As we discussed in a previous article, allergies are mainly caused by our modern lifestyle: what we eat, what we breathe, what we put on and into our body, especially all those chemicals ingested in our processed foods and the medicines we take. Let's discuss this matter a little bit further…

Animals in the true wild rarely get sick. They rarely have heart disease, cancer, migraines, or allergies. Only when animals are kept domestically and given medicines, processed foods, and immunizations they develop so many of these kinds of diseases and allergies. I repeat - it is in only animals kept domestically that we see this overwhelming prevalence of sicknesses. I am asserting that human contact causes animals to have illnesses.

There are case studies of entire civilizations so remote they can not even be considered third world, that are purported to have never had allergies or any of the so-called degenerative or genetic diseases existing in the rest of civilization today. The denizens of these societies never get those kinds of illnesses until they come over to the western world - and then almost instantly they develop allergies, become obese, and suffer from depression.

I recently read a study on autism that was done in a Quaker community -a people who refuse modern medical treatment and live their own way in their own little commune-. Here the results are compared: In the rest of the Western world, 1 in 150 children have autism, but in this Quaker community of over 6,000 people, only 3 children had autism - those were the only three children in the entire community to have received all their immunizations! I was shocked! Is this a coincidence? I hardly think so!

The pros and cons of technological advancements

Twenty thousand years ago, humanity had communicable diseases - things like the flu or the cold, and in severe cases the black plague, chicken pox, and others. This is the original way to be sick - to "catch" a disease - and, according to my research, up until about five thousand years ago there were no other kinds of diseases.

So what changed five thousand years ago? According to my research, at this time China was first beginning to develop chemically engineered medicines, coincidentally the first documented degenerative and genetic diseases started to be reported - such as allergies. It is very difficult to track just exactly what caused what, but even just following the time line it's very easy to see that as medicine advanced, so did diseases.

This is also about the same time when farming for food production became widespread as a domesticated practice. In other words, civilization started mass producing its own food, instead of going out in the wild and gathering it wherever the food naturally occurred. This made life more convenient yes, but conversely, you know what happens when anything is put very close together in a dense, tight, singular location, right?

Take 100 average sized fish, for instance. Put all of them in the ocean - they can run wherever they want, and the broad ecosystem is more than capable of disposing of all their waste and feeding all of them adequately. Now take them out of the ocean, and move them into a 50-gallon fish tank. Their water becomes misty and polluted; the walls of the tank covered in disgusting green grime, the filtering system just can't keep up and eventually clogs.

Even planted crops will eventually develop waste disposal and nutritional problems in high concentrations. Not to mention, diseases will spread much more rapidly throughout the field.

The only thing science does better than nature is make a profit.

Every single advancement thus far, every single thing that is considered a new development, has some kind of trade off and side effect. Some "advancements" are more detrimental than others.

Example - with the advancement of cars, there came the advent of more and bigger junkyards to hold all the waste created. Cars made our lives more efficient, and allowed for us to travel great distances on our own terms (rather than waiting for a train), but what goes up must come down, and eventually the useless hunks of metal had to be disposed of somehow. Not to mention everything else cars have done to the environment.

Now let's think about this on a smaller scale; think about that little pill you are taking. It's meant to treat symptoms, right? Read the bottle carefully - treat symptoms. What happened to fixing a problem at the root? What if you only treated the symptoms of everything in your life, instead of fixing anything at the root?