The Decline of the West
And our greatest hope for the future
"Politics is downstream from culture."
— Andrew Breitbart
If politics is downstream from culture, then culture is downstream from biology.
This is why, if you want to corrupt a people and destroy their culture, you should focus on poisoning them.
I have had a front-row seat to the poisoning of America since I was a young man. I studied environmental health in college and was shocked by what I found. The literature in epidemiology and toxicology was clear. The human body accumulates toxins, which it can neutralize and excrete with nutrients. As stress levels rise, toxins tend to accumulate more and nutrients are consumed meeting the demands of stress. As food becomes more processed, let alone genetically engineered, nutrient levels drop, and toxins accumulate. Americans are being steadily destroyed by a combination of stress, toxins, and lack of nutrition. It's an insidious process that is taking our nation apart before our eyes.
People are increasingly waking up to this reality. They are more and more aware of these issues, largely because as they get sick, the more they embrace these simple principles, the better they feel.
How did I gain this perspective years before it became mainstream?
There were truly only a few stories from history that convinced me of this way of thinking.
One stands above the rest as the bedrock for how I think about human health, behavior, and social dynamics.
It predicted everything I've seen in my lifetime in the decline of human health, and of civilization itself.
I wrote about much of this in my book, "Dying to Be Free."
That story has become known as "Pottenger's Cats."
What Pottenger's cats taught me about people
Over 100 years ago, a physician lived in southern California named Francis Marion Pottenger. He studied the effects of adrenal extracts in cats, and studied how stray cats who were brought to him performed on certain diets.
What he found was shocking.
The more processed the food he fed his cats, the unhealthier they became.
But that's not the most important discovery he made.
This effect potentiated over generations. Within three generations, the cats who were fed processed food had developed facial malformations, allergies, infertility, hypothyroidism, and more. Perhaps most interesting is that the female cats became increasingly aggressive and dominant, and the male cats became increasingly passive and weak. These cats were "mean." After three generations, they completely died out, despite having enough "food." The cats who were fed raw meat and milk developed none of these problems.
Sound familiar? This is exactly what is happening to our society.
What happens to humans when you feed them processed food?
We've been "processing" food since the dawn of time, but as we've learned to process it in ways that destroy its delicate structure, we've seen all the same problems as Pottenger's cats explode in prevalence and severity. Three generations ago, Americans (and Westerners in general) ate much closer to the land. They had their own farms and gardens. They knew where their food came from. They hunted, fished, and foraged for it.
Today, so much of that culture is gone, replaced by the processed food industry.
Not surprisingly, people have turned into allergic, hypothyroid, infertile, and short-lived shadows of their ancestors. They need orthodontic care and craniofacial surgeries to correct misshapen jaws, crowded teeth, and more. A divide has emerged between men and women. Men complain that women have become too dominant, when what men want is women who are submissive to them. Women complain that men are unimpressive, cowardly, weak, and otherwise not worth submitting to.
All of this has happened before. I tend to think that all of it will happen again. But I strongly believe that the future belongs to those who choose to remember the past as it truly was.
"But what experience and history teach is this – that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it."
-Hegel
The writing is on the wall for humanity. We either learn from the cats, or we die. Sadly, too many modern people have already ruined their lives and their futures due to ignorance of these simple, fundamental truths about our health and well-being.
For me, this started as a simple, unifying theory about human health and biology as a college student. It has turned into a blueprint in my practice for my patients to recover their health. Here is how it breaks down.
How people and civilizations decline
You are the salt of the earth… You are the light of the world.
— Matthew 5:13-14
You are the energy that your cells create. If "vitality" comes down to anything, it is the potential for the human cell to generate energy. The body creates energy using salt and light, just as the Bible describes. But even Lucifer appears as an angel of light. I propose that the frequencies of light and the nature of the salts that our bodies consist of is what makes the difference between good and evil, between health and disease.
What wears your vitality down?
This question boils down to, "how do poisons work?"
Poisons gradually wear down the ability of the body to generate energy. They can be purged by the body through various mechanisms, without which they accumulate until the organism succumbs to a lack of energy.
Here is a quick list of what's poisoning the West, followed by what I have found most helpful in my practice to restoring good health. It's a guide out of whatever illness or sickness you're struggling with. Hopefully, you find it helpful. If you do find it helpful, I hope you'll purchase something through one of the links below or in other blog posts, so that I can keep writing helpful posts for you and others.
Heavy Metals
When I say "heavy metals" I am referring to metals that are poisonous to the body even in moderate quantities. In fact, this includes minerals like iron and copper, which, when present in excess, can be fatal.
I frequently see elevations in lead, aluminum, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, nickel, cobalt, copper, and iron in my patients. The sicker they are, the worse the levels are. It is a remarkable correlation.
