Here Is The Main Conclusion Of My Investigative Efforts On Nutritional Supplements, Natural Medicine, Official Medicine –And The World At Large

To get to the truth about “orthodox medicine”, “alternative medicine”, medical science, nutrition, diets, supplements, health matters, and practically anything else related to humans, above all:

Trust facts, not authorities.

Indeed, it was none other than Albert Einstein, PhD, (1879–1955), who warned:

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

Because it is not uncommon, as Einstein was well aware of, for official authorities and acclaimed experts to omit, ignore, or even suppress facts (sound scientific evidence).

Today, this is a familiar reality across virtually the entire field of science. Both modern medicine as well as “unorthodox medicine” (or holistic medicine) with all its many sub divisions, such as the domain of nutritional supplements among the health industry, are no exceptions to this routine practice.

Marcia Angell, MD, a former longtime editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most prestigious medical journals in the world, concluded in sadness:

“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines.” (Marcia Angell, MD, in 2009)

Therefore, a proper understanding of nutrition, diets, nutritional supplements, modern medicine, and the so-called healthcare system is inextricably tied to having a good grasp of the political-social context –this includes especially a sound perception of politics.

Back in 1946, celebrated culture critic George Orwell (1903-1950) remarked in non-negotiable language –referring to our contemporary “modern times”, the current world we live in– that:

“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia.”

This broader insight is a major reason why “macro-level” information, such as on socioeconomic and political processes, is rather generously included and discussed in connection with “micro-level” topics, such the health benefits of vitamin supplements or vitamin toxicity. (Another chief aspect of this rationale is coming up below).

Preceding Marcia Angell's abovecited observation, Linus Pauling, PhD, (1901-1994), recipient of two Nobel Prizes, gave us this timeless advice in 1986, being fully cognizant of the deep presence of wicked politics in mainstream allopathic medicine and the political landscape:

“Don’t let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.”

We live in an environment in which you are routinely presented with, and exposed to, many different and oftentimes conflicting opinions or dogmas, rather than facts, about health, nutrition, medical practices, and nutritional supplements. Frequently, these eclectic opinions or dogmas are dispensed by a variety of authorities and experts.

No surprise so many people are mystified about these topics.

Have You Ever Wondered...

“In order to take care of one’s complex physical equipment, it is necessary, at least partially, to understand it. […]. If one is not willing to learn, he or she must take the consequences. These may include living a life less rich in energy and satisfaction than it might have been.” (Roger J. Williams, PhD, 1893–1988, Trailblazer Of Nutritional Science)

For instance in terms of food supplements, have you ever asked yourself...

• Who is, or isn't, telling the facts about vitamins and health supplements?
• Why take supplements? Is there any genuine science-based evidence in support of nutritional medicine?
  
• How do dietary supplements work? What are the vitamin benefits? What will supplements do for me, or my health issues?
• Do I really need antioxidants and vitamin supplements for health or is a healthy diet (good nutrition) enough?
• Are supplements necessary or do they just create “expensive urine”?
• Are all nutritional supplements created equally?
• How do I know if a natural health supplement works or if I simply waste my money?
  
• What are the side effects of dietary supplements?
• Are “miracle” weight loss pills actually effective or safe? What are the best diet supplements?
  
• Dietary supplements and risks... real or exaggerated?
• What are the criteria I should look for when I buy dietary supplements? Should I take synthetic vitamin supplements or whole food vitamin supplements?
• What are the best health supplements to take?
• Who regulates nutritional supplements, and how? Do the policies of dietary supplement regulation give a guarantee for supplement quality?
• What is the best time to take vitamins?
• Why is it that only the allopathic medical profession (the business of conventional medicine) can legally claim to “treat, cure, or prevent diseases” with their treatments? And why are advocates of nutritional supplements, for example, not allowed to claim this about the use of supplements?
• What are the biggest supplement myths and fallacies?

This website addresses this sort of issues. And more.

In Case You're NOT Confused Or Unsure About Nutritional Supplements, Natural Remedies, Or Standard Medical Procedures...

“Acquiring truth about health and biology is difficult at best, and acquiring falsehoods about health and biology seems to be inordinately easy.” (John W. Gofman, MD, PhD, 1918-2007)

At this very moment, you're either convinced that nutritional supplements are a total waste of money (and maybe even dangerous), or that they are extremely beneficial and necessary. Or, you likely hold a position that lays somewhere in-between these two points of view.

How did you arrive at your current conviction? Whose information helped you form your perspective?

