Health and Survival in the 21st Century | by Ross Horne
Viewed from space today, Planet Earth looks little different from how
it would have looked a thousand years ago. Oceans and continents
clearly visible in technicolor, veiled in swirling wisps of white
clouds--it makes a pretty picture. Closer inspection, however,
reveals big changes: less forest land, more deserts, more smoke haze,
more scars. Damage, man-made. But that's only the visible damage...
Title | Health and Survival in the 21st Century |
Author | Ross Horne |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Pty Limited |
Year | 1992 |
Copyright | 1997, 1992 Ross Horne |
- Acknowledgments
- This book is a compilation of a great many facts assembled together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in an attempt to form a complete picture. Although facts are ...
- Author's Preface
- When a man's science exceedeth his sense, He perishes by his ignorance. Oriental proverb Viewed from space today, Planet Earth looks little different from how ...
- Foreword
- by Professor John Wright About twenty years ago, Ross Horne, then a senior captain and instructor on jumbo jets with Qantas Airways, introduced to Australia ...
- Foreword to The Health Revolution
- by Dr Dean Burk (A foundation member of the US National Cancer Institute and former head of the Institute's Cytochemistry Department, Dr Burk is best known for ...
- Introduction
- The history of mankind is an immense sea of errors in which a few obscure truths may here and there be found. Cesare Beccaria And don't kid yourself the 21st ...
- Chapter 1: Health-- Your Birthright
- There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana Health is the birthright of all living things in their natural environment. It ...
- Reclaiming Your Birthright
- The key to reclaiming your birthright and powering your way back to topline health and vigor is not that you have to do anything very special. You don't need ...
- Chapter 2: The "Milieu interieur" (The Environment Within)
- Bernard was right, the germ is nothing-- the milieu is everything. Louis Pasteur There is great concern these days about the environment. We are at last ...
- Chapter 3: Toxemia and the Diseases of Civilization
- I know of nothing so potent in maintaining good health in laboratory animals as perfectly constituted food; I know of nothing so potent in producing ill-health ...
- Toxemia and the Diseases of Civilization. Part 2
- Toxins are produced in the body from the best of diets as natural by-products of normal metabolism and are eliminated effortlessly by the organs of elimination ...
- Toxemia and the Diseases of Civilization. Part 3
- The Eskimos* by comparison rated this description by Dr Samuel Hutton, who observed them over the period 1902 to 1913, from his book Health Conditions and ...
- Protein and Fat as Causes of Toxemia
- The main sources of protein and fat in the Western diet are of animal origin and thus contain cholesterol in quantities harmful to the human body. However, ...
- Protein and Fat as Causes of Toxemia. Part 2
- When people speak of cleansing diets , they mean diets which do not cause toxemia. Cleansing the milieu interieur is performed by the body itself, which of ...
- Chapter 4: The Immune System
- For twenty-one years I was able to study the reaction of well-fed animals to epidemic diseases, such as rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease, septicemia and so ...
- The Immune System. Part 2
- An illustration of how mental trauma diminishes the immune system is given by Dr Laurence E. Badgley of San Francisco in his books Choose to Live and Healing ...
- Immunization
- The intention of medical vaccinations is to artificially induce the body's immune system into producing antibodies to microbes of various diseases so that if ...
- Immunization. Part 2
- Dr Moskowitz went on to describe how the incidence of whooping cough had already precipitously declined long before the pertussis vaccine was introduced, as ...
- Immunotherapy
- Immunotherapy is the attempt to influence the course of a disease by artificial manipulation of the immune system after the disease has become established.
- Factors that Affect the Immune System
- Good: Natural diet, happiness and serenity, high morale, a positive attitude, adequate rest and sleep, fresh air, physical exercise. Adverse: Most common ...
- Chapter 5: Germs and Viruses
- For three centuries bacteria have been considered to be alien and awe inspiring, even by sophisticated professors and dedicated students. Most of us still ...
- Germs and Viruses. Part 2
- When people talk about human evolution they usually assume it commenced only a few million years ago, starting from an ancestor in the form of some sort of ape.