Where are we getting these heavy metals? They are contaminants in our food, air, water, personal care products, medicines, and even building materials.
Here's a quick case study. Emily was a physical therapist who took year after year of flu shots. We saw her eliminate massive amounts of aluminum in her hair as she healed from myasthenia gravis. You can read her story here:
You can't tolerate heavy metals in anything. Not in your food, air, water, personal care products, medications, or building materials. We have known this since the fall of Rome, but our political and public health elites have been hoodwinked into ignoring them as causes of disease.
The worst offender, by far, is currently the heavy metals in vaccines. They deserve a special mention as something to avoid religiously. Nothing is more injurious to the human body than injectable heavy metals, let alone the other toxins that vaccines are loaded with. Vaccines alone have done more harm to our society than perhaps anything else in all of recorded history.
Indoor Lifestyles
The problems with indoor living are almost too numerous to mention. The short version is that living indoors leads us to being more sedentary, exposes us to more toxins, increases our exposure to harmful electromagnetic fields, and reduces our exposure to sunlight.
Indoor air is more polluted than outdoor air in almost all cases, which is why having an indoor air filter is key to optimal health and longevity (so are indoor plants)
Modern buildings are frequently contaminated with mold due to water damage, and these molds can cause severe illness
Modern electronics emit increasing levels of harmful electromagnetic frequencies (EMF), and living indoors is the best way to maximize your EMF exposure
Sunlight is one of the most powerful forces for health and healing in the world, and we get almost no sunlight when we live indoors
To reclaim our health, we must embrace outdoor living and make our indoor living environments healthier.
This is why I wrote this post about optimizing your light environment.
This is why I wrote this post about light therapy.
You need to optimize your light environment to survive the rising tide of toxic pollution in our modern world.
Electromagnetic Pollution
A century ago, wireless communications were just becoming a part of everyday life. The electrical grid was in its infancy. Today, we are surrounded by man-made electronics and the energies that they emit.
Powerful vested interests have waged a quiet propaganda war against the public, to convince them these devices and the energies they emit are harmless.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
We've known practically since the advent of these technologies that there were negative health effects. Researchers who sounded the alarm had their funding pulled, their grant proposals refused, and their careers stymied or outright destroyed. This was all to protect what has now become, "Big Tech."
You cannot achieve optimal health and indulge in unmitigated exposure to electromagnetic devices. You don't have to go back to the stone age, but the more exposure you have, the more your health will suffer. I've seen patients recover from chronic disease just by getting outside without their technology.
Electromagnetic energies corrupt and degrade human biology. I've even seen and heard theories that they can be used for mind-control. I don't doubt it. To what degree are these devices being used on the public to create the rise in mental disorders like transgenderism, depression, anxiety, and more? We can only guess. Perhaps, if we ever get adequate access to government records, we will know the truth.
For now, anyone who wants to retain their sanity and vitality in our modern world must reduce their EMF exposure. That's a long story for another day - subscribe today to get my advice in your inbox.
Here’s my favorite post on this so far:
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds
Endocrine disrupting compounds include everything from mercury to phthalates to bisphenol-A. They are everywhere. We even find them in polar bears. They are here for the long-haul. The chief offenders are modern personal care products, plastic products (particularly that we store food in), aluminum foil, mercury amalgams, tap water, furniture, and pesticides, but this is just the short list.
The most remarkable thing about endocrine disrupting compounds is that they can have stronger effects at lower doses. This paradoxical effect makes them incredibly dangerous to life on earth. To be clear, this means that sometimes a concentration of parts per billion is more dangerous than parts per million million. Usually, people say that "dilution is the solution to pollution." Endocrine disrupting compounds challenge this assertion.
The changes we saw in Pottenger's cats are the same that we are seeing in modern humans. Hormones control behavior in myriad ways. Every year, the American man's testosterone level drops by 1%. This means that 30-year-olds next year will have a testosterone level 1% less than 30-year-olds this year.
Let that sink in.
This is a civilizational catastrophe. Endocrine disrupting compounds are behind this decline. Nutritional deficiencies, stress, and more play a role in this, but endocrine disrupting compounds may do more damage than all of them.
Avoid endocrine disrupting compounds as much as possible.
Processed Food
The main conclusion of Pottenger's experiment was that processing food removes vital factors in maintaining our wellness. This is obvious with even a cursory survey of the nutritional literature. Yet somehow, people need to hear this over and over again before they finally take this problem seriously.
You need to avoid processed food. You need to eat whole food, preferably from scratch, for two key reasons. First, it is more nutritious. Second, it has a lower content of toxins that end up being added to processed food. Enough ink has been spilled on this. I'll leave it at that.
Restoring the Vitality of the West
There are a handful of modalities that promise to deliver us from the threats I've listed above. I've spent the last 20 years figuring out what's truly worth pursuing in terms of therapeutic results, and these are the top things I see working for people.
