Healthcare Freedom Revolution: Exposing the Lies, Deceit and Greed of the Medical Profession

Healthcare Freedom Revolution

Exposing the Lies, Deceit and Greed

of the Medical Profession

Michelle M. Kmiec, DC

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Acknowledgements

 I would like to thank a few people without whom this book would never have been possible.

 A special thanks to Elsa Cordero for all her time, effort, patience and sacrifice. Without her, the manifestation of this book could never have been possible. 

 And to my parents, Lorraine and David Kmiec who instilled in me the constant need to question, explore, and to never settle. Because of them, I constantly live outside the box— and I love it!

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Acknowledgements

Mandatory Disclaimer by Law

Preface

Why we need a Healthcare Freedom Revolution

Introduction

Healthcare shouldn't be a Guessing Game

Statistics Prove Our Current System Isn't Working

Be Knowledgeable about All Your Healthcare Choices!

Chapter One

Healthcare: Why so Controversial?

U.S. Extension of Life: An Illusion?

Paradoxical Search for the Cure: Isn’t it at least worth a Peek?

Chapter Two

The Meaning of Science

Truth or Belief?

Real science or Pseudo science?

Dogma & Misinformation: A Fatal Mixture in Healthcare

Really? Doctor Knows Best?

Chapter Three

Modern Medicine: Illusion of Health

Imbalanced Nature

What is a Physician?

Arrogance of Modern Medicine

Only U.S. Research Matters?

Prescription Drug Nation: United States of America

Why is the USA Resistant to Quality of Life?

Genetic or Lifestyletic

Emotional Stress: Modern way of Life

Chapter Four

Natural Healthcare: Truth Uncovered

Subclinical Vitamin Deficiencies: Alive & Well in USA!

Why are Subclinical Deficiencies Ignored by Modern Medicine?

Discover the Truth of Supplements & Nutrition

Vitamins: Why the Controversy?

The RDA: Simply NOT Enough!

Labeling of Vitamins: Milligram (mg) vs. International Unit (IU)

Potency of Supplements

Chapter Five

Meet Vitamin A

The Arctic Endeavor!

Vitamin A: The Debate Continues

Why do you need Vitamin A?

Beta-carotene vs. Retinol

Conditions Related to Vitamin A Deficiency

Meet Vitamin D

The Toxic Vitamin that’s NOT Toxic!

Vitamin D2 vs. Vitamin D3

The Truth Behind Sunscreens

Why do you need Vitamin D?

Conditions Related to Vitamin D Deficiency

Meet Vitamin E

Vitamin E & Strokes

Vitamin E vs. Coumadin

Why do you need Vitamin E?

Conditions Related to Vitamin E Deficiency

Meet Vitamin K

Why Do You Need Vitamin K?

Conditions Related to Vitamin K Deficiency

Chapter Six

Meet the Entire B Vitamin Family

Meet Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)

Disrespected Thiamine

Thiamine Deficiency: Disease Factor

Congestive Heart Failure & Lactic Acidosis: Medical Malpractice!

Why do you need Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)?

Conditions Related to Thiamine Deficiency

Meet Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)

Parkinson's: Possible Link to Riboflavin Deficiency

Riboflavin: Migraine Solution

Chronic Conjunctivitis and Riboflavin Deficiency

Why do you need Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)?

Conditions Related to Riboflavin Deficiency

Meet Vitamin B3 (Niacin)

Niacin and Cholesterol

Niacin & Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus

Niacin and Multiple Sclerosis

The Niacin Flush

Niacin and Detox

Why do you need Vitamin B3 (Niacin)?

Conditions Related to Niacin Deficiency

Meet Choline (Vitamin B4)

Choline: Too Crucial to Ignore

Why do you need Choline?

Conditions Related to Choline Deficiency

Meet Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid)

Pantothenic Acid: The Stress Vitamin

Pantothenic Acid Depletion Due to Insecticides

Why do you need Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid)?

Conditions Related to Pantothenic Acid deficiency

Meet Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)

Vitamin B6: A Drug?

Why do you need Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine)?

Conditions Related to Pyridoxine Deficiency?

Meet Biotin (Vitamin B7)

Biotin Deficiency & Type 2 Diabetes

Why do you need Vitamin B7 (Biotin)?

