The Great American Health Hoax: Why Getting Sick is a Big Mistake You Can Avoid - Raymond Francis

“The Great American Health Hoax: Why Getting Sick is a Big Mistake You Can Avoid” - a presentation by Raymond Francis, MSc at, the Smart Life Forum hosted by Silicon Valley Health Institute on Thursday, July 16, 2015.

here is no compelling reason why anyone should have cancer, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, osteoporosis, the common cold or almost any other disease. All of these diseases can be prevented and almost all reversed if you learn how to maintain your body. The body is a self-repairing system. This is why, for example, no one needs a hip replacement. Our hips are designed to last a lifetime—if we keep them in good repair. All you have to do is supply the required repair materials and avoid toxins that can shut down your repair machinery.

In his newest book, The Great American Health Hoax, scientist and bestselling author Raymond Francis offers a solution. You can see a 100 year-old car that looks great and runs great. Why? Because it has been well maintained. We are no different. We can look great and run great at age 100, if we are well maintained. The problem is we know more about how to maintain our car than we do our body. A new car comes with a maintenance list—we don’t! The Great American Health Hoax provides a maintenance list that will teach you how to maintain your body.

In this lecture, you will learn:
• The amount of energy you can produce may be the most important measure of your health
• Microbes in your gut determine the strength of your immune system
• Almost any oil you can buy at the supermarket is toxic
• Your pH is critical to your body chemistry
• Controlling Inflammation is key to warding off illness
• Being overweight is much more than a cosmetic problem
• You shouldn’t blame aging for what is actually disease

The need to end our chronic disease epidemic is urgent. We need to teach people how to not get sick because the cost of disease is bankrupting our country. With more than 10,000 baby boomers retiring every day, the congressional budget office says the path we are on is economically unsustainable. The government has made promises it can’t keep. By 2040, the number of Americans over age 80 will be larger than the number of preschool children. By 2030, federal spending for just four items—Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and pensions—will exceed total federal revenues. This will leave nothing for any other purpose. The United States will be unable to honor its financial obligations without enormous inflation. We are going broke trying to pay for disease. Fortunately, the knowledge we already have is sufficient to end our epidemic of chronic disease. Just follow the maintenance list in The Great American Health Hoax. What we normally think of as aging is really the result of poor maintenance.
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