Aug 28, 2020
Author Dr. Thomas Cowan followed
his own approach in understanding the
importance of medicine that fit what he observed in the human
body.
In this podcast he discusses
- Early days of his studies and books that led to pursuing a medical practice that matched his approach,
- Examples of mechanisms of the body that protect and detoxify that are labeled part of disease, and
- An extract he helped bring to the United States that addresses heart disease.
Dr. Thomas Cowan went into the
Peace Corp as a young college graduate to teach gardening and was
given books that opened his thinking and expanded how he might be
able to practice medicine. These books were by philosopher Rudolph
Steiner and nutritionist Weston Price and they helped him
understand that there was a path to be the kind of doctor he wanted
to be.
He then explains how mainstream medicine approaches issues like
autoimmune disease and disease prevention with treatments
like vaccination. He discusses his own view of vaccines and the
immune response and gives a very different perspective of our
body's mechanisms.
For example, he explains how
medical school teaches that something like puss is bad and part of
the disease when pus helps our body get rid of dangerous substances
and is part of the healing. He elaborates with other examples like
the lung-clearing ways of bronchitis and talks about the harmful
over-prescription of antibiotics and side effects of vaccines.
He believes people get sick because they are starved or poisoned in
some way and traditional medicine labels detoxification efforts as
part of the disease when they are our body's efforts to heal. He
gives examples of how he has treated past patients and discusses an
extract he helped develop that addresses causes of heart
disease.
For more, see his
website: drtomcowan.com.
Available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2Os0myK