Health Quotes & More

Categories: Health

The following pearls of wisdom, statements, and actual health quotes, will help you to better understand my beliefs and my views towards research and established nutritional, medical and dental “facts”.

  • It is really too bad that neither the public, nor most physicians, have access to the actual clinical knowledge & experience of the top health practitioners. The knowledge of what the top practitioners have found to work best in their practices, with their patients, is extremely important BECAUSE –
  • Clinical experience and observe results (also called anecdotal evidence) trump or outweigh published research and beliefs every time.
  • The most important qualities of a good health practitioner are an extremely open mind coupled with an extremely skeptical mind. When either is missing or lacking, their “facts” and “knowledge” are far more likely to be faulty, inadequate, incomplete, or simply wrong.
  • Traditional schooling and education will always comprise the smallest amount of the knowledge base for any exceptional health practitioner. One must continually go outside of the mainstream and test everything you are taught or told as “fact”, in order to learn what actually works and what does not.
  • There is no treatment or drug – Which can overcome or negate – The effects of a poor diet, inadequate nutrition, lack of exercise, and an unhealthy lifestyle. (David Getoff 1998)

To the Medical Profession

And finally, to those in the medical and dental profession who may not agree with some of what I say or do, I offer the following three extremely important quotes along with an educational challenge. Take the time to question your teachers or professors, and look to see what research has actually been done, before you say something that you were taught, but that has never had much to do with the truth.

I will happily direct you to some of the top web sites if you are willing to keep an open mind. You might start with the ATSDR division of the CDC at www.atsdr.cdc.gov. Try searching the word mercury then go to www.ewg.org and with the drop down menu go to the body burden.

Here are the important quotes:

  1. “It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
    -Epictetus (55 AD – 135 AD) Greek born Roman Philosopher
  2. “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know, it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.”
    -Josh Billings

    • The great quote above is incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain in Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth as well as numerous other places all over the web. I checked this quote with the historian at the Mark Twain Institute who told me that quotes are often attributed to the wrong person and that this is just one very good example. It is due to people not checking with the proper authority and simply repeating what they have seen or heard elsewhere.
  3. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”
    -Upton Sinclair

More Quotes of Interest

  • “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.”
    -Dr. Benjamin Rush, Physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence
  • Those who say something cannot be done, should not get in the way of those who are already doing it.
    -Translation of Chinese proverb
  • Any time you take a food that nature or God has given us and alter it, you make it worse. Chickens have skin, eggs have yolks, milk has butter fat and nature made them that way. If you desire health, stop telling Nature and God that they are stupid.
  • A wise healer uses what works, regardless of what any supposed authority may say to the contrary.
  • “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
    -Albert Einstein
  • “It doesn’t make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is – If it disagrees with real-life results, it is wrong. That’s all there is to it.”
    -Richard Feynman Winner Nobel Prize in physics, 1965
  • “Beliefs that are not true, remain untrue regardless of how strong the beliefs are, how many initials the believers have after their names, or how well known or highly respected the believers may be.”
    -David Getoff, 2006
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance –  That principle is contempt, prior to investigation”
Incorrectly attributed to Herbert Spencer
BUT- NOPE– HE NEVER SAID THIS “quotation”
Actually, it was incorrectly re-worded by Reverend William H. Poole but correctly attributed to British Theologian William Paley, on the title page of Poole’s book:  Anglo-Israel or, The British Nation: The Lost Tribes of Israel (1879) way before Spencer was even born.
 

For more information please see:  http://www.anonpress.org/spencer/Survival_of_a_Fitting_Quotation.pdf

I thank one of my students for pointing this out to me in class so that I could correctly attribute this quote, which is incorrectly attributed to Herbert Spencer all over the internet!