Dr. Mercola April 23 2007 34,964 views
We are getting more and more of everything faster and faster. Did you know that in the United States alone there are 3,000 books published -- EVERY day?
And, a week's worth of NY Times has more information than a person in the 18th century was likely to come across in their LIFETIME.
But Wait, it is Getting Worse
This year we will generate 1.5 exabytes worldwide. 1,000 gigabytes is a terabyte, and those drives are just coming out. 1,000 terabytes is a petabyte and 10,000 petabytes is an exabyte. So that is 1.5 million petabytes. Interestingly I wrote an article on petabyte drives over four years ago, when no on knew about them, that even today, is number one on Google for the term "petabyte drive"
That is more than in the previous 5,000 years combined.
Information is doubling every two years. When you go to technical school half of what you learn will be outdated by the third year of study.
RSS Feeds -- Your Key to Keeping Up to Date
RSS is an abbreviation of Real Simple Syndication and is a really neat way to have many Web sites give you content. I LOVE these feeds as they allow me to collect -- in ONE place -- about two dozen sites that I regularly visit and go through about 5,000 articles every week.
We post about 15 newsletter stories a week on the site but go through well over 5,000 articles to find those for you. We do the heavy lifting for you and screen thousands of articles every week so you don't have to stay current. And, better yet, I provide my perspective that helps you sift through much of the deception that is typically present in many of the stories.
I have been using these feeds for over five years, but this year they have started to catch on because the new versions of Explorer and Firefox allow you to subscribe to them. I don't use these but rather a stand-alone application, as I find it much easier to use. SharpReader is the RSS news aggregator I use, and you can download it for free on their site.
Once you are set up to receive your feeds there are tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of different feeds you can subscribe to. Search Engine Watch is a fantastic Web site and they did a recent review on different places you can find these feeds.
Of course, Mercola.com has its own RSS feed, and you can simply subscribe by clicking on the button you see below.
How I Started the Site
For the first three years of the site I did not sell anything, but after I had donated $500,000 of my own money to the mission I realized it could not go on much longer without some type of funding.
So I started to sell items to subsidize the mission. However, I only sold items that I would personally use and that provided extraordinary value.
Many may not realize that 10 percent of ALL our profits every year are donated to a non-profit foundation that is designed to facilitate the transformation of the entire health care system that is killing hundreds of thousands of people every year in the United States alone.
By supporting our site and referring it to your friends and relatives you are a major part of the process of changing this seriously flawed model.
What I liked most about this article was where you listed, ”How I Started This Site”
What an investment! But even better is what you are continually investing in!!! (a non-profit foundation that is designed to facilitate the transformation of the entire health care system that is killing hundreds of thousands of people every year in the United States alone.)
We can change the face of medicine with people like you, Doc!
Thank you, Dr. Mercola, from the bottom of my heart and may God richly bless and protect you!
And by the way, It can be done if we don’t blow it, folks!I think one of the biggest obstacles is in much of “Alternative Medicine” itself.
The biggest problem is we have to get the “New Age” and “Mysticism” garbage out of the picture. It’s killing us! (We have also got to come up with an alternative for the word “Alternative”!)
Doctors like Deepak Chopra and so many others that just can’t leave the “New Age” thing out of the picture are only hurting things. Logic will win the masses over always!
Doctors like Andrew Weil are beginning to finally cut out the “Mysticism Thing” and they are getting big results!
Dr. Joseph Mercola has never even promoted the New Age Mysticism stuff and he is making milestones in changing the face of medicine every day!
Please keep up this wonderful work, and again Thank you!
To all of you that question about why I am saying keep the “mysticism” stuff out, please understand I am not saying it is or is not valid!
I am saying that we must be wise on how we present any of our medicine so as not to give the “allopathics” and “every day voters” and “general politics” an edge that they can use against us, that’s all!
We have to be wise as serpents!
As a Christian, to me, qi is just the flow of God’s creative energy living within us and all He created. Actually the Chinese have a somewhat similar view when you think about it:
Qi or Chi (pronounced chee) is a difficult concept to translate. It’s usually left un-translated because there is no single English word that conveys all parts of the Chinese concept. The word that comes closest is energy. The origins of both are tied to their cultures’ creation theories.
Neither Qi nor energy can be destroyed, only changed in their forms. Everything is composed of Qi; our bodies, the earth, water, sound, light. The Nei Jing - The Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Internal Medicine (c.500BC) says “There is no place that Qi is not.”
Qi flows throughout the body in currents or conduits called channels or meridians or in Chinese; jing luo. There are fourteen main channels and these possess the most commonly used acupuncture points. Twelve of these channels connect to a yin or yang organ from which they derive their name.
For example, the Wood Element yin organ is the liver. The liver channel runs from the foot up the inside of the leg, along the center of one-half of the abdomen and goes inside below the sixth rib. Inside it connects to the liver and the gallbladder, goes up through the diaphragm, up to the throat, then the eyes and terminates at the vertex of the skull. There are two branches from the liver channel. One which connects to the inside of the lips and one which connects with the lung.