Re-Purposed Drugs
Many old, off-patent drugs are effective in treating modern diseases. We are seeing more and more case reports of people reversing everything from cancer to autoimmune diseases with drugs like ivermectin, fenbendazole, and hydroxychloroquine. They aren't right for everyone (what drug is?), but they are far, far superior to many of the modern "solutions" being peddled by Big Pharma. This has led Big Pharma to a relentless campaign of persecution against those of us who advance these therapeutics.
We use re-purposed drugs in my practice and help patients get access to them, at the right doses and for the right duration of therapy. The story goes much deeper than just ivermectin and fenbendazole, which are increasingly popular. There are many, many more drugs that are of immense value to people that we use routinely in my practice.
I interviewed Dr. William Makis about his use of them for cancer. Listen here:
We specifically use them in our Autoimmune Recovery Program, which you can learn more about here:
Bioidentical Hormones
Bioidentical hormones are exactly what the body produces in its own hormone-producing glands, like the adrenals, ovaries, or testicles. Big Pharma hates bioidentical hormones, because they destroy their most profitable drug classes.
Bioidentical hormones have proven time and again to improve cardiovascular health.
Bioidential hormones have been shown to reduce risk of certain cancers and, more importantly, have never been shown to increase the risk of cancer. I know that might shock some of you, but it's true.
Bioidentical hormones help protect us from autoimmune conditions. This is why autoimmunity rates and severity tend to rise as we get older, and hormone levels fall.
Bioidentical hormones are essential for metabolism. Diabetes and obesity can be effectively treated with bioidentical hormones. Without proper hormone levels, we cannot have optimal metabolic function.
The definitive work on this is a book called “Estrogen Matters.”
Big Pharma has waged a relentless war against bioidentical hormones in an effort to stop them from undercutting their profits. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that in a world full of pollutants that interfere with hormones (see Endocrine Disrupting Compounds above), we need hormone replacement to live long, healthy lives. Anyone who tells you hormones are dangerous doesn't understand the literature. The reality is that the only harms ever attributed to hormones have been in cases of synthetic hormones that are distinctly different from what your body produces. Bioidentical hormones work wonders every day in my practice, which is why we use them.
My posts on bioidentical hormones:
Hyperbaric Oxygen
Hyperbaric oxygen is a miracle. It treats virtually everything. That's why I bought a hyperbaric oxygen tank for my family. All of our modern diseases that are increasing as the West declines - cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmunity, allergy, and mental illness - have been shown to respond to hyperbaric oxygen. What doesn't respond to hyperbaric oxygen? We haven't studied it for every disease, but enough data has accumulated that I just went ahead and bought a tank as an investment in my health and my family's health.
Hyperbaric treatment can turn into a significant investment, so it's one of the things we walk people through in our Autoimmunity Recovery Program as part of our Autoimmunity Recovery Framework.
Light Therapy
Light therapy is my favorite cutting-edge modality for healing, for a few reasons. First, it is incredibly effective for just about everything. My favorite light therapy device, the X39 patch, up-regulates GHK-Cu. GHK-Cu is a peptide that causes old cells to behave like younger cells. The X39 patch therefore has a global effect to make the body act younger.
Here’s my post on light therapy for longevity:
Peptides and Bioregulators
Peptides and bioregulators are becoming increasingly popular. My favorite way to up-regulate peptides are LifeWave patches. The X39 patch up-regulated GHK-Cu, one of our most potent anti-aging and regenerative peptides. This is why I start all of my patients on the X39 patch. I have found that the LifeWave patches are all that we need in the majority of cases when it comes to peptides.
Peptides and bioregulators will become increasingly popular and important in integrative medicine. This is why LifeWave patches are becoming increasingly popular - people are seeing the value in peptides.
I interviewed the founder of LifeWave here:
Sauna and Therapeutic Hyperthermia
Sauna has long been one of our best therapeutic interventions.
You should read my guide to sauna therapy:
Nutrition
We offer our patients nutritional testing so that we can create personalized supplement regimens for them. The difference that personalization makes is profound. Patients get much better results when you aren't just blindly supplementing. We use hair tissue mineral analysis, which you can read more about here:
Blood Donation
This one will surprise some people, but believe me when I tell you that the data on the benefits of blood donation are remarkable. I have written many articles on this. Here they are:
When you see the pieces of the puzzle as I do, the decline of the West is no surprise. It is only logical. No society can destroy its soil, poison its environment, and degrade its food without ruining its health. The decline in our culture is a predictable side effect of this.
Westerners who are waking up to this fact would do well to reject the causes of this disease and embrace the solutions I have described here.
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Until next time, be well,
Dr. Stillman
We are what we eat !!