Swine Flu Update & The Study of Healing (Salutogenesis-bless you!)

Dr. Mercola recently interviewed neurosurgeon and researcher, Dr. Baylock, MD. Dr. Baylock is an expert in the swine flu who seeks to use peer reviewed journals and governmental reports to report unbiased findings. Dr. Mercola’s article highlights Dr. Baylock’s CDC reports and various statistics on the H1N1 virus. His summaries included that hospitalizations and death rates were lower than expected, that H1N1 was less virulent that suggested, that pregnant women and children were not at increased risk, and that massive vaccination may actually be more harmful than the virus.

Excerpt:

Number of People Admitted to the Hospital each Year with Viral Pneumonia⁵

• 57 people in 2005
• 33 people in 2006
• 69 people in 2007
• 69 people in 2008
• 37 people in 2009

So we see that in 2009 they had 32 fewer people admitted with actual viral pneumonia. The CDC and other public health agents of fear like to imply that mass numbers of people are dying from “flu”, that is, actual influenza viral pneumonia, when in fact, most are dying from other complications secondary to underlying health problems — either diagnosed or undiagnosed.

They also found that the average person’s risk of ending up in the ICU was one in 35,714 or about three thousandths of one percent (0.00285%), an incredibly low risk. When they looked at actual admission to the ICU, they found that it was people aged 25 to 49 who made up the largest number admitted. Infants from birth to age 1 year had the higher admission per population, and had a high mortality rate.

Sources:

CDC: 2009-2010 Influenza Season Week 41 ending October 17, 2009. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/

Mercola, J & Baylock, R. Swine Flu-One of the Most Massive Cover-ups in History. Mercola.com. November 3, 2009. (online)

In this month’s edition of Natural Medicine Journal, Wayne Jonas, MD was interviewed to explain how the healing process can promote health and wellness. Dr. Jonas is a professor at Georgetown Univeristy Medical Center and has published more than 150 articles and 5 books. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Samueli Institute, an institute which is using sound scientific methods to study how the body heals.

Excerpt: We define healing as the process of recovery, repair, reintegration, and the return to wholeness, also called salutogenesis; it’s the reverse of pathogenesis. Pathogenesis is how things break down and become diseased. Salutogenesis is how they get built up, how they recover, how they come back into balance. The methods and the metrics are parallel in terms of developing a science, but healing itself is complex because it is an emergent property of whole systems.

Source: Gazella, K. Wayne Jonas, MD Explores How the Healing Process Can Promote Health and Wellness. Natural Medicine Journal. November 2009.