I need to thank my patients for having the courage to stand up to a medical system that is not just broken but dangerous. It takes an incredible amount of courage to take responsibility for your own health. Too many people today abdicate authority over their health to a medical professional, submitting to medical procedures blindly, and many times with disastrous results. I have always approached health issues with the idea that the human body is intelligent and there are reasons for its responses to environmental stimuli (that is what doctors and people call symptoms). If you look at all symptoms, whether you are dealing with High Blood Pressure, Depression, Reflux, or even Cancer, know that the body has intelligent responses to deficiencies or toxicities - and then the solution for those symptoms or conditions will be clear. This driving thought has been inspiring me to research the true source of disease and the solutions for those diseases. In this book, I include real patients with real problems that have been mistreated by an obsolete medical system. I have changed the names of the patients, but their ages and the symptoms, and therapies they endured are real. I want you to appreciate the true courage one must have to take charge and responsibility for one's health, and to go against the health authorities of today. Throughout history, changing a broken system has taken vision, courage, and the ability to focus on a different idea. When Galileo first had the idea that the earth wasn't the center of the universe, he was threatened with excommunication from the church and ridiculed by those in power. But his ideas were proven to be true and today he is hailed as a hero. The people who take charge of their own health are my heroes, and this book is dedicated to that independent spirit and vision. God Bless You Folks. John Bergman D.C.

Arthritis and drugs. Now, this is going to be kind of like Basic Common Sense. I know it's going to sound crazy because arthritis... it's the plague It happens when you're old. No, it's not true. Joints are brilliant and what's neat is, you know how mom said, "Don't crack your knuckles. They're going to swell up and cause damage?" No, the British medical journal did a study and found out that habitual knuckle crackers, and you've got to love the Brits, they have a remarkable lack of arthritis. Joints have to move to be healthy. Every time you move a joint, it pushes blood and fluid to hydrate it. This is why medications are so vital to understand. The medications get into the blood stream. They affect metabolic processes. If you realize that your body is a sea of metabolic processes including joints, all of the structures in the body are alive. I know this sounds crazy but I talk to multiple, multiple health care professionals. They come to see me. I've got orthopedic surgeons, liver specialists, pharmacists; I've got hundreds of nurses. Nurses get the big picture. God bless you, gals. When you look at it, all the tissue in the body is alive. For all of the tissue in the body to be alive, you have to do a couple of things with the cells. They've got to take in nutrients, they've got to produce proteins and they've got to eliminate waste products. That's every cell. That means the meniscus has to do that. That means the cartilage has to do it. That means the bones have to do it.