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Health Tip ~ Biology versus Chemistry
B. Lytton-Bernard, D.Sc., D.O. |
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 Editor's Note : if you know the source of this article please contact me by clicking on "Contact Us" at top right of page, John Morley, Ed. It's a very trenchant and great article but I do not know how I came by it!
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For years, the public has been told by the medical profession that if we will just give them enough money and enough time, they will find a cure for everything that ails us. But they have had a lot of money and a lot of time, and yet, where is the cure for cancer, cardiovascular problems,
diabetes, arthritis, AIDS, or even the common cold? If the medical profession wants to find a cure for the ills of mankind, they must stop studying CHEMISTRY and start studying BIOLOGY!
Well, I was glancing through my library the other day and came upon an article written many, many years ago. The pages were already brown and tattered, but the title "Biology Versus Chemistry" fairly leaped off the page and I thought the author's concepts might be of interest to our readers.
Health Will Never Come From The Laboratory
This is the age of chemistry and physics. The laws of biology are laid aside and chemistry is resorted to solve problems of health. For three thousand years hope has dwelt in mankind that some mysterious remedy will be found to counter disease. The view is that chemistry will solve the problem by hitting upon some drug, which will fulfill this hope.
The human body is not a chemical formula. It is an organism. In studying organisms biology lays down its first law: that while plants can make use of inorganic elements and by means of solar energy build them up into its own substance, animal organisms have not this power and are dependent for their sustenance on the plant kingdom.
Thus it is clear that every attempt to convert inorganic material into organic animal tissue must fail. In other words, every inorganic material becomes a foreign element in the animal organism and consequently a poison to it.
If we would understand the functions of the human body it is obvious that we should not depend on the discovery of any inorganic material, no matter how cleverly concocted, as a solution to the health problem in the human body. We must understand that whatever materials we find in the human body and are being used for the welfare of the organism MUST COME FROM LIVING ORGANIC MATTER.
The chemist is not trained to think in biological terms. His dominant thought when dealing with the human body is not to consider the laws of biology and the need or the conditions to which the human body is subjected and which must conform to these biological laws, but to make a hit or miss putting together of certain chemicals with the object of producing a remedy, or, as the old superstition calls it, a 'cure,' for disease. And this in spite of the fact that the chemicals can never be assimilated or used by the human organism.
Understanding Life's Needs
To use the biololgical conception of health and its promotion we consider the living human organism from this point of view of being adapted to certain necessities. We have to observe what are the characteristics of the organism. We are compelled to conform to the laws of the organism itself, in other words, the laws of biology.
To know the chemical composition of the body is by no means in any way sufficient, for our biological understanding shows us that if we would have these chemicals assimilated by the organism we must consume them in a way that the organism is capable of digesting and assimilating them into its own substance. While the chemist may ignore this and try to find chemicals which have a beneficial effect upon the organism, the biologist knows that these chemicals must be part of the composition of the food that it has been customary for the organism to take for the replenishment of its sustenance and that there is no other way.
It is seen, therefore, that biology is a much deeper study than chemistry, in spite of what the chemist may think. The laws of biology are more definite: they can put chemicals together in a test tube and arrive at new compositions, but you cannot change the biological nature of an organism. This is by no means a tragedy for the human race. It is wiser to conform to the laws of biology than to subject the body to conditions which disagree with it and cause pathology, than it is to try to side-step them and attempt to create a new type of organism as you would concoct a new chemical composition in a test tube.
Biology leads us to the study of organisms in the environment to which they have been accustomed. Different organisms have developed their own characteristics in the conditions which enable them to live and prosper healthwise. There are certain clear characteristics in the anatomy and physiology of organisms. The carnivorous mammals have a very short alimentary canal, comparatively speaking, whereas the non-carnivorous have one more or less four times the comparative length.
Animal Products Dangerous to Humans
Thus the attempt which has been made by the human organism to sustain itself on animal products must be fraught with danger to the organism and to eventual pathology; and, of course, we observe this to be the case. Likewise, not being adopted to the assimilation of inorganic elements, if we do take them into the human organism a pathology must be expected, and again, this is what we observe.
On the other hand, where we conform to the laws of biology, the laws of life, we find the organism prospering. Our observation of the needs of the human organism show us that we need to breathe the air of a certain cleanliness, we need liquids to replace those that have been utilized and expelled by the body. Our food must be complete. If we remove from it any elements the organism has become dependent on for good functioning, it is easy to see that where we try to live upon deficient foods health must inevitably suffer, and that it is of very little use to try to find some way of swallowing the elements that have been extracted by taking them in inorganic form.
Exercise Mandatory
We observe that the body has developed and kept itself in a healthy condition by activity. As Eugene Sandow used to say, 'Life is movement' If we remain inactive for long periods the organism adapts itself to inactivity, muscles atrophy and functions weaken.
Observing Our Adaptions Solves All Health Problems
So it is that the laws of biology show us clearly that we have to conform, that we have to continue to adapt ourselves to the conditions which have been determined. The sooner we admit this the sooner shall we solve the problems of health.
We have seen that the human being is a non-carnivorous organism. In the same way that we arrived at this conclusion, so can we ascertain whether other items of food are those that are best for the organism.
No Answers to Disease Ever Come From The Laboratory
It is obvious that the biological method is the safe one to assure continuous good health. We would be wise to stop wasting our energies trying to find some chemical, inorganic material which can benefit the human organism. It is contrary to all natural or scientific law. The human race faces the need for adapting its environment to its biological needs. We cannot change the organism and adapt it to unbiological impositions.
The soundness of biological living is shown in its acceptance of these facts.
Thus it is truly scientific, that is, it is in harmony with the Laws of Nature as they really are, and not as we would like to imagine they may be. Dr. Shelton is right when he ridicules the label of 'scientist' being applied to those individuals who ignore the first and most clearly defined Laws of Nature.
Attempts to refute the Laws of Nature and failure to recognize the unity of cause and effect : these are unscientific and should be abandoned. The sooer they are, the sooner will mankind release itself from the terrors and miseries of ill health that abound today.
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