Disease, Comfort, and Convenience

by Dan Schultz, DC

People come to me essentially expressing concerns that symptoms have become unbearably uncomfortable and inconvenient.  The average person will tolerate unbelievable amounts of the body’s distress signals. After weeks, months, or years of suffering and drugging themselves into other disease processes, they come to me, mostly, as a last resort.

What’s seems odd to me is that there is often no regard whatsoever for their health and only a distant worry about accumulating permanent damage -– only the short-sighted desire to be symptom-free.  The fact is that the average American hasn’t any tangible idea of what health really is, nor do they have the time or inclination to consider it in the busy, overwhelming lives they have chosen.  It is unfortunate and it is true. Ours has become a culture of convenience and comfort.

Examples of this are varied and plentiful.  Pain, muscle spasm, inflammation, and fevers are well known to be an integral and necessary part of the reparative, healing process, but they are fearfully avoided like the proverbial plague.  For example, instead of actually restoring a healthy cardiovascular system, people take a pill to lower their blood pressure when they know perfectly well that they could lower it naturally making better lifestyle choices. But that might be uncomfortable. And the pill is so convenient.

In the same way, the entity of disease is a good and necessary cog in Mother Nature’s natural machine.  Scientists know full well the benefits of disease in priming and maturing the human immune system.  Immunity is learned by an intelligent system and it was designed by Nature or God or Evolution to do so with all of the symptoms and conditions that we pejoratively label “disease.” Vaccination is merely an attempt to cheat the body of this process in the name of comfort and convenience. 

Even death from disease has an undeniable benefit to humanity, although it may be unfashionable to say it.  I’m saying it.  In the same way that we now understand that forest fires are necessary to sustain healthy forests, we must also accept that disease is nature’s means to pare away the genetically susceptible with disease.  Microbes maintain a healthy gene pool for humans just as wolves pick off sickly moose and leave the herd with strong survival qualities.  There is no other way. 

Diseases, like the symptoms of joint pain, are there for a reason and are not meant to be “eradicated.”  This is a larger perspective of what happens, microscopically, within us.  Microbes are always there, but only begin replicating (and creating symptoms) when we lack life-force; they eat up dead or dying cells when true health or vitality is diminished.

Mankind tends to be extremely arrogant in dismissing this truth. I’ve heard it said, “if our vaccine can just save one human life, it’s worth poisoning entire generations.”  They didn’t use those words exactly or emphasize the deaths and mass-scale suffering caused by their artificial, invasive experiments -- but that’s what they say. 

Our culture is most definitely one of comfort and convenience. Vaccination is merely one example.  Just as mankind has created nuclear and biological weapons, vaccinationists have unwisely asked "can we?" before we have asked "should we?" 

Vaccination is man’s futile attempt to avoid the unpleasant processes of life at any cost. It is our foolish effort to dominate nature in yet another way.  It highlights the feeble idea of regarding educated intelligence over innate intelligence.  It is, in the end, stupidity.