Conditions Related to Biotin Deficiency

Meet Inositol (Vitamin B8)

Inositol Deficiency: Linked to Depression

Why do you need Inositol (Vitamin B8)?

Conditions Related to Inositol Deficiency

Meet Folic Acid (Vitamin B9)

Folic Acid: More Than a Prenatal Vitamin!

Folic Acid & Cardiovascular Disease

Why do you need Folic Acid (Vitamin B9)?

Conditions Related to Folic Acid (Vitamin B9) Deficiency

Meet PABA (Vitamin B10)

The Lost Fertility Vitamin

Why do you need PABA?

Conditions that may be Related to PABA Deficiency

Meet Vitamins B11 & B14

Vital but Non-Essential?

Why do you need Vitamin B11?

Conditions Thought to be Related to Vitamin B11 Deficiency?

Why do you need Vitamin B14?

Conditions Thought to be Related to Vitamin B14 Deficiency?

Meet Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)

What’s Intrinsic Factor & Why is it Necessary?

Cyanocobalamin vs. Methylcobalamin

Vitamin B12 Deficiency: Epidemic

Multiple Sclerosis and Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Why do you need Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)?

Conditions Related to Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Meet Vitamin B13 (Orotic Acid)

Vitamin B13 (Orotic Acid) and the Irony

Why do you need Vitamin B13 (Orotic Acid)?

Conditions Related to Vitamin B13 Deficiency

Other Uses of Orotic Acid

Meet Vitamin B15 (Pangamic acid)

Vitamin B15 is Unsafe: The FDA Contradiction

Cancer and the Real Prevention

Why do you need Vitamin B15 (Pangamic acid)?

Conditions Related to Vitamin B15 Deficiency

Meet Vitamin B17 (Laetrile)

Illicit Vitamin B17: No Profits, No Cure for Cancer!

NO to Dangerous Apricot Seeds: Yes to Safer Chemotherapy!

Laetrile and Flawed Logic

What Really Cures, Really Prevents

Conditions Related to Vitamin B17 Deficiency

Meet Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid)

Vitamin C and Half-Life

Can Vitamin C cause Kidney Stones?

Why do you need Vitamin C?

Conditions Related to Vitamin C Deficiency

Chapter Seven

CODEX: Mission to Ban Supplements

Supplements are safe, right?Think Again!

Chapter Eight

In Summary

What A Truly Sad Time We Live In…But There Is Hope!

About the Author

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Resources

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Mandatory Disclaimer by Law

Statements in this book are based upon research and provide the corresponding resource(s) at the end of the book. All and any information was collected from previously published magazines, medical texts, newspapers, newsletters, research and studies, peer-reviewed journals, and the experts themselves within their respective health fields both from print as well as the internet.

The intent of Healthcare Freedom Revolution is to provide the reader with collected information and the appropriate area to find said research so the information can be found in a more expedient manner.

Readers are encouraged to do their own research and to decide for themselves the validity regarding any of the information found in this book.

Readers are encouraged to use prudence when attempting to correct any health condition and/or to maintain or achieve optimal health.

Although it is my belief that all health information should be available to the public and that the public should be allowed the decision concerning what type of healthcare they choose; nonetheless, in our current healthcare system, it is by law that I must inform you the following:

Healthcare Freedom Revolution is intended informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure disease. The statements in the book have not been evaluated by the FDA. The author does not intend for the book to be used as medical advice for any individual. This book is made available with the understanding that the buyer/reader will carefully read the entire disclaimer.

With that said, please refer to your healthcare professional regarding your choices. As hard as it may be, please find a healthcare professional who is open to all science, all research, all types of treatment and most of all… is an individual who thinks for themselves, rather than manipulated by any scientific dogma (which in itself is an oxymoron).

And above all…it’s your health, and it is your right to have full control to what happens to you!

Remember…It’s your life…own it!

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P reface

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anyone who has one.

-Brooks Atkinson

Why we need a Healthcare Freedom Revolution

There is something fundamentally wrong with a system that implies freedom, but cleverly dictates the degree of freedom allowed to you. Such is the case with our present healthcare system. When it comes to healthcare, most people put their lives in the hands of our so-called experts. Who are these experts? They are the scientists behind drug research and the doctors who administer these drugs; all with FDA (Federal Drug Administration) approval.

