As a former MD, I am watching the allopathic practice model implode. There has been so.much fraud, so much corruption that the entire system needs to be torn down and redone, and yes the collaborative model is a must but not until the current sclerotic edifice that John D. Rockefeller hoisted on us is in ashes.
As a former MD, I am watching the allopathic practice model implode. There has been so.much fraud, so much corruption that the entire system needs to be torn down and redone, and yes the collaborative model is a must but not until the current sclerotic edifice that John D. Rockefeller hoisted on us is in ashes.
One of the major things the medical system has tried to foster in the population is a general aversion to self care so they perpetually require medical care to be better. The tragic thing is many doctors don't want to practice medicine that way, but they are forced to because the culture encourages unhealthy lifestyles.
Yes, lack of personal responsibility towards one's good health as a result of spending the greater part of one's life chasing the Almighty U.S. Dollar as well as various and sundry dubious pass times is a huge problem. People make fun of you if you spend two hours a day doing things that make and keep you fit.
Figures. How hilarious-- we really should make T-shirts that read: "Orthorexia: A medical term applied to people who choose to eat foods free from Big Ag, Big Pharma and military contractor aerosolized poisons dispersed in the atmosphere, and Big Government controls."
There actually is some truth to that. Several years ago, if I recall the article correctly, Netherlands commissioned a study that showed that people who lived a healthy lifestyle into old age were a greater net cost to the public pension/health care system than folks who didn't take good care of themselves.
The proverbial can has been opened. The EU wants to up the retirement age and howls went up from the French. Here you can retire later and you're rewarded for the delay.
Catherine Austin Fitts did in fact cover this topic back in 2009 with her post titled "The Swine Flu-- What I Believe," at her solari.com website. Last I checked it's still up.
Bingo. Eliminate fast food. Eliminate processed food (canned/boxed/bottled) as much as possible. And yes, the almighty "simple sugar", which I used to lump on my cereal as a kid, must be eliminated.
Comment: even absent the terror, you have taken the very steps that probably have -- by far -- the greatest influence on your chances of keeping or obtaining good health. Sensible diet, avoid or at least minimize the known or likely harms, exercise, perhaps get you 90% of the odds favoring good health. That last 10% available from the medical system -- if you can navigate it cautiously, which requires self-education, enlightened doctors, ideally both.
My close circle of friends are lawyers/barristers with a handful of finance types... they are all in the circus and fully Rat Juiced... only one has stopped - only because of my-o-my-caridtis... after shot 2.
The only close contact I have who is 100% anti Rat Juice (other than my wife) is my brother. He is an architect.
I in a few ice hockey beer leagues -- most of the players are tradies -- as far as I know all of them are Rat Juiced (I was booted during the mandates)
I suppose I would be classified as a former small time entrepreneur who realized that we were f789ed and on borrowed time after GFC... and mostly retired at 42 to pursue other interests
Circus or barnyard animals ... end of the day the only difference is one group has more training.
I am reluctant to say one is more intelligent than the other ... cuz I don't think humans are intelligent... no other animal grows it's population to 8B on the back of a finite resource... which when it is no longer available there is no fall back - they all starve.
Not only that .. but this species celebrates the pillaging of their only home ... consider when a company goes public -- basically they have worked out how to successfully compete in the pillage -- the founders take to the podium at the stock exchange -- ring a bell - pop Champagne and celebrate their pillaging -- and they get paid big time -- and use that to buy private jets yachts and all that jazz..
And the mob idolizes them cuz they are rich... so smart ...
Applauding and envying them ... when the reality is ... they are running the species off a cliff ...
Every innovation from farming to financial innovation --- runs the herd closer to the cliff -- and extinction
And we think this is intelligent behaviour. I see it as stupidity.
A bird being able to migrate thousands of miles without GPS... so that it can avoid winter and death... now that is intelligence.
Humans are idiots -- I imagine we'll be the species that goes extinct in the shortest period of time.
I don't believe in the one size fits all medical approach either. Long before I knew it. Healing medical practices were replaced with toxic chemicals disguised as medicine. And people wonder why modern-day human health is probably worse off than the health of people who lived thousands of years ago.
This is the old unity and diversity issue. Oz Guiness wrote what is more real? A particular dog, or a concept of "dogginess" (e.g., how do we know a chihuahua is related to a mastiff?) Truth is, it is really hard to tell which is more real.
But I think there was so much evil 100 years ago, starting with the Flexner Report, which you undoubtedly know all about... followed by the Federal Reserve, taxes and then WWI (and perhaps preceded by the Spanish American war) , which even Churchill said the US should have kept out of.
I don't know the answer; but I do know that the horrible fraud Margaret Mead (Coming of Age in Samoa was a complete fraud) had perhaps one thing right in her life; "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
Most health issues can be addressed by common sense approaches in terms of diet, exercise, social activities, spiritual intakes. Gandhi wrote about the priorities as he saw it in his "Guide to Health": https://archive.org/details/guidetohealth00gandrich
He discusses the value or not of various foods and drinks, fasting and attitudes. In the preface Gandhi quotes from Milton's "Paradise Lost" on how we can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven through our attitudes and actions. Greed, pride, and our other failings can wreck many good things. At root many of the "health" leaders during the pandemic were psychos drunk on power and greed. Perverse incentives were adopted at every turn without corresponding liabilities.
Thank you so much. Interestingly, I automate hospitals (PACS, EHR, etc.) and work with a LOT of doctors. My wife had a very strange disease, hyponatremia (sp?), low salt, that the very top neurologists at U of Chicago Medical School, Northwestern, and then on to experts at Mayo never diagnosed. It took a naturopath locally to figure it out. At her worse, she couldn't even walk across the room or cut her food. Now she is fine.
In fact, Mercola reported June 17, 2022, that “according to a 2011 Health Grades report, http://hg-article-center.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/7b/de/dc25d2c94d25ad88c9e1688c9adc/HealthcareConsumerismHospitalQualityReport2011.pdf the incidence rate of medical harm occurring in the U.S. is estimated to be over 40,000 harmful and/or lethal errors daily; in 2014 10.5% of American doctors admitted they’d made a major medical mistake in the last three months; and in 2016, Dr. Marty Makary published a report showing an estimated 250,000 Americans die from medical mistakes each year — about 1 in 10 patients — making it the third leading cause of death, right after cancer and heart disease.”
Starfield herself died of medical error, reported her husband, also a doctor: Her June 2011, death her husband attributed to the adverse effects of the blood thinner Plavix taken in combination with aspirin. However, her death certificate makes no mention of this possibility. In the August 2012 issue of Archives for Internal Medicine2 her husband, Dr. Neil A. Holtzman, writes, in part: "Writing in sorrow and anger, I express up front my potential conflict of interest in interpreting the facts surrounding the death of my wife, Dr. Barbara Starfield ... Because she died while swimming alone, an autopsy was required. The immediate cause of death was 'pool drowning,' but the underlying condition, 'cerebral hemorrhage,' stunned me ...Barbara started taking low-dose aspirin after coronary insufficiency had been diagnosed three years before her death, and clopidogrel bisulfate (Plavix) after her right main coronary artery had been stented six months after the diagnosis. She reported to the cardiologist that she bruised more easily while taking clopidogrel and bled longer following minor cuts. She had no personal or family history of bleeding tendency or hypertension. The autopsy findings and the official lack of feedback prompted me to call attention to deficiencies in medical care and clinical research in the United States reified by Barbara's death and how the deficiencies can be rectified. Ironically, Barbara had written about all of them."
Similarly, Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, MD, in Does Healthcare Produce Health? writes “People die in their quest for medical care. The numbers of these deaths vary. In the 2015 issue of Best Hospitals from U.S. News & World Report, an article on patient safety disclosed that one analysis "put the number of preventable deaths alone each year at 440,000." In 2016, a study by surgeons at Johns Hopkins University presented medical error as the third leading cause of death in America. The New York Times reported in 1998 that over 100,000 people die each year from adverse drug reactions. Yet, media attention to the roughly 500,000 treatment-related deaths a year in the U.S. is scant.” The Covid malfeasance is not unique.
Thanks. But that's the key point... they all missed it. We're talking Mayo, Northwestern, U of Chicago. Or maybe they took it (I don't remember now) and misinterpreted it. Key point is that medicine is part art, part science, IMHO. This was also about 12 years ago, perhaps things have changed relative to panels, etc. That part I don't know...
It seems that Western (Rockefeller) medicine is mostly enforced ignorance medicine. It is also enforced sick care and shuns even outlaws health care. Healthy people are not profitable but the sick certainly are.
