B M Hegde

Wellness vs Illness
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri

Wellness

is the overall well being of

human beings. Illness is a state where one
does not feel well. While quantum physics
has opened a new vista in the field of human
physiology of wholeness in place of our
reductionist,
mechanistic,
biochemistry
based human physiology, the world has now
come to realise that the conventional
definition of health by the WHO needs
change. In this context the IOM, the audit
body of US medical establishment, in their
February 2010 meeting, had accepted the
new definition of Whole Person Healing
(WPH) as the future illness care system.
Wellness (conventionally called health) is
now defined as "enthusiasm to work and
enthusiasm
to
be
compassionate."
Interestingly, this fits in with the time
honoured definition of health in Indian
Ayurveda, the mother of all medical wisdoms
in the world, almost from the time of the
Vedas; the latter being timeless. We have
now come one full circle in the so called
scientific medicine with a down to earth
doable definition of health while the WHO
definition of health as a state of physical,
psychological, spiritual, emotional, social etc
wellbeing, according to Richard Smith, the
former editor of the British Medical Journal,
is attainable only under two circumstancesafter death and during the height of orgasm,
which lasts only for a few seconds, anyway!
The man who led the movement for WPH
was late Professor Rustum Roy, one of the
greatest scientists the world ever had. He
was one of the founder members of the IOM.
"Over forty? It is time to fix a date for
mammogram and the cost has come down
for this holiday season from the 3950 INR to
just 1750," reads the prominent headline
advertisement in The New Indian Express of
the October 9th, 2011 in Chennai. This kind
of disease mongering efforts is at the root of
all our problems in medicine. They are based
on the wrong science of reductionism.
Cancer is not a disease in the true sense.
Cancer cells are a bunch of "jobless,
directionless, wandering, rogue cells" which
remain in the human system for years
before they show up as clinical cancer only
when their numbers have swollen to many
millions. Therefore, the so called early

diagnosis of cancer and cancer screening in

the apparently healthy populations are only
myths, although they make good business
sense for the cancer industry.
While I have been writing about this for
years, the US government has issued a
circular that screening for prostate cancer
using PSA test in unscientific and unreliable.
Mammogram is not far from that truth. In
fact, many places routine mammograms
have been given up as mammograms
themselves could help generate cancers to
grow faster from those wandering cells
which otherwise would have died a natural
death before they become clinical cancers.
Cancer research is an area where the so
called cancer researchers can tap from a
bottom less pocket of the research funds.
The research has gone too far from reality
into
vivisectionist
research
from
reductionism
This year's Nobel is an example of that last
statement. The three people that succeeded
in finding out the small receptor on human
immune cells have got the Prize. That
receptor or its ligand (for making a drug) will
not solve any problem. The immune system
works as a whole and in association with the
other systems of the human being. This has
been proven time and again but we do not
seem to learn our lessons from our own
mistakes. Our cloning efforts, our genetic
engineering
efforts,
our
stem
cell
(exogenous) research have all come to
naught. In fact, we conveniently forget the
efforts of those researchers who have shown
us the right path for stem cells research.
Way back in the early 1950s Professor
Robert Becker of the New York University
Medical School, a great brain in orthopaedic
surgery, had shown how the body cells,
wherever they are, under stress and urgent
need, could transform themselves into
pluripotent stem cells. That is really the
body's own efforts to produce endogenous
stem cells. He demonstrated that the red
blood cells at a fracture site under the
periosteum of the broken bone could slowly
change into nucleated cells and then put out
pseudopodia to become real powerful
pluripotent endogenous stem cells which
know what to do to heal the bone.
Whereas the stem cells produced by us in
the laboratory from any source, when
introduced into the human body, need the
help of the environment to do what we
intend them to do, endogenous stem cells
are born with the message to do what is
needed. The internal environment for the

