About the Authors

Martha M. Grout, MD, MD(H)

"The Arizona legislature answered patients' demands for broader boundaries and established the Board of Homeopathic Medical Examiners in 1981. The license granted by that board allows Medical Doctors and Doctors of Osteopathy to take advanced studies and qualify (by taking an examination) to utilize approaches to medicine that often are not taught in conventional medical schools. We homeopathic physicians have the ability to practice medicine within a broader standard of care. For example, patients come to me after surgery for intravenous vitamin C and glutathione to flush out the anesthesia and speed the healing process - anesthesia is necessary but toxic and very much worth flushing out. Medical schools don't teach this, but why not? It helps patients recover much faster.

"And it's not just about the neck down. The brain and the body have enormous influence each over the other. In many cases treating both the brain and body helps the systems recover more rapidly than treating either system separately. Children with any sort of developmental delays are especially helped by neurodevelopment techniques. So, too, are head trauma patients.

"Holistic approaches to reversing chronic disease have a solid, scientific basis, although it may not be science that every allopathic physician recognizes as yet. It may be metabolic biochemistry, may be physics, quantum entanglements, the configuration of water, or it may be looking at the way our minds and thoughts affect our body's water structure, and hence everything we do. I like to look out to the horizon for new and more effective ways to solve health issues."

Mary Budinger

"I was amazed to read in 2001 that investigative reporters Jane Akre and Steve Wilson were fired from a Fox News station in Florida because they had investigated a genetically engineered growth hormone called rBGH that is given to cows to increase milk production. The reporters took their case to court, saying the station was pressured by Monsanto and the dairy industry to kill their negative report and fire them. I had heard inside stories from former news colleagues of corporate influence calling the shots in newsrooms, but this transgression was so big it made headlines itself.

"We are in the midst of a high-stakes information war to influence how we spend our dollars. For example, Wikipedia articles that are pro-health freedom or present integrative medicine perspectives are consistently gutted, removed, or vandalized, according to the Alliance for Natural Health, USA. Stifling free speech? You betcha. In Arizona, a regular MD may be disciplined by the medical board if he uses chelation for treating heart disease. The issue is not about good medicine, but about brass knuckled economic competition - stents and by-pass surgeries generate more revenue.

"Despite such information management, we live in a time of great awakening. People in China are protesting the measles vaccine. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is teaching about the pitfalls of soda, salt, and cigarette smoke while San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom rang the warning bell about cell phones. Haiti made a strong statement after the devastating 2010 earthquake by refusing bags of genetically modified seeds. Mainstream news organizations, often controlled now by owners with political agendas, may still go with the party line - the Haiti story was not widely reported, few GMO stories are widely reported in the United States - but the public has other avenues of information.

"Consumers can make good choices when they have good information in their hands. An Alphabet of Good Health in a Sick World is our gift to those who wish to see the door in the ceiling, and avoid becoming a health care industry statistic. To your health!