Comments on: ‘Cures’ of the past; implications for the present

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:12:16 +0000

Another example of medical “science” gone terribly wrong:

“Thirty years after doctors stopped performing lobotomies to treat mental illness, epilepsy and even chronic headaches, relatives of patients who suffered after undergoing the procedure want the Nobel Prize given to its inventor revoked.”

http://www.livescience.com/health/ap_050714_lobotomy.html

I wonder if the doctors of the time ever considered a nutritional alternative to jamming an ice pick in their patients’ skull.

I don’t know if they did consider such an alternative, but they should have.

Cheers--

MRE

By: Texte » Kristina Amelong - Ten Days To Optimal Health

Texte » Kristina Amelong - Ten Days To Optimal Health — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:02:01 +0000

[...] eben dieser Belegbarkeit. Was davon zu halten ist, hat Dr. Michael Eades in seinem Post über Cures of the Past sehr eindrucksvoll demonstriert, besonders erinnerlich ist mir aus den Kommentareen dazu dieser [...]

By: Mark Munday

Mark Munday — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:33:58 +0000

Dr Mike,

Following on from your comments about cancer, IPT and Coley’s Toxins, what would you do if discovered that you had a malignant tumour that needed to be dealt with quickly? Would you go conventional chemo/radiation therapy route, or would you try other stuff first?

Mark

Hi Mark–

If would depend on the type of cancer. But, if I had one that would respond to IPT I would do that in a heart beat, especially if I could add a few little tweaks of my own.

Best–

MRE

By: WereBear

WereBear — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:27:39 +0000

A possible factor in this particular obsession was the deplorable state of turn of the century bathrooms. I once found a health manual in my grandmother’s attic which went on for pages about ladies getting constipation from their reluctance to visit the outhouses of the time. A chamber pot was recommended.

Hmmm. When I was growing up I spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ house on a small farm in southwestern Missouri. They had no indoor plumbing and had a pretty deplorable outhouse that was down by the hog pen. I don’t remember it ever slowing them down, and I don’t recall having a problem myself.

Cheers–

MRE

By: James Hickman

James Hickman — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:01:17 +0000

Mike
Bravo. I love your writing.
James

Thanks Amigo. When and where is our next outing?

By: athelstan

athelstan — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:55:53 +0000

Simply viewing the �Cascade� device itself with the prominent upward facing �connection� is an effective lesson in anatomy for those possibly misled by the commonly-used term �rear end�.

A very effective lesson.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Glenice S

Glenice S — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:59:11 +0000

Hi Dr. Eades,

Thank you that was such an interesting piece.

I found this just now whilst browsing and I know it is rather off-topic but you could almost be forgiven for thinking this happened in another universe and time, the stupidity of it all. Have you ever heard of this “biliary pancreatic diversion”. I’ve heard of obesity surgery but this seems to take the cake!

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22461098-5013404,00.html

Glenice

Hi Glenice–

It does take the cake. I wouldn’t let anyone I know come anywhere near this kind of surgery.

Cheers–

MRE

By: David LaCivita

David LaCivita — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:29:43 +0000

Great post Dr. Mike! I could have done with out the visuals but still a great post. It reminds of a show on TLC, The Truth About Food I think it was called. It leaned heavily toward a high fiber diet, at least in the 1 episode I tolerated. In part of this show they followed 2 cross country truck drivers who mostly at food out of cans or at truck stops. They each swallowed tiny transmitters to see how long it took for food to get from 1 end to the other. They were then put on a high fiber vegetarian diet for a week and then swallowed transmitters again (I am assuming different transmitters then the first time). The transit times were cut in half on the high fiber vegetarian diet and the implication was that shorter transit times are healthier (or “more healthful?”). Obviously their original diet was not a healthful one but can a long or short gut transit time mean anything useful?

Dave

Hi Dave–

Sorry about the picture. MD told me not to post it, but I said no one would mind. So far now I’ve gotten two people who minded. I guess she was right.

Carbs do indeed have a faster transit time through the gut, a fact I’ll never forget because screwing it up on a test cost me an ‘A’ in physiology in medical school. I remember the question vividly. It was a true/false question and it was: Carbohydrates decrease gastric transit time. True or False? I knew that carbohydrates went through faster, so I focused on the word ‘decreased,’ which in my mind meant slower, so I marked ‘False.’ The answer is, of course, True because a decreased transit time means it takes less time to go through, making carbs go through faster. Which I did know, but got wrong nevertheless. I was one point away from the cut line between the As and the Bs. Had I not misread that question I would have had an A.

I posted on this issue a while back. The GI tract actually has a negative reaction to the damage carbs and fiber cause. I suspect the rapid trip through is the gut saying ‘get this stuff outta here quick.’

Cheers–

MRE

By: Esther

Esther — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:37:26 +0000

Hubby has weathered many a colonoscopy because of his ulcerative colitis and each time we are given a set of pictures of his pretty pink innards to keep. Should anyone try to tell me that colons are crusted with crap, I’m going to whip those babies out to show them.

Back in my library days, I processed an interlibrary-loan request for a rather fascinating book that some guy had written, covering the toxic bowel in lurid detail. He didn’t stop at the crusted colon, though. He also held forth quite extensively about all the parasites and worms that just about all of us are harboring in our guts. In fact, he recommended that a strainer be placed in the toilet so that the poop could be caught and examined in great detail. Evidently he did so on a regular basis. He was also a big advocate of cleansing the bowl using bentonite powder.

The only enema I ever had was when I was in the hospital to get my tonsils out. I was six and quite objected to the whole thing, the nurses had to chase me around and hold me down to administer it. Looking back, I wasn’t very cooperative at all for anything they wanted to do. They also had a devil of a time getting a urine sample from me.

Please bear in mind that some of us read your blog at work. That picture isn’t what I’d call “work-place friendly.” I’d have loved to have been the fly on the wall, though, when MD was trying to convince you to leave it off.

Oh, and I have to wonder, just exactly what did the happy couple think when they opened up their wedding gift and found the Cascade? Imagine writing that thank you note.

Hi Esther–

Many, many things have been left out of this blog (probably for the best) thanks to MD’s censorship. In this case, I figured, what the heck, it is a post about enemas with a special piece of equipment and I do have a photo of it in use, so… If you really want to see how benign that photo really is, click on Google images and put in the word ‘enema.’ That’s how I found the photo. I’m aware that there are a lot of weird people out there, but sometimes it takes looking through a bunch of photos like those to realize just how many and just how weird. I have a copy of Tyrrell’s book The Royal Road to Health, but, unfortunately, it contains no pictures of the Cascade in use.

As to the Cascade as a wedding present…I hope it contained two tips.

Cheers–

MRE

By: Travis T

Travis T — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:08:48 +0000

Comment about “the picture” at least it was a before picture and not an after. That would have really stunk. pun intended
Happy Friday

Thanks for the potty humor.

Cheers–

MRE