good". The emissions from all those fires and each and every breath taken has infiltrated the human geonome around the world. Mr. Yanick can blabber on about Qi and reciprocal polarities all he likes but none of that is going to do squat that couldn't be done better and more efficiently by simple old fashioned fasting and a World War against chemical companies. To say that any naturopathic, homeopathic or traditional medical system has a handle on countering this chemical assault is wrong and misleading in the extreme. In fact, it gives a false sense that something is being done to counteract the eco-crimes being perpetrated by oil and chemical companies. In doing so we divert attention away from the perpetrators and delay the decisive action that needs to take place in human society to ban chemicals that destroy the ability of life on earth to exist.

Plenty of people refer to the mystical qualities of Oriental medical practices. The truth is, Oriental people have those practices because they're in such terrible shape on average thanks almost entirely to the historically nutritionally deficient Oriental diet and its reliance on rice. You live there so you know that the Orient is not producing a race of super humans stuffed to the gills with the last word on the nutritional golden path. Most Asians can't afford to eat properly. Africans who don't have enough to eat in many cases have by far some of the healthiest and most genetically vigourous populations left on the planet. They don't have anything like the extensive culture of herbal quackery developed by Asians and especially the Chinese. Yet black people are in far better shape genetically and physically on average, than any other racial group. Being still or generationally recently connected to the earth and living outside the chemical laden wind currents of the worst of the industrial world's chemical output has a lot to do with that. It won't last because African countries are racing to adopt western farming and industrial practices which will ruin the continent of Africa in record time.

The concept of yin and yang is a good one but is one that allows the believer, from a nutritional standpoint, to enter a voyage down an eternal rat hole that shifts the blame for poor nutrition from faulty personal decisions to the food and drink consumed. Orientals are masters of nutritional self deception and this notion fits the western belief system perfectly. Western cultures are continually in a state of self-denial and any nutritional or medical philosophy that comes along that supports that delusion is entirely welcome. Economic sectors are built on nutritional illusion and delusion.

The threat of electromagnetics is real enough, but it would take much more informational artillery and proof to convince me that anything Yanick said would provide lasting or useful protection from the constant barrage of electromagnetic leakages that are becoming so invasive that animals and people are being killed outright on city streets, in their homes and in rural settings.

This article, Quantum Medicine Update would be a perfect subject for the Quackwatch group - a group of doctors who like to expose quackery in others while ignoring their own more insidious brand of quackery.