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How SCIENTIFIC Is SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE? SCIENTIFIC How SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE? Modern medicine is not living up to its claim of being evidence based and seems to be at war with nature, but an integral science of medicine that focuses on strengthening the body's defences rather than attacking the invaders is producing powerful healing results. hat would you think if there were an inexpensive, safe, simple and highly effective treatment for easing pain and speeding up healing by about 50 per cent, but it was not yet approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) which was ignoring it? Could this be because of a conspiracy against the technology? What if there was good research behind the new treatment, and yet mainstream medical journals made ridiculous excuses for refusing to publish it? Have | piqued your interest yet? Further, could there be such an all-encompassing conspiracy resulting in millions of people continuing to suffer needlessly because they were being deprived of a treatment that could reduce or eliminate the need for drugs? Would the makers of more than 40 blockbuster drugs object if these drugs were no longer in such high demand? And if all this were actually happening, would you not be morally outraged? A revolutionary technology ignored by mainstream medicine Let me tell you an amazing personal story, and let's see what you think. In 1999, I contacted an electrical engineer named Maurice Bales after reading an ad that his company, Bales Scientific, had placed in a medical journal. The ad seemed a bit outrageous in its claims, and I was about to oss the journal into the wastebasket when | noticed that his phone number was local. Curious, | called him. Maurice said he had invented a device, called a photon stimulator, that emitted near-infrared light of a certain tequency, which he claimed could relieve most kinds of pain. | didn't believe im at first. If what he was claiming was correct, then why wasn't something his impressive already being used in clinical practice? Yet Maurice seemed honest. And he wasn't trying to sell me anything; he only wanted the chance to show me that it worked and see what I thought. He invited me to bring patients suffering from pain to his office for a free demonstration. Reluctantly, | agreed. | didn't have time to waste on something | suspected was much overrated, but I was curious. If somehow he was correct, | wanted to know about it. I invited two patients with severe pain to try the treatment. One had multiple sclerosis (MS) and was for the most part bedridden with pain and unable to walk without crutches. The other patient had a ruptured lumbar disc that was causing intractable pain in his lower back. To my shock, both patients were substantially improved in just one 15-minute treatment with Maurice's light! Over the next couple of weeks, the man with MS remained in far less pain after a total of eight treatments. He was up out of bed most of the day, could walk more upright and even returned to full-time work. The treatments did not change the overall progression of his disease process, but for a year he was much improved and was very appreciative for what they did. The other patient had significant but only temporary relief of his symptoms after a similar number of treatments. by Len Saputo, MD with Byron Belitsos © September 2009 Extracted from chapter 3 of A Return to Healing (Origin Press, California, 2009) Website: http://www.areturntohealing.com by Len Saputo, MD with Byron Belitsos © September 2009 NEXUS ¢ 27 DECEMBER 2009 - JANUARY 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com