It's interesting how Serge always harps on about the so-called evils of Science, how disease and death are on the rise, that Science is doing nothing to help and that the only way to be saved is through Serge and his non-teachings.
Typically, disease is characterised by Serge as being a modern phenomenon born out of bad eating and bad living.
Usually he uses Cancer as his example, especially those that have not yet got a prevention or cure. Why not, choose one of the ones Science hasn't been able to save us from YET in order to prove Science is incapable of doing ANYTHING to help - nevermind the thousands of diseases and illnesses it has cured and prevented and the millions of lives it has saved.
It does beg the question: if Serge and Universal Medicine are so much better, what has Serge actually done to HELP anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
I recently came across an article on the History of Diabetes: [
www.diabeteshealth.com]
If you take the time to read it, you will see, that while only one example, of only one disease, it is completely at odds with the whole Science Conundrum Serge has constructed.
I am going to assume that we all know what Diabetes is but for those not up with the statistics, an estimated 1 in 7 Australians suffers from the disease, diabetes is the fasting growing chronic disease in Australia and the sixth leading cause of death in Australia.
Ok, got your head around those facts, now read on for a short History of Diabetes.
“For 2,000 years diabetes has been recognized as a devastating and deadly disease.” It was first described by Aretaeus in the first century A.D. “Physicians in ancient times, like Aretaeus, recognized the symptoms of diabetes but were powerless to effectively treat it.” Hmmm, Ancient Times, so around the same time that Serge’s “Ancient Wisdom” was bumbling around looking for a light switch… but what about the faceless scientists, you know the ones that Serge describes as not caring, and being borderline useless, oh, they cared so little that they were prepared to drink their patients urine in order to diagnose the illness “In the 17th century a London physician, Dr. Thomas Willis, determined whether his patients had diabetes or not by sampling their urine. If it had a sweet taste he would diagnose them with diabetes mellitus- "honeyed" diabetes. This method of monitoring blood sugars went largely unchanged until the 20th century.” They came up with low calorie diets – as little as 450 calories a day (like the one Serge has his otherwise healthy “students” on), the diet “prolonged the life of people with diabetes but kept them weak and suffering from near starvation.”
Diabetes effects the pancreas which creates Insulin, Insulin enables sugars to travel from the bloodstream to cells providing us with energy the lifesource that keeps our body functioning. Without Insulin, sugars build up in the bloodstream, slowing the circulation of blood, until the veins can hold no more and the sugar leaches into the surrounding tissue (unable to be absorbed) taking with it precious fluids compounding the lack of nutrition with unquenchable dehydration, death is caused by the inability of the lungs to expel carbon dioxide. Without Insulin the expected outcome was described as such:
"Food and drink no longer mattered, often could not be taken. A restless drowsiness shaded into semi-consciousness. As the lungs heaved desperately to expel carbonic acid (as carbon dioxide), the dying diabetic took huge gasps of air to try to increase his capacity. 'Air hunger' the doctors called it, and the whole process was sometimes described as 'internal suffocation.'
But then in 1921, “something truly miraculous occurred in Ontario, Canada. A young surgeon Frederick Banting, and his assistant Charles Best, kept a severely diabetic dog alive for 70 days by injecting it with a murky concoction of canine pancreas extract. With the help of Dr. Collip and Dr. Macleod, Banting and Best administered a more refined extract of insulin to Leonard Thompson, a young boy dying of diabetes. Within 24 hours, Leonard's dangerously high blood sugars had dropped to near normal levels.”
“Until the discovery of insulin, most children diagnosed with diabetes were expected to live less than a year. In a matter of 24 hours the boy's life had been saved. News of the miracle extract, insulin, spread like wildfire across the world.”
It’s worth taking a minute to recognise that humanity had been suffering from this ancient disease for at least 2000 years, in a horrible, tortuous way, and it was only 92 years ago that modern science developed a life-saving treatment – not a cure mind you, that is still a way off – but weigh those symptoms and prognosis up against the stats from the first article, would you wish to live in a world where 1 in 7 people was dying a long drawn out death from diabetes induced “internal suffocation”.
I’ll end the post as the second article itself ends by quoting Hippocrate's humble warning to future physicians, written in his Corpus Hippocraticum in the first century B.C., "Life is short, art is long, the right moment soon speeds past, experience deceives, judgment is difficult!"
Sources:
[www.diabetesaustralia.com.au]
[www.diabeteshealth.com]