Dr. Deitch: Hi I’m Dr. Jason Deitch and today I have the pleasure of being out with Dr. Tedd Koren. Thank you very much for being with us here today. We appreciate it. What I’d like to ask Dr. Tedd is, you are an author, a researcher, a consumer advocate, a wellness doctor, you’ve championed the cause of free speech for wellness doctors and consumers across the country. Give us your sense of the state of today’s health care system in America if you would please.
Dr. Koren: Oh it’s pretty bad. I mean, to put it mildly, the health of the population has been decreasing dramatically and is continuing to decrease and that’s why Kyro practice and natural healers are in such valuable need. And one of the problems is that people don’t know it. They don’t know how much they’re lacking and many of us come to the awareness that we need to improve health from many different avenues. Too many of us turn to someone who couldn’t help. I’m talking from a doctor’s stand point. And it could be a family member. It could be yourself. You get inspired to learn and to grow and to do things and your health is multifactorial. You can’t look at one thing and say, “You just do this, you’d be perfectly healthy”, because that’s not life. You have to look at nutrition. You have to look at sunlight. You have to look at drinking water. You have to look at quality of toxins in the body, you know, and Kyro practice is a very big part of that of course. You know, if a person is eating junk food, they still won’t be healthy and there’d be infertility in the family because if you don’t have the proper fats, you don’t have babies. And if you don’t have proper sunlight, you can get all kinds of bad diseases including conditions that we never even going to associate with bad sunlight, with improper sunlight. I mean living under artificial lighting, eating devitalized foods, not distressing. You know we have great books on laughing, loving and praying, and meditating, and this is an essential part of life. I don’t think there’s no reason why we say a seventh day should be a Sabbath, because part of our regular existence should be peace and quiet and reflection. And some of the reflections might give us the answers or teach us lessons. And some of the lessons are very painful. But if we look at, and one of the most painful lessons today is what’s going on in the society. You know, having a 20 percent or so infertility rate is a sign there’s a problem. When a drug like Viagra is selling like crazy, that tells you that it is a vitality issue, you know. And unfortunately I have discovered and this has shocked me that a lot of the things people do for health are making them sick. (Interesting.) For example, people start to take margarine because it’s supposed to be a better butter alternative. Margarine is like a bypass in a bottle. You know another finding all trans-fat and all that margarine. We look at hormone replacement therapy, right? What is this is that when we’re taking these hormones to stay young and healthy, and not get cancer and not get Alzheimer’s, and not get heart disease, and what do they find out? Hormone replacement therapy causes cancer and heart disease and Alzheimer’s and recently in the news, they’re talking about how the breast cancer rate has dropped in America. The reason being, and you see it’s an immediate. It’s pretty interesting how they say it. The reason is because women have stopped doing hormone replacement therapy. It dropped like 90 percent. And yet they don’t say the converse which is the most obvious. Thousands of women got breast cancer and died because of hormone replacement and they never say it that way. (Right.) And yet that is what is the fact and, you know, and that was some poor health. Some foods which we take as health foods are actually damaging as like soy, except that it’s fermented like soy sauce and yeast so most soy damages the thyroid, because it’s, and also damages the hormones. So you give a baby girl or boy a soy formula, that’s the equivalent of giving a baby five birth control pills a day. It’s absolutely incredible because they’re called phyto-estrogens. They’re plant like estrogens so it’s causing all kinds of sexual distortions, so little girls are having puberty at the age of seven or eight. A d we’re finding this out. Why? Because of the soy milk and the soy formula which the mothers are taking because they think it’s good for the kid. And we find boys having disturbed sexual functions giving infant, a newborn, female hormones, you’re going to have trouble. And you know and both the sad thing is a lot of things we do for health reasons, we’re doing, and it’s not healthy. It’s actually making us sick. You’ve got to be careful.
Dr. Deitch: Considering that people spend most of their life in their workplace, doing something that they’re doing and a majority of people have an employer. What role do you believe that wellness in the workplace has? What role or responsibility do you believe the employers and perhaps even what opportunities do employers have do you think would help improve the health of their employees?
Dr. Koren: Now, it depends on the finances. I mean that’s the only reason why in a work environment you’d want to make changes. (Right.) Because you always look at the bottom line.
Dr. Deitch: But what do you think would the finances of that be then?
Dr. Koren: Oh I don’t know, if we go to socialized medicine and all that’s so rough because then the government will pay all of these sick, you know. It won’t make a difference. (Right.) So it might be irrelevant. (As a consumer in the… let’s assume…) In the same environment? (Right, if in the system we are in right now.) If in the system we are in, of course, the employer wants to have healthy employees (Precisely.) so they get the work done and they get the job and it doesn’t cost them an amount in their pocket.
