Dr Robert J Dronyk, D.C., N.D London West Health Center

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Dr Robert J Dronyk, D.C., N.DLondon West Health
Center

• This is material presented by Dr Dronyk regarding
  his belief system re AM (Allopathic Medicine) vs
  CAM I post it as corroborative support for his
  lecture in class on Feb 7/06 it is intended to
  supplement what he presented
• rdronyk_at_allstream.net
• [phone]

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Dr Robert Dronyk
Dr Robert J Dronyk, D.C., N.DLondon West Health
Center
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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic Medicine

• Linear, reductionistic, mechanistic
• Based on Newtonian principles
• Emphasis on treating effects signs symptoms
• Preservation of life emergency med
• A system whereby you become a customer
  involuntarily

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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic Medicine

• Average patient doesnt believe s/he is
  responsible for own health
• Something outside body is responsible for illness
• MD / drugs / surgery / radiation
• Kill it, suppress it, cut it out please
• One bug, one drug mentality

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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic Medicine

• Negative lab test havent got it
• No name it isnt real
• Cant be measured it isnt there
• Cant treat it learn to live with it, all in
  your mind, patient is abandoned

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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic Medicine

• doctor-patient relationship based on Aesculapian
  authority
• Source from patient, fear of death
• Use of fear and science to control
• 3 types of power confer certain rights on MD

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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic Medicine

• 1. Sapiential expounding wisdom right to give
  advice knowledge expertise
• 2. Moral control and direct patient based on
  the rightness and goodness of medical ethic
• 3. Charismatic right to control and direct
  patient by virtue of their priestly role as a
  healer of disease

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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic Medicine

• Primary function of MDs power is to confer sick
  role on patient and - patient admits to
  being ill - submits to treatment -
  curtails/alters normal activities
  accordingly - patient relieved of
  responsibility for illness marketing of meds
• Medical authority ends with the termination of
  the illness impaired, not recovered

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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic
MedicinePrestige Ratings of MDs

• 1. active/passive MD active, patient passive
  recipient of treatment hiest social prestige
• 2. guidance/co-operation MD tells the patient
  what to do and the patient cooperates
• 3. mutual cooperation MD helps the patient help
  themselves
• Physical medicine, preventive medicine and
  psychiatry lowest prestige

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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic Medicine

• 50 are specialists
• Specialties a response to proliferation of
  knowledge
• Patient needs only according to the service they
  can offer
• World is enamoured of complexity
• Who is coordinating their efforts

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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic Medicine

• Medicine, with its proliferation of specialties
  has been unable to produce a true and unified
  knowledge of humans and disease and views the
  patients as passive recipients of the curative
  technology which is largely aimed at correcting
  effects instead of causes

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Integration Pros ConsA. Allopathic Medicine

• Leads to an increasingly frustrated
  disappointed public
• Medicine a business drug that cures
  drug that treats signs symptoms
• Medicine has forgotten that it is an and that
  science is merely a tool of that art

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM

• Non-linear, vitalistic
• Mind/body/spirit
• Whole person treated so holistic
• simplistic

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM

• Basic law of the universe is economy
• Facts are accumulated by effort but truth reveals
  itself effortlessly
• Everything fits and serves a purpose

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM

• ND as a health coach
• Support innate healing using therapies and
  substances
• Authority from patient who pays us
• Their cooperation, direction etc varies from
  patient to patient

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM

• See ND for treatment
• AM emphasis on treating effects
• CAM emphasis on healing
• Treatment geared to needs/wants of patients
  wishes and sometimes finances

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM

• All life processes are in fact, non-linear
• Everything is connected to everything else
• Duality is an illusion
• Subjective and objective are one and the same
• Cant separate mind-body-spirit

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM

• The observable world is world of effects
• Can only measure what is perceived by the senses
• We and science are trying to make sense of life
  and its experience (organic and non-linear) by
  defining it in terms that are linear i.e.
  logical/rational
• Not all causes are within the observable world

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM

• Physiologically speaking, in our choice of
  attitude, thoughts, feelings, words and actions,
  we choose between anabolic endorphins or
  catabolic adrenaline
• The mind thinks with the body itself

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM stress as an
example

• AM stress is the source of many human health
  disorders and illnesses
• CAM address source of stress
• - how you respond to stressor is whats
  important, not what happens

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM

• Many aspects, treatments, therapies of CAM are
  energetic but differ from AM that doesnt
  recognize any energies other than mechanical,
  electrical or chemical

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Integration Pros ConsB. CAM

• Homeopathy
• Acupuncture
• Chiropractic
• Ayurvedic
• AK
• TBM
• HT
• Prayer
• Any hands on/off therapy

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CAM/NHP use in Canada

• Hiest in BC at 41 and lowest in Atlantic at 3-9
• 15 in Ontario and Quebec
• 6 of Canadians use CAM exclusively

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CAM/NHP use in Canada

• 18 yrs and older 15 in 94-95 to 19 in 98-99
• Use greater with high school and above education
  vs lower education
• Use greater with household income above 50,000
  lowest under 20,000
• Women 19 use
• Men 14 use

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Reasons for Increased Popularity of CAM/NHP

• Increasing prevalence of chronic disease
• Greater public access to a) global health info
  and b) increasing numbers of CAM practitioners
• Reduced deference for decision-making role of MDs
• Increased desire for hier quality of life
• Disease prevention