Look at pix of Rockefeller. I think it was Lincoln who said anyone over 40 is responsible for their own face. His is the look of hell being put into flesh
What I've seen in recent years is that the new crop of GPs pretty much ignore labs. Family members have Kaiser who haven't had a CBC or Comprehensive Metabolic Panel in over 10 years of going in regularly for their annual check up. It's all about flu vaccine, mammogram, and now COVID vaccine. When they have had elevated or low labs, they dismiss it as irrelevant or NBD. Most recently, family member went in with acute abdominal swelling, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea. She had done labs through LabCorp due to time it would take to get an MD appt. Platelets were over 600 along with elevated neutrophils. GP dismissed it as a flu or stomach bug. Turns out it was ovarian cancer. Elevated platelets and neutrophils should have immediately been a red flag for some sort of acute infection, inflammation, or cancer.
My daughter (in her thirties) had hyponatremia from continuing to drink her gallon of water a day while she was away from her breast-feeding baby. She was taken to a small hospital in rural Pennsylvania where they immediately recognized the problem and got an IV into her right away.
I’m so glad to read this. My mom had a stent installed several years ago after they nicked her carotid artery while trying to clean it out.
They prescribed plavix and a full grain of aspirin. After a few months of ridiculous bruising, I reduced her aspirin to a low dose, still keeping the plavix.
She continued to bruise terribly and bleed a great deal when any little cut happened. I finally completely eliminated the aspirin.
Just yesterday I told her that I’d like to get blood work checked comparing her now and then switch to strictly aspirin and check it again.
I have a bit of irregular heartbeat, afib, but not bad. But rather than aspirin, I use nattokinase, which the Japanese eat a ton of; lubrokinase is also good. Mercola.com sells that, and natto you can get online. I use NOW foods. Garlic - Kyolic brand - also thins the blood. But then if you are taking RXs, you need to make sure you don't mess that up! If you have a good doctor they might be hip to this stuff. I usually now look for D.Os. first....
But I'm not a doctor, don't play one on TV, and in fact don't even watch doctor shows on TV, so check out those links above rather than my layman ideas.... of course, they do sell stuff, but there is a LOT of free info, and they all seem legit.
AMD , such an important and thoughtful essay . The things I see in triage that put the patient in triage / emergency department that were caused by another physician is mind boggling . Also , The patient that gets a million dollar workup with no answers and honestly, just sitting down, taking the time and listening to the patient long enough .. .. many times they tell you what’s wrong . Physicians are so quick to give medication for cholesterol ( one of my pet peeves) and never discuss the components of a healthy lifestyle. Happy Friday !🤗
"Cholesterol" (lipids) one of my peeves too. I'm a layman, but got interested enough to read (some) of "the literature" especially about statins, but also HDL, LDL and such. Imagine my surprise when, in a nutshell, I learnt that statins really do reduce "bad" numbers (usu. LDL) the incidence of cardio-vascular "events" every so slightly. Problem is they hardly move the needle at all with all-cause mortality.
My latest humorus find is this study. To save time, I recommend you open the pdf version which I'll comment upon below.
Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and All-Cause Mortality according to Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Level in the Elderly, a Nationwide Study”
It discusses what they call the "LDL-C paradox." For reference, consider that current medical wisdom holds that any LDL reading above 100 indicates a risk for CVD disease (which may be true, but again -- isn't the overall death rate a more important metric?)
Exhibit A:
Look at the table on P. 726: note how incidence of all-cause death drops, dramatically, as LDL levels rise.
Exhibit B:
Now look at graph C on P. 728: Non-statin users showed a significantly higher death rate, the lower was their LDL. Elsewhere in the text, the "paradox" applies most strongly to the non-statin users who were relatively health (no diabetes, existing heart disease, etc.) Taking this data point as presented, it shows a lower all-cause death rate, in fact dramatically less, at least in a certain patient cohort (non-statin takers), in fact their LDL was far higher than the supposedly ideal level (100).
Assuming the study data had integrity, this "paradox" or anomaly alone would lead an impartial judge to posit that the lipid/cholesterol hypothesis has flaws. I'm far from an expert, but some of the newer research indicates a more nuanced view of lipids. As I understand it, HDL is not universally "good," nor LDL "bad." The new metrics may be particle size, the presence and potential damage done by oxidized or glycolated HDL/LDL, and so forth.
In the broader issue, it is far from clear that a high-fat diet is evil. There never was consensus about that and it appears even after more than half a century the evidence is far from supportive of that case. Yet, it's been academic, government and medical dogma for decades that saturated fat is "bad" and should be reduced.
As study authors say, "more research is needed." That's often true. But you, dear reader, can do alot of that yourself. There are usually other similar papers, indeed a ton of them, that you can wade through or at least browse, and perhaps gain perspective on the issues.
I concur - and Dr Zoe Harcombe torpedoes the drivel about cholesterol and animal fats very adroitly too.
Agree 100% about RRR vs ARR - a very big fraud also trotted out with MRNA experimental GT CV19 drugs......Dr MK confirms there is no (proven) connection between cholesterol and CVHD and that epithethial cell damage is a far stronger indicator ( how odd - such an action is also a factor in said vaccine induced damage); studies which determined the former are decades old and ignored., surprise surprise - his 3 books are an education how poor your GP can be..... and how beneficial is the (indolent and allegedly unhealthy ) lifestyle of the French ..
No surprise that statins trials concentrated on whether they lowered cholesterol - which they did - but never on reducing mortality which they don't. UK NICE determined cholesterol should be "5" - from a study in US that was funded very substantially by......you guessed it.
UK GPs do not study nutrition and diet to anything other than a token amount......and yet dispense pills by the truckload. QED.
Relative risk is almost always deployed by pharmaceutical companies to make numbers look significant when they aren't. Another tactic is to use surrogate endpoints (such as cholesterol) instead of the actual desired outcome.
I only have a high school education, and even I have learned enough to do rudimentary critical assessment of some scientific studies.
I am in the UK; left school at 18..now have two professional qualifications.one currently benchmarked to a Masters degree.
When people understand that RRR is a comparison between those of the SAME "injected" cohort who did and did not experience the "virus", for example, which the drug trial PI reports as "efficacy" , rather than a comparison - ARR- between the control and placebo groups to demonstrate TRUE efficacy of the injected vs the non injected, they should rightly feel totally conned and become very very angry. This should/will increase by a factor of one hell of a lot when they realise this is the way Big Pharma has fraudulently conducted trials, among many many other criminal practices, for decades. When they THEN realise that the Health Regulatory agencies have known about this , again for decades, actively participated in the cover up and in the case of UK MHRA Chief drug enabler Raine, told barefaced lies that "no corners were cut", their anger should be such as to fire them into action.
A cursory review of Pfizer's trial reports/trial PI's conduct since 2019 tells you everything - but why do you expect when you allow a business which has been fined to the tune of many bns of $ prior to 2019 to take 100% control of the trial metrics for an experimental GT mRNA drug which uses two elements, LNP/ induced production of Sp 1/2 - both proven toxic humans years before 2019 - purely for profit?
"It was never about health". Like you, I do not consider myself blessed with great knowledge - but by dogged effort, IQ ~125/130, and very bad personal experience, I know the fraud of "surrogate endpoints". Trust in authority died some time ago - and will never ever return as long as I have breathe in my lungs
In a Dark Horse podcast, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying have explained how even saline will give that 83% efficacy rating by using the not-officially-vaccinated-until-two-weeks dodge. This wasn't original to them, but it was a very illuminating conversation.
"Eat Rich, Live Long" by Ivor Cummings & Dr Jeffrey Gerber summarizes the research on cholesterol, insulin, metabolic disease etc. and 1/3rd of it is about how readers can apply the research to their lives. I highly recommend it.
This is the crux of the problem, same as economics: "If you lined up in a straight line all the PhD economists in the world, they still couldn't come to a conclusion."
Medical care properly is an art, not a science. The Bible says for a good reason, in Ps. 139 "I praise you because I am *** fearfully and wonderfully made...**** "
Thanks for putting the reference in. It is by doing stuff like this that we will overcome the massive evil that the vile Soros, Schwab, ad nauseam have put in place
The world also seems have forgotten the lesson of Dr. Barbara Starfield, MD., of the Johns Hopkins School of Health, and her study published in JAMA, 2000, the well-known (at the time) US Healthcare Third Leading Cause of Death. Basically, the US medical system is the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer, killing, at time of study in 2000, 225,000 people a year, including 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries,7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals, 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals, 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals, 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines. The Alliance for Human Research Protection, which advances voluntary, informed consent to medical intervention has a summary of this here, as does the Society for Iatrogenic Awareness in its article Medical Errors: Still the Third Leading Cause of Death. Then, of course, since we need to lock down the world for Covid, perhaps we should permanently lock down the world – and particularly one of the big drivers, illegal immigration – over tuberculosis. In 2019 there were an estimated 1,418,000 deaths from TB. There’s just gotta be some way for Fauci and the WHO to milk this one! Or as Dr Travis Harding MD says, pandemics are about control, so they can keep us busy and preoccupied while politicians do other things with the other hand (exactly what magicians do.) Masks have zero to do, per Dr. Travis Harding, MD, with getting or passing the virus and the countries with the highest vax rate also have the highest, “by far,” Covid spread.