- Germs and Viruses. Part 3
- The scientist who in the 19th Century made the greatest contribution to the science of microbiology was Antoine Bechamp* (1816-1908), many of whose discoveries, ...
- Germs and Viruses. Part 4
- In 1898, Guenther Enderlein (1872-1968) graduated with honors in natural sciences, physics and zoology from Leipzig University, and in 1914 he became a ...
- Germs and Viruses. Part 5
- In 1933, Dr Wilhelm von Brehmer stated his belief in the theory that cancer was a constitutional disease related to diet and lifestyle, and in his book ...
- Germs and Viruses. Part 6
- They are the bacteria Mucor racemosus fresen which, as stated by Dr Enderlein and Dr von Brehmer, change in form according to the state of the milieu interieur, ...
- Germs and Viruses. Part 7
- That a healthy body can resist infection even in unhygienic circumstances seems to surprise a lot of people, the author's wife included. Recently I was engaged ...
- Addendum to Germs and Viruses
- If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat, diseased tissue, rather than being the cause of the ...
- Chapter 6: Human Errors and Human Ills
- If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas Huxley (1825-95) When assessing any situation it should ...
- Human Errors and Human Ills. Part 2
- Over one hundred years ago, Louis Kuhne of Germany and other perceptive doctors like Charles de Lacy Evans and Emmet Densmore of England and Edward Dewey of ...
- Human Errors and Human Ills. Part 3
- Beriberi is a disease characterized by weakness, nervous disorders, a swollen liver, weight loss, paralysis and impaired heart action. Until well into the 20th ...
- Human Errors and Human Ills. Part 4
- The germ theory is a deficient theory because it only seems to work part of the time while for most of the time it doesn't hold at all, whether either germs or ...
- Chapter 7: How Ciba-Geigy scared the daylights out of Japan
- In 1955 a mysterious disease, in some respects resembling polio, made its appearance in Japan. The symptoms were a combination of diarrhea, internal bleeding ...
- How Ciba-Geigy scared the daylights out of Japan. Part 2
- Clioquinol, a Ciba-Geigy product, was considered to be perfectly safe, its effects confined to the digestive tract where it was supposed to destroy germs ...
- Chapter 8: AIDS, Yuppie Flu and the Common Cold
- Modern scientific medical practise relies very largely on medicines whose ultimate effect is to impair the patient's immune system. This is no secret, no great ...
- Yuppie Flu
- Yuppie flu is one of a number of names given to the condition of general malaise and fatigue accompanied by various troublesome infections which results when ...
- AIDS-Related Complex (ARC)
- A complex means the same thing as a syndrome, which is a group of signs and symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease or other abnormal ...
- AIDS: What It is Not
- There are thousands of people in modern world countries and perhaps millions in third world countries who are thought to have AIDS simply because they test ...
- The Medical Definition of AIDS
- There has been a great deal of confusion among doctors as to how to diagnose AIDS, and this is no wonder when it is considered that most of the information of ...
- AIDS: What It Is
- AIDS is a state of illness characterized by depleted vitality and a progressive increase in severity of a number of opportunistic infections, all of which are ...
- AIDS: What It Is. Part 2
- The measure of damage to the immune system by which the progression of AIDS is assessed, apart from the obvious symptoms, is the count of white T cells in the ...
- AIDS: What It Is. Part 3
- Although it had been observed by some doctors for a good number of years, AIDS first attracted the attention of the US medical profession in about 1981, not ...
- AIDS: What It Is. Part 4
- The pronounced immunosuppressing effect of semen injected into the anal canal has been traced by Dr Richard Ablin of State University, New York, to the enzyme ...
- AIDS: What It Is. Part 5
- Why the AIDS Establishment based in the Center of Disease Control, US National Institute of Health (CDC NIH) holds on to its hysterical belief in the virus ...
- AIDS: What It Is. Part 6
- Dr Laurence Badgley has seen AIDS patients die, but he has also seen them recover, and to repeat the last part of the quote from his book Healing AIDS ...
