We have traveled to the largest industrial park you can imagine. Around this park is a security wall designed to keep out intruders, to prevent the loss of essential materials, and to regulate the passage of materials in and out of the park. Inside this park are powerhouses designed to make the energy necessary to keep the park working. These powerhouses, in turn, require fuel, oxygen and other essentials on a round-the-clock basis in order to do their jobs.
Also inside the park are different factories and manufacturing plants that require a continuous supply of energy and raw materials in order to meet their daily quota of finished products. Coordinating all these activities are computer and communication systems that regulate the delivery of raw materials and the removal of wastes, as well as the production, storage and distribution of finished products. All of these systems are bsed upon a set of design blueprints containing all the information necessary to build a new park.
Kind of incredible when you think about it, isn't it? What if I told you this is a description of ONE CELL in your body? Because it is, according to the author of "Never Be Sick Again", Raymond Francis. One cell. Just One! Studying Body Chemistry really isn't boring - it is totally fascinating. Our cells are what make our life possible so it sure can't hurt to understand a little bit about them.
Each of us is made up of seventy-five TRILLION cells, in 200 or more categories - never cells, blood cells, muscle cells, bone cells, etc. - and they are all communicating with one another at all times. Each cell is like that industrial park!
Author Francis breaks down the source of disease on a cellular level by saying disease is cellular malfunction based on only two causes - deficiency and toxicity. If we want good health and a disease free life, it boils down to keeping our cells in good health. Since our cells are constantly dying and reproducing themselves, by reproducing cells that are NOT healthy we are setting off a chain reaction. Get enough malfunctioning, abnormal cells bopping around and you will start receiving symptoms of a disease in the making - or not. Sometimes you will have no symptoms at all but those cells, the badly reproduced ones, need to be taken care of or you definitely are headed toward disease. It's a guarantee you do not want.
I've read a boat load of books on health and wellness, nutrition, alternative medicine, holistic living, herbology, physiology - most of which you might find as exciting as watching paint dry - but if I had pick one book, just one, to recommend to all of you - THIS is it!
Francis is so easy to read, lots of stories, examples like the industrial plant, and offers up the number one easiest to understand book on having optimum health that I have ever read! His very simple "theory" of health and disease is:
One disease - Cellular malfunction
Two Causes - Deficiency and/or Toxicity
Six Pathways - Nutrition, Toxin, Psychological, Physical, Genetic and Medical
He goes into each Pathway in depth and will clear up any confusion you have about what makes for a healthy body. The back pages of the book have wonderful sources for more information and recommendations on products. He covers it ALL - all in one book. If I could, I would make this book required reading by every adult in the world. And as one of my favorite people, Dr. Mercola, says "Take control of your health!" NEVER BE SICK AGAIN!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Save Our Children!
Women can save the children. And I believe they will - and I will do all I can to help. Collectively, Women can be a strong force of power and it is needed. Now. This isn't something for later on - in fact it's been going on far too long already and it is costing us dearly!
Let's realize right now that maybe we didn't KNOW before what we know now - so forget the guilt trip. Expend your energy instead teaching others, until we ALL know, and we can ALL band together like the Suffragettes of old and make some damn necessary changes! (I am not excluding men, but I believe in my heart that a mother out to protect her young is the fiercest power and we need that fierce determination right now - Plus we are the ones with the umbilical cords, but we need you too!)
I read an enormous amount of research and health stats. I read something a few weeks ago that has taken me some time to digest, accept, and write about. I want to share it because I feel it is critically important - but I want you to know I am doing this with an almost Suffragette spirit. If enough women know how we are being slowly poisoned and they get mad enough about it, we can CHANGE things, we can make a difference! We can protect all the children and future generations! WE CAN! And you men out there, stand up and roar with us - this is really about the toxic soup we ALL live in, breathe and eat every day.
Children are uniquely vulnerable to environmental toxins - they spend a lot of time crawling around, putting things into their mouths etc. That is scary enough - BUT - we now know that children are contaminated before they even take their first breath of air!
There is a "brain protector" - a blood brain barrier that shields our brain from potentially harmful substances that may be circulating in the bloodstream. This barrier is NOT formed until months after birth.
A test study in 2004 of umbilical cord blood from newborns found:
287 industrial chemicals & pollutants - of which
180 are known to cause cancer
217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system
208 cause birth defects or developmental abnormalities
These babies didn't even get born yet, and they are filled with infinite possibilities of diseases no mother would ever ever knowingly offer her kids! Since there has been a 40% increase in childhood cancers over the last few decades, this is too much of coincidence to take any of these numbers lightly. Who is paying attention? These are our children! Cancer is certainly not the only disease that has increased in the last few decades for these little people. But the fact that they have been exposed before they are even born tells us we have some changes to make.