For you, me, and most people, improved health equals curing our condition. But sadly to these healthcare experts, improved health equals symptom relief rather than an actual cure. People trust that FDA approved research has been done ethically thus, they are convinced (actually brainwashed) that the treatment their doctor recommends is the one and only legitimate option. Anything else is nothing more than snake oil.

Such is the case with cancer. Unknown to most, there are many options and treatments for cancer (of any type) that have been shown to be far more effective than the current only legitimate option; chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. In other words, cut it out and zap it out. Despite the overwhelming ineffectiveness of this approach, this is what the scientific and medical organizations in conjunction with pharmaceutical drug companies have deemed to be your best and only option. This is unacceptable. Much like how bloodletting was the one and only medical treatment of the dark ages. Anything else was considered heresy.

You see, the claim by some is that alternative treatments have not been proven to be effective. Well, at least not by our scientific method of testing of whether a treatment is effective or not. The irony here is that most drug treatments, as well as chemo treatments fail miserably when applied to the very same scientific method! How can I say such a thing? All you have to do is take a look at the statistics and do a bit of investigating. And this is exactly what I did.

Cancer and all major diseases are on the rise despite the increase of drug therapies and radiation. Wouldn’t this suggest that something is either wrong with our healthcare approach or perhaps with the scientific method itself (and remember, this our only trusted measure of whether something is effective or not)? As you will soon discover, based on the current health status of Americans, our method is indeed ineffective.

So why haven’t our brilliant scientists and leaders in the medical professions noticed this obvious problem? The answer is simple. Because healthcare, which was once a public service (you know, when your doctor used to actually care about your welfare rather than having you go broke from medical treatments!) has become big business for profit. Much like how you will never have the latest and greatest computer or cell phone because a better version is always around the corner on a never-ending assembly line. This reminds me of the famous I Love Lucy episode when Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz are wrapping little chocolates. The harder they tried to catch up, the faster those little chocolates came down the assembly line. So is the case with the latest, greatest, and fastest of our technological gadgets.

How does this have anything to do with healthcare? It’s simple.

The reason for the rapid changes in technology is bottom-line profit. It’s all about how to maximize the highest gain of profit while maintaining public compliance. As long as millions of people line up to buy the newest latest, greatest, and fastest product and knowing that they will line up every time is what I have coined as ‘expertly refined marketing’. And the result executes obscene profit.

Imagine the impact of finding the cure for something as mundane as the common cold. What would be the profit loss of such a thing? Let alone something more serious like heart disease or cancer. These scientists and medical doctors who approve and promote the newest latest, greatest, and fastest (acting) drug are not stupid. They are very aware of the side-effects, the lack of overall effectiveness and most of all, the lack of any drugs ability to reverse or cure the disease it was designed to treat.

But for every newest latest, greatest, and fastest drug, there are the newest latest, greatest, and faster drugs to treat the side-effects. How about the profits involved here? Don’t forget about the billions of dollars spent each year to advertise these drugs. Not to mention all the new doctor visits just to inquire if you need the newest latest, greatest, and fastest drug; and usually you do.

Now, we already know that maintaining public compliance is simple when you manipulate the public properly. So what we have here is the perfect recipe for the biggest business ever seen in America’s history. Worse of all, we not only applaud it, we defend it on perfect cue.

And with great hypocrisy, anything alternative is condemned, especially if there is a smidge of profit involved within that industry. Haven’t we all heard about how chiropractors are only after your money and how vitamin companies sell products that don’t work to the hopeful person with some disease? Most people are totally unaware of the truth behind that propaganda. Oh sure, there has been much written about the benefits of alternative treatments, but how aware is public regarding the studies regarding the benefits of alternative treatments? The better question is…why hasn’t the medical community taken notice to these studies? Hmmmm…

Wouldn’t a true doctor, a doctor who believes in the Hippocratic Oath and whose only aim is to improve the health of their patient and cure them if possible, explore all options for a cure? And shouldn’t we, the public, have the right (the freedom) of choice to decide of the healthcare treatment we want to try? Especially in cases where the side-effects of some drug is actually death? When did we allow one group of people to have the sole power (and profit) to determine what treatment we can or cannot apply? Oh yes…they argue that it is to protect us from sham artists and snake oil salesmen.