- Chapter 9: The Myth of the AIDS Virus
- Necessity is the mother of invention. Anon. from old Latin In democratic law a suspect is held to be innocent until proven guilty. A suspect may be held for ...
- The Myth of the AIDS Virus. Part 2
- Dr Gallo, who has since admitted the virus was not his discovery as he first claimed, refuses any debate on the matter of proof, while at the same time the man ...
- The Myth of the AIDS Virus. Part 3
- In the case of Gallo's HIV hypothesis, all rules were set aside. Gallo was the big chief, full of confidence, and he was backed by the US Government. Protocol ...
- AIDS and HIV: Conclusion
- The small matter of proving that the virus caused the disease still remains, and it remains for two very good reasons: There is no valid evidence that the ...
- HIV/AIDS Addendum: A Conversation With Peter Duesberg
- A Conversation With Peter Duesberg, Professor of Virology, University of California, Berkeley (from the California Monthly, Journal of the University of ...
- HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers: Part 1
- Q: I want to explore the differences between the accepted AIDS explanation and the new one you are proposing. What is the standard, 'virus-AIDS', hypothesis?
- HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers: Part 2
- Q: You're saying that HIV is incapable of killing the cells it's supposed to kill. How do the virus-AIDS thinkers get around this point? A: The primary ...
- HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers: Part 3
- Q: But clearly people do have HIV, or antibodies to HIV, in their blood. What does this mean? A: You may call it, at least in this country, a surrogate marker ...
- HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers: Part 4
- Q: A drug epidemic? A: Yes, we are seeing, in the United States, some of the results of the drug culture which has reached epidemic proportions. In particular, ...
- HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers: Part 5
- Q: What is the rationale for killing cells as part of AIDS therapy? A: Those who sanction AZT say that they don't want to kill cells, they want to interfere ...
- HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers: Part 6
- Q: Let's return to your alternative to the virus-AIDS hypothesis. How will the 'risk-AIDS' hypothesis help? A: My alternative, I believe, will explain in a ...
- HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers: Part 7
- Q: What about press reports of a year or two ago about the 55-year-old Marin woman who died of AIDS five years after receiving a blood transfusion? A: That is ...
- HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers: Part 8
- Q: You think the war on AIDS should, instead, be the war on drugs? A: Yes, I think so. But that is not my field. I am just trying to find a consistent ...
- HIV/AIDS Questions and Answers: Part 9
- Q: Although you're not talking about sexual practices, the fact that you are talking about drug use recalls the earlier versions of 'lifestyle' as the cause of ...
- HIV/AIDS Addendum: Statement by Robert S. Roote-Bernstein
- Statement by Robert S. Roote-Bernstein, Associate Professor of Physiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (as appeared in Policy Review, Fall 1990) ...
- HIV/AIDS Addendum: Other Agents
- My own research, which was published this summer in Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, suggests what these other causes of acquired immunosuppression may ...
- HIV/AIDS Addendum: 19th-Century AIDS
- Now, if the so-called life-style theory of AIDS is correct, one important implication is that AIDS should not be a new syndrome. It is not. I am one of only a ...
- Chapter 10: The Drug Business
- The disgrace of medicine has been that colossal system of self-deception, in obedience to which mines have been emptied of their cankering minerals, the ...
- The Drug Business. Part 2
- The medical industry of today has become the subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry, now the wealthiest industry in the world. Doctors of all ranks are ...
- The Drug Business. Part 3
- Today we are witnessing yet another scandal, this time involving the marketing of a dangerous drug by the Burroughs Wellcome Company. This is the drug AZT, ...
- AZT: The AIDS Drug
- AZT, it is admitted by its manufacturers, Burroughs Wellcome, is toxic and suppressive to the immune system. It sounds absurd that something of a toxic and ...
- AZT: The AIDS Drug. Part 2
- Reporter Lauritsen concluded: It should be clear that Burroughs Wellcome is a thoroughly unscrupulous company, and the collusion between the FDA and Burroughs ...