Women cannot sit on the sidelines and just watch all this happening and expect anyone, especially our government or medical community to do anything about this. This detoxification is THE clean up campaign of our lives, women! This is serious stuff!
I had a comment on my last blog from Jannie that mentioned kids with cancer and boy I agree there are too many kids with cancer - one kid with cancer is too many - and yes, they are in clinics and homes all over the globe suffering. The stats are awful - a 40% increase in children with cancer in the last few decades. That is alarming,is it not???They are receiving medicines for this but hello???? Is there anyone out there wondering and researching how these little bodies GET this awful disease??
And the answer is yes. You will find a lot more research going on in the alternative medicine, holistic, natural arena for CAUSES than you will find in the conventional venue of researching a cure. There is nothing wrong with looking for a cure of course, but if we know what causes it in the first place, the cure would be unnecessary. How great would THAT be? How much money could these people save no longer researching for cures? Gosh, we could feed people with that money!
I digress. There is a TON of information. Information on causes, possible links to cancer and every other disease we are "fighting". Information on toxins we eat, breathe and slather on our skin. I am doing my best to inform thru this blog each week but it suddenly hit me after reading about the suffering of kids - that THIS may well be what we need as a true catalyst. Get enough women pissed off that they are and have been for years - innocently and certainly unintentionally - poisoning themselves AND THEIR CHILDREN - maybe this is what it will take to get the Suffragette spirit going, wake people up, and put an end to the poisons? We are powerful consumers too - we could make a huge difference with this power.
I could do a whole blog on the toxins that they have found in women's breast tissues! I'm sorry folks, but we can no longer be "surprised" if we find out that we, or someone we know and love comes up with diseases - especially cancer! It is not the luck of the draw. It is not "God" doing this. It is not old age. It is the cumulative effect of foods we eat, drugs we have taken, and toxins we have been exposed to via air, water, and vaccines. Once you accept this, we can move on, we can change our own selves and help each other change too - knowledge is half the battle.
It is sad that this is a toxic laden planet - but we can clean up this mess just like we have had to clean up the house after a huge party, or a basement flooding, or whatever. Can't we resurrect the Rosie the Riveter image from WW2, roll up our sleeves and get seriously involved, active, determined - yes even angry enough - to make the changes necessary in our lives to eliminate the toxins and diseases???? Stand up for your right to know the truth - boycott manufacturers of pretend foods - learn more about toxins you have in your home, learn to eat right. When I read about those toxins in the umbilical cord blood I seriously cried. This is way more urgent than I thought to get people aware of the poisons around us.
HELP me! You know I'm not a social network kind of expert here - do what you can to get this blog read and out there. None of us can afford to sit on the sidelines - this affects everyone!
What you can do:
Eliminate toxic food - Unless it is fresh and unprocessed it is toxic. Stop whining about giving up hot dogs, giving up this and giving up that. You are only giving up POISONS, there now, see how you can shift it? Plenty of info on line and in my blog archives.
Convert your home to Toxin-free - Most household cleaners/soaps etc - unless they are made by a "green" company, are toxic. Don't just consider switching brands "someday". Throw the bad stuff out and use some of yesterdays remedies - baking soda, vinegar etc. to clean. (www.thegreenguide.com)
Get politically active - Stay informed about what agencies are WITH you in this clean up effort. One place full of info is Environmental Working Group (www.ewg.org) The Center for Science in the Public Interest is another.
Get this information OUT THERE! Together we can start a pendulum swing back to a naturally clean earth and good health for all!
Get thee to a link - Link away! Start this circulating. Oh - and guy readers, please don't feel I've left you out - we need EVERYone and you need to detox too!
I'm thanking everyone in advance for all the linkage - or whatever you call it!
Hugs and
thanks!
suZen
Let's realize right now that maybe we didn't KNOW before what we know now - so forget the guilt trip. Expend your energy instead teaching others, until we ALL know, and we can ALL band together like the Suffragettes of old and make some damn necessary changes! (I am not excluding men, but I believe in my heart that a mother out to protect her young is the fiercest power and we need that fierce determination right now - Plus we are the ones with the umbilical cords, but we need you too!)
