Medical Care Is Not Healthcare;
It's What We Do For Ourselves!

Hi, I'm Richard Ruhling, MD, a retired physician who taught Health Science at Loma Linda University after becoming board-certified in Internal Medicine. It wasn't easy, but I now see prescription drugs as a leading cause of illness, disability and death .

I will share the medical literature to support this in the middle column (>>>) but first, let me tell you about the most overlooked cause illness and medical symptoms, both by doctors and people--it can be a food or chemical that we don't suspect!  

Let me give you an example. While in Executive Health, I had one executive says that sugar bothered his joints. Another said that cheese gave him joint aches. A third said meat was a factor in his arthritis. They were smarter than I was to figure out a cause to their symptoms.

When I got headaches and couldn't see a relationship to what I ate or drank, I asked a neurologist who taught medical students, and he said, what I ate or drank would be a "very rare" cause of headaches. I later learned he didn't know. Most doctors don't know the cause of conditions in their textbooks that list most diseases as "Etiology [cause] Unknown." 

In my cases, I liked bread, pastry and pasta--I was overdoing it and it became toxic to me. I didn't listen to body signals like passing gas, and when headaches came, it didn't seem related to what I ate. The most likely time was Monday morning, but I hadn't been partying over the weekend, and I didn't hate my job--I couldn't figure  it out.

Though most allergists don't understand this, one wisely diagnosed my problem and it works like this. If you become allergiest to a food or chemical, it acts like a poison and you develop a tolerance to it, like to nicotine. And people don't get sick when they smoke--they get sick when they try to stop smoking, on withdrawal.

That's the way my headaches were. Monday to Friday I took two sandwiches to work, but on the weekend we had oat waffles (not toast) and other things that gave me headaches as withdrawal symptom. Different people may get colitis, arthritis, gastritis from a food or chemical they don't realize is the cause of their symptoms.

If you get symptoms and you don't know the cause and  you don't take a prescription drug, suspect the possibility that a food or chemical is causing it. #1 suspect for many symptoms is caffeine as in coffee, tea or colas. If this could be you, scan the list of known problems by clicking on Caffeine at this link .

If you don't drink caffeinated beverages, you may still appreciate other information at
Be Your Own Doctor ! 

Ruhling says cardiologists should have embraced Pritikin with information on how to get 85% of patients off blood pressure drugs, but their response was negative. They said he hadn't cured it because if people go off the diet, their blood pressure goes up. He adds that their response shows how broken the medical system is.

Pritikin's Longevity Center reported 65 patients with triple vessel disease that had been scheduled for bypass surgery, but they went to Pritikin's center instead. Three years later, 90% never had surgery; and only one had died from heart disease. But in spite of these great results, Pritikin got no help from mainstream medicine, media or the heart association.

A Harvard cardiologist told 60 Minutes that 90% of heart by-pass surgeries weren't necessary, and the US News (Aug 5, 1990) reported on Dean Ornish' center 15 years after Pritikin's report.

Bill Clinton got the message and got on a low cholesterol, low fat diet from Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn at the Cleveland Clinic because with no change in diet, surgery, grafts and stints will soon plug up again.

Dr. Lester Breslow, Dean of UCLA's School of Public Health, discovered in a 10-year federally-funded study that normal-weight people who did not drink or smoke had a 30-year advantage to those with an opposite profile that included exercise, 7 hours of sleep, 5 glasses of water daily--"happy" people who ate breakfast.

Ruhling says millions of people have no appetite for breakfast because they ate late and they can't burn off the extra calories that get stored as fat. He says breakfast and mid-afternoon is the best times when people can eat more and not feel hungry when they go to bed, and their stomach can rest when they do.

There are a wide range of chronic problems that we brought on ourselves by what we put in our mouths since childhood. If we were normal at birth and have problems now, we did it to ourselves, but this is reversible if we can discern the cause and eliminate it.

I wasn't smart enough to figure it out for my headaches . I even asked the neurologist who taught medical students if anything I ate or drank could cause my headaches. He said that would be very rare for my type of [tension] headache. I later learned that he didn't know either!

I loved pasta, pastry and whole wheat sandwiches and by overdoing it, became allergic, but I didn't get a headache when I ate them (two a day at work). I would get a headache after a weekend of other foods (oat waffles was a family tradition on Sunday) so that I was going through a withdrawal to a food that was a poison to me like nicotine that I had built up a tolerance to, just as people don't get sick when they smoke--they feel bad on withdrawal.

That's an example of a wide range of symptoms from foods or chemicals. An example from executives I examined is one who said sugar bothered his joints. Another said cheese gave him joint pains. A third one said meat gave him arthritis. These were smart men, but most people who don't figure it out get a prescription that sooner or later brings trouble.

So I wrote this book--

It addresses the common problems and what we can do using natural remedies with a focus on foods and eating habits. It's only $2.99 in ebook on Amazon Kindle and they offer a free download for easy reading. It will be FREE Thursday, Dec 31 as a help for New Year's Resolutions! 

For twice the price you can get a truly excellent soft-cover that some physicians, myself included, say is the best book on health ever written. See the left column at http://ChooseABetterDestiny.com where you will also get a link to the online  Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies.

For information on heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes, please visit my website at http://RichardRuhling.com 
If I had cancer,  I would want to consider the information at http://CancerTutor.com  
Another website of interest is http://DailyDangers.wordpress.com   

Here's a short video with reasons why prescription drugs are risky.

60 School Shootings and 4800 Acts of Violence Linked to Psychiatrist, Drugs; Congress' Reaction--Take Guns

http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2013/01/60-school-shootings-in-20-years-of-4800-violent-incidents-all-linked-to-psychiatric-drugs-2464466.html/

Instead of addressing the issue with big pharma or FDA, Congress gets $400 million a year donated to their re-election campaign by drug companies. One senator, confronted with medical literature showing drugs as a leading cause of death said, "You are wasting your time, they own us!" Here's another MD insight: 


You don't think so? Watch this Big Pharma Executive Tell the Truth:

Drugs will kill you or make you sick sooner or later, but most people aren't able to get out of the system by cutting down on their own.   

Trouble is coming with Obamacare. Please read the middle column >>>

Congress is "dancing with the devil," says Marcia Angell, MD, in The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us, 2004, published by Random House. Angell says, "Drug companies promote diseases to match their drugs. Millions of normal Americans have come to believe that they have dubious or exaggerated ailments like 'generalized anxiety disorder,' 'erectile dysfunction,' 'PMDD,' and 'GERD." Government should get the drug ads off TV, but congress likes the $400 million that drug companies spend on their re-election campaign.