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Reasons for Increased Popularity of CAM/NHP

• Reducing stress
• Conservative treatment of disease
• Symptomatic relief
• Compatibility with ones belief system
• Desire to take control over their own health
• Disillusionment / fear of conventional care

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Reasons for Increased Popularity of CAM/NHP

• Terminally ill
• Medical failures
• 42 CAM treatment used for existing illness
• 58 CAM treatment used to prevent future
  illness/maintain health and vitality

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Reasons for Increased Popularity of CAM/NHP

• Canadians using NHPs in 99 70 and in 2001, 75
• In 98-99, 19 Cdns used CAM
• Cdns spent 3.8 billion on CAM NHP betw 96 and
  97
• Cdns making significant use of HC approaches
  outside mainstream medicine

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Other Thoughts

• Health care system vs disease care system
• CAM can be used mechanistically
• AM can be used vitalistically
• Much of AM today is after the fact medicine
• Applies to CAM as well

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Other Thoughts

• WHO survey in 2000 The US spends
  more per person on health care than any other
  country, yet in overall quality, its care ranks
  37th in the world

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Other Thoughts

• Our current patterns of disease would be
  unrecognizable to our great grandparents or, for
  that matter, most mammals. Put succinctly, we get
  different diseases and are likely to die in
  different ways from most of our ancestors
• Robert M Sapolsky Why Zebras Dont Get
  Ulcers, 1998

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Other Thoughts

• The diseases that plague us now are ones of slow
  accumulation of damage heart disease, cancer,
  cerebro-vascular disorders
• 8 of top 10 diseases are directly related to poor
  nutrition
• What are they ?

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They are

• 1 heart disease 36
• 2 cancer 22.3
• 3 Allopathic medicine, ADR, mistakes etc 7.1
• 4 Accidents 4.6
• 5 Pulmonary Diseases 3.6

• Pneumonia, flu 3.3
• Diabetes 1.8
• Suicide 1.5
• Atherosclerosis 1.1
• All other causes 3.4

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Nutrition

• Comprehensive review of vitamins concluded that
  people of normal health do not need to take a
  multi-vitamin and can meet all their nutritional
  needs thru diet
• JAMA, early 1980s
• Insufficient vitamin intake a major cause of
  chronic disease JAMA, June 19, 2002

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Nutrition

• Given todays diet, daily supplementation with
  multi vitamin is a prudent preventative measure
  against chronic disease
• This conclusion based on some 38 years of
  scientific evidence

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Nutrition

• Are nutritional supplements safe ?
• In 94, over 2.2 million patients experienced
  serious drug reactions
• 106,000 died from appropriate use of
  pharmaceuticals
• Mortality from nutritional supps from 87-94 5
  deaths (US Poison Control Center)

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Nutrition

• Death by medicine, mistakes and adverse reactions
  to appropriate drugs is 3 killer of North
  Americans
• Viagra linked to more than 500 deaths with 15,000
  heart attacks, strokes and other vascular events
  many had no previous medical problems

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Integrated Health Care Involves

• Use of AM/CAM/NHP together
• Consumers have right and ability to make informed
  choices re HC options
• Effective communication among all parties,
  patient, MD, ND, others govt
• Remove roadblocks of consumers to discussing CAM
  therapy with MDs
• Access to NHPs OTC restrictions CAM scope of
  practice no MD pre-approval

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Terrain

• 1. AM - germ theory - genes
• 2. CAM terrain - toxins

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Terrain

• Disease a definite morbid process having a
  characteristic train of symptoms
• Symptoms they are associated with a given
  disease and are a manifestation of the bodys
  defense system activated against endogenous
  and/or exogenous toxins

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Process of Disease

• All disease characterized by 3 process
• 1 excretion of toxins
• 2 deposition of toxins
• 3 degeneration by toxins

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Process of Disease

• 1. Life
• 2. Functional Pathologies
• Excretion
• Deposition
• 3. Lesional Pathologies
• Degeneration
• 4. Death

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Toxin and Poison

• Toxin pertaining to, due to, or of the nature
  of, a poison
• Poison any substance which when ingested,
  inhaled or absorbed or when applied to, or
  injected into, or developed within the body, in
  action may cause disturbance of function or
  damage to structure

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Toxic Accumulation

• Results from
• Auto-intoxication
• Hetero-intoxication poisoning by material
  introduced from outside the body
• Toxins are taken out of the body by drainage
  through emunctories

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Emunctories Primary

• Liver
• Kidney
• Skin
• Intestines
• Mucous membranes
• Lymphatics

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Emunctories Secondary

• Nose
• Lungs
• Stomach
• Pancreas
• Bladder
• Genitals

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Emunctories Vehicles

• Blood
• Lymph
• Synovial fluid
• Cerebro-spinal fluid
• Air
• Water

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Terrain

• An ecosystem
• Auto-regulatory
• Accepts whats nutritive
• Rejects whats intoxicating and threatening to
  its survival

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Types of Treatment1. Mechanical

• Fasting
• Colonics
• Manipulation
• Physiotherapy
• RMT

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Types of Treatment2. Biochemical

• Botanicals
• Vitamins
• Minerals
• Enzymes
• Chelation
• Oligotherapy

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Types of Treatment3. Energetic

• Homeopathy
• Laying on of hands
• Acupuncture
• Others
• EDS
• BTA
• thermography

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Consider

• You are what you eat
• You are what you think
• You are what you dont eliminate