As with everything else in life we need to assess benefit vs. risk. The problem is that due to FDA and pharma corruption it is nearly impossible to assess risk. Drugs are promoted as something akin to fertilizer, to be spread wantonly and needed for healthy life. That's a lie, as drugs are actually poisons when *sometimes* the benefit of…
As with everything else in life we need to assess benefit vs. risk. The problem is that due to FDA and pharma corruption it is nearly impossible to assess risk. Drugs are promoted as something akin to fertilizer, to be spread wantonly and needed for healthy life. That's a lie, as drugs are actually poisons when *sometimes* the benefit of taking that poison outweighs the risk. Usually not though.
The other issue that that drugs rarely affect the root cause of the ailment but usually just mask the symptoms. Aside from antibiotics, there are virtually zero drugs that cure people but instead "treat" them. Often the thing they treat is only an issue on paper, such as cholesterol levels. A doctor puts someone on cholesterol lowering drugs (sometimes for the rest of their lives) based on numbers on a piece of paper with arbitrarily assigned "good" levels. There's no actual physical manifestation of any problem, but the standards have been set to turn healthy people into sick people. Often the treatment (such as statins) have terrible side effects.
No one should be taking any medication, particularly on a daily basis, unless these things have been thoroughly assessed. If you are one of these people who take a handful of prescription pills every day, with no end in sight, (as many of our elderly do) you really need to step back and reevaluate things. You are poisoning yourself to what benefit? What are you actually treating? In most cases a low carb diet and moderate exercise like taking walks would be far more beneficial.
I can't help but wonder what I've done to myself with all the medications I've taken in the past. I look at people who got the vaccines and feel nothing but compassion for them. They believed the experts; I believed the experts. They got the shots; I took the medications. Beyond the anxiety about what I may have done to myself, I'm absolutely furious with all these people who insisted I could trust them while they lied to my face. I don't know what to do with the anger.
When I was little, I ran out in traffic and got hit by a car. I had no idea I was going to be hit and it was such a surprise when I did get hit. That is kind of how I feel about medicine and pharma. Like I was just playing, going through my life and wandered into the street and got hit by medicine and big pharma. A child doesn't understand the dangers of cars in the road. I didn't understand the dangers of medicine and pharma. I was naive and uneducated and it hurt me.
God bless you GG. One of my favorite sayings is, "it is what it is". There's nothing we can do about the past except learn from it and move forward with that knowledge in our lives. Worry or dwelling on things we can't do anything about is incredibly self destructive. Instead, use that experience to move forward confident that you won't make the same mistake again.
But most important, trust God. Lay your burdens at His feet and know that He loves you. Bottled up rage harms you and does nothing to those who deceived you. Trust God, he rewards the good and punishes the wicked.
My rage isn't bottled! It's not hidden. I think God can handle it, so I take it to Him all the time. It blesses my heart to know that He hears the cries of those who suffer unjustly. It makes me angry that a human being can look at another human being and purposely lie to them or do something that causes harm or death, and have no remorse. But God is infinitely more just than I am and if it hurts my heart, imagine what it does to His? I know He will set all things right in His time. Blessed assurance.
One of my favorites is “things without all remedy should be without regard, what’s done is done.”; never mind the context, it’s still a valid point 😆).
GiGI, the more you read up and learn the more you can do to help. The BEST thing you can do is support your liver and kidneys as they, especially liver, are what process the drugs and can be harmed. People don’t realize how important the liver is. I would start with taking NAC, glutathione, and probably COQ10. I’m just a nobody who consumes lots of alternative health info. And also, I’d start reading Dr. Mercolas newsletter!!
Check Spooky2 Rife system. It has several detox programs. I understand your anger. Anger is not necessarily bad. Holy anger is perfectly justified! Wishing you all the best!
I think anger is good. If a person is angry, they are angry, but somehow society has put anger down as being bad. The danger lies within holding IN anger, IMO.
I do not suppose that Jesus, when overturning the moneychangers' tables in the Temple, was calm. Id est, there is a time and a place for anger being expressed.
