Self-Health: Principles

The provision of health information on this site is intended to assist people who wish to know about and, as far as is possible, wish to manage their own health. We provide information to assist in that, and only that.

While some contributors to this Health Resource are health practitioners, this site does not offer an individual health service of any kind. It simply provides information.

This site advocates Self-Health, which can be summarized as follows:

The person most responsible for your health is you. While you may seek help at times from professional health care providers, you always retain that responsibility. As such, you need to be as knowledgeable as possible about health, and in particular your own health.

The provision of information by this site is based on the following principles:
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• The only active force that cures any disease or affliction of a human being (or indeed any other living thing) is the immune system. The immune system actively defends the body against the disease. We regard the health vectors discussed on this site as catalysts that tip the struggle between the body and its disease in favor of the immune system.
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• When an individual takes responsibility for their own health, they become the primary support for their immune system. Any health practitioner, no matter how gifted, is simply a health mediator—albeit a very important one—from whom the individual takes advice and treatment.
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• The individual who wishes to cure his or her diseases must try to learn about their diseases and about health in order to make rational health decisions.
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• All diseases have causes, one or perhaps many factors that enabled the disease to take root. A disease cannot be regarded as cured unless its cause has been discovered and eradicated.
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• All established health traditions are useful bodies of knowledge. This website posts information about health from every such tradition that it regards as valid and valuable.
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• Human beings are non-standard. Even if two people appear to have identical symptoms, it is entirely possible that a given health treatment will be effective for one but not the other. In truth no two human beings, not even “identical twins” can be considered identical in respect of health.
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• We consider it possible that almost any thing can contribute to a diseased state and that, consequently, almost any thing can help to cure it. Put simply: there are disease vectors and health vectors at every level, from the psychic (e.g. negative emotions, mystical experiences) to the entirely material (e.g. minerals and metals).
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• It is best to live a healthy life. This means living in a way that emphasizes healthy activity and behavior and minimizes the unhealthy.
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• Periods of illness will likely occur no matter how healthy a life one lives.
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• Prevention is far far better than cure.