- AZT: The AIDS Drug. Part 3
- Excerpt from a letter by Dr Joan McKenna, Director of Research, TBM Associates, Berkeley California, which was published in the Policy Review, Fall, 1990: (see ...
- AZT: The AIDS Drug. Part 4
- That the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has for years been a powerful instrument manipulated by the pharmaceutical companies has been obvious to some ...
- Postscript on AZT
- Science by Press Release Within the space of one month several news reports about the AZT trials appeared in Australian newspapers, headlined as follows: EARLY ...
- Chapter 11: Modern Medicine: A Snare and a Delusion
- Futile but otherwise harmless medical care is the least important of the damages a proliferating medical enterprise inflicts on contemporary society. However, ...
- Modern Medicine: A Snare and a Delusion. Part 2
- It has been reported that from the ranks of doctors come the highest rates of suicides and drug dependency of all the occupations in society. Does this mean ...
- Modern Medicine: A Snare and a Delusion. Part 3
- The fact of the matter is there is not, and cannot ever be, such a thing as a medical cure for anything. Only Nature can heal, but in their ignorance of this ...
- Modern Medicine: A Snare and a Delusion. Part 4. Confessions of a Medical Heretic
- Books like Dr Glasser's put the true perspective on modern medicine. There are many others on the topic that would put the fear of death in you, perhaps the ...
- Modern Medicine: A Snare and a Delusion. Part 5
- There are many other similar books written by dedicated doctors like Dr Mendelsohn; a more recent one by Dr Stuart M. Berger called What Your Doctor Didn't ...
- The Future of Medicine
- There are signs that a gradual awareness of the importance of nutrition is dawning within the medical profession, an awareness forced upon it by persevering ...
- In Defense of Doctors
- In criticising others one must always put oneself in their position and remember: There but for the grace of God go I. And so in defense of doctors with all ...
- In Defense of Doctors. Part 2
- Dr William Roe (retired) of Nelson, New Zealand, the author of Science in Medical Practise (1984) in which he strongly criticises modern medicine, said this: ...
- Postscript on Modern Medicine
- If what you have already read about the poisoning effects of medical drugs, vaccinations, etc has not made you question which are the most dangerous-- ...
- Chapter 12: Heart Disease: Civilization's No. 1 Killer
- With a cholesterol level of 150 [3.9 mmol/1] or less, plaque reversal in two years is possible. Dr Robert Wissler, Chicago Medical School, June 1977 The major ...
- Chapter 13 Cancer: Civilization's No. 2 Killer
- There is no disease in existence which is, most assuredly, easier of prevention than cancer; yet there is no malady which, when once it has established its ...
- What Causes Cancer?
- For a start, it has been proven that germs and viruses do not cause cancer. Present cancer research is working on the supposition that cancer is caused by ...
- Cancer Differentiation and De-differentiation
- In brief, the transformation of normal cells into abnormal (cancer) cells is a predictable, biological event, obeying natural biological laws in circumstances ...
- Cancer: Metastasis -- The Main Danger
- Cells do not have to be fully de-differentiated to grow as cancer, and therefore pathology tests can usually identify them with the tissue of their origin.
- Cancer: Important -- Note Well
- When primary tumors liberate stray cancer cells into the circulation, for metastasis to occur such cells must first escape destruction by the immune system, ...
- Chapter 14: Sexuality and Homosexuality
- Sexual inadequacies and distortions take their inevitable toll in epidemic proportions: impotence, frigidity, pornography, masochism, sadism, promiscuity--and ...
- Sexuality and Homosexuality. Part 2
- Desmond Morris has pointed out that to call a city an asphalt jungle is totally wrong because it is much more like a human zoo , in which zoo flourishes crime, ...
- Homosexuality
- Recently, in calling for a change in laws regarding homosexuals, a group of more than forty psychologists in Queensland agreed that the latest research showed ...
- Homosexuality. Part 2
- Homosexuals are made, not born 'that way' , said Dr Kronemeyer, from my twenty-five years' experience as a clinical psychologist, I firmly believe that ...
- Sexuality and Homosexuality: Conclusion
- What is natural and what is unnatural? Rats kept in crowded captivity and fed on laboratory 'balanced' food display most unnatural behavior, they are nervous ...
