Instinctotherapy and justice

Why did Justice attack instinctotherapy ?

  1. Because the government decided in the 80s to hunt for alternative therapies
  2. Because some doctors were worried either about the fate of their patients, or more probably from an unfortunate competition made to medicine.
  3. Because the media described it as a sect and launched a whole mess of delusional rumors
  4. Because what is too new, or too archaic (like the dietary instinct) represents a threat to conservatisms of all stripes and inevitably puts certain interests in question.
  5. Because Justice has always been the weapon of institutions against people and disturbing discoveries.

Sectarian approach?

Every era and every society needs to see evil somewhere. In the United States, the axis of evil is terrorism. In France, since the Inquisition, it has been customary to demonize all disturbing movements as sects: we spoke of heresy in the Middle Ages, today we are targeting pseudo-sciences and pseudo-therapy. It is true that these can represent a certain danger when they encourage neglecting (medical treatments](instincto-et-traitements-medicaux). But is instinctotherapy pseudo-therapy? Should we qualify it as pseudo-scientific ?

  1. It is based on the hypothesis of incomplete genetic adaptation to dietary changes over the last millennia, in accordance with scientific data from genetics and the theory of evolution.
  2. It guarantees a nutritional balance adapted to the real needs of the body, thanks to the instinctive regulation of food intake, providing the body with elements favorable to the maintenance or restoration of health.
  3. It does not claim to replace conventional treatments, which it recommends continuing, but only corrects food hygiene, thereby avoiding the pathogenic factors inherent in traditional food.
  4. It does not aim to counter medicine, but to shed light on notions that have remained hidden until now, which are likely to provide a rigorous basis for research in dietary pathogenesis.

The people who practice it, like the author, do it as a personal experience; they are free to undertake and interrupt it at will, unlike what would be the case in a context of mental manipulation.

There is therefore no reason to speak of pseudo-therapy or sectarianism. We can therefore wonder about the motives that motivated the media attacks, then political attacks targeting instinctotherapy and the movement to which it gave birth, knowing that it is nothing other than natural food by definition.

Illegal practice of medicine?

Is teaching instinctotherapy or coaching new practitioners an illegal practice of medicine?

It depends on the country and their legislation.

In France, any usual activity relating to medical care is considered as a medical practice, and therefore as an illegal practice of medicine in the absence of a medical diploma recognized by French regulations.

The author was condemned by the French justice for illegal practice of medicine on the grounds that he cited in his writings the improvements and remissions observed in various disorders or diseases, and that this could have prompted the stop or the modification treatment (while testimonials showed that he systematically referred patients to the advice of the attending physician, leaving it to the latter to reduce or interrupt treatment in view of the improvements).

In most other countries, medical practice presupposes the activity of diagnosis and prescription, so that there is much greater freedom in health advice and witnessing the beneficial effects of natural nutrition.

In France, a real witch hunt was launched by the government at the end of the 1980s, under the effect of pressure from the media and orthodox medical circles, against the various alternative natural medicines. The mission was entrusted to the MILS (Interministerial Mission for the Fight against Sects) to destroy all marginal groups, arbitrarily qualified as sects, while the definition of this concept has never been given clearly. The movement that was created around instinctotherapy is among those that have resisted the best, perhaps thanks to the solidity of ideas.

Scam accusation

At the start of the investigation against the author in 1988 for illegal practice of medicine and false advertising, the Prosecutor saw fit to add a supplementary requisition for fraud, assuming without any supporting facts that the therapeutic results announced would not have been realized and that instinctotherapy would have made victims, even deaths as claimed by the media. The eight years of investigation and the two trials (in the correctional chamber and in appeal + cassation), against the backdrop of a relentless media campaign, did not result in any concrete case or complaint, so that justice had to pronounce a dismissal for the accusation of scam.

The reciprocal of this judicial demonstration logically wants that the improvements announced, which justified the conviction for illegal practice of medicine, were carried out systematically enough so that no one reacted to the media pressure, in particular to the calls for witnesses, or could not report deception to investigators. The seven doctors called to the witness box largely confirmed the beneficial effects of the method.

Note that the head of false advertising was also dismissed. In the end, the legal action showed that instinctotherapy had systematically kept its promises.