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    MESS 
    Multi Etiological Sumtotal Syndrome 
    by Han M.Stiekema , (holistic) physician since 1972 
     (Dutch text from 1999 and more relevant than
    ever before)
    
      
        | 1. The health situation has changed dramatically since
        World War II. One of the most significant factors is the shift of the individual causes complex
        to a situation in which we are all exposed to a range of more or less the same illness
        causing influences. The individualistic-analytical approach is still rampant, reason why medicine
        has been unable to keep up. Especially in mainstream medicine it is still largely so, that
        if the patient is eligible for treatment, he or she should first fit in pre-formed
        diagnostic schedules. In the corridors we hear than jocular remarks like. "The
        patient is there for the doctor," the "moving up health care" or
        "terminal care that creates terminal patients" The aforementioned diagnoses are,
        after all, related to cellular abnormalities, diseases which by definition belong in
        (last) chronic stages. Usually the patient has then (often) already decades of prodromal
        stages (early stages) behind him or her self. The treating physician has for signs and
        symptoms associated with these early stages -.. understanding of these stages in his study
        he/she never gained - usually no other option than symptom suppressing drugs, measures
        that worsen the disease rather than remedy. | 
       
     
      
    
      
        2. The "rise" of the so-called
        "new risks" has, however, has waken up the hitherto complacent medical world. Despite all the medical,
        pharmacological, technological and surgical efforts, diease is rather increasing rather
        than decreasing, along with an alarming number of "new diseases" and that at a
        younger age. There are already 30.000 "different diseases" registered. Which increasingly brings about turmoil, confusion, uncertainty and
        concern in all sectors of society. The conference held in December 1998 in The Hague *
        about the "new risks", a partnership between business, government and insurance
        companies, was an initial manifestation of it. Besides the direct benefit of the patient,
        there are major financial and economic interests at stake. Just take sick leave and
        soaring disability benefits. From the congress folder: "New risks are linked in
        particular to the advancing technology: Increasingly risks sneak in our society that we
        had not foreseen: DES, BSE, disorders associated with the nuclear risk, climate change,
        diseases such as asbestosis and mesothelioma, RSI, EMF, OPS, effects of pesticide use,
        (2013: electro-smog, dementia, Altzheimer, cancer). New risks can not perceived by human
        senses, popping up - because of this - unexpectedly, often lack a scientific basis ,
        have a long incubation period, are large-scale, can affect anyone while seriously
        threatening society. And new risks are according to their nature and size are
        difficult to fit in in traditional insurance solutions ". 
        * The conference, "for unknown
        reasons" was canceled at the last minute ...  | 
       
     
      
    
      
        3. Thus, the conference
        brochure gives a good indication, where the shoe pinches: the traditional approach to
        health care fails increasingly and widely when it comes to the current health-threatening
        factors. Factors that not only produce "new risks", but worsen the statistics of
        existing common diseases such as heart disease, lung disease, diseases of the skeletal,
        degenerative diseases, mental disorders and cancer, for example *. How this usually works?
        Take ME or chronic fatigue-syndrome. Firstly, a physical inventory of the symptoms, in
        this case that chronic fatigue, fever, swollen glands, sore throat, muscle and joint pain,
        digestive disorders, dizziness, headache, sleep and concentration disorders , memory and
        vision loss, is made. This combination of symptoms is subsequently defined by giving it a
        special name: in this case "ME" as a separate entity, an isolated SPECIFIC
        DISEASE. As usual, the search starts for "specific" causes,
        "belonging" to this "specific" disease. Which of course requires
        "intensive research" (...). Given "the complexity of the disorder a very
        broad field of research is necessary" says a letter to ME patients. Subsequently, one
        promptly returns to the traditional model, individualizing and analytizing "this
        particular case". Medical history, laboratory, objectively verifying the findings
        with regular clinical, bio-chemical, toxicological and even orthomolecular approaches have
        to be tried. Moreover, there must be further investigation of hormone-like substances in
        the immune system (cytokines), investigation of unknown viruses, ditto in the field of
        endocrinology, neuro-physiology, psychology besides environmental factors. In conventional
        medicine, the letter continues, no effective therapy is (yet) available, as opposed to the
        alternative circuit, for example, where diets (temporarily) help (....). 
        * 40% increase in the coming decades ...
        despite (or because of) our increasing technological progress.  | 
       
     
      
    
      