My 88 year old mom is off all pharma drugs now. Over the years she has been diagnosed with this and that and always had a prescription to remedy whatever ailed her. As my eyes were slowly being opened, I would always ask her to tell me what the side effects were and how long was she supposed to take the drug. She never knew. Now she takes supplements and vitamins. You should see the raised eyebrows when the white coats see that...and sometimes two-thumbs up! Lol
There’s no physical manifestation of cancer either till it’s about to kill you. Cholesterol is complicated. It’s constantly being studied. Dr Peter Attia really gets down in the weeds about it and risk/reward benefits on a regular basis & keeps up with the latest studies - if you’re interested.
I believe one reason God created all things was to blow us away with how powerful, wonderful, and complex the universe is. But we can be unappreciative, dangerously curious, and downright rotten. We discover fascinating stuff like atoms, and we make bombs out of it. We learn about DNA, and we make a deadly “vaccine” just because it’s profitable. We unlock mysteries of human nature, and we turn it into psyops and use it against our own citizens. We’re hopeless without hope in Him.
There usually is a physical manifestation of cancer such as pain, blood, fatigue, etc. People often ignore it though until it's too late.
Plenty of people have beat cancer because the caught the symptoms early, I know because I'm one of them. The idea that cancer is completely silent until you are on death's door isn't true in the overwhelming majority of cases.
Yup, I read Attia and even met him once when I bumped into him when we were on the same flight. I think he'll be the first to tell you that the conventional rules the medical industry follows to put people on statins are absurd. You are right, it's complicated, there is no one-size-fits-all standard.
IMO the closest we have to a universal screen is triglycerides to HDL ratio, the lower the better. Mine is around 1 because I eat a low carb diet and avoid all sugar. Low TG:HDL is related to all sorts of good things like pattern A LDL (large, low density), and it's also inversely related to metabolic syndrome.
My point is that the general idea that one needs to "lower their cholesterol" and must take drugs to do it is ridiculous. Very low cholesterol is clearly associated with poor health outcomes, particularly in the elderly. What's much more important is a the profile and the absence of metabolic syndrome.
The only real reason to lower cholesterol with drugs is familial hypercholesterolemia (a genetic condition) and even there the evidence isn't very strong.
Your piece-of-paper description is spot on! I'm at a point in which I reject tests that measure something that can be manipulated/changed/"improved" by a drug. Many times, it seems that moving that number is the focus instead of treating whatever that number supposedly represents. Other times, that number is meaningless because it's not correlated with anything directly related to, or correlating with, a dangerous condition. Example: cholesterol, bone density, A1C.
There are some useful medications, e.g. the eye drops which keep my glaucoma under control and prevent me from going blind. But I agree that most of the people I know swallow handfuls of pills daily which do nothing but make them sick(er)
As a former nurse and a patient with chronic disorders, very well explained. I have Crohn’s, and a trifecta of conditions hEDS, MCAS, POTS. Ever since my MCAS diagnosis especially, I have been assessing my lifestyle a great deal more, the foods I eat, the products I use, all my polypharmacy, etc., and made a LOT of changes. Coincidentally I’m actually weaning off my PPI right now after, too many years. I had done research into how it can affect your microbiome and decided I was finally done. But I’ve also been reevaluating my whole medication regimen and changing the ones I absolutely can change. I’m getting rid of yet another medication coming up in the next few months as well. Unfortunately though, no matter how many lifestyle and diet changes I make, how many triggers I try and avoid, with my MCAS I react to so much and I am reliant on pharma meds to keep that mast cell degranulation down. I wish it wasn’t so but, I am doing my best to at least make sure that my vitamins and natural treatments start outweighing the pharma drugs and I’m getting there!
As with everything else in life we need to assess benefit vs. risk. The problem is that due to FDA and pharma corruption it is nearly impossible to assess risk. Drugs are promoted as something akin to fertilizer, to be spread wantonly and needed for healthy life. That's a lie, as drugs are actually poisons when *sometimes* the benefit of taking that poison outweighs the risk. Usually not though.