exogenous stem cells includes not just the

body as we see it but the mind. In fact,
human body is the human mind seen as a
solid body according to quantum physics!
The exogenous stem cells could even harm
the human system as happened with the
first attempts to treat childhood cancers with
this method. The original cancer died but a
new cancer cropped up! Dolly, the first
cloned animal died prematurely as she was
as old as her mother (from whom the
original cell was used for cloning) and
suffered from old age diseases like cancer
and joint damage even in infancy! Eric
Drexler's efforts to produce self replicating
nanobots which do not require father and
mother died a premature death before it
took off. Drexler made billions from his
company share holders when he claimed
that human beings could be made in the
laboratory!
Venture
capitalists
poured
millions into his kitty without any returns at
the end of the day.
AIDS research in another example. While the
protean causes of that syndrome are still
very vague, researchers make hay when the
research funds pour into the area in plenty.
They are still going after that poor virus, the
HIV, whose original sin was that it was
discovered in the bone marrow of that first
young homosexual in San Francisco who
died of the syndrome in 1981. In retrospect,
we now know that any germ could be found
in such patients as their immune guard is
very weak. The original paper of this
association between HIV and AIDS in the
prestigious journal Science was only a case
history. Based on that case report the
author, Luc Montaigner, got his Nobel
recently.
Time has come to think afresh in this area of
repetitive research in preference to that of
holistic refutative research. W hen once we
understand wellness and the real definition
of health, we would quickly realise that all
illness management has to holistic where the
bodymind and environment of the patient
are taken into consideration. The era of
disease and diagnosis will replace the era of
understanding the suffering human being
(the patient) in trying to make him whole
again. That is called healing. Research must
be true "outcomes" research and not
research to better surrogate end points as
we do now. One example will be in order
here. All the studies of cholesterol lowering
efforts with reductionist chemicals starting
with the original choestyramine to the
present statins have only shown the effect of
their lowering the blood report of cholesterol
levels while they all showed higher death

rates in the treated group at the end of the

day. Death is the real outcome while
lowered blood report is a surrogate end
point. The story seems to be similar with our
efforts to lower many of the fluctuating
biological levels which we have been
labelling as "diseases".
Chemical reductionist molecular therapeutics
will have to give place to energy
therapeutics as human body is a bundle of
jumping leptons and correction of such
errors will have to use energy scientifically.
Many proven methods of energy treatment
have been in vogue for eons even in many
alternate systems. One more reason why
energy methods are better is the speed with
which one gets results with energy healing
methods.
Whereas
chemical
message
transmission happens at a rate of one
centimeter per second, energy healing
transmission happens at a rate of 1, 86,000
miles per second! Most, if not all,
reductionist chemical molecules are alien to
the human system and they are rejected by
the liver in the first place. (The first pass
effect that we teach medical students in
pharmacology means that the body is trying
to destroy as much of the drug as possible)
The ghost of Adverse Drug Reactions,
(ADRs) staring at our face as the biggest
cause of death in modern medicine, could be
avoided if we follow the holistic management
of illnesses to bring man back to his/her
state of wellness as defined above. Long live
mankind on this planet in good health and
happiness. Medical profession is always
needed as the doctor is not just a drug
vendor but a real friend, philosopher and
guide in illness. In addition, science has now
shown that all the drugs or surgical methods
that we use work mainly because of the
faitalled the expectation effect (EE). A good
doctor, humane and human, full of empathy,
will be God to patients at all times. Basically,
a good doctor should be a good human
being.
If you want others to be happy, practice
compassion."
The Dalai Lama
Email: hegdebm@gmail.com

Cover: Acupuncture, a key element of Traditional Chinese Medicine,

has become a popular alternative medicine in recent years. This
treatment has considerable potential for treating problems associated
with physical disability, including spinal cord injury and multiple
sclerosis. Acupuncture-related therapies consist of stimulating specific
points on the skin by inserting needles or applying heat, pressure, or
massage. Acupuncture usually is combined with a variety of other
Eastern therapies, such as herbal treatments, food and nutrition
therapy, exercise, and meditation. The thin, usually disposable, needles
rarely draw blood, and any discomfort is mild.