Is There a Cure for Autoimmune Disease? by Dr. Mark Hyman

[JLH]

http://drhyman.com/is-there-a-cure-for- ... ease-2435/

[Kari]

Joan - thank you so much for finding and posting that article - incredibly powerful and pretty much sums up the sentiment on this board!!! Everyone here should take the time to read it - Dr. Hyman would be very pleased with the PP - hope there are many more MD's like him out there fighting the cause.

Kari

[starfire]

Yes, that was very interesting. Thanks.

Love, Shirley

[mbeezie]

Thanks Joan!

Mary Beth

[JLH]

MB, guess what the dietician charged. Maybe , I posted this previously. She did talk to me for an hour and a half. Maybe you should post it for the newbies if it isn't too late........

[tex]

Joan,

Great article. Many thanks.

IMO, the following quotes pretty well sum up the issues here:

I just lectured at the Institute for Functional Medicine’s basic training course for physicians. Even though the course is expensive—because unlike most other continuing medical education pharmaceutical companies do not support it—this conference was sold out. There were practitioners from 27 countries, and 24 faculty members from medical schools.

This is the mission of the Institute for Functional Medicine, but it needs help because it has no funding from the usual sources: government and pharma.

The red emphasis is mine, of course. Not only is Big Pharma not willing to support such programs, (since if that attitude catches on, it is bound to not only cut into their revenue, but it could virtually bring their sales down to a tiny fraction of what they are now, as the years pass, and people increasingly realize that food is better, and much cheaper, than drugs), but the second quote illustrates how closely government and Big Pharma work together - they are pretty much in bed together, on this issue, along with many of the "upper echelon" in the medical community.

It's extremely gratifying to see that they had such good attendance at the training course, but I'm guessing that virtually all of the doctors who attended, are considered by the mainstream medical community to be "rebels". They definitely have their work cut out for them, if they are to get mainstream medicine to come over to their way of thinking. I certainly hope that they can convert mainstream doctors, but I'm not holding my breath, because as a group, doctors tend to be very "protective" of their perceived domain, and they tend to be extremely resistant to major changes in their thinking. As Mr. Rogers would say, can you say, "hard-headed"?

Awesome article - thanks for posting it. And Dr. Hyman is quite correct, of course - many mainstream doctors tend to ignore case studies, these days. They're addicted to being spoon fed, (with a golden spoon), by the pharmaceutical industry.

Tex

[hoosier1]

Joan,

Great article!!! Very encouraging.

From reading this, I guess now I am going to cut sugar too. Though lately, I really don't eat very much of it to begin with.

I assume natural sugars are OK?

Rich

[JLH]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-h ... 79089.html

[wonderwoman]

Joan, thanks for posting. It was a great article. I just subscribed to his news letter.

[ant]

I agree!

best, ant

[MaggieRedwings]

Thanks for the article Joan.

I printed it down and will read it when I get a break here at work.

Love, Maggie