The Philosophy of Natural Health

Health since the beginning of time has been a provocative issue: what is health, keeping healthy, and maintaining wellness are topical issues which often involve many layers of politics and different schools of thought. Back to origins of our evolution, and our dependence on good soil, water and pure air, we have managed to evolve relying on natural resources for many centuries.

Technological advancement

Technology has attempted to provide large scale affordable nutrition and healthcare, but this has resulted in an inability to retain the required chemical composition of soil and thus food, resulting in wide scale deficiency in the general population. In addition, synthetic procedures in our soil management, food production and chemical preponderance has resulted in the absorption of higher levels of toxicity for the average person.

Some individuals cope better than others in this modern environment. Examples of mild deficiency may be shown in bone and connective tissue weakness leading to osteoporosis, back ache, fractures, hernias, poor wound healing; in obesity leading to endocrine dysfunction; in poor dentition from the intake of refined foods or the lack of trace minerals; and in nervous system problems such as anxiety, depression and tension through low mineralization compounded and indeed caused by higher levels of emotional, physical and mental stress.

Increased individual toxicity has many manifestations; mostly individual in its maturation, conditions such as autism, psoriasis, cancer, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease have been shown to have toxicity at part of their root. Genetic weakness will always play its part.

Impact of progress

Modern progress has led to the depletion of our soils, the manufacture and genetic modification of our foods, and the production of synthetic drugs to suppress the inbuilt design and natural healing mechanism of our individual body. Genetic malformations are fortunately still relatively uncommon in spite of the cocktail of trials that modern life affords, but treatments for chronic degenerative disease is virtually absent outside of palliative care. Increasingly prevalent, there is rarely a family untouched by a chronic disease. Something is not working for us in the way we lead our lives. Indeed, the complex concoction of stress, toxicity, inadequate and deficient nutrition, and our move away from natural resources to maintain wellness is compromising our optimal function, to epidemic proportions.

The Power of Nature

Humans have made some incredible breakthroughs through the use of processing technology and there is no one more persuaded by the efficiency of acute pharmacology in life-threatening situations. However, we are not more clever than Nature itself – we are merely a cog in its wheel and our importance is no more than that. We cannot control nature – our manipulations can only lead to its dysfunction and devastation.

This has to be the time to work with the benefit of centuries of natural healing therapies, in conjunction with the pick of the technology breakthroughs to offer expression, support and an improvement in our outlook. The responsibility for healthcare begins with ourselves, and on behalf of our children.