        4. What is immediately
        striking is, that FIRST a GIGANTIC (in time, money and effort) scientific research is
        "interposed", before the patients can expect any effective therapy. Pleasant for
        all those scientists, unacceptable for the victims. It is here that a gross fallacy is
        made. Firstly, diseases are (almost) never mono-causal, but multi-causal. Example THE
        cause of ME, migraine, heart attack or cancer doesn't exist. They are always several
        factors COLLECTIVELY, SIMULTANEOUSLY, UNINTERRUPTED and OVER A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME
        interacting. The second point is that we already know those causal factors, rather than
        still to be sought for. It has to do with the "great risks for society as a
        whole" as stated in the above-mentioned conference folder. These are disease causing
        factors, everyone more or less exposed to. These include: Industrial agriculture and ditto
        food, junk food and eating habits, drinking too little, lack of exercise, our toxic
        environment, the amalgam syndrome, iatrogenic factors (and adverse drug reactions),
        electro-magnetic pollution (EMF), the digital addiction and last but not least the stress,
        the pressure, the overkill of impressions and "information", hazards of the
        workplace, the insecurities, the angst, meaninglesness and loneliness, to name but a few.  | 
       
     
      
    
      
        5. These disease causing
        factors affect EVERYONE continuously and simultaneously. It is a multifactorial etiology -
        a "causal swamp" -. from which no one can escape. Everyone is day and night
        exposed, the etiological complex has an undisputed continuous effect on body and mind.
        E.g. everyone has an intake of at least tens of thousands different chemical substances
        each day, (of which not yet 1% has been studied on harmfulness), everyone living in a
        permanent electro-soup of the most different types of radiation. "Everyone has
        stress", most have amalgam in the mouth and swallows drugs regularly. That same
        majority also live unhealthy with poor diet, drinking too little, an excess of stimulants
        and lack of exercise. This "SumTotal" of etiological factors acting in
        the human body through accumulation, potentiation, synergy, resonance and facilitation.
        The degree of effectiveness and thus harm, depends on 1. the vulnerability of the person
        concerned (unborn, babies, children and the elderly ), 2. the focus of the action (one has
        more to endure from electro-smog, the other from toxins), 3. the individual biography (the
        effect is primarily related to someone's past "weak spots", 4. the synergistic
        effect of the various influences (e.g. the "new risks" are often the result of
        the COMBINED effect of antibiotics, pesticides and additives in the diet, smoking, the
        70.000! different chemicals in our house, electro-smog of wireless networks, the CO and
        benzene from our car, mercury poisoning from amalgam etc.etc.,TOGETHER, enough reason to
        distrust all so-called "safe" maximum dosages and toxicity limits of single
        substances. They are - intentionally or not - eyewash. The figures are indeed devastating:
        despite all "protective measures" our health deteriorates by the day.  | 
       
     
      
    
      
        | 6. In addition to the causing factors, the
        effects are also known. It follws a fascinating logic. First functions are affected, later
        followed by cell-damage. To start with. How the above mentioned primary cause-complex
        works itself out in the body, is called the secondary complex. The
        combination of these etiological factors reveal themselves as disorders of the "Flow
        System", the dynamic balance between input, processing and output, respectively of
        nutrition, water, waste and toxins. This metabolic balance is classified into seven
        stages: nutrition, digestion, circulation, (cell) assimilation and combustion,
        detoxification and excretion. It manifests itself as extra-cellular disorders
        (connective tissue, capillaries, mucous membranes, skin), with or without self-poisoning
        from their own gut, disruption of the intestinal flora, infection and inflammation, fungi
        (candida), hypoglycemia, deficiencies (vitamins, minerals and trace elements),
        acidification, enzyme damage, food intolerance, thickening of the blood (Hct), thickening
        of the basal membrane of the capillaries with problems of permeablity of nutrients and
        waste to and from the cells, risk factors in the blood, slagging of the connective tissue,
        reduced O2-utilization,
        poisoning by one's own waste and toxins, an overburdened liver and kidneys, local acidose,
        allergies, decreased melatonin production and overall weakening of the immune system. Due
        to the aforementioned cause- complex, plus the impact of our internal environment, the
        cell is exposed to increasing pressure, until the versatile disorders and damages reach a
        critical limit. Few is already enough - a flu, fatigue, a flight, stress or even drinking
        a cup of coffee "as the straw that breaks the camel's back" - making that the
        cell "suddenly" derails (intra-cellular damage). Which
        manifests itself in disorders of the cell membrane, internal cell-disfunctions, like
        cellular respiration, the RNA, hormonal disregulations, disturbances of brain function and
        the EEC, vegetative disorders like a sympaticus fixation (stress). Finally, mental (ADHD)
        and psychological problems. | 
       
