Holistic Doctors, and medicine

Also, if I concentrate enough, I can actually move metal objects around. It's only a matter of time before I can actually move those metal objects without physical contact.

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Well, Taz, I skimmed pubmed just now and found research on food allergies (peanuts, etc.) and the short answer is yes. Folks can inherit allergies.

As Molbiogirl said allergies can be inherited. I have no known allergies but my wife has a minor allergy (erythema) to the adhesives in medical tape and band aides. My son recently showed signs he has her allergy and my daughter has exhibited no sign of this fairly minor yet odd allergy. Its also fairly common to find offspring who share their parents allergies. Some attribute this to transmissions from the mother in utero, but most studies disagree. If it were passed on in that manner a child wouldn't require the sensitizing exposure. For example, the first time in your life you get stung, you don't go into Anaphylactic shock, the second time is when you have to worry. Elderly who have never had allergies in their lives also develop spontaneous allergies.

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Idiots speak louder than words(yes its supposed to be ironical... twice)

That whole article pretty much describes how I felt about my experience.
It is amazing that sites like this: http://www.kinesiology.net/ can exist, if it is all fake.When I confronted my "health care professional" about it, she got very defensive, and said she doesn't have to explain herself, that she gives lectures on the stuff, and can recommend some books to me.I was like, in my head, you absolutely have to explain yourself to me.
I don't think I will be seeing her anymore.

Did you have your ears checked? To answer your OP, I at one point dabbled in homeopathy, but never as a remedy, only a prevention.There were certain herbs or supplements that seemed genuine and beneficial, but it is hard to say because I also kept to a strict healthy diet then, went to the gym regularly, drank tons of fluids, and didn't smoke.One of the problems is that it is all a money making scheme. You take this or that, they tell you it has to be a better quality, or has to be taken with something else to achieve benefit. The more you research it, the more conflicting opinions you get. You can spend a ton of money and still be confused or uncertain about what you are doing. Occasionally there is a negative effect or warning assosciated with an herbal that you don't know about before hand.All in all, it is a little less scary than taking tons of drugs or eating junk food, or being exposed to all the toxins in the environment, but you can go crazy worrying about it all.I believe in eating fresh and balanced meals, excercise, water intake, the usual. I do like some supplements, but I would definitely go to a 'real' doctor for proper diagnosis of illness.

This is the key here. Preventative measures. The bible shows us a God who doesn't say; "sin now, fix it later". It shows us a God who stops the CAUSE of the problem, NOT the effects. Whereas the world deals in effects.People like Shraff want you to be worldly - and accept those worldly toxins, and sin-agents so you can then go to the doctor, and shraff can say; "see - we can fix the problem, not God, he can't fix anything".You see - this perversely puts the emphasis on God - when infact many illnesses and sin come because we don't obey God and we sin. Sexually transmitted diseases for example.An example;The worldly: "Sure - have sex - then we'll just abort, no problem."See - treating the effect, rather than the cause. Whereas God would say;"Do not fornicate - keep the principles of marriage and the family".You see the problem. Satan is the agent that says "Do X then you will get Y."And when you get Z, satan says; "see - God can't do anything right".

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We don't have to choose only one type of health care to manage our health. We do what works for us, but proper nutrition is considered an important part of healing.

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Sure, but proper nutrition isn't seperate from conventional medicine at all. In fact, the reason we know the "how and why" of antioxidants' healthful properties is through careful scientific study.If there's anything that doctors and the government health agencies harp on constantly it is to eat properly, exercise, don't smoke, don't drink too much, get enough sleep, and manage stress.Nobody needs an "alternative healthcare provider" to tell them any of this.

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Think about it. You say you will only accept that which is evidenced, yet here, when somebody only has their testimony as evidence, even if their testimony is true, it is unacceptable.

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There's no way of determining if their testimony is true.

True, but the alternative health people somehow provide the mental support or whatever that gets people into action.

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The picture that forms.
What is that exactly?

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It is kind of like this, Mike.We observe that milkmaids that contracted and survived cowpox seemed to have gained the benefit of an immunity or resistance to the much more deadly smallpox.It eventually occurs to people that maybe getting a weakened form of a similar disease makes a person immune or resistant to that disease.That idea is tested, and it seems to work very well, although not perfectly.Thus, the vaccination was born.

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That under certain conditioned circumstances, you get certain results, based on the conditions ONLY. Anything outside those tests, are not under evaluation, nor are they regulated by potentially faulty implications.

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In the above example, what are some "potentially faulty implications" that might occur?Should we discount the effectiveness, overall, of vaccinations due to the exceptions, as you suggest?

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If God answered prayer, then he'd get better.

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I am positive that lots of people, probably the vast majority, prayed to God to cure them of smallpox, or keep them from catching it at all. God ignored the pleas of around 600 million people who died from the disease from the 18th century into the 20th century.Isn't it strange that people's prayers weren't answered until science developed a vaccine to prevent people from getting it?

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What is actually proved, is that the experiments work under their own rules. But you Shraff, blindly treat them as some kind of unbreakable absolutely conclusive activity.

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No, I don't. Stop erecting strawmen.I'll repeat what I already wrote and you apparently never read:Mike wrote:

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Does this mean, in your opinion, it will certainly work on an individual with one of these problems?

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Science is tentative is it not? Even the scientists must agree with everything I have said. They know they have to.

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They would not agree with strawmen and faulty logic, mike.

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I wonder... does anyone here know if being allergic to certain things, like strawberry and dog, is genetic or not?

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Yes.Allergies are an abnormal immune response, and the immune system can certainly be affected by heredity.In fact, left-handedness is associated with a greater propensity to have allergies, so that tends to support the heredity idea, too.

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People like Shraff want you to be worldly - and accept those worldly toxins, and sin-agents so you can then go to the doctor, and shraff can say; "see - we can fix the problem, not God, he can't fix anything".

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What kind of crap are you spouting about me now, mike?That has to be one of the worst misrepresentations of my position I have ever read here on EvC, and that is saying a lot.Clearly, being a believer makes you a really dishonest debator.

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True, but the alternative health people somehow provide the mental support or whatever that gets people into action.

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Really?I'd like to see the stats on that.Mostly, I think that the alternative health people are fleecing the public with expensive, mostly worthless (sometimes harmful, and very occasionally slightly helpful) quack remedies and a lot of woo-woo, feel-good, meaningless jargon.

Homeopathy is bunk.As I pointed out upthread, homeopathic "medicines" are tap water.
The typical dilution is 30X. That means one part "medicine" to 100 to the power of 30 parts water.A real world analogy:
A drop in a fishtank? Nope. Too concentrated.
A drop in an Olympic swimming pool? Nope. Too concentrated.
A drop in Lake Michigan? Nope. Too concentrated.
A drop in the Atlantic Ocean? Nope. Too concentrated.
A drop in a pool of water the size of our solar system? Yep!Practitioners claim that the water retains the "memory" of the "medicine". Horse apples!If that were true, that very same water would have much stronger memories of feces and urine. Mmmmmmmmm!(Credit where credit is due: Dr. Richard Dawkins used this analogy in The Enemies of Reason.)

No Shraff - you couldn't possibly know of those who were healed of it, or were prevented from getting it. Nice try. Incorrect induction. First you need to prove who prayed. Then you need to know their destiny. Then you need to know who had believing faith, and not doubting desperation. Then you need to know if God considered them genuine followers. Then you need to know the figure that God saved - for all you know, the rest of the planet. None of this information you have - therefore your argument from ignorance isn't special information to me. It seems you have ignored most of my all-refuting facts of irrefutableness.