The Importance of Changing from a
Disease Model to a HEALTH MODEL.
Allopathic medicine began with the model of HEALTH.
For centuries people were taught to consider what they ate, drank and did, to be taken into context with their health.
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The role of the physician was to heal only when necessary.
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I have emphasized for years that physicians, allopathic physicians, ARE trained in diet, exercise, vitamin and minerals, et cetera. But based upon the failure of so many M.D.s to apply this information, the general public thinks we are not educated in this.
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Failure to apply this knowledge falls to the physician, not the system. Yes it is true that a significant amount of time is spent learning about medications, their use and mechanisms of action; but, this is NOT all we learn.
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Take for example the following discussion by the head of Radiation Oncology at the Medical College I was trained at.
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In this excerpt from the article, Dr. Allen not only emphasizes the use of high-dose intravenous vitamin C, he specifically notes that it should be used in conjunction with other treatments. He and I do not apply a one or the other approach. In fact, if you review the three presentations I included at https://www.flemingmethod.com/answers you will see that treatment of many health problems, including cancer, can be improved upon by combining the foundations of Allopathic Medicine with other treatments.
Thinking in terms of either-or for treatment options, not only limits our ability to improve the health of people; but, it also suggests that we are limited. That we cannot make people healthier. That the process of treating obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes mellitus, or any of a number of diseases, will by virtue of the person having an ITIR disease, be unsuccessful.
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Such an approach relegates you to a Disease Model mode of thinking. An approach doomed to failure.
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If this is your approach, I might suggest to get out of medicine and sell shoes - something I have the right to say as one of my jobs to help pay for college was selling shoes.
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If; however, your approach is to make people healthy, read on. FMTVDM not only makes it possible to quantify/measure differences between healthy and unhealthy tissue. In doing so, FMTVDM has also demonstrated that changes from healthy to unhealthy is not a step-by-step process - today you are healthy and tomorrow you have a disease - but rather, a continuum. A continuum that can be found and measured. A continuum which I have demonstrated with my research can be reversed - taking you from an unhealthy diseased body to a healthy body.
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To fully appreciate this paradigm shift in medicine, it is important to shift your thinking from a disease model to a health model and recognize
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1) FMTVDM measures this health spectrum,
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2) Using FMTVDM allows you to determine which treatments improve your health, which are making you more unhealthy, and which are having no effect at all.
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3) It is time to think of your HEALTH and not your DISEASE.
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Changes in your health - or more specifically your organ tissue - is not an all or sudden process. You do not go from being completely healthy to being dead. There are a series of transitional steps that occur - short of some immediate cause of death like a traffic accident.
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The steps can accurately be measured with FMTVDM. In each step or phase there is a change in the metabolic activity and the blood supply to that region of the body. Part of that change in blood flow is due to the body responding immunologically - that part of your body responsible for removing what shouldn't be in your body (infection, foreign body, transplanted organ from someone else, too much fat in the arteries of your body, et cetera) - in an effort to restore your health.
By measuring these changes, FMTVDM can tell you where you are at on your "Health-Spectrum." Such measured changes from FMTVDM can be used to determine how well the arteries of your heart can respond to an increased need for blood flow [Coronary (Stenosis) Flow Reserve; CFR or SFR]. In other words, how healthy or unhealthy are the arteries of your heart?
As FMTVDM measurements are made (shown to the right in the figure immediately above), they can be used with FMTVDM equations to determine the SFR abilities of your heart (coronary) arteries.
The transitional change in the inflammation within the coronary arteries occur as more and more material builds up in the walls of the arteries and the immune system attempts to remove the inflammatory buildup. As this happens, the SFR goes from 5.2 to 0.0, where the arteries cannot increase blood flow when needed.
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Similarly, changes occurring elsewhere in the body, for example in the breast tissue, can also show these transitional changes, when carcinogens (substances that cause cancer) enter the tissue and alter the normal healthy cells.
The healthy cells respond to these carcinogens in a variety of ways, and with continued exposure, the normal cells can begin to change, releasing a series of chemicals into the surrounding tissue, eliciting an ITIR via the immune system. This transitional ITIR change is associated with regional metabolic and blood flow changes which FMTVDM then measures defining where you are on the health care spectrum.
Once these FMTVDM measurements are made, serial changes over time can be measured, showing transitions across the health spectrum from normal to inflammatory to pre-cancers to cancer.
The following graphic, using one particular FMTVDM method shows how these transitional changes can be measured.
In the following FMTVDM - BEST images you can see the measurements and their matching results with seen ductoscopy. Ductoscopy utilizes a small endoscopy tube usually used to inspect nasal passages. When the endoscope is passed through the nipple into the milk ducts, you can see what was found on FMTVDM - BEST.
Similarly, just as coronary artery disease and cancer go through transitional changes, so to do other diseases. Instead of always thinking in terms of disease - since the Medical Model is supposed to focus on treating patients and keeping them Healthy - FMTVDM allows us to focus on providing measurements critical to understanding where someone exists on the "Health-Spectrum" with the focus being on improving those measurements and the health of the person rather than watching them deteriorate.
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The following COVID-19 infectious disease example uses the same FMTVDM method shown above using the same FMTVDM measurements to differentiate health from unhealthy infected tissue.
Here to, it is obvious that the pulmonary (lung) tissue is undergoing transitional changes as the viral infection results in an ITIR response. A response which can be measured, treated and remeasured to find a successful treatment for this person.
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Focusing on turning an unhealthy patient into a healthy one!