The other issue that that drugs rarely affect the root cause of the ailment but usually just mask the symptoms. Aside from antibiotics, there are virtually zero drugs that cure people but instead "treat" them. Often the thing they treat is only an issue on paper, such as cholesterol levels. A doctor puts someone on cholesterol lowering drugs (sometimes for the rest of their lives) based on numbers on a piece of paper with arbitrarily assigned "good" levels. There's no actual physical manifestation of any problem, but the standards have been set to turn healthy people into sick people. Often the treatment (such as statins) have terrible side effects.
No one should be taking any medication, particularly on a daily basis, unless these things have been thoroughly assessed. If you are one of these people who take a handful of prescription pills every day, with no end in sight, (as many of our elderly do) you really need to step back and reevaluate things. You are poisoning yourself to what benefit? What are you actually treating? In most cases a low carb diet and moderate exercise like taking walks would be far more beneficial.
I can't help but wonder what I've done to myself with all the medications I've taken in the past. I look at people who got the vaccines and feel nothing but compassion for them. They believed the experts; I believed the experts. They got the shots; I took the medications. Beyond the anxiety about what I may have done to myself, I'm absolutely furious with all these people who insisted I could trust them while they lied to my face. I don't know what to do with the anger.
When I was little, I ran out in traffic and got hit by a car. I had no idea I was going to be hit and it was such a surprise when I did get hit. That is kind of how I feel about medicine and pharma. Like I was just playing, going through my life and wandered into the street and got hit by medicine and big pharma. A child doesn't understand the dangers of cars in the road. I didn't understand the dangers of medicine and pharma. I was naive and uneducated and it hurt me.
God bless you GG. One of my favorite sayings is, "it is what it is". There's nothing we can do about the past except learn from it and move forward with that knowledge in our lives. Worry or dwelling on things we can't do anything about is incredibly self destructive. Instead, use that experience to move forward confident that you won't make the same mistake again.
But most important, trust God. Lay your burdens at His feet and know that He loves you. Bottled up rage harms you and does nothing to those who deceived you. Trust God, he rewards the good and punishes the wicked.
My rage isn't bottled! It's not hidden. I think God can handle it, so I take it to Him all the time. It blesses my heart to know that He hears the cries of those who suffer unjustly. It makes me angry that a human being can look at another human being and purposely lie to them or do something that causes harm or death, and have no remorse. But God is infinitely more just than I am and if it hurts my heart, imagine what it does to His? I know He will set all things right in His time. Blessed assurance.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2023/08/10/many-benefits-of-coq10-and-ubiquinol.aspx?ui=e93540db69681640a815e7b2ebe52de7e4046f4c08f775aaea55576c1c79c8c9&sd=20180124&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20230810_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1448060&rid=1879337822
Amen Jeff C
One of my favorites is “things without all remedy should be without regard, what’s done is done.”; never mind the context, it’s still a valid point 😆).
GiGI, the more you read up and learn the more you can do to help. The BEST thing you can do is support your liver and kidneys as they, especially liver, are what process the drugs and can be harmed. People don’t realize how important the liver is. I would start with taking NAC, glutathione, and probably COQ10. I’m just a nobody who consumes lots of alternative health info. And also, I’d start reading Dr. Mercolas newsletter!!
Check Spooky2 Rife system. It has several detox programs. I understand your anger. Anger is not necessarily bad. Holy anger is perfectly justified! Wishing you all the best!
I think anger is good. If a person is angry, they are angry, but somehow society has put anger down as being bad. The danger lies within holding IN anger, IMO.
I do not suppose that Jesus, when overturning the moneychangers' tables in the Temple, was calm. Id est, there is a time and a place for anger being expressed.
Only way out of that is action leading to justice (I think of those who do unspeakable to kids). No anger could mean apathy!
That is a great analogy. It makes a lot of sense.
My 88 year old mom is off all pharma drugs now. Over the years she has been diagnosed with this and that and always had a prescription to remedy whatever ailed her. As my eyes were slowly being opened, I would always ask her to tell me what the side effects were and how long was she supposed to take the drug. She never knew. Now she takes supplements and vitamins. You should see the raised eyebrows when the white coats see that...and sometimes two-thumbs up! Lol
Agree, seek a Functional / Integrative DO/MD; HMD; ND; DC; APH.