In fact, you are hurting your immune system by not having continual, normal exposure as you lock yourself down from normal interactions. Basically, they are just using this all to make money off of you he summarizes.
I get salt in my diet. I try not to go overboard. I purchase the pink Himalayan salt to cook with and add to my food. The typical table salt I hear has been stripped of too many minerals.
Yes, regular bleached salt is bad news. Pink Himalaya or Utah Redmond is good. We also use Celtic sea salt, but due to microplastics, moving to the pink.
I haven't examined Himalayan. However, Redmond (Utah) "Real Salt" is full of rust and sand. Someone gave me a bag because it was grinding down what was left of his teeth. I dissolved, decanted, and dried it. Labeled it Whitemond salt.
Pretty much already posted what I know about it. They mine it near Redmond, Utah; sand, rust, and all. Somewhat sticky, so must have some other minerals such as calcium and magnesium. I took the supernatant to dryness; no attempt to recrystallize pure sodium chloride.
We’ve just been through a year of near-hellish conditions with the side effects of Metformin! How many millions in N America take this medication? You know, I believe all the gluten-free and non-dairy products are being consumed by people who just need to stop taking Metformin, which causes real bowel (loose stool) issues, and doctors don’t even mention it as a side effect. Our GP and naturopath did not seem to make a connection between the hydrating effects (and miserable diarrhea) from Metformin. It took a gastroenterologist to suggest stopping that diabetic pill (forType 2). The new alternate is Jardiance and (along with berberine) seems to be effective without destroying our lives. I am so tired of trusting the new medical professionals.
Metformin has also been reported with some brands to have what goes into rocket fuel. You can probably just web search (please! Do NOT use vile Google!) for "metformin rocket fuel"
I take Metformin not for blood sugar, but for IGF-1, which is sky high. take 2 pills a week not a day. Curious to know, high level, what side effects. Now, one thing re. blood sugar, try time restricted eating (try to go 16 hours with no food) and **get off the seed oils*** (do a search on youtube for Dr. Chris Knobbe, lineolic acid) DUMP canola, soy, peanut, corn, safflower, grapeseed, sunflower and only use a GOOD brand olive (most are adulterated, California Olive ranch is a good brand - when opening, put a drop of astaxanthin - cheap, use the one from the pluvalis something or other algae, not the petrochemical derived one - NOW brands is good in to prevent oxidation). Use avocado (also only a good brand, as it is often adulterated) coconut, or ghee (clarified butter)
What is ignored is that metformin has immune suppressing activity. Gut pain being dominate because of enlarged lymphnodes. BMS pulled the brand years ago, but then came back with new massaged studies and it was re-introduced.
Thank you for your input. I know you cannot diagnose over Substack (though maybe these days that might be better!!!) but I'm only taking one tab (maybe two) per week of metformin. I picked this idea up from Doctor from Cornell med school talking at a conference (I automate hospitals for a living, PACS, EHRs, etc) . My own endocrinologist (I am in Naperville/Aurora IL area, DuPage Medical Gp, now Duly... and totally into the Big Medical stuff now....) said there is still not a lot known about IGF-1, except of course it is a growth agent - good for kids, not for someone in his 60s. Mine was up around 290 or so. I had a bit of a bout of cancer 5 years ago (fine now), but don't want any more "surprises." It's now half that doing 1/wk metformin, 3x/week berberine, walnuts (below) and time restricted eating, among other things. But again, I know you can't diagnose over substack!!!!
Another article said about walnuts and IGF-1 "they could have an extraordinary secret weapon against cancer: a trio of potent antioxidants that include tellimagrandin, juglone, and morin. Not only do these compounds reduce oxidative stress and inflammation that can trigger cancer, but studies have shown that they can suppress levels of a hormone known as IGF-1, which researchers say plays a key role in breast cancer. Research seems to support the cancer-fighting powers of walnuts. In one animal study, scientists found that the equivalent of two handfuls a day of walnuts cut risk of breast cancer by 50 percent.7 And, a study published in the International Journal of Oncology reported that morin has strong anticancer activity against human colon cancer cells.
The number one defense against all pathogens is a vibrant and strong immune system. Maintaining a strong immune system through out life ensures a long life. When there are lifestyle issues and nutrient deficiencies then health issues develop, then it is more difficult to beat cancer and other health issues. Google: "Lifestyle Medicine: A brief review 2017" and learn. That's why I embrace "N2E+ for Life". There is a blood testing company called "www.spectracell.com" that tests for nutrient deficienes. Sad to say I learned it was bought by the chinese in 2017. They are forward looking and understand the value. I address some of these issues on my substack. thomasabraunrph@substack.com
Many thanks - great information. Will do more checking. The patient was on four pills per day…far too many, it seems. Yet, his blood sugar was regulated. We use mostly evoo and avocado oils. Ta!
Cool. Check out time restricted eating (I just have a nice green tea for breakfast, or some lemon in seltzer, which is not enough calories to do anything. Your body then uses stored fat for fuel, not sugar, and you become metabolically flexible. But do check out Dr Chris Knobbe at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM Of course, this may or may not work for you, but a lot of this stuff costs little to nothing, just lifestyle change...
Take a look at greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com, and drjockers.com. I read them all, very helpful. I also take berberine - no probs with blood sugar, but something a bit related called IGF-1 (insulin growth factor 1), so trying berberine for that. My endocrinologist said they really don't know much about IGF-1, but I did find a doc from Cornell Univ. who said they were using Metformin for this, so I tried it (2 pills per week, NOT 2 per day as prescribed) and my IGF-1 is down by half (this MAY be related to cancer). Problem is, some brands of metformin - not all apparently - have rocket fuel residue in them. You could probably search for "metformin rocket fuel" to find out the brands. As noted below, PLEASE dont use vile, evil, disgusting Google or Chrome. Instead use Brave.com browser, which has its own search engine, or use Ecosia, SwissCows, Presearch, Freespoke. DuckDuckGo and StartPage not recommended any more, as probably go-opte.d
Blaise Vanne- I also have this condition (low sodium in blood) but I do not have any issues from it (yet). If I may ask: what type of treatment did the naturopath suggest? Electrolytes? My doctor just keeps telling me to drink less water, and use more salt. One problem for me is that I do not like salt very much.
"Side effects may include suicidal ideations or shooting up your local high school with a rifle." Just some gallows humor there.
Unless I'm mistaken, the old FAA regulations (I'm talking about well before the Cvoid-19 "vaccines," when they had rigid standards for things like the heart health of pilots) were quite strict. There was a whole list of prescription drugs which precluded one from even flying private craft, and I think psych med was one of the disqualifiers. I imagine standards for commercial aviation were stricter yet. Slipping standards seem to be a feature of our modern society. That's probably great if you're a woke social justice warrior fighting for"equity," or even to address staffing shortfalls, but not so much for the overall benefit and safety of the public.
Look into humic and fulvic acid. Or maybe a clean liquid multi mineral solution. I'm sure there's something safe and effective available that won't cause more problems than it solves. Been meaning to get me some of that humic and fulvic acid. Food grade Diatomaceous earth is a good multi-mineral product too. I forgot about the mineral copper and the Vitamin A (retinol) combination. I recently watched a video with Dr. Mercola and another doctor stating how people are told they have an iron deficiency where they may actually have a copper deficiency, which I hear isn't usually tested for.
I guess you're talking about the humic and the fulvic acid. If that be the case. I guess it could be one of those things that may work better for someone who has milder health issues to deal with. I'm sure that you and many doctors have learned or discovered through research or experience that different medicines work differently in different bodies. I like the way Dr. Lamm put it a couple of years ago. "One man's medicine is another man's poison.
Thanks Genevieve (beautiful name! If we had had a girl, that would have been a top choice!) Of course salt is the main RX for this - but NOT "regular," bleached salt, which is bad news. Rather, Celtic sea salt, or better Himalayan (or Utah) pink salt, as no microplastics. Her problem was that she was drinking FAR too much water. So it was pretty much just the salt. Someone else in this thread mentioned issues with the Redmond pink salt having sand (see below). I hope he/she can provide more details on that.
But I wonder if you might like the sea or pink salt better? It does taste a little different. Then, if it were me, I would check out sites like greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com, or drjockers.com, I would also just do a web search (Please! Get off "first do do only evil" Google and their Chrome! Brave.com is a good browser with search engine, or use search engines Presearch, Ecosia, SwissCows or Freespoke. Startpage and DuckDuckGo are questionable. Search for hypoleutremia (sp?). If you are near the Chicago area, I can put you in touch with a good naturopath.
Yes, agreed! I am very appreciative of Midwestern Doctor for writing this post. (And all his posts.) His fourth paragraph really sums up the situation perfectly, "Before we go any further.... It’s a perfect recipe for going insane."