I read an enormous amount of research and health stats. I read something a few weeks ago that has taken me some time to digest, accept, and write about. I want to share it because I feel it is critically important - but I want you to know I am doing this with an almost Suffragette spirit. If enough women know how we are being slowly poisoned and they get mad enough about it, we can CHANGE things, we can make a difference! We can protect all the children and future generations! WE CAN! And you men out there, stand up and roar with us - this is really about the toxic soup we ALL live in, breathe and eat every day.
Children are uniquely vulnerable to environmental toxins - they spend a lot of time crawling around, putting things into their mouths etc. That is scary enough - BUT - we now know that children are contaminated before they even take their first breath of air!
There is a "brain protector" - a blood brain barrier that shields our brain from potentially harmful substances that may be circulating in the bloodstream. This barrier is NOT formed until months after birth.
A test study in 2004 of umbilical cord blood from newborns found:
287 industrial chemicals & pollutants - of which
180 are known to cause cancer
217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system
208 cause birth defects or developmental abnormalities
These babies didn't even get born yet, and they are filled with infinite possibilities of diseases no mother would ever ever knowingly offer her kids! Since there has been a 40% increase in childhood cancers over the last few decades, this is too much of coincidence to take any of these numbers lightly. Who is paying attention? These are our children! Cancer is certainly not the only disease that has increased in the last few decades for these little people. But the fact that they have been exposed before they are even born tells us we have some changes to make.
Women cannot sit on the sidelines and just watch all this happening and expect anyone, especially our government or medical community to do anything about this. This detoxification is THE clean up campaign of our lives, women! This is serious stuff!
I had a comment on my last blog from Jannie that mentioned kids with cancer and boy I agree there are too many kids with cancer - one kid with cancer is too many - and yes, they are in clinics and homes all over the globe suffering. The stats are awful - a 40% increase in children with cancer in the last few decades. That is alarming,is it not???They are receiving medicines for this but hello???? Is there anyone out there wondering and researching how these little bodies GET this awful disease??
And the answer is yes. You will find a lot more research going on in the alternative medicine, holistic, natural arena for CAUSES than you will find in the conventional venue of researching a cure. There is nothing wrong with looking for a cure of course, but if we know what causes it in the first place, the cure would be unnecessary. How great would THAT be? How much money could these people save no longer researching for cures? Gosh, we could feed people with that money!
I digress. There is a TON of information. Information on causes, possible links to cancer and every other disease we are "fighting". Information on toxins we eat, breathe and slather on our skin. I am doing my best to inform thru this blog each week but it suddenly hit me after reading about the suffering of kids - that THIS may well be what we need as a true catalyst. Get enough women pissed off that they are and have been for years - innocently and certainly unintentionally - poisoning themselves AND THEIR CHILDREN - maybe this is what it will take to get the Suffragette spirit going, wake people up, and put an end to the poisons? We are powerful consumers too - we could make a huge difference with this power.
I could do a whole blog on the toxins that they have found in women's breast tissues! I'm sorry folks, but we can no longer be "surprised" if we find out that we, or someone we know and love comes up with diseases - especially cancer! It is not the luck of the draw. It is not "God" doing this. It is not old age. It is the cumulative effect of foods we eat, drugs we have taken, and toxins we have been exposed to via air, water, and vaccines. Once you accept this, we can move on, we can change our own selves and help each other change too - knowledge is half the battle.
It is sad that this is a toxic laden planet - but we can clean up this mess just like we have had to clean up the house after a huge party, or a basement flooding, or whatever. Can't we resurrect the Rosie the Riveter image from WW2, roll up our sleeves and get seriously involved, active, determined - yes even angry enough - to make the changes necessary in our lives to eliminate the toxins and diseases???? Stand up for your right to know the truth - boycott manufacturers of pretend foods - learn more about toxins you have in your home, learn to eat right. When I read about those toxins in the umbilical cord blood I seriously cried. This is way more urgent than I thought to get people aware of the poisons around us.
HELP me! You know I'm not a social network kind of expert here - do what you can to get this blog read and out there. None of us can afford to sit on the sidelines - this affects everyone!
What you can do:
Eliminate toxic food - Unless it is fresh and unprocessed it is toxic. Stop whining about giving up hot dogs, giving up this and giving up that. You are only giving up POISONS, there now, see how you can shift it? Plenty of info on line and in my blog archives.
