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There is absolutely no information which can be gathered from primate studies or anywhere else that supports the idea that when all the indicators of excellent health are present, disease can still be sneaking up behind us. Hormone levels that are indicative of disease cannot exist in a woman who is experiencing all the other signs of excellent health, and I don't mean the kind that SAD women experience, I mean the kind that I'M experiencing. The medical profession likes to claim otherwise, because that serves their interests, but it's a ridiculous and unsupportable idea that requires an enormous leap of logic. All this concern over hormone levels is based on the same old, tired, fear-inducing garbage that we hear with regard to every other disease. Essentially, that a person can SEEM healthy and be doing everything possible to acquire optimal health, but still fall ‘victim’ to disease. Medicine ignores the universal law of cause and effect with its contention that anyone can be a victim and disease quietly stalks us. (...)

The crux of our disagreement seems to lie in the question of whether raw amenorrheal women should have their hormone levels checked by a medical professional. While this may be the standard advice for cooked women, and it may even make sense for people who abuse their bodies and routinely suppress their symptoms with remedies, it does not apply to women who are already addressing their health problems in the correct way (by pursuing healthy habits). The underlying assumption otherwise is that information that could be gathered by a visit to a doctor would be helpful for a woman experiencing amenorrhea who is already pursuing healthy habits, including eating a low fat, raw, biologically appropriate diet. This would not be the case, even if a raw woman was experiencing an hormonal imbalance. If there are imbalances, there will be other signs that the woman is not experiencing a high level of health. And, in this case, a woman is best served to seek the guidance of someone who can help her further improve her diet and lifestyle habits, like a natural hygiene practitioner. A doctor visit not only would not do this, there is the risk that it would hinder her efforts, as I explained earlier.

Infertility is nature deeming a woman’s body to be unfit as an environment for growing a new human being. If the environment is unfit, there are reasons. Infertility may be more complicated because it involves the health of the male partner as well, but like all the consequences of our bad habits, it signals its presence in women AND men. When it is claimed that there are no signals, it is always the case that either they are being ignored, or they are thought of as inevitable features of life (like menopause symptoms, for example). When there really ARE no signals, it means there is no disease.

The medical profession has had a couple hundred years now to invent fancy multi-syllable names for each and every facet of the human body and its myriad functions and processes, including menstruation, and its practitioners love to throw them around to give everyone the impression that they understand health. This doesn’t change the fact that their way doesn’t work, however. It never worked and it never could work. Recognizing this basic truth is a necessary part of getting healthy. With specific regard to menstruation, the unfortunate reality is that there are just very few healthy human females on which to base conclusions about whether or not women should bleed monthly. As I mentioned before, however, the thousands of testimonials from hygienic women over the years can't be dismissed, especially in a world where there is so much false and corrupt information floating around on this topic and so little of the truthful variety.

(from Raw School forum)

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