by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
I was faced with the conflicting views toward disease and its treatment discussed in the last few posts. After refusing a prescribed hysterectomy at an Ontario Oncology ward, to treat my Stage 4 cancer, I was dismissed from the hospital. Both the nurse and I, were in...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
In the last couple posts I’ve been examining the processes of endogenous cell decay as an alternative to the mainstream paradigm of the Germ Theory of Disease. We’ve seen how certain internal processes can generate the cell decay that gives rise to invasion of...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
In my last post we examined how yeast, fungus and mold contributed to susceptibility to illness through processes that starved tissue of oxygen. Among the by-products of the process are uric acid and acetaldehyde. The amount of uric acid and acetaldehyde produced by...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
We left off in the last post asking the question, if the Germ Theory of Disease was wrong, and germs did not cause disease, but were rather a response to illness, then what exactly were these bacteria doing? To answer that question, we have to set it into the larger...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
In the last post I recounted the story of Pasteur and Bechamp’s contributions to our understanding of the relationship between germs and disease. After initially promulgating the Germ Theory of Disease, even Pasteur, in response to Bechamp’s research and his own study...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
In my last post I introduced the dispute between Louis Pasteur and Antoine Bechamp over the chronology in the development of illness. Advance research methods and technology allowed Bechamp to challenge Pasteur’s Germ Theory of Disease. Bechamp demonstrated that in...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
I concluded my last post pointing out that as scientific evidence accumulates paradigms are forced to shift. I also suggested that our understanding of effective assessment would benefit from the perspective of some history that puts the currently popular health care...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Let’s explore symptoms as they manifest in bodily processes. Early on, symptoms often appear to be inflammatory or eliminatory in nature. This is the body’s attempt to reach homeostasis, eliminating the problem and the body’s waste products naturally. Often in...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
I’ve been writing this blog for just about a year now. Though we’ve been required to make a number of detours, exploring some matters in greater depth, it all began with my desire to unpack the meaning that can be derived from the standard SOAP formula. It has taken...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In recent posts we’ve examined some of the troubles arising from an excessive focus on symptoms and how they’re commonly treated. What if we took a slightly different approach and concluded: When the body produces Symptoms, LISTEN; it is trying to say something. A...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
In my last post I addressed the concern of patients’ who had conditions neglected by health care providers as a result of the inability to attach a name to a condition, with the requisite drug therapy dictated. A while back I had a patient who came to see me with a...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Probably one of the most troubling presentations is the patient who is experiencing signs and symptoms of illness and is seeking a label to explain their discomfort, but is turned away by medical experts who give the patient a clean bill of health. The approach of...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Long ago, doctors used to believe that the fascia, the yellowish material just beneath the skin, served no purpose. To them, it was merely cushioning the body like a layer of fat. During surgery, it was simply removed because they thought it was just not that...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health, Addressing Your Pain
Everyone has that still quiet voice inside them, and it speaks constantly. Amidst the noise and chaos of the world, people turn their focus on other things. Like ghosts, they walk around never truly connecting with themselves. They exist in a space between needless...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
Everyone talks about finding one’s life purpose, but not many people know what it is. As a child, it’s easy to dream big dreams. You can be an astronaut, a pirate or a mermaid. Children are unafraid even of dreaming what grown-ups would consider dreams that are “too...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
Contrary to popular belief, intuition is not some mystical thing. It’s not an elusive ethereal quality some people have and some don’t. Rather, it’s an innate knowing that everyone possess within them. It’s that deep inner knowledge that comes from the body. While...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
No matter how old you get, your memories carry your inner child within you. Yet often, many healers lose touch of themselves as they give all their care to others. Like crumbling buildings, their boundaries are torn down, and their foundation shakes. They no longer...
by Dr. Manon | About Your Health
Though we have been trained to believe that the mind governs everything, mindfulness cannot be embodied if people are disconnected from their bodies. We are wired for survival and those of us who have experienced stresses, trauma, PTSD, and anxiety need another way to...
