Katarína
25-oct-2011, 11:54
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I think, the medical model is approaching health from a prophylactic stand point at this point. In order to promote healthcare, as it is referred to, even though we understand fully that it is sickness care, in order to promote health care as they refer to it, they've gone to a prophylactic approach, in other words, let’s test you, if you show anything that might maybe think you could be possibly going off in the wrong direction, let's treat it now. And so before you have B12 deficiency, let’s take those B12 supplements, prophylactically,
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, this is how the medical model functions.
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There is another approach to health that’s called the hygiene approach, where we’re not trying to treat or suppress symptoms, but rather, cause health and not participate in the cause of symptoms. Health being the natural state.
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Q: If someone encounters a B12 deficiency, so they are there, then what’s the approach to get out of it?
DG: There are various approaches, the medical model would be to supplement with B12. This is akin to saying, “I’ve got a bucket. It’s supposed to be full of water, but there’s no water in here.” The medical model would say, “Let’s add water.” The hygienic model or the health model would say, “Let’s fill the hole. Once you fill the hole your body will refill the bucket automatically.” What I’ve experienced is people with B12 deficiency are put on a fast. They consume no food of any kind other than pure water, who three to four weeks later test perfectly normal for B12 levels. What this showed is that it was an absorption problem not an exposure problem....
There’s no animal that produces B12. It’s all bacterially produced, and yet we keep hearing myths.
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there is a certain percentage of people who go B12 deficient. Whether you are vegan, vegetarian, raw fooder, or Standard American Diet, that percentage is the same.
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We’re not showing that vegans have higher B12 deficiencies. But we do have to look at the reality that most grain products, especially those that are called “enriched grain products,” cereal, breads, and pasta, and whatnots, are typically enriched with B12. So, although you might be eating Twinkees, it’s enriched with B12, which means you’re taking a B12 supplement every day. What we call the normal level of B12 is based on testing people who are supplementing with B12 at every meal. This is an abnormally high level of B12 compared to the normal population or compared to a population which isn’t supplementing. We also have to understand that there’s always a rebound phenomenon for anything in our body. It’s like an over-steering mechanism that says, “If you’re very high on something, then you come off of it, you’re going to come down before you level out.” So if you’re high on speed you’re going to crash…
Q: Right.
DG: …before you level out. This is true for all drugs and substances in every way. So we see that if you were eating enriched B12 products or products enriched with B12 with every meal and when you totally stop, you may drop down before you level out. B12 testing is not a bad idea, particularly, but I wouldn’t test for B12 until someone was showing me B12 deficiency symptoms. Then I would think, “Well, maybe it’s B12.” If the symptoms are other than those of B12 deficiency, the number of people - 99 out 100 people who I’ve seen who supplement with B12, told me that it made no difference in their life. Well then, they didn’t have a B12 shortage to begin with. They were just supplementing.
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I think, the medical model is approaching health from a prophylactic stand point at this point. In order to promote healthcare, as it is referred to, even though we understand fully that it is sickness care, in order to promote health care as they refer to it, they've gone to a prophylactic approach, in other words, let’s test you, if you show anything that might maybe think you could be possibly going off in the wrong direction, let's treat it now. And so before you have B12 deficiency, let’s take those B12 supplements, prophylactically,
...
, this is how the medical model functions.
...
There is another approach to health that’s called the hygiene approach, where we’re not trying to treat or suppress symptoms, but rather, cause health and not participate in the cause of symptoms. Health being the natural state.
..
Q: If someone encounters a B12 deficiency, so they are there, then what’s the approach to get out of it?
DG: There are various approaches, the medical model would be to supplement with B12. This is akin to saying, “I’ve got a bucket. It’s supposed to be full of water, but there’s no water in here.” The medical model would say, “Let’s add water.” The hygienic model or the health model would say, “Let’s fill the hole. Once you fill the hole your body will refill the bucket automatically.” What I’ve experienced is people with B12 deficiency are put on a fast. They consume no food of any kind other than pure water, who three to four weeks later test perfectly normal for B12 levels. What this showed is that it was an absorption problem not an exposure problem....
There’s no animal that produces B12. It’s all bacterially produced, and yet we keep hearing myths.
...
there is a certain percentage of people who go B12 deficient. Whether you are vegan, vegetarian, raw fooder, or Standard American Diet, that percentage is the same.
...
We’re not showing that vegans have higher B12 deficiencies. But we do have to look at the reality that most grain products, especially those that are called “enriched grain products,” cereal, breads, and pasta, and whatnots, are typically enriched with B12. So, although you might be eating Twinkees, it’s enriched with B12, which means you’re taking a B12 supplement every day. What we call the normal level of B12 is based on testing people who are supplementing with B12 at every meal. This is an abnormally high level of B12 compared to the normal population or compared to a population which isn’t supplementing. We also have to understand that there’s always a rebound phenomenon for anything in our body. It’s like an over-steering mechanism that says, “If you’re very high on something, then you come off of it, you’re going to come down before you level out.” So if you’re high on speed you’re going to crash…
Q: Right.
DG: …before you level out. This is true for all drugs and substances in every way. So we see that if you were eating enriched B12 products or products enriched with B12 with every meal and when you totally stop, you may drop down before you level out. B12 testing is not a bad idea, particularly, but I wouldn’t test for B12 until someone was showing me B12 deficiency symptoms. Then I would think, “Well, maybe it’s B12.” If the symptoms are other than those of B12 deficiency, the number of people - 99 out 100 people who I’ve seen who supplement with B12, told me that it made no difference in their life. Well then, they didn’t have a B12 shortage to begin with. They were just supplementing.