Dr. Deitch: But there’s a lot of question about who employers who ask if there’s the return on investment by promoting wellness in the workplace. Do you believe that there is?
Dr. Koren: Now, if you’ve got an employee who’s eating junk foods all the time and pissed off and angry and doesn’t come to work and is on a bad mood and the woman is having severe menstrual cramps, every month she’s having, and then there’s headaches and then there’s people, of course, I mean you’re going to have unhealthy people, you’re not going to have a, you can’t grow business that way. (Agree). I mean isn’t it true that they pay more, GM pays more on health care than steel to build a car. Right?
Dr. Deitch: That’s correct. Star Bucks pay more on health care than on coffee.
Dr. Koren: Yeah, well it’s actually bankrupting this nation. (Yeah.) And we don’t know it. And they haven’t found very interestingly that, I’m writing a book on health so I’m planning on these great statistics. Immigrants are healthier than Americans. And their children are healthier than Americans. (That’s lame, please.) But after a generation or so, they’re as sick as the other Americans, that’s why we should leave the borders open so we have to have somebody to take care of the Americans. We need somebody to take care of the native. Who’s going to push the gurneys and the wheelchairs in different nursing homes? We’re going to have to find immigrants because everyone else will be sick. They’re Americans. Why?
Dr. Deitch: Well, what can employers do for their employees to create and foster the promotion of health versus as you’ve implied, just letting them do whatever they want, saying, “It’s not my responsibility”, or perhaps falsely believing that “if I invest in this, I’m not going to get a return on my investment”.
Dr. Koren: Simple things. I mean you could look at having natural full __ lighting. Studies have shown that in schools and workplaces, when they even just replace the fluorescents with natural lights, there’s less absenteeism. That’s important for an employer. Get a descent water fountain in there. You know, filter out the fluoride and the chlorine and the heavy metals. (Good.) Don’t tell them to get a flu shot or you’re going to have people with Alzheimer’s because there’s a link between Alzheimer’s and the flu. And it’s hard to have employees with Alzheimer’s because they might wake up in the morning and forget to go, that they have a job. So you don’t want that right? (Yeah.) So you want to promote natural healthy life, which will put you in conflict with the medical model which says “Get a flu shot”. So the employer’s in the middle. Unless the employee is interested, the employer’s going to have trouble.
Dr. Deitch: What sources, obviously as you mentioned is a traditional medical information center, what sources would you recommend that employers who are interested in what you’re talking about or employees who are interested in what you’re talking about, to learn more about what they may not necessarily read written by the medical doctor or in the daily newspaper.
Dr Koren: Oh there’s so much great stuff out there. There are loads of websites that, for nutrition I like the Westona Price Foundation, W-E-S-T-O-N-A-price dot org. Best nutrition device I’ve ever seen in my life. You know this Kyro practice sites which, is not that much for the public in Kyro practice. You know, you go through the library and see 20 books on Shiatsu and no books on Kyro practice. So it’s sad. I mean your book has finally making a change on that which is nice. (Thanks.) And then you have, what else, you’ve got so much confusion out there.
Dr. Deitch: That’s part of the challenge. And that’s what we like to do, it’s really try to clarify some of that. (Yeah, I mean.) People can make better decisions, and actually create a lifestyle that’s going to promote health and …
Dr. Koren: They wanted to eat better so they don’t take drugs. It’s not a matter of which drug is best for me. Stop taking the drug. But you go to a nutritionist and you have to be careful. I like Westona Price because they say you can get all your nutrients if you eat the proper nutrient than foods. (Right.) Because you can be taking Vitamin C that’s derived from cold tar and it’s doing nothing for you. (Interesting.) Many vitamins are totally synthetic. (Right.) So you want to get stuff that is a whole food. So a lot of it, you know, it’s really a tough question. Where do we start to educate people? Schools can be a good place, but they get their money from the hospitals and the nutritionists get there. Medical school would be great but they don’t learn much about Kyro practice and alternative health care, and they promote vaccines and they promote drugs. (Right.) Can we get people out of a suppressive health care system where, “Oh I have a headache. Let me take something. I have a fever. Let me take something.” Don’t take it. It’s your body talking to you. I think it’s a whole cultural shift. You know, you deal with people from other third world countries and they’ll say, “Oh my kid had a fever. We bundled them up. We kept them warm. The fever broke. He’s healthy.” Americans don’t do that. But we have chronic illness. We have allergies and asthma the rest of our lives because we try to suppress acute illness now.
Dr. Deitch: Well hopefully with our conversation we’ll be able to keep inspiring others to be able to take responsibility for their health and really access the right information and choose better health through better healing. Dr. Koren, thanks for joining us here today and thanks for watching.
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