The Plant Analogy

We can all agree that all living organisms are made up of cells working together to maintain life.  Each organism is in fact an ecosystem of cells.  I like to think of all my patients this way.  I just see ecosystems of cells that are toxic or deficient and my job is to help them to become pure and sufficient.  When this occurs the ecosystem naturally goes back to its natural state – homeostasis and health.  There are countless examples of this to prove I am right.  Stop smoking and your lungs clear (as long as you have not exhausted your innate ability to adapt).  Stop polluting rivers and the plants and fish come back.  Walk away from a logged forest for long enough and a forest will return.  The less we intervene in natural ecosystems the healthier they are – period.  When people realize that they are ecosystems they will stop polluting themselves and start making ecologically friendly or physiologically compatible lifestyle choices.

Think of plants.  If you had a bunch of plants that were wilting what would you do?  Add drugs and remove parts?  I doubt it.  You would ask intelligent questions such as if the plants were getting enough sunlight.  You might notice that the wilting plants were in the shade and, realizing that these particular plants require a lot of sunlight, you would intelligently put them in the sun.  Well they should all stop wilting right?  Guess what.  They all wilted more!  If you were doing a study you would have to conclude that sunlight made plants worse.  But you knew these plants were deficient in sunlight, how is this possible?

What if they were also deficient in water?  Putting a dry plant in the sun could indeed make it dry out faster couldn’t it?  O.K. then, let’s give all the plants water and put them in the sun.  You’re a brilliant clinician!  Too bad only a few of the plants got better.  In other words, no significant difference between water and sunlight and flipping a coin or water and sunlight and fake water and sunlight.  Your study concludes that water and sunlight has no beneficial effect on wilting plants.  What?  Some of the plants were saved!  Sorry, not statistically significantly better than the control group and in the RCT model you must conclude that your intervention had no effect.  How scientific!  What a wonderful gold standard.

But wait, you won’t give up.  You will also add nutrients to the soil.  Now you have well fed, well watered plans basking in the sun all day.  Surely your plants are totally sufficient now and will thrive.  Sorry, only a few get better again.  How is this possible?  Your study will be quoted as evidence that water, sunlight, and food is no good for plants.  But we know for sure plants will die without this stuff!  Sorry, we must be scientific and your RCT study clearly showed that water, nutrients, and sunlight were not any better for plants than fake water, nutrients, and sunlight.

But if I take healthy plants and take away water, nutrients, and sunlight they will all die!  Wait a minute, did you want to study healthy plats?  That is not within the paradigm of allopathy because it cannot answer the real important questions of whether or not your intervention improved symptoms or treated a disease.  In allopathy you must evaluate everything based on these criteria.

By the way, why didn’t your plants all thrive if you gave them all water, nutrients, and sunlight?  They were toxic!  Your neighbor was dumping out his oil in his back yard and it got into the root systems of your plants!

I hope you see that in order to be healthy and well, in order to maintain homeostasis, ecosystems have to have sufficiency in ALL the required nutrients, and purity  in ALL aspects of their environment AT THE SAME TIME, for a period of time!  This is what your patients need, they are ecosystems of cells.

I hope you also realize that in every case it was NOT a genetic problem with the plants or the cells of the plant ecosystem that was the problem.  The problem was the deficient and toxic environments the plants were in.  However, if you studied the genetics of these sick plants you would see different genes being expressed in the sick plants than in healthy ones.  This is the EFFECT of the deficient and toxic environment NOT the CAUSE!  Interesting isn’t it.