Miasma Theory

March 03, 2022 , Ted Slanker

Miasma Theory

Column #339 March 4, 2022 Holistic Medicine

Our medical industry is superb when it comes to dealing with injuries. But it's a disaster when it comes to chronic diseases. I've written numerous articles over the years on this topic. My take has been that it seems the medical community has been more focused on keeping people sick than in curing them. All too often I concluded with a follow-the-money statement that just relied on commonsense deductions rather than instances based on actual events and bad actors.

Now, after two years of fearmongering a pandemic that was supposed to kill off many millions of people, we’re seeing medical industry professionals of all stripes stepping forward with horror stories about corruption, deception, and intimidation in the medical industry. Most of the recent complaints involve medical tyranny’s total lack of science, dictated experimental vaccinations, and the numerous harms caused by COVID-19 policies that were forced upon the people of the world. And there’s no question it was for the big bucks involving the CDC and Big Pharma.

But those transgressions aren’t the really big bucks. The medical industry’s really big bucks come from treating chronic diseases with drugs and operations that attack symptoms. Since the chronic diseases are never actually cured with that approach, they consume 85% of all the money spent on healthcare year in and year out. The tragedy here is that what medical professionals continue to ignore, or are clueless about, is that most chronic diseases can be avoided, suppressed, or cured by diet—which avoids drugs and operations.

There are more than 100 chronic diseases that can be addressed to one degree or another with nutrition. They include heart disease, cancer, diabetes, Crohn’s, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, and more which are all big money makers for Big Pharma, hospitals, and clinics.

Some of the more outspoken “whistle blowers” from the medical field are Dr. Robert Malone, Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Peter McCullough, and Dr. Scott Atlas. But there are thousands more. Most of them have been maliciously attacked by the MSM, CDC, and medical establishment for being charlatans. Just recently another famous “whistle blower” was maligned by the “New York Times.” He is Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—who’s recent book became #1 on Amazon and earned national bestseller rankings with “New York Times,” “Wall Street Journal,” “USA Today” and “Publishers Weekly.”^{1 2 3}

In his book Kennedy really digs in and exposes a slew of corrupt characters behind modern medical tyranny. Basically, he describes an oligarchical government where oligarchs work with bureaucrats for profit. Throughout history, oligarchies have often been tyrannical, relying on public obedience or oppression to exist. This we’ve seen recently, but it’s been around a lot longer than we have.

I had never heard of the term “Miasma Theory.” But in his book Kennedy provided a big picture overview of alternative medical theories and their programmed demise by a couple of oligarchs. It begins around 1900 as the Carnegie Foundation and the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research mapped out plans to improve America’s medical profession with better education. In so doing they sponsored the Flexner Report which was published in 1910. It pointed out educational inadequacies and pushed for a more “scientific approach” to medicine and—much more.^{4 5 6 7 8 9 10}

In 1904, there were 160 MD-granting American institutions training doctors in a broad spectrum of specialties. By 1935 that number had coalesced into only 66 institutions, greatly reducing the number of doctors being graduated. Also, the report’s recommendation to utilize modern drugs and vaccines for treating diseases caused a huge shift in the practice of medicine away from osteopathic medicine, chiropractic medicine, electrotherapy, eclectic medicine, naturopathy, and homeopathy to a “germ theory” approach. (Today there are 155 accredited MD-granting institutions, and 37 accredited DO-granting institutions in the United States. The nation’s population has increased 4.3 times since 1900.)¹¹

As the transitions in education took place, fewer doctors and more emphasis on products from Big Pharma ramped up healthcare costs. Nutrition and other holistic practices were no longer taught in medical schools as a means to prevent or reverse disease. Instead drugs, vaccines, and operations were invented to treat symptoms instead of addressing the causes of disease. Because of greater financial returns brought on by these changes, this led to exciting investment opportunities in manufactured pharmaceuticals, medical instruments, and hospitals.

This push for uniformity in medical care has been a boon for the healthcare industry. It’s now fully 18% of the nation’s GDP! But it’s been a disaster for the quality of life for many people who have succumbed to the ever increasing incidences of chronic diseases and the never-ending expenses for treating symptoms.

Interestingly, this background helps us to understand why the real science that has been coming out about nutrition’s impact on health is either suppressed or buried under hundreds of phoney, nonsensical reports that are published under the name of science. Ask a doctor about how to address the Omega-3 deficiency and you’ll get mumbo jumbo for an answer. He won’t even know how you can measure this critical nutritional deficiency that plagues most Americans. Ask a doctor if saturated animal fats cause clogging of the arteries? He’ll say it does as he repeats a 100-year-old myth.

Therefore, if you want to optimize your health and immunity to germs, you are on your own. You must do your own homework and utilize your critical thinking skills. To get started I suggest that you learn about the dangers of the Omega-3 deficiency. Read “The Importance of the Ratio of Omega-6/Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids” by Dr. Simopoulos. Get a DIY Omega-3 blood test for about $100 from “omega3test” and put slanker in the offer code box for a discount. Another good read is “Saturated Fat Is Not the Major Issue” by Aseem Malhotra. Then read over my chemistry of food article and focus on the most complete foods for daily consumption.^{12 13 14 15}

Complete foods are low glycemic, nutrient diverse and dense, with near 1:1 balances of the Omega-6 and Omega-3 essential fatty acids. The best whole foods are grass-fed and Omega-3 meats, wild-caught seafood, green leafy vegetables, and then more sparingly, squashes and selected beans. Then the list gets very sparse. For instance, early man never ate a lot of fruit because it was seasonal, often sour and full of seeds, and not abundant when in season. The produce sections of modern grocery stores are artificial, foreign departures from what was available even just 100 years ago much less before man’s invention of farming about 11,000 years ago.

Interestingly, Kennedy summed up the germ theory debate this way: “As a final note, it seems to me that a mutually respectful science-based, evidence-based marriage incorporating the best of these two clashing dogmas [alternative and germ] would best serve public health and humankind.”^{16 17}

I think that’s true. There are botanical approaches that might not be safe just like there are vaccines and modern drugs that are not safe. But some do work on both sides and have few harms. In the long-term, eating the whole foods man ate prior to his invention of agriculture have few if any downsides and a lot of upside. That’s because when a body is healthy and its immune system is in tiptop notch shape, he’s more likely to thrive in our germ infested world.

To your health.

Ted Slanker

Ted Slanker has been reporting on the fundamentals of nutritional research in publications, television and radio appearances, and at conferences since 1999. He condenses complex studies into the basics required for health and well-being. His eBook, The Real Diet of Man, is available online.

Don't miss these links for additional reading:

1. A Kennedy’s Crusade Against Covid Vaccines Anguishes Family and Friends by Adam Nagourney from The New York Times

2. The New York Times’ Disgraceful and Deceitful Attack on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. by Edward Curtin from Truth Comes to Light

3. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

4. Miasma Theory by Theodore H. Tulchinsky MD MPH from Science Direct

5. Miasma Theory from Wikipedia

6. Eclectic Medicine from Wikipedia

7. What Is Holistic Medicine? by Dr. Chuanxin Wang from Acupuncture and Massage College

8. The Rockefellers, the Flexner Report, the AMA, and Their Effect on Alternative Nutritional (Botanical) Medicine by WaySide from Truth In Plain Sight

9. Flexner Report from Wikipedia

10. Germ Theory of Disease from Wikipedia,

11. List of Medical Schools in the United States from Wikipedia