Well, let me propose this question. If the chemo does not work or actually does kill the cancer, but happens to kill the patient due to poisoning…isn’t that snake oil? Or is it simply a side-effect? If the person taking meds to prevent a stroke due to high cholesterol happens to die from liver failure (the side-effect of most cholesterol drugs)…isn’t that snake oil? Or is it simply a side-effect? If too many people die from an FDA approved drug which later is re-called (when lawsuit payouts become higher than profit) isn’t that snake oil? Or is it simply a side-effect?

If the terminology of snake oil means promoting for profit without results, what do we call the few examples I have mentioned? Well, I guess that is why powerful drug companies hire countless lawyers. So, cleverly constructed words such as may help and/or could cause death are implemented along with the healthcare the doctor provides. This along with advice given against the medical doctors offering hope to the ill patient, so as they cannot be blamed when inevitable disaster occurs; and far too often it does.

So what we really have is a Scientific Community Aligned with Misleading Statements (or better known as SCAMS…Oops!)

We don’t need Healthcare Reform! What we need is a Healthcare Revolution!

As you’ll soon see, options do exist. Real options that have been proven effective, but have been suppressed and/or buried! So many options in fact, that it would be impossible to cover even 1% of them in the confines of this book. But you will at least understand the immensity of our corrupt system and hopefully begin your own quest for the real truth about healthcare…and more importantly, know where to find it. 

Healthcare Freedom Revolution is a book designed to promote the truth about alternative medicine and natural therapies. I used quotations around the word alternative not to demean it in any way, but to suggest the possibility that alternative therapies may be far more effective than those of the conventional medical model.

Alternative therapies must be released from the conventional medical noose because alternative implies an inferior therapy to the uniformed. Nothing could be further from the truth.

As a licensed chiropractor, I have treated many patients in dire straits financially. Fundamentally, I found it extremely difficult to charge these patients for the healthcare they really deserve. Especially when they have already been subjected to the conventional medical model with only a misdiagnosis and an outrageous bill to show for it!

My wish is to see a world one day, where the well-being of one human being is not a means for another to profit. This in no way implies doctors should not be paid for their services. However in our current state of inflated healthcare costs something is indeed wrong with our system. Presently, the sick and injured have to make an impossible decision: either receives care at the expense of becoming financially ruined, or to remain sick or injured and simply hope for the best. Both of these scenarios are simply unacceptable.

Because of my undeniable outrage, I decided to write Healthcare Freedom Revolution as well as create and develop Online Holistic Health Website (www.onlineholistichealth.com). With the sole purpose of exposing the corruption in our healthcare system and to prove that effective options do exist. Natural healthcare is shadowed under the umbrella of fear guided by a campaign of confusing misinformation caused by money-grabbing profiteers. No human should be sacrificed to this cost!

I simply believe when people become sick or injured they deserve to know ALL information regarding their condition and not only the selected information presented by one ideology of thought. Not only do people deserve the correct healthcare treatment, they also deserve a treatment that won’t destroy their lives financially. More often than not, that treatment is not a pharmaceutical drug or surgery, but is a simple or therapeutic natural treatment.

What I can’t intelligently understand is why a cheap natural potential cure is ignored or worse…banned! All to support expensive drugs, which never seem to cure anything, but make countless rich from the willingness of people to believe that "their doctor knows best".

My hope is that this book serves as a healthcare life-preserver for all those who seek answers. It’s your right to know!

Remember…It’s your life…own it!

To your quest of true health,

Michelle M. Kmiec, DC

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Introduction

All too prevalent are "bold print headlines" stating black or white (good or bad) declarations in hopes of swaying public opinion in any direction that suits their purposes; whatever that may be. So to help clear up the confusion, within these pages you’ll see side by side comparisons of the effectiveness of natural treatments (the focus of this book is on vitamin therapies) vs. pharmaceutical drugs.

Most people are unaware that many alternative preventive and therapeutic treatments are supported by research. Finding that research is often a feat greater than climbing Mt. Everest! And when you finally find bits of information, it is surrounded by half-truths in favor of pharmaceutical companies and conventional medical falsehoods. No wonder people are so confused!