Do you believe you most certainly know the facts about dietary supplements? Or unorthodox medical therapies? Or mainstream medical practices?

Are you dead set in your thinking, are your attitudes about health supplements, “alternative” medical treatments, or conventional medical interventions “set in stone”?

The information on this website might challenge some (or many) of your perceptions about nutritional supplements, nutrition, health, “natural medicine”, prevailing “official medicine” (traditional allopathy), and the political culture.

But challenges carry the seeds of new possibilities, undiscovered realms of learning, unexpected avenues of growth and progress –and a renewed chance to become more expansive and holistic (“whole-istic”). And oftentimes... a path to the true scientific facts and the solid reality. Because it is not uncommon to find the truth in the things that deeply disturb us, in things that make us uncomfortable.

More often than not, the reason why something is challenging us and is making us uneasy is because it goes against “common knowledge”, against the official views advocated by public health authorities and the medical establishment (i.e., the state-medical business syndicate).

Thus, the exposure to “challenging information” –about the “war on cancer” or “Covid-19”, for instance– may lead you (and leave you) onto the side of a rather unappreciated tiny minority.

A long time ago a very astute doctor, originally trained as a conventional MD but then became an “alternative” or holistic physician, noted:

“The discovery and acceptance of truth are alike painful. It is a continual warfare with one's self and the world: it is a fight in which defeat is moral death, and in which victory brings no ovation.” (William H. Holcombe, 1825-1893)

A closely related observation had been spoken by a famous US politician in the 20th century:

“Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.” (Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968, in his N.U.S.A.S. “Day of Affirmation” Speech, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 6-June-1966) [emphasis added]

A 21st century author expressed a similar notion:

“[...] being a moral person requires taking on the personal responsibility of judging right from wrong and following one’s own conscience, the opposite of respecting and obeying “authority”.” (Larken Rose, in “The Most Dangerous Superstition”, 2011)

Many dogmatic traditions and dominant organizations, which portray themselves largely as the sole and exclusive authoritative possessors of the truth (the facts) –as in the case of the prominent, “sacred” institution of conventional allopathic medicine (organized medicine)– are representations of culture-specific ideologies.

Such ideological perspectives are a direct outcome of, and determined by, both authoritarian governments and other highly influential, rigid groups in positions of power whose origins and battles over turf may go back hundreds or even thousands of years.

By contemplating new data and by putting new information or uncommon perspectives about health, disease, corporate medicine, “unofficial” medicine, or nutritional supplements, against this inflexible-dogmatic, political cultural background, it might assist you in viewing knowledge that diverges or contradicts the established authoritarian paradigms, with renewed vigor and openness.

As the US biologist Raymond Peat, PhD, (1936-2022), once told me:

“[…] if nothing is taken as a final and completely adequate answer, then everything stimulates interest […].” (Personal Communication, 20-May-2008)

Why Politics & Socioeconomics Are Inescapably Linked To Diet, Nutritional Medicine, And Your Own Personal Health

“[...] the whole economic structure of Western civilization is based on the production and distribution of goods and services that are contributing to poor health. These include chemicalized agriculture and food processing, the pharmaceutical industry, technological medicine and the petrochemical and plastics industries. The guiding motto for industry is 'profit', while for the consumer it is 'convenience'. The price for all to pay is the loss of health [including ecological health, and the loss of autonomy and liberty –see my “Covid-19” material]. This situation is the natural outcome of a society based on selfish motivation.” (Walter Last, Independent Health Investigator, Author, and Former Biochemist & Toxicologist) [explanation added]

When reading the writings on this site you will discover that it is not uncommon to find political elements and socioeconomic contexts discussed among information on nutritional supplements, health, the allopathic medical industrial complex, and allied topics.

The reasoning behind it is this:

• the human body is made of nutrition (i.e., the food, water, and the air we consume), and

• the state or quality of nutrition is based on a varying combination of: the conditions of the environment and individual choices.

Whether healthy nutrition or unhealthy nutrition, the foods we eat (our diet), the dietary supplements we take, the water or other beverages we drink, and the air we breathe are principally products of the conditions of the environment.

This line of argumentation leads to the overarching recognition that...

...the environment is a (extended) part of every person's organism.

Just like individual vitamins and minerals inside of you do not operate in a vacuum independent from your “personal body”, your personal body does not operate in a vacuum independent from the “planetary body” (the environment).

Whatever affects the environment affects us. Whatever affects the “health” or conditions of the environment affects us. (Conversely, the health of people affect the health of the environment.)