I've written several times in comments here about caring for a family member who was diagnosed with a mental illness around the year 2000. This individual was well-educated with a doctorate degree. She'd gone through very difficult and stressful experiences in a short period of time and started to experience panic and anxiety. We naively (stupidly) thought the medical system would help her-- provide some cognitive therapy, get her back on track. Instead, they destroyed her, assaulted and restrained her, and put her on drugs that turned her into a walking zombie almost overnight. The extreme weight gain was instantaneous-- she went from a cute, athletic 35-year-old, to an overweight, middle-aged woman that could barely function. When we as family got involved, the gaslighting re-focused on us along with threats of "putting her away forever." It was a horrible time and that continued for years as we tried to navigate the system with an electronic medical record that followed her wherever she went.
About 10 years ago, we took the advice you give to others (VERY GOOD ADVICE) to find a physician that you pay directly. (While still in the system for catastrophic care, we pay outside for primary care.) The difference was like night and day. From there, we started on a journey of herbs, supplements, peptides, nutrition, blood work, etc. to try and undo the damage that had been done. And, we've largely been successful. Starting from a point over 10 years ago where she could barely draw the face on a clock or remember 3 words (standard memory test stuff), she now functions mostly independently and autonomously in a loving home with other family members around for support.
However, although we're in a pretty good place now, when I think about our past experiences or contemplate having to go back into "the system" for any tests or procedures, I almost have a panic attack. I think it is the PTSD from years of being abused and gas-lit not only by "the system," but also by the providers. I respectfully disagree with MWD that most providers are well meaning.... I am not a combative person, and I don't think I come across that way, but I have encountered some of the most evil, mean, nasty people in the medical system that I have ever met. They are so self-assured that they are right; they have no curiosity in looking beyond the surface, of digging beyond to find out why this has happened. If you even suggest that maybe there could be something further, they turn on you-- and they are mean. I don't think these people have any insight into how their decisions or power can destroy a life (and at the same time, a whole family) forever. As family members, we're the ones that have to continue on and pick up the pieces.
I've given a lot of thought to this, and I'm not sure why this evil is. Maybe because absolute power corrupts absolutely. Maybe it's because as C.S. Lewis said, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." I don't know. All I know is that the medial system destroyed our family and someone we love. And our lives have been forever changed.
Just as an addendum, we use a health sharing plan (Liberty). When I left my full time job, we went with them (Christian Health Share, Samaritan, Medishare, etc are other) we joined Liberty Health Share. Cost - I kid you not - was 1/3 of our "regular" insurance, with MUCH BETTER coverage. Hmm.... better coverage for 1/3 of the price. Even tho I slept thru jr. high math, even **I** can do that kind math!
How do they do it? As you probably know, they don't pay rack rate (no $50 for that aspirin the nurse gave you), and they require no smoking, no drugs, minimal alcohol, and church attendance (some health share plans only require committment to liberty, they all vary).
Anyhow, WHY anyone would NOT use these vehicles are utterly beyond me.
Sassy, thank you for sharing your story. What you've been through for your loved one is horrific. I'm consoled to know it's behind you. In support of what you're saying, especially about being part of "the system," I decided yesterday that I will leave my allopathic doctor after 5 years. After a severe vaccine injury, which she acknowledged as my diagnosis at my first follow up appoint 1 year ago, she has now changed her tune. She is now saying that I never did have a vaccine injury and I don't now. The anger in her voice was palpable, cold, hostile even. She used to be kind, thoughtful, and actually helpful (pre-COVID). What has happened to our doctors? They have lost their minds....sold their soul to Big Pharma. Maybe it's because they just can't carry the weight of what they've done to kill and mame thousands of people after taking an oath of "first do no harm." Tyranny. No ownership. Too many big houses and boats to pay for. The whole system needs to be blown up. Big Pharma, Insurance, conventional medicine....all of it. I'm researching "direct pay" integrative doctors now.
Good for you! What a horrible, upsetting experience to have your doctor turn on you like that. Yes, while this was under the surface before, something has happened during COVID. I wish you well on your journey.
While you are in the process of looking for new medical care options, here are some things we've used that may be helpful. (You may already know about them....) 1. Labs - If you want to check your own labs like CBC, Comprehensive Metabolic Panel, etc. you can self-pay and go through Lab Corp (my preference) or Quest without a doctor's order. It's more expensive, but a good option if you need it. There's a lot you can learn from following your own labs over time. 2. Micronutrient Profile - This is offered by SpectraCell and looks at intracellular uptake of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and more. I believe you can order this without an MD order. It can give you a picture of how well any supplements are being absorbed and if there are major deficiencies. 3. We've found naturopaths, functional medicine providers, as well as longevity providers to be helpful as they all look at labs, nutrition, herbs, supplements, peptides, etc. to help you body heal itself. 4. Lyme disease doctors (at least the good ones) have been looking at things like inflammation, cellular and mitochondrial health, and how to heal these, long before COVID came around. Two of my favorite go-to doctors for information on these topics are vitalplan.com (also he has another website rawlsmd.com) and treatlyme.net. You can learn so much from them that is applicable to everyone for systemic health and not just for Lyme disease. They also have regular webinars that are very interesting and informative.
In Australia you can also be de identified if you would prefer. Use the correct year of birth and gender (for accuracy of range) but different day and month. As this is not claimable on Medicare your name can also be altered (see below).
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People will do about anything rather than admit they were wrong. She herself may have told people to get the shot. Now she knows the horror of what she has done, and the oh no, since I was indeed wrong, how is this going to hurt ME thought is running through her head. She may be getting sued for something or another doctor friend of hers is being sued. Can't have that now. So guess what. That diagnosis of vax injury didn't happen.
Did a little more research (Open Payments database) and found the head of the practice (of about 5 MDs) has been receiving payments from Big Pharma for roughly $98,0000.
I began having panic attacks after a traumatic event. I eventually started taking sertraline (Zoloft) and it upended my life. I became very depressed, made some very bad life choices,and didn’t realize it was caused by taking this drug until I finally quit taking it. It took a couple of years for my head to clear. I have since learned of suicides related to this highly prescribed drug. I never got there but I can understand how it could happen. Nancy Reagan was right: Just Say No.
Yes! I'm so sorry, but glad you were able to recognize the damage Zoloft was doing, get off of it, and believe in yourself while you took time for your head to clear. Sadly, many never do. You have an important story to tell. I have long suspected that some/many of these school shootings we see are a symptom of putting our children on antipsychotics and other mental health drugs.
Maybe it’s time we had a national discussion about his cronies and lobbyists in Big Pharma, who seem to push kids into the latest drug du jour at the drop of a hat? Or doesn’t that fit the political agenda and his “never let a crisis go to waste” attitude?
If anyone is wondering why the US leads in school gun murders, perhaps you might want to explore the relationship between drugging our kids and violence. Note that not only are school gun murders up, but youth suicides are up dramatically was well. This shouldn’t be surprising, of course, as both are cut from the same cloth – disinhibition, messing with brain function, disturbing the level of self-control, and more. Granting that correlation is not causation, Dr. Bertram Karon from Michigan State Univ. notes the US has six times as many children on Ritalin, around four million, as any other country, and all of France only has 8,000 kids, in total, on Ritalin, while his home city of Lansing Michigan, alone, has around that many. In fact, the US accounts for around 90% of Ritalin prescriptions in the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujuDvwSOFto&sns=fb
Samantha, I wish them well. Encourage your friend to not give up on hope! While the journey has been painful and traumatic, I don't regret for one instance advocating as we have. It's just taken a while to learn and figure out which pathway to take.
I think you are touching what a sociopath is. You don't tell a sociopath that they are harming you. They know they are harming you and they like harming you. They get paid to harm you too. Why would they stop?
With that I am NOT saying all doctor/nurses are sociopaths at all. I have met some really amazing doctors/nurses in my life. But I do think the power they have over someone tends to attract sociopaths. People got to stop thinking that all doctors/nurses care about people. Some simply don't care.
God blesses you as He helps you out of this critical time with overbearing doctors. May you and your loved one go forward happily and in good health. Trust in God first. Thank you for sharing.
Midwestern Doc is everything that is good about this country, and a signpost to the road back: Intelligence, compassion, hard work, ethics. One MWD (Midwestern Doctor) equals 1,000 fasco-Marxist Faux-i, Birxes, etc.
And yes, Lewis' quote is spot on... as was his prescient 75 year old book which predicted exactly everything we are seeing, That Hideous Strength.
In my mind the conspiracy to shift focus away from cause and launch a race for cures dates to PCBs which are made from petrochemical processing waste much like most herbicides. Harvard School of Public Health was a party to the coverup and GE branched into diagnostics to identify cancers its PCB pollution causes. Now Rockefeller-Gates cabal are gods of "healthcare" for all!
From PCB Timeline
1937 — The Harvard School of Public Health hosted a one-day meeting on the problem of “systemic effects” of certain chlorinated hydrocarbons including “chlorinated diphenyl” (an early name for PCBs).[10] The meeting was attended by representatives from Halowax Corp., Monsanto, General Electric, the U.S. Public Health Service, state health officials from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and others. Before World War I, the Halowax Corporation, in New York City, began manufacturing chlorinated naphthelenes as a coating for electric wire, and companies like General Electric began using it. ...