Convert your home to Toxin-free - Most household cleaners/soaps etc - unless they are made by a "green" company, are toxic. Don't just consider switching brands "someday". Throw the bad stuff out and use some of yesterdays remedies - baking soda, vinegar etc. to clean. (www.thegreenguide.com)
Get politically active - Stay informed about what agencies are WITH you in this clean up effort. One place full of info is Environmental Working Group (www.ewg.org) The Center for Science in the Public Interest is another.
Get this information OUT THERE! Together we can start a pendulum swing back to a naturally clean earth and good health for all!
Get thee to a link - Link away! Start this circulating. Oh - and guy readers, please don't feel I've left you out - we need EVERYone and you need to detox too!
I'm thanking everyone in advance for all the linkage - or whatever you call it!
Hugs and
thanks!
suZen
Monday, September 13, 2010
What a PILL!
I love my doctor. I really do. He is patient, thorough, takes all the time in the world to explain things - in general I guess he is the ideal physician. I see him once a year for a physical and I sometimes wonder why. I know at my age it is good to "watch things". It seems to make him feel he is doing his job I guess but I sometimes wonder if I am really wanting to see, via the numbers, the charts, the diagnostics, the way my body is beginning to age? What the hell am I "watching" anyway?
I have had some fun with this. A challenge kind of fun. And it is all about maintaining my OWN health without pharmaceuticals. They don't work!
Oh sure, I know if you take cholesterol lowering drugs, they "work". The numbers do go down.
I'm saying that drugs do not make you healthy - and in that light they simply do not work!
40 percent of the U.S. population is on at least one prescription drug, yet our nation shows skyrocketing rates of all sorts of chronic diseases, like cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis. If pharmaceuticals work to make people healthier, we should be the healthiest nation on the planet. We have people here taking more drugs than any other nation in the world. The older you get in this society, the more drugs you end up taking. Many of our senior citizens are on a dozen prescriptions a day, and half of those are usually prescribed to cover up symptoms and side effects from the first few prescriptions. It's nuts!
Some years ago, my doctor said my cholesterol numbers were up. He wanted to give me statins to lower it. I said no thank you. The next annual visit the numbers went up again. Again the same discussion and I would not take the drug. The third year this happened I said "Ok. I see your point and I will take care of this myself." He told me it would take a Herculean effort to lower it myself, I couldn't do it.
One thing my doctor has learned about me - don't tell her she cannot do something! I tweaked the diet, increased exercise, took a few supplements and lowered it 67 points in 6 months. I am no miracle worker. This was hardly "Herculean"! I am determined to take responsibility for my own health and not pop some Big Pharma chemical-laden, side-effect producing, very expensive pill.
Here is what Mike Adams at Natural News says about drugs:
So why don't drugs work? It's because they make a promise they can't keep. Prescription drugs make the promise -- and this is reflected in the marketing -- that a person can engage in a lifestyle filled with many factors that lead to chronic disease, but by taking one pill they can break that cause-effect chain and not experience the disease that would normally result. If drug propaganda were true, you could live a lifestyle that promotes heart disease by eating saturated fats while avoiding cardiovascular exercise, and the drug could prevent you from experiencing heart disease. All you have to do is take these drugs, says Big Pharma.
But diseases are brought on by causes, not by sheer luck or a deficiency in synthetic chemicals. This is a very simple concept, but it escapes most thinking in conventional medicine. These diseases have many causes, and some are dietary. There are metabolic disruptors in most foods -- hydrogenated oils, sodium nitrite, saturated animal fats and homogenized milk fats. When you consume these disease-causing ingredients, you will experience certain results. Consuming unhealthy foods and avoiding healthy oils, like salmon oil, can lead to heart disease, nervous system dysfunction, birth defects and many other problems.
But then a prescription drug comes along and promises that you can be disease-free regardless of the causes you have set into motion in your own life. These prescriptions are really marketed as magic bullet pills. "You have high cholesterol? Don't worry about it! Take this cholesterol-lowering pill -- this statin drug -- and you will have normal cholesterol!" This implies that you will achieve a state of high cardiovascular health -- a promise that is, of course, a lie. You are no healthier than before, even though certain measurable markers of your biochemistry may have been artificially altered. Your biochemistry has been hacked.
That is not health, folks. It is worse than giving the patient nothing, because in this case, by giving the patient this pill, you have implied that this is all they need. In fact, what you have done is stolen from them the power to take responsibility for their health outcome. You have created a biochemical crutch, and you have denied the patient their right to walk down their own healing path and make lasting changes to their cardiovascular health.
