Philosophy of BYI

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BYI’s philosophy is that of encouraging self responsibility. The most fundamental tenet of Natural Health Philosophy is that, under the right circumstances, the human body has the capability of healing itself.

Natural healing ideology focuses on naturally-occurring substances, minimally-invasive methods, and encouragement of natural healing. Prevention through stress reduction and a healthy diet and lifestyle is emphasized, and pharmaceutical drugs, ionizing radiation, and surgery are generally minimized. The philosophy of naturopathic practice is self-described by six core values:

1. First, do no harm; provide the most effective health care available with the least risk to patients at all times.
2. Recognize, respect and promote the self-healing power of nature inherent in each individual human being.
3. Identify and remove the causes of illness, rather than eliminate or suppress symptoms.
4. Educate, inspire rational hope and encourage self-responsibility for health.
5. Treat each person by considering all individual health factors and influences.
6. Emphasize the condition of health to promote well-being and to prevent diseases for the individual, each community and our world.

 On the other hand, western societies have steadily come to rely on pharmaceutical drugs and modern medicine as a panacea for the majority of illnesses. This dependence suits Big Pharma whose sole objective is to increase profits, regardless of the human destruction caused. It is a “sickness industry” that suits a profit model rather than a natural health and healing approach.

An excellent expose on the state of modern medicine has been researched by Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD in their report called “Death by Medicine”.

“This fully referenced report shows the number of people having in-hospital, adverse reactions to prescribed drugs to be 2.2 million per year. The number of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed annually for viral infections is 20 million per year. The number of unnecessary medical and surgical procedures performed annually is 7.5 million per year. The number of people exposed to unnecessary hospitalization annually is 8.9 million per year.

The most stunning statistic, however, is that the total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is an astounding 783,936 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251”.

See http://www.webdc.com/pdfs/deathbymedicine.pdf for a copy of the full report.

With the above statistics, how can Governments allow such a situation to continue and exist? They do because Big Pharma spend huge sums of money on lobbyists to make sure that health legislation is passed in their favor. They also influence the health regulators (eg FDA) so that competition from natural approaches is minimized.