- Chapter 15: Dieting for Health and Longevity
- The Art of Living consists of dying young, but as late as possible. Anon. Dieting for health and dieting for longevity are not necessarily the same thing.
- The Natural Diet of Man
- Towards the end of World War II when the Americans invaded the Philippines and recaptured them from the Japanese, a lone Japanese soldier ran off into the ...
- The Natural Diet of Man. Part 2
- Greater challenges in a less benevolent environment led to continued brain development, and so it was in the temperate climatic zones of the world that ...
- Dieting: Mineral Deficiencies
- A less common and less suspected cause of disease is the deficiency (and sometimes excess) of minerals (trace elements) in food. Essential minerals are needed ...
- Dieting: Mineral Deficiencies. Part 2
- Dr Murray's many experiments with all kinds of crops and animals all showed dramatic benefits from sea minerals. For instance: Started feeding mice both ...
- The Pros and Cons of Cooking
- All that cooking is good for is that it enables people to utilize grains for food and it renders other unsuitable foods such as meat and potatoes palatable and ...
- The Pros and Cons of Raw Food
- First, the cons. The traditional foods to which we are accustomed are mostly inedible when raw. Meat and dairy products would be far less harmful consumed raw ...
- Raw Fruit: The Natural Food of Primates
- People become vegetarians to improve their health and extend their lives. Some vegetarians go a step further and consume their food mainly uncooked, while ...
- Raw Fruit: The Natural Food of Primates. Part 2
- Obviously some fruits are more nutritious than others, and quality will vary according to the quality of the soil in which they are grown. Commercially grown ...
- Dieting for Health
- From the foregoing, the subject of dieting for health should require no further explanation; it is obvious that to get results it is necessary to eliminate or ...
- Fad Diets for Health
- In Europe, the grape diet has for years been popular in various spas and sanitaria, where sick people go to spend some weeks to recover their failing health.
- Health Diets For Permanent Adoption
- The Weight Watchers' diet. This diet is calculated more to achieve weight loss than to improve health, but if followed properly both weight loss and improved ...
- The Facts And Fallacies Of "Health Foods"
- When you walk into a health food store and look around, what do you see? One wall of shelves is packed with vitamins and mineral products, all expensive and ...
- Summarizing Health Diets
- Apart from observing the fact that in general the cooking of food leads to an overworked digestive system and increased toxemia, the single common denominator ...
- Dieting for Longevity
- Do tissues and organs wear out, or are they gradually destroyed by processes which could possibly be avoided? Scientific opinion agrees that the human life ...
- In Conclusion on Longevity
- That a man is an old as his arteries was stated first by the l7th-Century physician Thomas Sydenham. That a man's arteries are as old as he makes them was ...
- Chapter 16: Reversing the Diseases of Civilization
- We are not concerned with diseases but with mistakes . . . of living. Get rid of the mistakes and the diseases will disappear of their own accord. Dr Are ...
- Diseases: Apparent Causes and Apparent Cures
- The body has an enormous capacity, even in old age, to maintain homeostasis in the presence of many harmful influences, and so a reasonable state of marginal ...
- Alternative Medicine
- Under the heading of alternative medicine comes orthomolecular medicine, acupuncture, osteopathy, homeopathic medicine, faith healing, transcendental ...
- What We Want
- We are not interested in medicine of any kind-- allopathic or alternative . We are not interested in their mediocre achievements in partially restoring health, ...
- Fasting
- The quickest and most effective way to detoxify the body and restore complete homeostasis is to go on a fast, where for an indefinite time only pure water is ...
- Diseases: The Mental Factor
- Just as mental acuity is affected one way or the other by the condition of the blood and general fitness of the body, so too does the reverse apply--the ...
- Diseases: The Role of Physical Exercise
- That regular physical exercise conveys protection against disease is indicated by the fact that it makes people feel better, sleep better and tend to eat less, ...
- Diseases: How Much Exercise is Necessary?
