Richard says that growing up on the great plains imprinted him with the feeling that we are connected to the stars. This intuition led him to receive a Ph.D. in biophysics in which he received a PhD in order to study the link between living systems and the laws of the Universe.
Dr. Moore’s research group discovered that insulin helps regulate the amount of acid inside living cells by activating an acid pump. His group together with another in Denmark discovered that insulin is a major regulator of the sodium-potassium pump. Along with work of other scientists, this ultimately led to the discovery that hypertension and most strokes are caused by a dietary imbalance between sodium and potassium. He authored a book on this subject titled The High Blood Pressure Solution, and The K Factor.
Workshop:
Sunday, April 27 -- 10:30 am to 12:00 pm
Habits of Thoughts. World Views and the Failures of Modern Medicine
— Richard Moore —
Southwest Ballroom
Modern medicine’s record in prevention and in treatment of chronic conditions leaves much to be desired. I will discuss pervasive and not commonly recognized reasons for these failures. These include habits of thinking such as group-think and undue reliance on authority. Even more important is the outdated 19th century materialistic, mechanical world-view imparted by medical education that has conditioned physicians to think of the body as an assemblage of parts and thus develop specialties for each part. Compounding this is a very incomplete understanding of the scientific process that future doctors get. I will illustrate how these habits of thought led the medical profession to assume, incorrectly, that:
- in hypertension it is the blood pressure that must be treated
- the cause of hypertension is not known when basic biophysics identified
the easily correctable cause almost two decades ago.
Goal: To understand the fundamental conceptual problems handicapping medicine.
Modern medicine’s record in prevention and in treatment of chronic conditions leaves much to be desired. I will discuss pervasive and not commonly recognized reasons for these failures. These include habits of thinking such as group-think and undue reliance on authority. Even more important is the outdated 19th century materialistic, mechanical world-view imparted by medical education that has conditioned physicians to think of the body as an assemblage of parts and thus develop specialties for each part. Compounding this is a very incomplete understanding of the scientific process that future doctors get. I will illustrate how these habits of thought led the medical profession to assume, incorrectly, that:
- in hypertension it is the blood pressure that must be treated
- the cause of hypertension is not known when basic biophysics identified
the easily correctable cause almost two decades ago.
Goal: To understand the fundamental conceptual problems handicapping medicine.
Learning objectives:
- Demonstrate how habits of thought and a scientifically incorrect world- view lead to fundamentally incorrect conclusions
- Develop a scientific, holistic base for a conceptually unified health care system
- Demonstrate how prevention of hypertension and most strokes could inexpensively be accomplished NOW
Richard Moore, MD, PhD
This
conference is approved for CEUs through the National Board
of Certified Counselors.