And so GE executives—contrary to their personal ethics—reached a business decision to continue using PCBs. Sanford Brown, the president of Halowax, concluded the meeting by stressing the “necessity of not creating mob hysteria on the part of workmen in the plants” where chemical-safety inspections were being made. Problems with PCBs and napthalenes, he predicted, “may continue, probably will continue for years.”
I've seen people in Asia welding steel by tapping directly into overhead power lines and they weld without any eye protection! I wonder how long it is before they're functionally blind.
2023. 86 years later. Gaslighters say "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is really just Anxiety." (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity / Environmental Illness is really just health damage from chemical exposures, such as PCBs, and/or mould.)
On the rare occasion I have visited an allopathic doctor, they always ALWAYS say I have anxiety. I never knew why (except for the time I was having panic attacks after a severe trauma) but it must be due to self-reported and significant sensitivities, mostly to medications. They got much worse after a tetanus booster. I will never again take a pharmaceutical product. Of course, all my reactions are “Coincidences”.
I don't think you can get just a tetanus shot any more, as in tetanus and nothing else. They all come with whooping cough (do we REALLY need that?) and something else. I think "they" just want to make us sick.
My doctor wanted to give me some shots about ten years ago. Do you want the flu shot? No, Do you want blah, blah, blah shot? NO. What about tetanus? It's been more than ten years you had the tetanus shot. Okay. THEN THE DOCTOR SMILED. Kind of a smirky smile. Had to watch her face real quick or I would have missed it. I thought of back tracking on that oral agreement right away, but didn't have a real good reason besides her shady behavior.
I think about that moment all the time now. Maybe later when she diagnosed me with general anxiety, it was from that. I don't know. But I think back of why did I agree to tetanus shot?
So I guess it is still not culturally okay yet to say F U to these doctors when they suggest any shot?
It's getting worse. You're now considered "prehypertensive" if you systolic pressure's (upper number) 120... We need to stop feeding these trolls with M.D.s
Environmental toxins, questionable food additives, and so forth are examples of intractable (potential) health issues. Even if is possible to mount valid scientific studies of the phenomena, which is surely not always the case, there exist stupendous disincentives to fund or even allow such studies. There is simply too much money and power at risk. Noe that I'm not saying that there aren't real issues or that they shouldn't be looked into, merely saying there are huge barriers against anyone even looking.
At times I find it amazing that we have addressed some huge dangers, like the widespread use of lead in gasoline or trans fats, for instance.
Realistically the best you can do is self-education and pick your way as best you can. Even in the best case, it takes decades for institutional policy to change, to weed out outmoded beliefs and accept new research findings. Yet if one had some insider knowledge, one might have known as early as say the 1950s or 60s, that margarine wasn't not a good idea and one should stick with butter.
I’m slowly healing from this. And vacuum a lot for the biotoxins. Integrative medicine doctor is helping after 20 years of gaslighting by insurance dictated drs. & I acquired a bunch of autoimmune issues after a booster shot for work ( for an autistic classroom!) in 2001. I was in the prime of my life. It’s huge to have hope again & some quality of life after being written off for so long.
Speaking of General Electric in 1937, Gerard Swope was president of GE during that time (1922 to 1940). His history is worth studying because it fits a common patten and shows how deep business and government corruption have been for a long time. Much of it is truly beyond belief. As little as a 30 second read at Wiki will earn you a decent start and many a clue.
Swope was a de facto American dictator, being the author of the doctrine of government control of business, a supporter of the German government (and probably the USSR as well) via General Electric, and the author of the Swope Plan adopted by FDR as part of his New Deal program of centralized control of the economy.
Here’s a quote from an interesting article written about him by the famous Dorothy Thompson who was once known as the "First Lady of American Journalism"and was recognized in 1939 by the news magazine, “Time,” as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt and whose background is also worth familiarizing oneself with.
“[A special bill to help Swope avoid payment of US income tax was] introduced into the house by Representatives Reed (Republican) and Keogh (Democrat) of New York was an amendment to section 2055 of the internal revenue code of 1945.
… The bill was jumped over [“a log jam of 500 bills that had priority”] and passed both houses unanimously. There was still another obstacle. The secretary of the treasury, who had opposed the bill throughout, announced that he would advise the President to veto it. The veto could not be overridden because congress was in recess. “Tulin [Swope’s advocate] resorted to friends . . . (who) went to the White House. The amendment was signed and became law, Aug. 6, 1958.”
-Dorothy Thompson, Special Law Passed for Zionist,The American Mercury, January 1959, pp. 135-136
The medical system is already in free fall. It's tearing itself down and hastening it's own death spiral in fast-forward mode due to the fraudulent and toxic injectable (and other) medications, as well as all the lies about their safety and efficacy that just won't stop. Never mind patients' actual experiences. YES, GASLIGHTING.
It must be difficult to be a well-intentioned and competent doctor in the USA, other countries too for that matter. The implosion you describe and collapse of trust in the medical system is one of a few silver linings to the disaster of the last 3 years. It's way, way overdue. My wife and I are well into retirement years and have realized for decades their objective is always to turn you into a revenue source, and they don't mind destroying you to do it. That fact has been as obvious, for a LONG time, as the scamdemic lies were. Nice to see more waking up, not that I really expect this to end well.
Sadly, I believe it's much easier in the USA than most other Western democracies. Despite everything I complain about, we have much more latitude here and patients frequently fly over from Europe to see USA doctors.
A lot of docs come to the US to train thinking that it's some kind of medical mecca; most of the ones I've met return home gladly and as soon as they can. They have received both training in their specialty (which they could have obtained at home), and an education ( about propaganda, which they could not have obtained at home).
That may also be due to immigration law. In the old days, it's my understanding, that foreigners who studied in the USA had to return to their homeland, or at least leave the USA for five years or some such, before they could return and presumably become resident aliens working here. Decadent as we are, the USA is still a damned sight better than most of the world. If this were not true, then millions of (mostly) poorer impoverished people would not eagerly seek to come here, legally or otherwise.
Perhaps such laws are still on the books. Doesn't really matter, since laws don't mean much any more -- just ask the millions of illegal aliens already here. The government doesn't even enforce laws any more; they don't even know how many illegals are here.
True, but my point was that most of whom I know who came here felt it was better back home (both in Europe and in Asia) and based on my experiences I have my dental work done in Asia because the quality and service is somewhat superior to what I've had in the US.
I'm not a huge consumer of medical "services," so have little personal experience to base a judgement on, but from what I've seen, the docs elsewhere are generally far superior to what we have were, the propaganda notwithstanding. I've known more than a few who come here thinking that they would get something special by training here, but they soon realize that their hopes were really dreams.
We are friends of a cardiac vascular surgeon who came here for a fellowship at a "world renowned" program who was shocked and more than a little disgusted at what was going on, and was recrutited to stay here and teach, but he turned the offer down without hesitation. Things were much better at home. His daughter recently graduated from a med school in their home country in fact. Could have easily come here for training if desired but she knew she'd get real life experiences there that she'd never get here.
For instance, the "world class" hospital I mentioned only allowed* its eye residents to assist in surgery during their last year whereas first year residents actually perform eye surgery in their first year (but under very strict guidance), and come out of their programs with judgement and skills that put ours to shame.
People typically want to think the best of their country and even the ancient Greeks had the methods of pandering to that sentiment well rehearsed. Plato's Menexenus explains it all and is a fascinating read. Short yet enlightening too. https://freeclassicebooks.com/Plato/Menexenus.pdf
Ideally, I wouldn't want the first year guys to do mine either, but I sure as bleep wouldn't want the guys who left training with no hands on experience and little responsibility trying their luck on me.
The first year guys start out doing simple things and tackle more complicated stuff as they demonstrate increasing competence and they are very strictly supervised.
I'm a younger (61) senior, still relatively healthy thank goodness; I must reluctantly agree with your dreary observations. I would add to your "silver lining" list that, for me at least, the unprecedented mendacity, the bad faith from all quarters especially since January 2020, had made obvious the rot that has existed in the system for many decades prior. The sooner all this collapses and, hopefully, a freer system replaces it the better. Otherwise there's a very real chance that most of the world is really staggering into some form of global authoritarian state, a brave new world, a 1984, whatever.
This may collapse and be replaced with a freer system as you say. You know what happens then, don't you? Ten generations max and it's sick and ready for the ashbin again. The cycle continues. Is there a point to the endless rise and fall cycle? I dunno, beyond my pay grade. I do know humankind can't sustain a decent society in the context of civilization. Hunter-gatherer groups do much better in that regard. Seems that's what we're designed for and we can't handle modernity. One huge advantage primitive groups have is psychopaths can be eliminated, rather than allowed to thrive.