The author and seminal culture critic Ivan Illich (1926-2002) wrote in his classic book "Medical Nemesis” of 1975:

"For more than a century, analysis of disease patterns has shown that the environment is the primary determinant of the state of general health of a population."

Economic systems, the social milieu, and politics affect the conditions or quality of the environment in the most fundamental way possible. Therefore, social, economic, and political factors, conditions, and decisions that are impacting the environment (ecology), are integrally connected to one's own personal health –and its closely associated fields of diet, nutrition, and nutritional supplements.

Ultimately, having genuine knowledge about sociological forces and politics, especially in Big Business societies (e.g., the corporate-controlled Westernized nations), empowers you. It allows you to (better) figure out whether the dominating authoritarian culture –with its particular system of economics and climate of politics, with its ideologies, regulations, and popular narratives– is actually constructive to your health or rather destructive (e.g., ponder the quote underneath the headline of this section and an earlier quote by Dr. Linus Pauling).

As touched on above, let's not forget that personal responsibility is part of the nutrition equation because nutrition (and “lifestyle”, in a broader sense) is in part directed by individual decision.

Carl Pfeiffer, PhD, MD, (1908-1988), a pioneer of nutritional supplementation (“megavitamin therapy” or “orthomolecular medicine”), summed it all up neatly in 1975 when he stated:

“Our economic policies, our political philosophies, our individual lifestyles all must change together in support of one principle –the preservation of the species and the good life on earth.”

The Probably Best Mindset To Have To Get To The Facts About Dietary Supplements, Diseases, Wellness, Mainstream Medical Therapies, Natural Healing Practices & Everything Else

"Everyone must gain the truth in an active way. If you want to know something you must look at all the premises yourself, listen to all the arguments yourself, and then decide for yourself what seems to be the most likely answer. You may be easily led astray if you ask the authorities to do this work for you." (Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, Independent Medical Researcher, in 2000)

An observation by Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) indicates what might be conceivably the best frame of mind you should strive to entertain about the science of medicine, mainstream medicine, complementary medicine (or unauthorized empirical medicine), or cultural-medical politics, and essentially about anything, in order to arrive at the truth of things:

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

A similar insight came from someone from a more recent time period:

“Don't believe anything. Regard things on a scale of probabilities. The things that seem most absurd, put under 'Low Probability', and the things that seem most plausible, you put under 'High Probability'. Never believe anything. Once you believe anything, you stop thinking about it.” (Robert A. Wilson, US Author, 1931-2007)

An open but critical, questioning, doubting state of mind practically guarantees that you're always thinking about the things you're exposed to (rather than “blindly” believing the declarations of authorities and experts).

It's the frame of mind with a “high probability” of leading you to the truth about the authorized medical empire, unconventional medicine, nutrition, and nutritional supplements. And anything else for that matter.

It's the frame of mind I humbly but strongly suggest you apply when reviewing the information on this website. And... any information on anything else, no matter where.

What Is My Intention As An Independent Health Investigator?

"[...] independence [...] is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes." (Mark Twain, 1835-1910, US Printer, Steamboat River Pilot, Miner, Journalist, And Author)

Most importantly, my intention as an independent investigator is to provide you with the facts, always. I may, however, not always succeed in uncovering them. Attempting to reveal the truth about standard medicine, “non-standard” medicine, or nutritional supplements is challenging in a maze of data, which oftentimes is contradictory. After all, alongside unacknowledged and suppressed factual data, there is a lot of information and misinformation –even hype– available about standard medical interventions, alternative remedies, diets, supplements, and the “disease care system”.

This is a symptom or manifestation of the big reality of modern times –we live in a propaganda age– as the exceptional independent journalist and filmmaker John Pilger had pointed out in 2014:

"Today’s grand illusion is of an information age when, in truth, we live in a media age in which incessant corporate propaganda is insidious, contagious, effective and liberal."

But the true facts...

...this is my aim, my goal, my intent in my research on wellness, disease conditions, and their related themes. And on politics –in medicine, science, and the culture.

I'm dedicated to always seeking, and hopefully finding, the truth.

Why?

Primarily because nutrition, nutritional supplements, the healing arts, and politics are quintessentially all about health. Your health. And mine. Our most precious asset.

The best way to protect and maintain our health is with accurate information, the facts. With facts I can be of greatest value to you because by providing actual facts I can help you the most with making your life better.

Therefore, your health (and mine) deserves nothing but the truth about nutritional supplements, mammography screening, the Covid-19 Coronavirus “Pandemic”, and other wellness issues –whether these truths are good or bad.