YAY Mike! I couldn't agree more! I heard on the news a month ago that there was some discussion about testing kids in FIFTH grade for cholesterol and getting them on statins at an early enough age to prevent their heart disease. Oh Paaalese. How about educating the parents on what to feed their kids? How about getting kids to ride bikes, run and play? How about not giving in to them all the time? Kids are so easily influenced by marketing, peer pressure etc. and the parents just don't seem to have the backbone to say no, to parent the way parents used to parent! I refuse to believe that parents would rather give their kids statin drugs than feed them properly. Is this what this society is coming down to? Pills for all?
The drug companies want to keep making billions - they really like that! And they won't be able to keep making MORE billions and billions unless they get every man, woman and child on drugs of one kind or another. Statins are a good choice for their scary marketing since nobody wants heart disease right?
How about a make-over? How about eating a lot of raw fruits and veggies, some nuts and whole grains? How about exercising? How about eliminating all processed foods, junk food, sugar, white flour and dairy? How many people are willing to do this though? Sadly, not many.
Perhaps because that task seems daunting, the promise of pharmaceuticals is quite seductive. They promise that you can change your health without changing anything else. Unfortunately, many people believe this. They recognize that they are going down the path of chronic disease, but they mistakenly think a magic little pill made by a profit-seeking drug company can somehow reverse disease.
In reality, most prescription drugs have side effects that accelerate the progression of disease in the body. For example, statin drugs interfere with the production of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), which is essential for powering the mitochondria in your cells. When deficient in CoQ10, you will experience health problems at the cellular level, all throughout your body. You don't "feel" this going on but other symptoms will develop over time. They will not be nice.
The strange thing is that pharmaceutical companies are backed by so-called scientific evidence. In conventional medicine, FDA-approved drugs are sold to patients with these so-called scientific claims. And yet even FDA-approved prescription drugs somehow kill around 100,000 patients in the United States each year. That is a statistic that comes out of conventional medicine published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. (Many in the alternative community believe those numbers are low estimates, by the way.) So how scientific can drug safety be if these approved drugs are killing more Americans than wars, terrorists, car accidents, murders and industrial accidents combined?
Let's face it: The current pushing of drugs onto the population isn't scientific; it's just great marketing combined with political arm-twisting by Big Pharma. When it comes to health, the real science is hidden in nature. And yet, ironically, defenders of conventional medicine say that natural health is unscientific. They say that you are wasting your money if you take vitamins or nutritional supplements. They say forget about eating raw foods and fresh plants. "That is not proven," they say. They say that the healing value of human touch has no scientific proof whatsoever. Just stick with the pharmaceuticals, they say. But why would they say these things?
Again, Natural News says:
To really help people heal, we should focus our health resources on the things we can accomplish. We can reverse chronic disease today, not by using synthetic chemicals in our body, not by turning to chemotherapy or radiation therapy and not by surgically removing tumors from our body and calling it a cure. These are not solutions to health; these are short-term methods for masking symptoms of disease. The real answers to health are found in nature. In nature, you will discover healing plants all around you. You may have a plant in your back yard that protects the liver and helps detoxify the blood. I bet you think it is a weed, but it's actually the dandelion plant.
The whole point of this exploration is that if you are going to be healthy, you have to start by shattering old dysfunctional belief systems that have been pounded into your head by the media and mainstream medicine. You have to replace those with new beliefs that serve you better.
It is your choice what you wish to believe. If you want to believe prescription drugs are the only things that are scientifically proven, and if you want to believe that medical schools are teaching doctors how to be healthy, then you are welcome to believe that. But don't be surprised at the result you get: A future of pain, suffering, chronic disease, medical bankruptcy and lots of prescription drugs. You will end up on so many prescription drugs that you will need a machine that beeps to remind you when to take a pill, because your brain won't even work properly (brain fog is a common side effect of many prescription drugs).
Or, instead, you can choose to believe that the human body already has a blueprint of health. The most powerful healing system in the world is inside you right now. All you need to do is stop poisoning your body and mind with chemicals, toxic foods and toxic personal care products. Turn to nature, which provides nutrition and medicine in the form of edible plants. Avoid all factory foods, processed foods and restaurant foods. Drink water, not milk. Get a daily dose of sunshine. Take whole food supplements and healthy fish oils to boost your daily nutritional intake. And exercise, of course.
You can choose this path. And if you've already starting walking down that path, you can probably find ways to accelerate the results. Find ways to make the right health decisions from this day forward -- decisions based on nature, not the junk science promoted by Big Pharma, the FDA and conventional medicine.
