richidoo
Tiger,
I bought the guy's book and read it yesterday. It is called "How We Rot and Rust". It focuses on 'terrain' as cause for bloodborn pathogens and free radicals as part of the modality for the cause for most disease. It is much more in detail, but in the end, his recommendations are very similar to what Andreas recommends for lifestyle, except for taking vitamin and mineral supplements. Andreas provides for this by improving digestion of foods containing vits and mins through liver cleanse.
Then I looked up live blood microscopy to investigate a guy nearby who does it (first name Reggae) and got a Quackwatch hit on the first google page. I hate when that happens. Quackwatch is a quack too, because of obsessive maniacal skepticism of anything new, but his arguments and documentation of people's past can be enlightening and humorous! Liver cleansing is not mentioned in Quackwatch. haha!!
It is good that you are seeing that the body rarely needs a medical doctor except for trauma, but there may come a time when all the nutritional healing information in the world will only confuse you and make it harder to relax and heal. That's when a good professional is valuable, to guide the committed patient to his desired goal. Normal sick people have no goal, other than stop the pain NOW! and are willing to get sicker to achieve that goal. Unwise because it reduces the quality and quantity of life simply to appease their fear. But many recieve their "miracles" through medicine and the doctors usually do their best, just haven't chosen to be cutting edge researchers with all the baggage that carries in their industry. For many well-meaning MDs, it's just a very demanding and unrewarding job, which they only continue because they feel they are helping people and you can't fault them for that...
There are a lot of charlitans and well meaning but underqualified and naive "nutrition preachers" in the alternative health world. Beware! When you find someone like Andreas who offers incredible value for free (in this forum), and offers such useful resources like his books and consulting services for cheap, you gotta appreciate it. His approach makes so much sense, has so much depth and consistency and is totally non-judgemental. Thanks for everything you do, Andreas!
Rich