Excerpts From Dead Doctors Don't Lie

To give you a taste of the wealth of information in the book, Dead Doctors Don't Lie, I've taken a few excerpts and posted them here:

Diseases and Symptoms of Chromium Deficiency

• Low Blood Sugar
• Prediabetes
• Diabetes (adult onset, Type II)
• Hyperinsulinemia
• Hyperactivity
• Learning disabilities
• ADD/ADHD
• Hyperirritability
• Depression
• Manic depression
• Bi-polar disease
• Anxiety attacks
• Panic attacks
• Dr. Jekyll/Mr.Hyde rages – “Bad seeds”
• Impaired growth
• Peripheral neuropathy
• Negative nitrogen balance – protein loss
• Elevated blood triglycerides
• Elevated blood cholesterol
• Coronary blood vessel disease
• Aortic cholesterol plaque
• Infertility
• Decreased sperm count
• Shortened life span

Copper Deficiency Symptoms and Diseases

• White, grey, and silver hair
• Dry brittle hair (“steely wool” in sheep)
• Ptosis (sagging tissue – eyelids, “crows feet,” skin, breasts, stomach, etc.
• Hernias (congenital and acquired)
• Varicose veins (including hemorrhoids)
• Spider veins
• Aneuysms (cerebral artery, coronary artery, and large artery blowouts)
• Kawasaki disease (congenital aneurysms with streptococcal infection)
• Anemia (especially common in high milk and vegan diets)
• Hypo and Hyperthyroid dysfunction
• Arthritis (especially where bone growth plates are involved)
• Ruptured vertebral discs
• Liver cirrhosis
• Violent behavior, blind rage, explosive outbursts, and “criminal behavior”
• Learning disabilities
• Cerebral palsy and hypoplasia of the cerebellum (congenital ataxia in sheep)
• High blood cholesterol
• Iron storage disease (hemosiderosis)
• Reduced carbohydrate tolerance
• Neutropenia (low neutrophil count)

Clinical Diseases Associated with Vanadium Deficiency

• Slow growth
• Increased infant mortality
• Infertility
• Elevated cholesterol
• Elevated triglycerides
• Hypoglycemia
• Hyperinsulinemia
• Narcolepsy
• Prediabetes
• Diabetes
• ADD, ADHD
• Depression
• Manic depression, Bi-polar disease
• Tourette’s syndrome
• Cardiovascular disease
• Obesity

 Who needs to know this stuff?

 

The Trap of Conventional Thinking

A malady, from which we all suffer, is being stuck inside the box - and science and technology are no exceptions.  If contemporary cosmological thought says, "The universe is made of omelets" then, as an astronomer, you design instruments to look for traces of an intergalactic egg.  And if you don't find any, no problem... it's due to instrument failure.

Somebody once approached a philosopher and said, "What a bunch of morons people must have been a thousand years ago, who looked up at the sunrise and thought that what they were seeing up there was the sun going around the earth",  to which the philosopher replied, "Yeah, yeah, but what would it look like if the sun were indeed going around the earth?"

The point being, of course, is that it would look exactly the same.  What he was saying was that in any circumstance - despite any and all evidence - you see only what your preconceived paradigm TELLS you you're seeing.  In order to change your mind about ANYTHING, you first have to break out of the box of conventional paradigms.  Which is to say, in order to think differently... you have to think differently.

Whether it's taking care of your health, inventing something new, or following the Lord Jesus Christ, unless you break with convention, all you'll get is what everyone else has gotten.  History is LOADED with examples of people who changed their paradigm and revolutionized the world - Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Jesus of Nazareth, the Apostle Paul, Thomas Edison, Dr. Joel Wallach and the list goes on.  The saying may be trite but it's true: "If you keep on doing what you're doing you're going to keep on getting what you've been getting."

How do we go where no man has gone before, if no man has ever gone there before?  Jesus gave us the keys of the kingdom of heaven and so we have to look to His teaching for guidance.  He said, "Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be which go in thereat.  But strait is the gate and narrow the way that leadeth unto life and FEW there be that find it."  The road to success, in any endeavor, is the "road less traveled by".

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost

The only way to have a new paradigm, in my opinion, is to get it from above.  It takes prayer and meditation and trust in God to lead us to that new place - that undiscovered country.  This requires that we take ourselves off the throne and submit to the One who created us - to give Him the glory and honor that He rightfully deserves as the Creator.  We glorify Him for imparting to us the necessary wisdom sufficient to overcome the trap of conventional thinking.

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. - Proverbs 8:12

(Rob's Notes - 

I would be remiss by not crediting James Burke - brilliant educator, science historian, and producer of such educational programming as Connections and The Day The Universe Changed.  I lifted (almost word for word) his speech from the first show in his series, The Day The Universe Changed.  The first three paragraphs are largely his words.)

Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is defined by Dictionary.com as follows:

Hermeneutics - noun, (used with a singular verb)

1.The science of interpretation, especially of the Scriptures.

2. the branch of theology that deals with the principles of Biblical exegesis

This blog post will be useful in "rightly dividing the word of truth" (see 2 Tim. 2:15).

1. Let the bible interpret the bible
2. Let clear passages interpret unclear passages
3. Speak where the bible speaks and where the bible is silent, keep silent
4. Consider who is speaking and to whom he is speaking
5. Context is king (Be very careful with this one)

 If you maintain this discipline while reading and studying the bible, you will avoid the myriad pitfalls of denominations and have the best understanding of who God is and what He wants.

The Head and The Body

In the bible, when you read about the head and the body, it's important to understand that this is the language of marriage.  Head and body describes the relationship between husband and wife.

Ephesians 5:23-33 -  For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.
²⁴ Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
²⁶ That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
²⁷ That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
²⁸ So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
²⁹ For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:
³⁰ For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
³¹ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
³² This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
³³ Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

If you think about it, a disciple to a teacher (rabbi) is described in largely the same way.  A disciple listens to his teacher, accepts what he teaches or asks questions to clarify.  A disciple doesn't assume he knows more than the teacher - although there are moments when logic needs to be worked out.  We see this interaction between Jesus and His disciples.  They asked questions but at no time did they ever presume to know more than their rabbi.

One thing to keep in mind is that it is NOT a peer-to-peer relationship.  As a Christian, I am of the body of Christ and as such, subject to Him and His teaching.  I'm not equal to Him.  My opinion is not called for nor is it pertinent.

In our culture, since marriages are not arranged beforehand, we take time to "get to know" one another.  This is the time to establish whether the wife can be the body (disciple) of her husband and whether the husband is qualified to be the head (rabbi) of his wife.  This doesn't take too long to figure out but it does take time.

Compatibility, therefore, is determined by whether the Head / Body relationship can work.  Does the rabbi seem to know what he's talking about?  In other words, can he lead?  Has he done his homework?  If not then it's probably not a good idea to hitch your wagon to this rabbi.  Compatibility doesn't depend (so much) on The Five Love Languages.  Those things are nice but they're incidental.

Notice, that this has nothing to do with money or who has the "better job".  Jesus was an itinerant preacher who had no visible means of support yet He led (and continues to lead) people.  It has nothing to do with "looks".  How good looking the teacher / student are is irrelevant.

Also, notice that, in a marriage relationship, the man is the Head and the woman is the Body.  In the above text, the apostle quotes from Genesis chapter 2, which details how and why God made woman from man (Adam).

This is a topic with legs.  Since these things are true, our entire culture must be re-examined, as none of these biblical "norms" are at all present in our society today.  And when I look at the relationships I've had, I can see how this Head /Body (rabbi / disciple) paradigm was never achieved (nor was it even the goal).