Do you know you need to shake things up to improve your health? What areas do you find most challenging?
I have had some fun with this. A challenge kind of fun. And it is all about maintaining my OWN health without pharmaceuticals. They don't work!
Oh sure, I know if you take cholesterol lowering drugs, they "work". The numbers do go down.
I'm saying that drugs do not make you healthy - and in that light they simply do not work!
40 percent of the U.S. population is on at least one prescription drug, yet our nation shows skyrocketing rates of all sorts of chronic diseases, like cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis. If pharmaceuticals work to make people healthier, we should be the healthiest nation on the planet. We have people here taking more drugs than any other nation in the world. The older you get in this society, the more drugs you end up taking. Many of our senior citizens are on a dozen prescriptions a day, and half of those are usually prescribed to cover up symptoms and side effects from the first few prescriptions. It's nuts!
Some years ago, my doctor said my cholesterol numbers were up. He wanted to give me statins to lower it. I said no thank you. The next annual visit the numbers went up again. Again the same discussion and I would not take the drug. The third year this happened I said "Ok. I see your point and I will take care of this myself." He told me it would take a Herculean effort to lower it myself, I couldn't do it.
One thing my doctor has learned about me - don't tell her she cannot do something! I tweaked the diet, increased exercise, took a few supplements and lowered it 67 points in 6 months. I am no miracle worker. This was hardly "Herculean"! I am determined to take responsibility for my own health and not pop some Big Pharma chemical-laden, side-effect producing, very expensive pill.
Here is what Mike Adams at Natural News says about drugs:
So why don't drugs work? It's because they make a promise they can't keep. Prescription drugs make the promise -- and this is reflected in the marketing -- that a person can engage in a lifestyle filled with many factors that lead to chronic disease, but by taking one pill they can break that cause-effect chain and not experience the disease that would normally result. If drug propaganda were true, you could live a lifestyle that promotes heart disease by eating saturated fats while avoiding cardiovascular exercise, and the drug could prevent you from experiencing heart disease. All you have to do is take these drugs, says Big Pharma.
But diseases are brought on by causes, not by sheer luck or a deficiency in synthetic chemicals. This is a very simple concept, but it escapes most thinking in conventional medicine. These diseases have many causes, and some are dietary. There are metabolic disruptors in most foods -- hydrogenated oils, sodium nitrite, saturated animal fats and homogenized milk fats. When you consume these disease-causing ingredients, you will experience certain results. Consuming unhealthy foods and avoiding healthy oils, like salmon oil, can lead to heart disease, nervous system dysfunction, birth defects and many other problems.
But then a prescription drug comes along and promises that you can be disease-free regardless of the causes you have set into motion in your own life. These prescriptions are really marketed as magic bullet pills. "You have high cholesterol? Don't worry about it! Take this cholesterol-lowering pill -- this statin drug -- and you will have normal cholesterol!" This implies that you will achieve a state of high cardiovascular health -- a promise that is, of course, a lie. You are no healthier than before, even though certain measurable markers of your biochemistry may have been artificially altered. Your biochemistry has been hacked.
That is not health, folks. It is worse than giving the patient nothing, because in this case, by giving the patient this pill, you have implied that this is all they need. In fact, what you have done is stolen from them the power to take responsibility for their health outcome. You have created a biochemical crutch, and you have denied the patient their right to walk down their own healing path and make lasting changes to their cardiovascular health.
YAY Mike! I couldn't agree more! I heard on the news a month ago that there was some discussion about testing kids in FIFTH grade for cholesterol and getting them on statins at an early enough age to prevent their heart disease. Oh Paaalese. How about educating the parents on what to feed their kids? How about getting kids to ride bikes, run and play? How about not giving in to them all the time? Kids are so easily influenced by marketing, peer pressure etc. and the parents just don't seem to have the backbone to say no, to parent the way parents used to parent! I refuse to believe that parents would rather give their kids statin drugs than feed them properly. Is this what this society is coming down to? Pills for all?
The drug companies want to keep making billions - they really like that! And they won't be able to keep making MORE billions and billions unless they get every man, woman and child on drugs of one kind or another. Statins are a good choice for their scary marketing since nobody wants heart disease right?
How about a make-over? How about eating a lot of raw fruits and veggies, some nuts and whole grains? How about exercising? How about eliminating all processed foods, junk food, sugar, white flour and dairy? How many people are willing to do this though? Sadly, not many.