     
      
    
      
        | 7. The visible manifestations
        of this we, neat as it should,  have put in separate boxes. In fact, they are part of
        the tertiary complex of the MESS, including not only severe food
        intolerance, ditto allergy, RSI, PMS, ME, EMF (electro-magnetic fields), fibromyalgia, but
        also chronic digestive disorders, e.g. intestinal inflammation, with or without causing
        effects elsewhere in the body ("foci"), depression, sleep disturbances,
        menopause, premature aging, immune weakness, infertility, viral diseases and
        intoxications. Instead of "separate disease", in reality they are nothing but
        aspects of the impact the overarching causing complex has. The resulting "civilization"
        diseases (quaternary complex) -. for example, migraine, asthma,
        high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, adult-onset diabetes, skin diseases,
        osteoporosis , low back pain, rheumatism, degenerative diseases, Crohn's disease,
        irritable bowel syndrome, many women's diseases, Alzheimer's, cancer and many other
        diseases - fit into this row, they are the chronic stages of the foregoing with the MESS
        as COMMON DENOMINATOR. Individual diseases are nothing but the result of the
        above "SumTotal", in interaction with the specific health situation and the
        biography of the individual patient: all variations on the same theme. A
        "safe dose" of only one factor, without including the others and the individual
        vulnerability, is bunk. The omni-present "SumTotal": the interaction of the
        various factors during a certain time - plus insight in the various stages of
        disease-development (pathology) - is the determining factor, decisive for the individual
        "fate". Research in which the causes are mixed up with the effects - e.g.
        "myocardial infarction due to vascular occlusion" - is therefore incorrect and
        misleading. The latter isn't the CAUSE of a heart attack, but is itself a late effect
        of a preceding cause and effect chain, indeed, a long pathological development. The choice
        is between causal and symptomatic approach. The causes are known, their interaction is
        known, the pathological stages in the body are known, so why waiting for the "outcome
        of (common) scientific research?" Instead of just to follow one line back, the broad
        spectrum, the whole "field" has to be scrutinized. In all above-mentioned cases
        prevention and therapy can start immediately. | 
       
     
      
    
      
        8. It consists of as much as
        possible eliminate or reduce the disease causing factors, such as the replacing the
        amalgam by plastic fillings and cleaning up the house from electro-smog. Early
        diagnosis and disease history, comprehensive physical examination, humoral pathology,
        flow system diagnosis together, provide objective medical findings, the validity of which
        is in no way inferior to that of the existing regular research and diagnostics. The
        therapy starts with correcting the basic metabolic balance: health food, cleaning up the
        gut, improving blood circulation, treating deficiencies (supplements), drinking a lot,
        fitness and sweating, improving oxygen utilization of the cells, neutralizing foci,
        promoting detoxification, de-acidification and excretion, while strengthening the immune
        system. The supreme method is called "Chinese Guasha". Where necessary
        relaxation (yoga, qigong) and simple self-help psychotherapy (mindfulness) could be added.
        Harmful environmental and work factors should be removed. Introduction of ecological
        agriculture and production of healthy food, the UMTS (G3/G4) network via a cable instead
        of the ether, the Swedish standard for computers for example, reducing the hours of
        "virtual activity" for children. Doing so "diseases" such as RSI, ME,
        fibromyalgia, PMS, high blood pressure, migraine, tinnitis, ME, etc. etc. appear not to
        stand alone, but prove to be different aspects of the same syndrome: the "Multi
        Etiological Sumtotal Syndrome", obviously, with individual accents. It
        proves that the individualistic-analyzing effect approach is totally inadequate. A
        completely new (scientific) approach is needed, one that emphasizes the connections and
        interactions, as there the key lies, instead of in the detail. The goal is "a healthy
        mind in a healthy body in a healthy society." The
        groundbreaking concept of "Flow System Therapy", as developed by me, along with
        associated methods - optimizing basic metabolic functions - thus "automatically"
        improve health. Let's join forces with self and mutual help to face the greatest health
        challenge of all times. 
        ISBN 90-70525-27-5   | 
       
     
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