The Economics of Health

In 1952 Dr. Jonas Salk developed a vaccine to prevent Polio. Later with the help of Dr Albert Saban they developed a version that could be taken orally. With that discovery and whole industry that supported Polio victims disappeared.

This was an important economic lesson. Find a prevention for a disease and the industry that supports that disease goes away.

The American Cancer Society has been raising money for research of cancer since the early 70’s and still has not found an economical enriching way to prevent cancer. All or at least most of their research is directed to the cure of cancer after the fact. Recently there has been discovered a vaccine for Cervical cancer but would there even be a need for the vaccine if there was a study of the relationship of good health and cancer. Even if there was an easy and inexpensive prevention what would be the economic reason for making it available.

Jerry Lewis has been raising money for Multiple Sclerosis for ever and still there is no cure. What is the motivation to find a cheap and easy solution for any disease? What if the cure was in the prevention.

What if there was a relationship between body chemistry and good health. You see there is no money in prevention for drug companies. The FDA only allows drug companies to say that their products cure something because of all the testing the drug companies do. In reality we know that most drugs only treat the symptoms. Drug companies want you to be on their drugs for ever and make more money. There is no money in preventions and most preventions are not patentable. I take drops for my eyes. There 120 drops per bottle and each bottle cost $35. What kind of profit is in those drops?

If I had maintained good health it is very likely I would not have ever had to take those drops.

So we have a health system that is out of control that could eventually bankrupt the country. Why not work on the prevention? It is really simple. Keep the internal fluids of your body above 7 and you maintain a healthy body.

As long as we can make phenomenal amounts money in the health industry there will be no reason to change the status quo. The FDA will continue to be in bed with the drug companies, there will never be a cure for cancer or MS and the health industry will continue to bankrupt the country.

pH Balance

The Cure is in the Prevention

My background is engineering. I was an Instrumentation & Controls Engineer for 30 years. If I was in the medical field I could not write what I about to write about for fear of losing my license. I spent 30 years as a controls engineer controlling processes. An interesting observation was if the controls were messed up, the process would not achieve the predicted results. The wrong chemicals, temperature or amounts would produce unexpected results which in most cases became waste and had to be trashed.

Believe it or not the human body is a chemical processing plant that is bio-chemically controlled at a level of sophistication of which we cannot even come close to understanding. Some may even say there is an element of Divine control.

Having said that there are similarities with the chemical processing plant, all controls have a setpoint to which the control controls around. In the human body the setpoint for temperature is 98.6 °F and the body does a pretty good job of maintaining the temperature when the body is healthy.

For pH the setpoint in human body seems to be 7.365. Measurements above 7 are alkaline and below seven are acidic. Three quarters of the human body is already alkaline. The variable that determines whether a body is healthy or sick are the internal fluids. Our internal fluids affect every cell in our bodies. Extended acid imbalances of any kind can overwhelm your body which can result in sickness and disease.

A swimming pool by comparison is sick when it is acidic and algae will grow but the pool is healthy when it is alkaline. Too much alkaline and the pool will cause scale on the sides of the pool. The challenges with a swimming pool are the controls are manual.

When the internal fluids of the human body stay alkaline the cells of the body stay young and vibrant and then the body remains healthy.

Maintaining good health and then prevention is easier than fixing a problem after it starts to occur. When the body is overwhelmed and out of control and acidic, it takes more of what was used to maintain the good health. Then the question is how much more is required. This will always be an unknown and will require serving amount experimentation until we can quantitatively measure how sick an individual is. This is why until we have this knowledge the cure needs to be in the prevention.