Perhaps because that task seems daunting, the promise of pharmaceuticals is quite seductive. They promise that you can change your health without changing anything else. Unfortunately, many people believe this. They recognize that they are going down the path of chronic disease, but they mistakenly think a magic little pill made by a profit-seeking drug company can somehow reverse disease.
In reality, most prescription drugs have side effects that accelerate the progression of disease in the body. For example, statin drugs interfere with the production of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), which is essential for powering the mitochondria in your cells. When deficient in CoQ10, you will experience health problems at the cellular level, all throughout your body. You don't "feel" this going on but other symptoms will develop over time. They will not be nice.
The strange thing is that pharmaceutical companies are backed by so-called scientific evidence. In conventional medicine, FDA-approved drugs are sold to patients with these so-called scientific claims. And yet even FDA-approved prescription drugs somehow kill around 100,000 patients in the United States each year. That is a statistic that comes out of conventional medicine published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. (Many in the alternative community believe those numbers are low estimates, by the way.) So how scientific can drug safety be if these approved drugs are killing more Americans than wars, terrorists, car accidents, murders and industrial accidents combined?
Let's face it: The current pushing of drugs onto the population isn't scientific; it's just great marketing combined with political arm-twisting by Big Pharma. When it comes to health, the real science is hidden in nature. And yet, ironically, defenders of conventional medicine say that natural health is unscientific. They say that you are wasting your money if you take vitamins or nutritional supplements. They say forget about eating raw foods and fresh plants. "That is not proven," they say. They say that the healing value of human touch has no scientific proof whatsoever. Just stick with the pharmaceuticals, they say. But why would they say these things?
Again, Natural News says:
To really help people heal, we should focus our health resources on the things we can accomplish. We can reverse chronic disease today, not by using synthetic chemicals in our body, not by turning to chemotherapy or radiation therapy and not by surgically removing tumors from our body and calling it a cure. These are not solutions to health; these are short-term methods for masking symptoms of disease. The real answers to health are found in nature. In nature, you will discover healing plants all around you. You may have a plant in your back yard that protects the liver and helps detoxify the blood. I bet you think it is a weed, but it's actually the dandelion plant.
The whole point of this exploration is that if you are going to be healthy, you have to start by shattering old dysfunctional belief systems that have been pounded into your head by the media and mainstream medicine. You have to replace those with new beliefs that serve you better.
It is your choice what you wish to believe. If you want to believe prescription drugs are the only things that are scientifically proven, and if you want to believe that medical schools are teaching doctors how to be healthy, then you are welcome to believe that. But don't be surprised at the result you get: A future of pain, suffering, chronic disease, medical bankruptcy and lots of prescription drugs. You will end up on so many prescription drugs that you will need a machine that beeps to remind you when to take a pill, because your brain won't even work properly (brain fog is a common side effect of many prescription drugs).
Or, instead, you can choose to believe that the human body already has a blueprint of health. The most powerful healing system in the world is inside you right now. All you need to do is stop poisoning your body and mind with chemicals, toxic foods and toxic personal care products. Turn to nature, which provides nutrition and medicine in the form of edible plants. Avoid all factory foods, processed foods and restaurant foods. Drink water, not milk. Get a daily dose of sunshine. Take whole food supplements and healthy fish oils to boost your daily nutritional intake. And exercise, of course.
You can choose this path. And if you've already starting walking down that path, you can probably find ways to accelerate the results. Find ways to make the right health decisions from this day forward -- decisions based on nature, not the junk science promoted by Big Pharma, the FDA and conventional medicine.
Do you know you need to shake things up to improve your health? What areas do you find most challenging?
Monday, September 6, 2010
One FLU Over the Coo coo's Nest
After months of stalling, the World Health Organization (WHO) has finally revealed the names of key pandemic advisors who influenced its decision to declare a phase six pandemic last year -- a decision that resulted in a financial windfall for vaccine manufacturers. Now the real pity of all this is that the WHO actually relies on these experts in their fields for ADVICE, which is all well and good except all of them were influenced by the Almighty Dollars of Big Pharma to give the advice they gave.
This list was published on Natural News:
Arnold Monto is a professor from the United States who has received money from virtually all the major vaccine manufacturers: GSK, Novartis, Roche, Baxter and Sanofi Pasteur. He has specifically been given grant money by Sanofi Pasteur to study influenza vaccines.
Nancy Cox works for the US Centers for Disease Control, which already maintains a pro-vaccine stance while utterly ignoring the importance of vitamin D in halting infectious disease. Nancy took funds from the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) to conduct work on vaccines.
