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John McDonell’s Health Care “Reform”…and then some…
When approaching the subject of Health Care Reform, I strongly wonder if I’m just deluding myself. After all for weeks and weeks, I have posted ideas on how a quite different view of science fact would yield a very different take on how health/death care is now practiced. There has been little to no reaction (besides MK}. So just what needs reforming???
Should I propose a very different form of government to American citizens who believe that somehow being ‘the greatest’ does not allow for significant change (even revolution)? I really am (up-to-here) with self-proclaimed conservatives who believe that ‘the past” was an idealistic utopia. These folks think: all we must do to ‘fix’ America is to return to a fictitious time where a magical document (US-constitution) will correct things.
My Dad (deceased) used to chide me about ‘not criticizing unless you have a better plan’. [Of course his plan was only to shut-me-up.] Nobody, actually believes a ‘Third Option’ (beside conservative and liberal) can be feasible. We’ll see!
The idea is very short, I call it a ‘floating-constitution’. All citizens agree to abide by the set of constitutional laws/principles THAT THEY THEMSELVES have fashioned for 50 years. Because economic matters are integral (though not defining) of a people, in the middle of the ’50′, an economic plan will govern economic concerns.
This ‘idea’ has all sorts of benefits Including a practical way of initiating a communication/dialogue between generations. Besides telling me that I’m nuts, or that such a plan would never work, please tell me ‘why’, it won’t work. And please list some things that will happen under such a program.
JOHN MCDONELL’S “Health Care Reform”….November 25th, 2009
Since I’m blogging quite often now about some rather ‘far-out’ medicine, perhaps you should know that I am not ‘expert’ at anything (very opinionated – yes; ’expert’ – no.) So you MAY find some of these unconventional approaches practiced in your
neighborhood, but you will likely never even hear/read about some of them, except in these pages. Your own doctor (both orthodox or ‘alternate’) has likely not even heard of some of these either, so asking for an ‘expert’ opinion from them, should be mixed with a whole lot of common sense from you.
There is quite a bit written these days about stem-cell treatments, and PL’ers make the distinction between adult stem cells (good) and embryonic stem cells (bad). Researchers theoretically prefer embryonic stem cells because these can become any kind of cell (pluripotent). Adult stem cells are much more restricted in what kind of cells they can become. In practice though, embryonic cells have an uncanny proclivity to become cancerous also. This is such a profound aspect, that many researchers are returning to studies involving only adult stem cells as therapeutic tools.
John McDonell’s “Health Care Reform” November 19th, 2009
Energy & health:
The biochemical prototype [(A + B >>> X + Y) with (1) enzymes, (2) co-factors and (#) ENERGY as catalysts] means a great deal, but it is not everything. The easiest one
to note is the seasonal variation …. In sunlight and heat. It is noted that optimal growth of plants occurs within a specific temperature range and also a parall;el available sunlight range.
Apparently (according to my farmer-Grandfather) seeds would lie dormant, if seeds were sown in soil that was too cold. Often he would begin sowing weeks after all his neighbors, but his yield always surpassed others.
Some elderly Italian friends (when they plant seeds) will often use warm water. Another of their tricks is to soak the hole first before you put-in a flowering plant-seedling or seedling tree.
The Thoughts of John McDonell
As a few of you know, I am Canadian. Most of our laws are very similar to the American experience, but there are subtle differences in what we generally agree to. And just as our heritage-experience is different, so too our ‘experience’ of reality is different based on age, race, education, … on and on. Part of my concept of tolerance stems no-doubt from the extremes in seasonal-weather that is ‘normal’ for me. Many moons ago, MK asked me to share a bit.
It is both a joy and privilege to do this; mainly because I have changed so much by my experiences. Many here are Catholic (as am I), but I tend to be aroused by the (seemingly) simplest of phrases: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” I knew immediately that it was Mom-Mary speaking. No need for any doctrinal affirmation. It was some decades before I knew why I knew that it was her voice.
John McDonell’s Health Care “Reform”
Much of the anti-science (or choosing to distrust scientific findings) is not about methodology (Rae), but about choosing which ‘science facts’ are taught. [My Dad used many profound statements. One of ‘em was : ‘Figures do not lie, but liars sure can figure!’] Until the Hubble telescope, science generally excluded any facts that tended to provoke unmitigated, raw awe.
Perhaps, I’ll give one very profound/problematic understanding I keep running into. Serotonin
which is in many hi-carbohydrate foods (especially grains) is changed by the pineal gland into the hormone melatonin. This melatonin has many biological functions. Among these are to relax muscles (for sleep) and a small portion of melatonin becomes thymosin, in the thymus gland.
John McDonell’s Health Care “Reform”
It’s very difficult to actually assess the impact of such a prototype (A + B >> X + Y with 3 categories of catalysts) on all biochemistry and its many offshoots, particularly Western medicine. In some ways, this is the physical manifestation of the WAY THINGS/EVENTS ARE.
These are not at all relativistic (depending on anyone’s will).
I find it quite strange that when ALL science and any known body of knowledge is thoroughly objective/repeatable [ if said ‘science’ is not re-produceable; then it is not a ‘science’.], some would adhere to the belief that morality is relativistic … as if the act of ‘choosing’ means morality itself is relative. Too bad; the consequences are not relativistic. Morality, like ‘ethics’, is a valid science, and has been for millennia.
John McDonell’s Health Care “Reform”
Yesterday I was at my local COSTCO buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Biscuit, the Wonder Dog and was in the checkout line when a woman behind me asked if I had a 
dog.
What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I’m retired and have little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn’t have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn’t, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I’d lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. 
I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff
an Irish Setter’s butt and a car hit us both.
John McDonell’s Health Care “Reform”
My apologies to John…again. Live Writer went down on me (that’s the program that I write my posts from) and I haven’t been able to post. I tried once and you all saw the disaster that turned out to be.
So without further ado, here is Johns next installment…
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A little lipid(fat) chemistry theory … and the physical expression of why we ‘live’ and are not just things …
John McDonnel’s Health Care “Reform”
I’ve been sick for the past three days…bad cold, bad grandson. So I didn’t open John’s email/post until this morning. Once I open an email the heading isn’t in bold anymore and I tend to ignore it…didn’t want to do that so I waited until I felt better. How funny that this weeks post about outside energy sources affecting our health would come right after the post about how music affects me…btw John, instead of pumping myself with OTC remedies, ie alka seltzer plus, decongestants, cough medicine etc., I simply drank hot water with raw honey and lemonade. With every sip, I thought of you. And lo and behold, I’m 100% better today. Usually, as a smoker, my colds go into sinus infections and chest infections. This one acted just like it was supposed to. And then it went away. God bless honey, and God bless John McDonell for making me think outside the “medicine” box…
John McDonell’s Health Care “Reform”
Yesterdays Gospel reading was about Jesus “healing” a deaf/mute man. Our deacon pointed out that there is a difference between curing and healing. Note that Jesus did not cure this deaf man. He healed him. Healing is something that takes place on a much deeper level than just the physical. Also notice that the words Jesus spoke to the man were “Be Opened”. Jesus is asking the man not just to be open to “hearing” but to be open to “listening”. To open his heart, and his mind. To let the healing powers of God enter into him. He also place His own spittle into the mouth of the man. Sometimes healing can involve unpleasantness. Sometimes it requires us to trust, and to allow things that seem repulsive to us. It also meant accepting Jesus’ physicality, in the form of His spit, into us. It is not enough to simply take His word in, we must actually take Jesus Himself in…with that in mind, I’d like to welcome a new contributor to our blog.
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