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Guest Editorial with David Getoff |
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Guest Editorial
Introducing David Getoff
As mentioned in the Publisher’s Notes of this issue David Getoff,
certified clinical nutritionist, traditional naturopath, educator and
lecturer will be joining totalhealth magazine as a frequent contributor.
As an introduction to our readers we asked David to respond to
the following question regarding his practice.
We asked David: What are some of the greatest problems
that consumers face in their quest for improving
the health of their families? What suggestions can you
make to help address these problems and how do your educational
video and audio presentations help to facilitate your
long-term goals?
David responded, “The greatest problem is an interesting
combination of too much information combined with
both inadequate information, contradictory information and
all too often a plethora of incorrect information. That reads
like a tongue twister, but it is all true. Far too much information
for anyone to assimilate in a normal lifetime can easily
be found on the web. Due to both unethical researchers, political
manipulations, and the “dollar before the facts” policy
that is rampant, the consumer is put in an awful position.
We are brought up from a young age to put all of our faith
in physicians for our health care. This often serves us poorly
since this individual has been greatly misled and given substantially
biased and often untruthful information during
much of their many years of schooling and internship.
With the exception of emergency medicine, where our
physicians are exceptionally well qualified to address bone
fractures, skin grafts, severe burns, etc., their training is
sorely lacking. “Modern” (what a poorly descriptive word)
medicine is for the most part a system of suppression, removal
and replacement.
A headache or any other pain is simply a symptom of a
problem. Either may have numerous causes and yet a painkiller
(analgesic medication) is most often prescribed. We
are suppressing an undesirable symptom. Somewhat similar
to taking a hammer to the overheat light on your dashboard
if it lights up, rather than stopping to find out what is
causing the problem. When the cause is located and properly
addressed, the symptom will go away by itself, especially
in a human, since unlike an automobile, our bodies are self
healing if given the correct tools.
If someone has cancer, medicine will generally remove
the tumor, with no attempt whatsoever to improve the de-
ficient immune system, which allowed the cancer to grow.
In fact, they will most often use two of the most immune
suppressive therapies ever studied, chemotherapy and radiation,
to further destroy the already faulty immune system
in their quest to KILL more cancer cells, even if they do not
think any are left in the body.
A patient with an under active thyroid gland (hypothyroid)
will be given a drug to replace the chemicals) that their thyroid
gland was supposed to be producing. The idea of supporting
this gland
with nutrients whose
long-term deficiency
may have caused the
problem, is not even
investigated. The
idea that detoxifying
this organ to see if it
will begin to work better
or normally, is also not investigated or taught in medical
school. If a person has diabetes, medicine either replaces
the insulin that the body is not producing with daily doses
of supplemental insulin, or uses other drugs to help correct
the undesirable symptoms caused by blood sugar dysregulation.
In my practice, I rarely have any trouble helping the
patient properly regulate their blood sugar (without drugs)
after I have taught them the very suppressed principles of
a healthy diet. In addition, there are herbs which have been
shown to both help regulate blood sugar and to support improvement
of pancreatic function with no side effects.
My goal in producing an ever-increasing number of educational
videos is twofold. Firstly, I wish to give the public
the information needed to begin to address their health
problems in a less drug-like manner. Secondly, I want simply
to expand people’s general health awareness so they don’t
automatically assume the doctor knows best. With all the
published medical research on how many lives we lose every
year due to “modern” medicine, it is about time the public is
made aware of medicines shortcomings. My favorite article
on this issue is called “Death by Medicine” and was written
by three MD’s and two PhD’s. It is searchable with Google
and the main author is Gary Null PhD.
My Web page is www.Naturopath4you.com and all my
videos are available from www.ppnf.org.”
For over 15 years, david Getoff has had a full time private
practice in San Diego in the fields of Naturopathy and Clinical
Nutrition, treating all forms of illness by supporting the
body’s inherent ability to heal itself.
For the past 14 years he has been teaching “Attaining Optimal
Health in the 21st Century”, a course to help educate
the public by dispelling well-known facts that are actually
myths, and teaching his students the research that generally
is withheld from the public at large. His growing numbers
of exceptional educational videos and audio recordings, including
this course, are available from the Price Pottenger
Nutrition Foundation at www.ppnf.org or 1-800-FOODS4u.
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