Did you know that eating transgenic food can cause health problems? Or that it has never been proved that cholesterol can cause heart attacks? Did you know that antidepressant medications can make you become a "legal" drug addict? Abuse of antibiotics can provoke that diseases as innocent as ear infection end up with complications and causing death soon (not in the distant future but in the coming years!)? That a healthy child can become autistic after administering him vaccinations with mercury? If you want to know more about why some doctors and pharmaceutical companies lie, then read on ...

The World Health Organization (WHO), in the Constitution of 1946, defines health as the state of complete physical, mental and social welfare. Health implies that all basic needs of people are covered: affective, sanitary, nutritional, social and cultural. A more dynamic definition of health is to achieve the highest level of physical, mental, social and of function welfare, that the environmental conditions and social factors in which the individual lives immersed allow.

From our point of view, moreover, we understand health as a holistic and dynamic process that includes both the processes of disease and absence of it. We understand that health and disease are a continuous and cyclical process, where the separation of the two concepts are difficult to distinguish, and where to be, to think, to feel and to do must be coordinated in an equilibrium between themselves and with the community.

When the individual soul-mind-body is not working properly, it shows us the problem by expressing it with symptoms. It's at this point that we must stop, become aware of the disorder and be grateful that the symptom manifested since that made us be aware that we were not well. Then the time comes to cure the disease and, what's more difficult, to cure the real cause of its manifestation.

The allopathic medicine -the official one- calls disease what it actually is the autohealing process itself, providing medicines from the pharmaceutical industry that, in fact, only eliminate the symptoms. The pharmaceutical industry is currently one of the most influential and profitable industries in the world, and with a high growth levels globally. Most pharmaceutical companies are internationally oriented and have subsidiaries in many countries.

More than 80% of the cost of research to develop new medicines is financed by governments and citizens. However, companies continue to extend the patents, thereby increasing the prices of medicines. But that's not all. Pharmaceutical companies have been accused of spreading diseases, of contributing to the medication of life system problems, of developing drugs that create chronically dependent sick people, etc.. With all this, a blind and drug intoxicated society has been reached, with often unnecessary drugs which create dependency, not only physical but also, and above all, mental. How is it possible the commercialization of health? How can it be that pharmaceutical industry profits prevail over the health of people, and that the government looks to another direction instead of acting against this?

An example is the case of drugs tranquilizers. The psychologist Ricardo Ros, in his book 'Stop Anxiety', highlights that pills create addition rather than cure. A report by the General Directorate of Pharmacy of the Ministry of Health and Consume acknowledges that in 5 years the use of these drugs has increased by 40%. Over 85% of the cost of these drugs is covered with money from the state, with which it could recruit 9,000 mental health experts. Psychological treatment is usually insufficient, while the use of tranquilizers is maintained indefinitely without the person cure. Nevertheless, the state continues bidding for the pill.

Psychoneuroimmunology studies the interactions between behavior, brain and the immune system. This scientific discipline has shown that neural events such as stress affect our health and that positive emotions help to prevent malfunctions in our body. Thanks to these discoveries, non-drug techniques such as "Neurofeedback" (non-invasive treatment that involves applying electrodes to the head which records and help train the activity of the brain) have had great success, and a big number of scientific material shows it. But why don't most of the doctors tell us that?

Vaccines given to our children may be the cause of the increased 2000% of autism cases. Thimerosal, a conservative-based mercury used in several vaccines (hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, MMR, flu ...), may be the trigger. After years of denying it, the Court of Federal Claims at the U.S., in November 2007, acknowledged the claimant parents to be right, so that the pharmaceutical industry had to pay for damages in a court silenced by the press.

Another issue entirely unknown by the society is that it has never been shown that cholesterol can cause heart attacks. This idea comes from an article by Ancel Keys in which he related cholesterol and heart attacks. Later, it was shown that the study was a fraud since the data which didn't match his theory were simply excluded. There are studies, though, that show that high cholesterol protects against infections and arteriosclerosis (deposition of lipids in the arteries). In addition, the most common drugs taken to lower cholesterol levels, statins have strong side effects ranging from alterations of functions of the muscles, heart and brain to malformations in the fetus in pregnant women. Interestingly, statins are one of the drugs that bring more benefits to the pharmaceutical industry (more than 15,000 million dollars each year) ... Is it maybe that there are people interested in not revealing that cholesterol is not bad, but a biomolecule more in our body?

Antibiotics are chemicals used to remove and / or prevent the growth of pathogenic microorganisms such as bacteria and some fungi and protozoa (but not viruses). The first antibiotic, penicillin, was accidentally discovered by Alexander Fleming, though the list has been growing rapidly over the years. As a result, many infectious diseases that previously caused death, now have easy treatment. However, abuse, misuse and lack of control of these antibiotics, like not taking the medication until the end of the treatment or not following the dose, the excess of "disinfectant" as cleaning products, the use of antibiotics in the food industry for preserving foods, taking antibiotics for flu or a cold (when they will not have any effect, because they are caused by a virus and not bacteria), etc., has made that the microorganisms have been becoming resistant to antibiotics in a very alarming way, and therefore, in the near future, diseases as common as an angina, pharyngitis, or just an ear infection, won't have a cure.

But not only the pharmaceutical industries play with our health. A recent study (Artemis Woman, 2009) reviews bibliographically the available toxicity studies on transgenic food and examines the importance of the discoveries on human and animal health as well as the limitations of the procedures used to evaluate the safety of these foods. The results of most studies indicate that they can cause toxic effects in organs such as liver, pancreas, kidneys and reproductive organs, and can alter the immunological, biochemical and blood parameters. Once again, the industry hides and dresses up our scientific results.

However, there are many alternative therapies that can help us in a much more natural, healthy and effective way in order to cure the root of health problems. If we open our mental and visual horizons, we can take advantage of the most traditional techniques of our society along with alternative techniques. We must have in mind that there are therapies that don't work well to some people, which is why we must try to learn all that we have options. Some of the most popular alternative therapies include: acupuncture, ayurveda, chromotherapy, herbal medicine, bach flowers, heliotherapy, hydrotherapy, hygienism, Homeopathy, Kinesiology, chiromassage, music therapy, osteopathy, reflexology, reiki, therapy, laughter, etc.. If you want to read more, you can find it on wikipedia.

But the most important, and the basic idea that we defend here also as a alternative to medical capitalism, is the self management of both personal and community health. With our struggles and our ancestors' the right to information and health education has been recognized. Now, we must work to bring this knowledge to everyday life and, above all, to change of perspective.

We and the people around us are the first ones who need to understand our body and mind . The power of self healing that we have within is huge. Eneko Landaburu, in his book “Cuídate Compa! Manual for the auto management of health”, said: "The disease is a healing combat. One should not fear the healing process of our body. The body knows how to heal itself. Fever disinfects. By increasing body temperature, it eliminates many of the pathogenic microorganisms. The cough is very useful. A flu each year is good for developing defenses ...", etc.. Sometimes medications are needed, but we must keep them for that moment. If we get used to take medicine, when we really need them they'll become ineffective. We must take health as an active process, to explore, ask questions, study, checking ... and then share the experience in order to help us mutually. Knowledge is power, and in the ignorance we are more easily frightened, deceived and manipulated.