John Wood works at Britain's National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC). They've taken money from Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis and several other companies focused on influenza vaccine research.
Maria Zambon is a professor at the UK Health Protection Agency Centre for Infection. She has received money from Sanofi, Novartis, CSL, Baxter and GSK.
Neil Ferguson is also a professor, and he has accepted money from Roche and GSK Biologicals.
There may be more to this story, too: The financial ties explained here are merely the ones that these people chose to publicly disclose to WHO. There may yet be other ties that currently remain a secret and will have to be dug up by some determined reporter...
Doesn't this financial tie hurt the credibility of these people to advise the WHO who advises US thru the media? I think it does! There were many people, Dr. Mercola among them, who stated from the get-go that this flu thing was totally over-blown. His voice and others like him actually DID have an impact on thousands of people who refused to get vaccinated. If you recall there were hospitals that were making it mandatory that their employees get vaccinated or lose their jobs. Fortunately this only came close to happening as a national mandate! Who knows though, they may try it again.
If you read some of the follow up "evidence" of the effectiveness of last years flu shot hoopla, it was only 17% effective (how they know this one wonders) and it caused many people to get ill and have crazy side effects from the shot, not the flu.
I have a neighbor who told me he had H1N1. I asked if he'd been tested. No. I asked if he'd been to a doctor. No. Then how do you know it was THAT flu? He didn't really. But the point is, people hear about this, get sick and right away they think they have it, and go telling everyone. What they are spreading is not flu, it's fear and confusion. Panic and fear - that seems to come from our media don't you think?
As far as I'm concerned the WHO played Chicken Little and now if something big does come along, many people won't listen to them. I will be one of them.
Did you lose confidence in the World Health Org.? Do you think there is ANYone out there that isn't on the take giving advice and endorsing the vaccines?
It's been my experience (and belief) that with the proper nutrition and hygiene, Vitamin D and C, and a healthy MIND SET , you can vaccinate your own self!
Enjoy the video - it has a catchy hip hop beat!
This list was published on Natural News:
Arnold Monto is a professor from the United States who has received money from virtually all the major vaccine manufacturers: GSK, Novartis, Roche, Baxter and Sanofi Pasteur. He has specifically been given grant money by Sanofi Pasteur to study influenza vaccines.
Nancy Cox works for the US Centers for Disease Control, which already maintains a pro-vaccine stance while utterly ignoring the importance of vitamin D in halting infectious disease. Nancy took funds from the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) to conduct work on vaccines.
John Wood works at Britain's National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC). They've taken money from Sanofi Pasteur, Novartis and several other companies focused on influenza vaccine research.
Maria Zambon is a professor at the UK Health Protection Agency Centre for Infection. She has received money from Sanofi, Novartis, CSL, Baxter and GSK.
Neil Ferguson is also a professor, and he has accepted money from Roche and GSK Biologicals.
There may be more to this story, too: The financial ties explained here are merely the ones that these people chose to publicly disclose to WHO. There may yet be other ties that currently remain a secret and will have to be dug up by some determined reporter...
Doesn't this financial tie hurt the credibility of these people to advise the WHO who advises US thru the media? I think it does! There were many people, Dr. Mercola among them, who stated from the get-go that this flu thing was totally over-blown. His voice and others like him actually DID have an impact on thousands of people who refused to get vaccinated. If you recall there were hospitals that were making it mandatory that their employees get vaccinated or lose their jobs. Fortunately this only came close to happening as a national mandate! Who knows though, they may try it again.
If you read some of the follow up "evidence" of the effectiveness of last years flu shot hoopla, it was only 17% effective (how they know this one wonders) and it caused many people to get ill and have crazy side effects from the shot, not the flu.
I have a neighbor who told me he had H1N1. I asked if he'd been tested. No. I asked if he'd been to a doctor. No. Then how do you know it was THAT flu? He didn't really. But the point is, people hear about this, get sick and right away they think they have it, and go telling everyone. What they are spreading is not flu, it's fear and confusion. Panic and fear - that seems to come from our media don't you think?
As far as I'm concerned the WHO played Chicken Little and now if something big does come along, many people won't listen to them. I will be one of them.
Did you lose confidence in the World Health Org.? Do you think there is ANYone out there that isn't on the take giving advice and endorsing the vaccines?
It's been my experience (and belief) that with the proper nutrition and hygiene, Vitamin D and C, and a healthy MIND SET , you can vaccinate your own self!
Enjoy the video - it has a catchy hip hop beat!
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