You’re exactly right. As I tell people, your doctors chose their careers and livelihood over their sacred oath to guard your life. You’re no longer patients. You’re a cash register.
I made a point to set myself up so that I would never be held in a career position where I would have to make those choices, but in many other fields, doctors are forced to either advocate for their patient or be safe with their employer and its often very hard to do both because doctors have a lot less power than they used to compared to corporate health care systems.
It's disappointing, although not in the least surprising, that doctors don't have an organization that has advocated for their ability to practice as so many would prefer. Instead, they've passively allowed the entire system to degrade and along with it their autonomy and ability to truly serve patients. If there is such an organization it's so ineffective as to be invisible. I will never forget when, as a young teen in the 60's I asked my mom why we weren't stopping by the cashier to pay as we left the clinic. When she explained "oh, nobody pays, everybody has insurance that pays" I knew instantly what that meant - the system would inevitably be taken over by the very worst individuals, and become a corrupt mess. Why most people can't understand how a system with every incentive to raise prices and no incentive toward efficiency must fail is beyond me. High prices benefit insurance companies, that should be obvious but apparently is not.
"Why most people can't understand how a system with every incentive to raise prices and no incentive toward efficiency must fail is beyond me. High prices benefit insurance companies, that should be obvious but apparently is not."
The fact that we're forced to buy health insurance is another clue that supports what you wrote there.
There are few incentives for delivering quality care either. In fact, it often works just the opposite as we can now clearly appreciate.
Also, the freedom from liability seems to encourage sloppy or harmful work and not only that, but government funding obviously encourages a race for the bucks and the short cuts that typically entails.
The object is to do just enough to get the handouts with little regard for the results. I have a brother, an engineer, who went to Bosnia after the war, with USAID. He was (naively )concerned about quality until a superior took him aside one day and told him that the object was just to spend money. Reminds me of the shocking scandals that took place when the railroads were being built in the USA 150 years ago. Apparently the situation regarding government favoritsm, spending, and graft has only worsened since.
If we cannot abolish monster government, then we should at least abolish corporations, but I doubt that'll ever happen.
Tragically, most doctors today function as little more than hired hands but that goes as well for anyone employed by large corporations. You are smart for seeing the trap and having the guts to avoid it.
It's really sad to think of how many years and how much effort docs have invested to secure their own slavery.
Just as the military seems to be finding it difficult to find good people, medicine will increasingly find that to be true as well. Part of the problem is that the quality of our journalists and politicians has been in a tailspin for decades too.
they get kick backs from pharma. Either in the form of vacations, parties or free fancy dinners. I know this.
So, if you are a doc in a "group", you might be able to decide how to treat your patients conservatively, or you might give in to the pressure of offering a new med that is horribly expensive but "we can give you a coupon". pharma needs people taking meds, Not old meds, new meds
You cite a good example of where it's useful to know about basic psychology: A rational person will tend to choose his own well-being, loyalty to family, friends, tribe, religion, nation, etc. over those of outsiders. There are many other ways that could be phrased: A rational person tends to act in his own self-interest. Sure, there are cases where a person will act altruistically and sacrifice himself for others or for a group, for an ideal he believes in. But that's rare. In other words, you are a fool if you put yourself into a position where you hope someone will put his own interests aside. Hoping that someone will risk his own ass just for you is not a smart way to bet. Note that none of the foregoing says a person so acting is "evil." Yes, surely the would-be beneficiary would be expected to feel that way. Yet the impartial observer would say no, the would be benefactor is merely acting in his own self-interest, and the "victim" is in the wrong, expecting others to act against self-interest.
That's why some knowledge of pop psychology is helpful. For example, consider an economic transaction (and seeing your doctor is one). How is the other party compensated? Complications like the risk of fraud always exist, but a lot can be inferred by knowing actual or likely potential conflicts of interest. Of course it depend upon the situation. For example, in court, plaintiff and defendant optimally want a lawyer who represents their interest only. The judge should be impartial, having no conflicts of interest either way. Alas, the real world is rarely so clear-cut. Oftentimes, the best one can do is to be aware of the actual or probable conflicts of interest and manage how they may influence the other party's behavior.
A final comment: I NEVER was taught anything remotely like the above in school, and I've got a BS STEM degree and a MA in a liberal art. The closest I came to moral insights might have been in various religion teaching I received. Yet the psychology or morality I outlined above is basic stuff. I learned it from articles, independent reading, even from economics texts.
And as a patient when the system does explodes and a new system takes place, can we again go back to nature? Can we simply use what nature/herbs more for chronic conditions? It isn't quackery if it works. Oh and bring back true double blind studies. The longer the term of the studies the better.
As a former MD, I am watching the allopathic practice model implode. There has been so.much fraud, so much corruption that the entire system needs to be torn down and redone, and yes the collaborative model is a must but not until the current sclerotic edifice that John D. Rockefeller hoisted on us is in ashes.
Agree. I won’t go to my dr.
I’m not a number code to be handed to the government.
Look a non compliant!
I’m not a social project, we are in this together.
I’m not a one vax suits all.
I am an individual human. Not a transhuman code
I am so terrified of being caught up in the medical system that I have not eaten fast food or touched a soft drink in decades.
Since this Covid bs I've got full sparta... my one vice - sugar in coffee -- has been eliminated.
I exercise daily.
One of the major things the medical system has tried to foster in the population is a general aversion to self care so they perpetually require medical care to be better. The tragic thing is many doctors don't want to practice medicine that way, but they are forced to because the culture encourages unhealthy lifestyles.
Yes, lack of personal responsibility towards one's good health as a result of spending the greater part of one's life chasing the Almighty U.S. Dollar as well as various and sundry dubious pass times is a huge problem. People make fun of you if you spend two hours a day doing things that make and keep you fit.
Yup. They've even come up with a term for those of us who are interested in and follow healthy eating - orthorexia.
Figures. How hilarious-- we really should make T-shirts that read: "Orthorexia: A medical term applied to people who choose to eat foods free from Big Ag, Big Pharma and military contractor aerosolized poisons dispersed in the atmosphere, and Big Government controls."
I suppose if they encouraged healthy lifestyles the pension system would go bankrupt and that would open a whole other can of worms
There actually is some truth to that. Several years ago, if I recall the article correctly, Netherlands commissioned a study that showed that people who lived a healthy lifestyle into old age were a greater net cost to the public pension/health care system than folks who didn't take good care of themselves.
Or in a quite perverse way all the sickcare spending is regarded as "good for the economy".
The proverbial can has been opened. The EU wants to up the retirement age and howls went up from the French. Here you can retire later and you're rewarded for the delay.
Your comment would be a great basis for a dedicated article.
Catherine Austin Fitts did in fact cover this topic back in 2009 with her post titled "The Swine Flu-- What I Believe," at her solari.com website. Last I checked it's still up.
This is sad but very true.
Bingo. Eliminate fast food. Eliminate processed food (canned/boxed/bottled) as much as possible. And yes, the almighty "simple sugar", which I used to lump on my cereal as a kid, must be eliminated.
Comment: even absent the terror, you have taken the very steps that probably have -- by far -- the greatest influence on your chances of keeping or obtaining good health. Sensible diet, avoid or at least minimize the known or likely harms, exercise, perhaps get you 90% of the odds favoring good health. That last 10% available from the medical system -- if you can navigate it cautiously, which requires self-education, enlightened doctors, ideally both.
We need an alternative healthcare system … it pays for sickness not health…. It’s pitiful.
Fast Eddy ... I’m just like you.... and I am doctor.
My close circle of friends are lawyers/barristers with a handful of finance types... they are all in the circus and fully Rat Juiced... only one has stopped - only because of my-o-my-caridtis... after shot 2.
The only close contact I have who is 100% anti Rat Juice (other than my wife) is my brother. He is an architect.
I in a few ice hockey beer leagues -- most of the players are tradies -- as far as I know all of them are Rat Juiced (I was booted during the mandates)
I suppose I would be classified as a former small time entrepreneur who realized that we were f789ed and on borrowed time after GFC... and mostly retired at 42 to pursue other interests
Circus or barnyard animals ... end of the day the only difference is one group has more training.
I am reluctant to say one is more intelligent than the other ... cuz I don't think humans are intelligent... no other animal grows it's population to 8B on the back of a finite resource... which when it is no longer available there is no fall back - they all starve.
Not only that .. but this species celebrates the pillaging of their only home ... consider when a company goes public -- basically they have worked out how to successfully compete in the pillage -- the founders take to the podium at the stock exchange -- ring a bell - pop Champagne and celebrate their pillaging -- and they get paid big time -- and use that to buy private jets yachts and all that jazz..
And the mob idolizes them cuz they are rich... so smart ...
Applauding and envying them ... when the reality is ... they are running the species off a cliff ...
Every innovation from farming to financial innovation --- runs the herd closer to the cliff -- and extinction
And we think this is intelligent behaviour. I see it as stupidity.
