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For about 120 years, our health care system has been dominated by allopathic medicine, which teaches that the human body will eventually get sick, wear out, and that drugs, surgery, or other examinations/interventions are necessary to keep symptoms at bay. It is reductionist, which means that it only sees and treats the symptom, not the cause, which is a big difference from a holistic view of human physiology. There is hardly a person alive who remembers the time before “modern” medicine. In the 19th century, people were treated primarily by homeopaths, “herbal witches”, magnet healers, shamans, etc. For the most part, they had a respectable reputation and, through their way of practicing medicine, had the goal of relieving people of their illnesses, thus possessing healing intentions. At the end of the 19th century, osteopathy and chiropractic were developed into a real doctrine and applied to people structurally, even if sometimes under bizarre circumstances (the first chiropractor credited a dead man with introducing him to the practice). In the U.S., it was considered a career leap for doctors at that time to study in Europe, especially in Germany, and to join and learn from the experts known at the time (Robert Koch, Paul Ehrlich, and Louis Pasteur). Upon their return to the U.S., lucrative positions in various offices or private practice with higher earning potential beckoned.