- Physical fitness is a factor in health and longevity but it is not the major factor. Recalling Dr de Lacy Evans' survey of people who lived for a hundred years ...
- Diseases: The Role of Sunshine, Fresh Air and Rest
- Sunshine and fresh air as health factors important to the restoration of sick people back to health have been well known for hundreds of years, and therefore ...
- Asthma
- Asthma is the restriction of breathing caused by the swelling of the bronchial tubes through which air is inhaled in the lungs and carbon dioxide exhaled. The ...
- Arthritis (and Rheumatism)
- Whereas arthritis is considered medically to be an auto-immune disease in which white blood cells supposedly attack the body's own tissues, it is nothing of ...
- Cancer
- Toxemia again is the cause of this disease as has already been explained--excess fat, protein, cholesterol and salt being the main culprits together with ...
- Diabetes
- As already explained in Chapter 6, in most cases the pancreas of people with diabetes is perfectly capable of producing the insulin needed for the metabolism ...
- Heart Disease, Stroke, Hypertension and other Circulatory Problems
- It was shown in the 1960s that diseased arteries can clean and heal themselves when the blood is cleansed of lipotoxemia, and everybody knows that thin gravy ...
- Osteoporosis
- This has already been explained in a previous chapter, but to reiterate: osteoporosis is merely the natural reaction of the body trying to protect itself from ...
- Nephritis
- As it is the function of the kidneys to filter out and excrete impurities from the blood, it is not surprising that people on the Western diet, heavily ...
- Gallstones
- These are another feature distinguishing people who indulge heavily in animal protein foods. The arteries are not the only tissues that are forced to accept ...
- Mental Aberrations
- As the brain in use consumes for its size a great deal more fuel (blood sugar) and oxygen than any other organ of the body, it is provided with a copious blood ...
- Constipation
- Constipation, which is a major factor in the toxemia underlying most of the other common complaints, occurs for two reasons: Wrong food containing too much fat ...
- ME: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, etc
- Refer to the Afterword by Dr Gaye Keir in Chapter 17.
- AIDS
- There are a great many cases of arresting the condition of AIDS and regaining stabilized good health. There is a list of books written by AIDS survivors in the ...
- Other Diseases Of Civilization
- Premenstrual tension, migraine, schizophrenia, premature senility, Alzheimer's disease, diminished mental acuity, failing eyesight, cataracts, diminished ...
- Chapter 17: The Proof of the Pudding
- by William Howard Hay MD A chapter from Dr Hay's book A New Health Era (1933) God does not perform his work so imperfectly or shortsightedly as to be obliged ...
- Further on Cancer and "The Doctor Within"
- Perth 30th October 1991 Ross, I prefer to call you by your given name because I feel that you are a very special person and I feel as many others would, very ...
- Afterword on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- (by Dr Gaye Keir, Brisbane) In late 1984 I was perusing the books in my local bookstore when I came across a copy of Ross Horne's The Health Revolution. It ...
- A Story from the Heart
- Queensland 18th March 1992 Dear Ross, I don't want to bore you with a long story but I came out of Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, just after Christmas. I ...
- Chapter 18: Epilogue
- The history of mankind is an immense sea of errors in which a few obscure truths may here and there be found. Cesare Beccaria In the preceding chapters we have ...
- Appendix: Book List of Recommended Reading
- NOTE: Although the book list is divided under three headings: General, Cancer and AIDS, it should be remembered that all disease states are linked to ...
- Appendix: Book List of Recommended Reading: General
- The Doctors, A Penetrating Analysis of the American Physician, Martin Gross (Random House, 1966) Dissent in Medicine: Nine Doctors Speak Out, Robert Mendelsohn ...
- Appendix: Book List of Recommended Reading: Cancer
- Cancer Therapy, Results of Fifty Cases*, Max Gerson, MD (The Gerson Institute, Bonita, California) The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer*, Otto Warburg, MD ...
- Appendix: Book List of Recommended Reading: AIDS
- Note: Readers on AIDS should include as desirable reading all the books, particularly those on cancer. AIDS The HIV Myth*, Jad Adams (Macmillan, 1989) Roger's ...