A bird being able to migrate thousands of miles without GPS... so that it can avoid winter and death... now that is intelligence.
Humans are idiots -- I imagine we'll be the species that goes extinct in the shortest period of time.
You got it right Fast Eddy ……no bones about it . 😞
I don't believe in the one size fits all medical approach either. Long before I knew it. Healing medical practices were replaced with toxic chemicals disguised as medicine. And people wonder why modern-day human health is probably worse off than the health of people who lived thousands of years ago.
Unfortunately it's very hard to make a standardized system you can deploy across the world unless it follows the one size fits all model.
This is the old unity and diversity issue. Oz Guiness wrote what is more real? A particular dog, or a concept of "dogginess" (e.g., how do we know a chihuahua is related to a mastiff?) Truth is, it is really hard to tell which is more real.
But I think there was so much evil 100 years ago, starting with the Flexner Report, which you undoubtedly know all about... followed by the Federal Reserve, taxes and then WWI (and perhaps preceded by the Spanish American war) , which even Churchill said the US should have kept out of.
I don't know the answer; but I do know that the horrible fraud Margaret Mead (Coming of Age in Samoa was a complete fraud) had perhaps one thing right in her life; "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
True and the only way to make lots of money is via a one size fits all which is why big pharma love it.
Money and one size fits all of course.
True. As I say we are individuals with individual immune systems in different conditions.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/h-is-for-herd-immunity/
Most health issues can be addressed by common sense approaches in terms of diet, exercise, social activities, spiritual intakes. Gandhi wrote about the priorities as he saw it in his "Guide to Health": https://archive.org/details/guidetohealth00gandrich
He discusses the value or not of various foods and drinks, fasting and attitudes. In the preface Gandhi quotes from Milton's "Paradise Lost" on how we can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven through our attitudes and actions. Greed, pride, and our other failings can wreck many good things. At root many of the "health" leaders during the pandemic were psychos drunk on power and greed. Perverse incentives were adopted at every turn without corresponding liabilities.
Thank you so much. Interestingly, I automate hospitals (PACS, EHR, etc.) and work with a LOT of doctors. My wife had a very strange disease, hyponatremia (sp?), low salt, that the very top neurologists at U of Chicago Medical School, Northwestern, and then on to experts at Mayo never diagnosed. It took a naturopath locally to figure it out. At her worse, she couldn't even walk across the room or cut her food. Now she is fine.
Dr. Leeman Henry, PhD, Univ. of Edinborough reviews the same issue here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rem6zmyNZA (40 min unfortunately) and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAEAWyfuEWY&t=52s . Of course there is the famed study by Dr. Barbara Starwood, MD, out of Johns Hopkins, finding a couple decades ago that almost a quarter million die every year from medical caused death. https://iatrogenics.org/responsibility/72-societalimpact/280-medical-errors-still-the-third-leading-cause-of-death I believe this is also on JAMA, where it was originally published. Ironically Starfield probably died from a medical error.
Famed “left the reservation” Pulitzer-nominated reporter Jon Rappoport’s interview with Starfield here https://newswithviews.com/Rappoport/jon100.htm
In fact, Mercola reported June 17, 2022, that “according to a 2011 Health Grades report, http://hg-article-center.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/7b/de/dc25d2c94d25ad88c9e1688c9adc/HealthcareConsumerismHospitalQualityReport2011.pdf the incidence rate of medical harm occurring in the U.S. is estimated to be over 40,000 harmful and/or lethal errors daily; in 2014 10.5% of American doctors admitted they’d made a major medical mistake in the last three months; and in 2016, Dr. Marty Makary published a report showing an estimated 250,000 Americans die from medical mistakes each year — about 1 in 10 patients — making it the third leading cause of death, right after cancer and heart disease.”
Starfield herself died of medical error, reported her husband, also a doctor: Her June 2011, death her husband attributed to the adverse effects of the blood thinner Plavix taken in combination with aspirin. However, her death certificate makes no mention of this possibility. In the August 2012 issue of Archives for Internal Medicine2 her husband, Dr. Neil A. Holtzman, writes, in part: "Writing in sorrow and anger, I express up front my potential conflict of interest in interpreting the facts surrounding the death of my wife, Dr. Barbara Starfield ... Because she died while swimming alone, an autopsy was required. The immediate cause of death was 'pool drowning,' but the underlying condition, 'cerebral hemorrhage,' stunned me ...Barbara started taking low-dose aspirin after coronary insufficiency had been diagnosed three years before her death, and clopidogrel bisulfate (Plavix) after her right main coronary artery had been stented six months after the diagnosis. She reported to the cardiologist that she bruised more easily while taking clopidogrel and bled longer following minor cuts. She had no personal or family history of bleeding tendency or hypertension. The autopsy findings and the official lack of feedback prompted me to call attention to deficiencies in medical care and clinical research in the United States reified by Barbara's death and how the deficiencies can be rectified. Ironically, Barbara had written about all of them."
Similarly, Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, MD, in Does Healthcare Produce Health? writes “People die in their quest for medical care. The numbers of these deaths vary. In the 2015 issue of Best Hospitals from U.S. News & World Report, an article on patient safety disclosed that one analysis "put the number of preventable deaths alone each year at 440,000." In 2016, a study by surgeons at Johns Hopkins University presented medical error as the third leading cause of death in America. The New York Times reported in 1998 that over 100,000 people die each year from adverse drug reactions. Yet, media attention to the roughly 500,000 treatment-related deaths a year in the U.S. is scant.” The Covid malfeasance is not unique.
Important information - thank you!
The most basic blood panel should reveal hyponatremia.
Thanks. But that's the key point... they all missed it. We're talking Mayo, Northwestern, U of Chicago. Or maybe they took it (I don't remember now) and misinterpreted it. Key point is that medicine is part art, part science, IMHO. This was also about 12 years ago, perhaps things have changed relative to panels, etc. That part I don't know...
It seems that Western (Rockefeller) medicine is mostly enforced ignorance medicine. It is also enforced sick care and shuns even outlaws health care. Healthy people are not profitable but the sick certainly are.
Look at pix of Rockefeller. I think it was Lincoln who said anyone over 40 is responsible for their own face. His is the look of hell being put into flesh
What I've seen in recent years is that the new crop of GPs pretty much ignore labs. Family members have Kaiser who haven't had a CBC or Comprehensive Metabolic Panel in over 10 years of going in regularly for their annual check up. It's all about flu vaccine, mammogram, and now COVID vaccine. When they have had elevated or low labs, they dismiss it as irrelevant or NBD. Most recently, family member went in with acute abdominal swelling, fatigue, abdominal pain, nausea. She had done labs through LabCorp due to time it would take to get an MD appt. Platelets were over 600 along with elevated neutrophils. GP dismissed it as a flu or stomach bug. Turns out it was ovarian cancer. Elevated platelets and neutrophils should have immediately been a red flag for some sort of acute infection, inflammation, or cancer.
That is amazing...
My daughter (in her thirties) had hyponatremia from continuing to drink her gallon of water a day while she was away from her breast-feeding baby. She was taken to a small hospital in rural Pennsylvania where they immediately recognized the problem and got an IV into her right away.
I’m so glad to read this. My mom had a stent installed several years ago after they nicked her carotid artery while trying to clean it out.
They prescribed plavix and a full grain of aspirin. After a few months of ridiculous bruising, I reduced her aspirin to a low dose, still keeping the plavix.
She continued to bruise terribly and bleed a great deal when any little cut happened. I finally completely eliminated the aspirin.
Just yesterday I told her that I’d like to get blood work checked comparing her now and then switch to strictly aspirin and check it again.
I’d like to eliminate any side effects of plavix.
I would check out Drjockers.com, greenmedinfo.com, or mercola. com
I have a bit of irregular heartbeat, afib, but not bad. But rather than aspirin, I use nattokinase, which the Japanese eat a ton of; lubrokinase is also good. Mercola.com sells that, and natto you can get online. I use NOW foods. Garlic - Kyolic brand - also thins the blood. But then if you are taking RXs, you need to make sure you don't mess that up! If you have a good doctor they might be hip to this stuff. I usually now look for D.Os. first....
But I'm not a doctor, don't play one on TV, and in fact don't even watch doctor shows on TV, so check out those links above rather than my layman ideas.... of course, they do sell stuff, but there is a LOT of free info, and they all seem legit.
AMD , such an important and thoughtful essay . The things I see in triage that put the patient in triage / emergency department that were caused by another physician is mind boggling . Also , The patient that gets a million dollar workup with no answers and honestly, just sitting down, taking the time and listening to the patient long enough .. .. many times they tell you what’s wrong . Physicians are so quick to give medication for cholesterol ( one of my pet peeves) and never discuss the components of a healthy lifestyle. Happy Friday !🤗
"Cholesterol" (lipids) one of my peeves too. I'm a layman, but got interested enough to read (some) of "the literature" especially about statins, but also HDL, LDL and such. Imagine my surprise when, in a nutshell, I learnt that statins really do reduce "bad" numbers (usu. LDL) the incidence of cardio-vascular "events" every so slightly. Problem is they hardly move the needle at all with all-cause mortality.