My intent is to take the guessing out of your pursuit for healthcare answers by bringing you true holistic health information that will educate you on all possibilities. Although there are a multitude of books with a similar purpose, the premise of Healthcare Freedom Revolution is to help you make the right choice. Not by swaying you to buy certain supplements or products for the sole purpose of profit, but exposing you to all options so you can make the best possible choice for your health.

People are frustrated with the onslaught of prescription drugs for every ailment, over-looking possible natural treatments for their condition. So, instead of being cured, you have the mask of illusion conveniently packaged in a pill.

And in most cases, you unknowingly accept the unforeseen side-effects that are sure to ensue.

Healthcare shouldn't be a Guessing Game

Medical (Allistic) care or natural (Holistic) care? Why aren’t people pointed in the right direction instead of having to play the guessing game about which treatment will work best? It’s simple. The capitalistic nature of our present healthcare system, dictates whether a treatment is drug-based or natural-based.

Drugs can be patentable thus are profitable. Natural remedies are not. In other words, it’s all about money.

To make matters worse, making the connection between research and biology is often too scientific, too complicated, and boring for a lay person to read…let alone to understand. So what do we do? We tend to try (or not to try) holistic treatments based on:

Bold print headlines (i.e. Latest Research Study Found that Ping Pong Balls may cause Cancer!)

What we see on the news or internet

Recommendation of a friend or family member

Listening blindly to your doctor without question

Having a misconceived notion that your doctor has researched all other possible treatments

Why don’t most medical doctors recommend natural treatments? Well, it’s not because your doctor doesn’t care (although some would dispute this). It’s simply because in most cases your doctor is unaware of alternative treatments or is unaware of the research behind those treatments. Or worse…knows about those treatments but dismisses them anyway because their peers would frown upon it.

Statistics Prove Our Current System Isn't Working

When you look at the staggering increase of prescription drugs, you might make the logical assumption that these drugs are working. Right? Sorry but this couldn't be farther from the truth. Recent statistics concerning the rising numbers of people inflicted with some sort of disease despite the use of pharmaceuticals is overwhelming - and severely under reported, not by patients, but by the developers of the drugs themselves.

Of course, let us not forget the cost of all the never-ending parade of television advertisements. And how about the billions of dollars that have been given to drug companies each year in the name of finding the so-called cure of such and such disease. My goodness, surely we must be closer to a cure by now!

Well, in truth we are closer to a cure. But it doesn’t lay in prescription drugs and countless unnecessary surgeries. The cure has been here all along. Despite the research to support them, nutraceuticals (vitamins, minerals, herbs, etc.) are still shunned by modern medicine.

Why this health paradox?

Be Knowledgeable about All Your Healthcare Choices!

Too much bias exists within today’s medical dogma. Meaning, instead of searching for all options, today’s medical system only pursues pharmaceutical drugs and surgery while discrediting all other viable treatments. With all the countless diseases and conditions that plague our modern world, shouldn’t there be more options? This is an unethical position of conventional medicine because it ensures sole profit and monopoly at the expense of the patient; who wholeheartedly put their life in the hands of modern medicine.

I have gone to great lengths to provide scientific research from the USA and from around the world regarding alternative treatments that have shown to be effective without the horrific side-effects that shadow prescription drugs. However, it should be noted that when a holistic treatment is taken therapeutically, although natural, it should be considered as a medicine and administered with care.

Each person is an individual and has complaints unique to their condition. Common illness terms such as heart disease, cancer, autoimmune and diabetes have become generic entities, which have all fallen under the proverbial medical condition umbrella.

Patients with these conditions are treated in nearly the same manner, despite the unique intricacies that played a part the person’s illness in the first place! Why has it become less important to address the health deficiencies that lead the person into a disease condition rather than it is to address the symptoms alone? This is greatest difference between the natural healthcare approach vs. the pharmaceutical approach and is why natural healthcare has become the fastest growing treatment of choice by so many people; and growing every year. The public is simply tired of being mistreated by medical doctors stricken with a God-Complex. A Complex where they feel they need to be right at any and all cost...even when their ol’ mighty research proves them wrong!

When deciding to take any supplement in therapeutic dosages, it is wise and recommended to consult with a healthcare professional. But the question is: Where can you find such a professional?

You need to find one who is in the sole quest of aiding others toward health rather than away from disease. The distinction is subtle but significant!

The healthcare professional, who works