Healthcare Politics and Glutathione

What is the Flat Earth Paradox Connection?

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Healthcare politics is often bound by the myth of the flat earth thinking.

Even with over 80,000 studies showing benefits, there is still limited use of cysteine for building glutathione (GSH) by the healthcare profession. The thinking of those who refuse to consider the evidence is similar to those who continue to believe that people in the dark ages believed the earth was flat. It might be called the Flat Earth Paradox.

The flat Earth Paradox and healthcare politics have a lot in common.

The flat Earth concept or more accurately, the ‘Myth of the Flat Earth’ (conceptions of a flat Earth actually did exist in ancient Babylon, Egypt, pre-Classical Greece and pre-17th century China) illustrates how mankind limits their thinking ability and structures their beliefs on what they hear and believe, not necessarily science. This kind of thinking influences healthcare politics.

Before looking at the Flat Earth Paradox, consider what GSH is.

Your good health is dependent on GSH levels. A number of the studies previously mentioned have found a commonality when the human body is in a disease state. Many conditions and diseases are associated with low cysteine and glutathione levels otherwise known as ‘Low CG Syndrome.

What is glutathione?

Glutathione is the body’s master antioxidant. What this means is that any antioxidant we supplement our body with will only be effective if our level of glutathione is sufficient. Reports in the media point to numerous ‘benefits’ relating to glutathione and cysteine. The only thing, research indicates that you cannot benefit from just taking GSH. The only way to boost the GSH in your body is to provide the building blocks in the diet to help your body make it.

Dr. Luc Montignier, who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, has drawn attention to the promising benefits of glutathione boosting supplements in treating AIDS. At this writing there are several products that claim to boost glutathione levels in North America and a few in Europe.

Elevating intercellular glutathione has been associated with successfully treating numerous diseases. This elevation is accomplished by taking in the foods or supplements that provide the building blocks, chief of which is cysteine. Some benefit has been found by taking the co-factors of glutathione.

What are cysteine and glutathione? What are their functions? Since they are associated with successfully treating diseases like HIV, AIDS, mesothelioma, Stage IV lung cancer and autism, why have few heard of them?

Healthcare Politics and the Flat Earth Myth

The flat earth paradox can explain why glutathione and cysteine are not as common as the word cholesterol is today. It also explains why healthcare politics has not considered it as a modality.

Were you taught that in addition to sailing the ocean blue in 1492, Columbus also established that the earth was not flat?

Throughout the 20th century, the majority of us believed in this myth. It is actually a myth that men in the dark ages thought that the earth was flat. The fact is, that is not true. They knew the earth was round.

It is believed the ancient Hebrews of the Bible knew it to be a sphere. Scripture was later misapplied to say it was flat.

Several hundred years after the Bible indicated this scientific fact Aristotle (384-322 BC) said it was common knowledge. Then a few hundred years into the future (220 BCE), Eratosthenes of Cyrene accurately estimated the Earth's diameter (He was off by about 4,000 Kilometers but who is counting when your measuring by a mans stride.)

Yet Columbus faced a daunting task to convince everyone he was not going to sale off the edge of the earth. At least that was the belief about the 19th century, thanks to Washington Irving's fantasy, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, published in 1828. So either the myth (Irving's fiction), belief in the myth (as we did last century), or lack of knowledge of what people held as truth is really a myth (ignorance that it was an urban legend on a global scale) all illustrate a paradox. In spite of the evidence to the contrary, people believed what they believed for various reasons.

Even if it was for a lack of accurate knowledge and or even if there was science to back it up, they still believed the Dark Ages held that the earth was flat. Why? Because that is what they believe.

They are Flat-earthers. The Flat-earthers did not go away.

Move into the future about 300 years. From the year 1747 until 1795 Dr. James Lind with super human effort worked to overcome the flat earth paradox of his time. The prejudice and antipathy of the political establishment was reluctant to consider anything other than what they believed to be true. With the first clinical trial in medicine, he proved that scurvy could not only be treated, but could be prevented with raw lemons.

Some wanting to hold on to their flat earth like beliefs cooked the lemons and with the subsequent failure said, "...see, they do not work." Even though he had scientific proof, it still took years to change the thinking of the establishment.

What about today? Healthcare politics is often the reason scientific application lags behind scientific research. Where you find a lack of forward momentum, you will find flat-earthers.

You will stumble across them everywhere. Just ask your doctor what he thinks about Bloodless Medicine and Surgery (doing major surgery such as liver transplants with out blood transfusions). If he says he does not 'believe in' them, then he is a flat-earther.

First, bloodless medicine is a science, not a religion.

Thousands of medical journal articles and high level studies have demonstrated and proved that blood does not necessarily save lives. To quote Dr. Richard Spence, one of the modern day Dr. Lind's, "There are no high level studies that prove blood saves lives. The studies actually show the opposite. From any to the more blood you receive, the greater the morbidity and mortality."

Flat-earthers are everywhere. They are especially notable in healthcare politics. You can find them in our most intelligent leaders in both health care, science and politics. Yet there are forward thinking mythical Columbus's and Eratosthenes who can see beyond the health care horizon.

One method of boosting GSH has been scientifically proven and is currently medically approved. It is even listed in the Physicians Desk Reference. Interestingly, it is the only listing that prestigious book that is a food supplement, not a drug. The best way to boost GSH in the body comes from foods and natural supplements.

Numerous studies demonstrate that increasing glutathione through dietary means has benefits for over 67 diseases so far. Here we are on the frontiers of knowledge looking back to the words of Hippocrates. He said, "Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be thy food."

Healthcare politics aside, the next time you think of Columbus, those who thought the earth was flat, those who do not know that it was only a myth or do not want to know, remember that you have a choice. Will future history can look at you as being among those who held on to the myth of the flat Earth thinking?

Or will you be one spoken of as one of those who can see beyond the horizon, on the far side of healthcare politics, farther than the frontiers of knowledge, past the Flat Earth Paradox? If you look carefully, there on the horizon of the future, you might just see it, the glutathione disease cure.

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