Nevertheless, the fact that large numbers of people experience some form of illness during their lives raises some fundamental questions, not least of which is: why does it occur? In other words, what really makes people ill?

It is generally perceived that the results from laboratory experiments have a direct relevance to human ‘health’. However, the fact that experiments conducted by ‘medical science’ are performed on tissues, cells or molecules raises a fundamental question about how these experiments relate to the functioning of a living human body, whether in health

The work of the pharmaceutical industry is clearly an extension of the work of Hippocrates, Paracelsus and others who have claimed that the body is essentially chemical in nature and that these chemicals need to be ‘balanced’ when the body is ill. Although partly true, this idea has resulted in the use of synthetic chemical compounds that are

The fact that ‘infectious diseases’ are not caused by ‘germs’ and are not transmissible, inevitably raises questions about the real nature of the illnesses referred to as ‘infectious’, and about their ability to appear to simultaneously affect large numbers of people with very similar symptoms.

Drugs, by definition, are intended to interfere with the normal functions of a living organism. The existence of effects in the blood vessels, nervous system and kidneys indicate that antihypertensive drugs interfere systemically; their effects are not restricted to the lowering of blood pressure.

“Boerhaave, Germany, (1765) stated: ‘We frequently find persons rendered paralytic by exposing themselves imprudently to quicksilver, dispersed into vapors by the fire, as gilders, chemists, miners, etc., and perhaps there are other poisons, which may produce the same disease, even externally applied’.”

Cells require both sodium and potassium, but they must be in the correct balance with respect to each other for the cells to function properly.

Raw material inputs that were cheap, available in large quantities and of a consistent composition and quality were clearly of immense economic benefit to them. But concentrating solely on economic benefits was a short-sighted view, as it engendered a lack of consideration for the possibility of adverse consequences and therefore failed to

It is widely acknowledged that all medicines produce ‘side effects’, which are effectively new symptoms that are the direct result of the treatment.