Be Well & Blessed,
Phillip
There’s no physical manifestation of cancer either till it’s about to kill you. Cholesterol is complicated. It’s constantly being studied. Dr Peter Attia really gets down in the weeds about it and risk/reward benefits on a regular basis & keeps up with the latest studies - if you’re interested.
https://peterattiamd.com/why-there-is-no-bad-or-good-cholesterol/
I believe one reason God created all things was to blow us away with how powerful, wonderful, and complex the universe is. But we can be unappreciative, dangerously curious, and downright rotten. We discover fascinating stuff like atoms, and we make bombs out of it. We learn about DNA, and we make a deadly “vaccine” just because it’s profitable. We unlock mysteries of human nature, and we turn it into psyops and use it against our own citizens. We’re hopeless without hope in Him.
Yup. The Greeks termed it 'hubris'. My (own) hope is in the Lord.
There usually is a physical manifestation of cancer such as pain, blood, fatigue, etc. People often ignore it though until it's too late.
Plenty of people have beat cancer because the caught the symptoms early, I know because I'm one of them. The idea that cancer is completely silent until you are on death's door isn't true in the overwhelming majority of cases.
Yup, I read Attia and even met him once when I bumped into him when we were on the same flight. I think he'll be the first to tell you that the conventional rules the medical industry follows to put people on statins are absurd. You are right, it's complicated, there is no one-size-fits-all standard.
IMO the closest we have to a universal screen is triglycerides to HDL ratio, the lower the better. Mine is around 1 because I eat a low carb diet and avoid all sugar. Low TG:HDL is related to all sorts of good things like pattern A LDL (large, low density), and it's also inversely related to metabolic syndrome.
My point is that the general idea that one needs to "lower their cholesterol" and must take drugs to do it is ridiculous. Very low cholesterol is clearly associated with poor health outcomes, particularly in the elderly. What's much more important is a the profile and the absence of metabolic syndrome.
The only real reason to lower cholesterol with drugs is familial hypercholesterolemia (a genetic condition) and even there the evidence isn't very strong.
Dr. Attia was on Bari Weiss’s “Honestly” podcast recently. He was fascinating!
Great post Jeff C., well said. The treatment vs masking of symptoms is a real problem.
Your piece-of-paper description is spot on! I'm at a point in which I reject tests that measure something that can be manipulated/changed/"improved" by a drug. Many times, it seems that moving that number is the focus instead of treating whatever that number supposedly represents. Other times, that number is meaningless because it's not correlated with anything directly related to, or correlating with, a dangerous condition. Example: cholesterol, bone density, A1C.
There are some useful medications, e.g. the eye drops which keep my glaucoma under control and prevent me from going blind. But I agree that most of the people I know swallow handfuls of pills daily which do nothing but make them sick(er)
As a former nurse and a patient with chronic disorders, very well explained. I have Crohn’s, and a trifecta of conditions hEDS, MCAS, POTS. Ever since my MCAS diagnosis especially, I have been assessing my lifestyle a great deal more, the foods I eat, the products I use, all my polypharmacy, etc., and made a LOT of changes. Coincidentally I’m actually weaning off my PPI right now after, too many years. I had done research into how it can affect your microbiome and decided I was finally done. But I’ve also been reevaluating my whole medication regimen and changing the ones I absolutely can change. I’m getting rid of yet another medication coming up in the next few months as well. Unfortunately though, no matter how many lifestyle and diet changes I make, how many triggers I try and avoid, with my MCAS I react to so much and I am reliant on pharma meds to keep that mast cell degranulation down. I wish it wasn’t so but, I am doing my best to at least make sure that my vitamins and natural treatments start outweighing the pharma drugs and I’m getting there!
Unless you are a n organ recipient. Then meds are life or death
In which case, simply being an organ recipient--which status did not exist 100 years ago--is a matter of life or death.
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