My latest humorus find is this study. To save time, I recommend you open the pdf version which I'll comment upon below.
Myocardial Infarction, Stroke, and All-Cause Mortality according to Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Level in the Elderly, a Nationwide Study”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35255552/
It discusses what they call the "LDL-C paradox." For reference, consider that current medical wisdom holds that any LDL reading above 100 indicates a risk for CVD disease (which may be true, but again -- isn't the overall death rate a more important metric?)
Exhibit A:
Look at the table on P. 726: note how incidence of all-cause death drops, dramatically, as LDL levels rise.
Exhibit B:
Now look at graph C on P. 728: Non-statin users showed a significantly higher death rate, the lower was their LDL. Elsewhere in the text, the "paradox" applies most strongly to the non-statin users who were relatively health (no diabetes, existing heart disease, etc.) Taking this data point as presented, it shows a lower all-cause death rate, in fact dramatically less, at least in a certain patient cohort (non-statin takers), in fact their LDL was far higher than the supposedly ideal level (100).
Assuming the study data had integrity, this "paradox" or anomaly alone would lead an impartial judge to posit that the lipid/cholesterol hypothesis has flaws. I'm far from an expert, but some of the newer research indicates a more nuanced view of lipids. As I understand it, HDL is not universally "good," nor LDL "bad." The new metrics may be particle size, the presence and potential damage done by oxidized or glycolated HDL/LDL, and so forth.
In the broader issue, it is far from clear that a high-fat diet is evil. There never was consensus about that and it appears even after more than half a century the evidence is far from supportive of that case. Yet, it's been academic, government and medical dogma for decades that saturated fat is "bad" and should be reduced.
As study authors say, "more research is needed." That's often true. But you, dear reader, can do alot of that yourself. There are usually other similar papers, indeed a ton of them, that you can wade through or at least browse, and perhaps gain perspective on the issues.
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is an excellent source for cholesterol-skeptic reading.
Looking at the raw data from a big statin study was where I first learned about how relative risk is used to misrepresent pharmaceutical efficacy.
I concur - and Dr Zoe Harcombe torpedoes the drivel about cholesterol and animal fats very adroitly too.
Agree 100% about RRR vs ARR - a very big fraud also trotted out with MRNA experimental GT CV19 drugs......Dr MK confirms there is no (proven) connection between cholesterol and CVHD and that epithethial cell damage is a far stronger indicator ( how odd - such an action is also a factor in said vaccine induced damage); studies which determined the former are decades old and ignored., surprise surprise - his 3 books are an education how poor your GP can be..... and how beneficial is the (indolent and allegedly unhealthy ) lifestyle of the French ..
No surprise that statins trials concentrated on whether they lowered cholesterol - which they did - but never on reducing mortality which they don't. UK NICE determined cholesterol should be "5" - from a study in US that was funded very substantially by......you guessed it.
UK GPs do not study nutrition and diet to anything other than a token amount......and yet dispense pills by the truckload. QED.
Relative risk is almost always deployed by pharmaceutical companies to make numbers look significant when they aren't. Another tactic is to use surrogate endpoints (such as cholesterol) instead of the actual desired outcome.
I only have a high school education, and even I have learned enough to do rudimentary critical assessment of some scientific studies.
I am in the UK; left school at 18..now have two professional qualifications.one currently benchmarked to a Masters degree.
When people understand that RRR is a comparison between those of the SAME "injected" cohort who did and did not experience the "virus", for example, which the drug trial PI reports as "efficacy" , rather than a comparison - ARR- between the control and placebo groups to demonstrate TRUE efficacy of the injected vs the non injected, they should rightly feel totally conned and become very very angry. This should/will increase by a factor of one hell of a lot when they realise this is the way Big Pharma has fraudulently conducted trials, among many many other criminal practices, for decades. When they THEN realise that the Health Regulatory agencies have known about this , again for decades, actively participated in the cover up and in the case of UK MHRA Chief drug enabler Raine, told barefaced lies that "no corners were cut", their anger should be such as to fire them into action.
A cursory review of Pfizer's trial reports/trial PI's conduct since 2019 tells you everything - but why do you expect when you allow a business which has been fined to the tune of many bns of $ prior to 2019 to take 100% control of the trial metrics for an experimental GT mRNA drug which uses two elements, LNP/ induced production of Sp 1/2 - both proven toxic humans years before 2019 - purely for profit?
"It was never about health". Like you, I do not consider myself blessed with great knowledge - but by dogged effort, IQ ~125/130, and very bad personal experience, I know the fraud of "surrogate endpoints". Trust in authority died some time ago - and will never ever return as long as I have breathe in my lungs
Yet another dodgy technique…
In a Dark Horse podcast, Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying have explained how even saline will give that 83% efficacy rating by using the not-officially-vaccinated-until-two-weeks dodge. This wasn't original to them, but it was a very illuminating conversation.
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"Eat Rich, Live Long" by Ivor Cummings & Dr Jeffrey Gerber summarizes the research on cholesterol, insulin, metabolic disease etc. and 1/3rd of it is about how readers can apply the research to their lives. I highly recommend it.
Awesome 👏🏻. 😎🌞
Thanks for this.
This is the crux of the problem, same as economics: "If you lined up in a straight line all the PhD economists in the world, they still couldn't come to a conclusion."
Medical care properly is an art, not a science. The Bible says for a good reason, in Ps. 139 "I praise you because I am *** fearfully and wonderfully made...**** "
💯 % Blaise💞
Thanks for putting the reference in. It is by doing stuff like this that we will overcome the massive evil that the vile Soros, Schwab, ad nauseam have put in place
Thank u S D … it’s all angled into big pharmas’ pocketbooks. …,like a giant cash register.
I don’t think plavix is meant for long term use.
Well, apparently in killed Barbara Starfield..
The world also seems have forgotten the lesson of Dr. Barbara Starfield, MD., of the Johns Hopkins School of Health, and her study published in JAMA, 2000, the well-known (at the time) US Healthcare Third Leading Cause of Death. Basically, the US medical system is the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and cancer, killing, at time of study in 2000, 225,000 people a year, including 12,000 deaths from unnecessary surgeries,7,000 deaths from medication errors in hospitals, 20,000 deaths from other errors in hospitals, 80,000 deaths from infections acquired in hospitals, 106,000 deaths from FDA-approved correctly prescribed medicines. The Alliance for Human Research Protection, which advances voluntary, informed consent to medical intervention has a summary of this here, as does the Society for Iatrogenic Awareness in its article Medical Errors: Still the Third Leading Cause of Death. Then, of course, since we need to lock down the world for Covid, perhaps we should permanently lock down the world – and particularly one of the big drivers, illegal immigration – over tuberculosis. In 2019 there were an estimated 1,418,000 deaths from TB. There’s just gotta be some way for Fauci and the WHO to milk this one! Or as Dr Travis Harding MD says, pandemics are about control, so they can keep us busy and preoccupied while politicians do other things with the other hand (exactly what magicians do.) Masks have zero to do, per Dr. Travis Harding, MD, with getting or passing the virus and the countries with the highest vax rate also have the highest, “by far,” Covid spread.
In fact, you are hurting your immune system by not having continual, normal exposure as you lock yourself down from normal interactions. Basically, they are just using this all to make money off of you he summarizes.
I get salt in my diet. I try not to go overboard. I purchase the pink Himalayan salt to cook with and add to my food. The typical table salt I hear has been stripped of too many minerals.
Yes, regular bleached salt is bad news. Pink Himalaya or Utah Redmond is good. We also use Celtic sea salt, but due to microplastics, moving to the pink.
I haven't examined Himalayan. However, Redmond (Utah) "Real Salt" is full of rust and sand. Someone gave me a bag because it was grinding down what was left of his teeth. I dissolved, decanted, and dried it. Labeled it Whitemond salt.
That's depressing. I looked into this a while back and thought it was the best salt on the market.
I still think it's the best salt. If it had sand in it I would think I would have noticed by now. Crunch, crunch.
Can you provide more details on Redmond? Would love to find out more details.
Pretty much already posted what I know about it. They mine it near Redmond, Utah; sand, rust, and all. Somewhat sticky, so must have some other minerals such as calcium and magnesium. I took the supernatant to dryness; no attempt to recrystallize pure sodium chloride.
Thank you. I may contact Redmont to inquire further.
We’ve just been through a year of near-hellish conditions with the side effects of Metformin! How many millions in N America take this medication? You know, I believe all the gluten-free and non-dairy products are being consumed by people who just need to stop taking Metformin, which causes real bowel (loose stool) issues, and doctors don’t even mention it as a side effect. Our GP and naturopath did not seem to make a connection between the hydrating effects (and miserable diarrhea) from Metformin. It took a gastroenterologist to suggest stopping that diabetic pill (forType 2). The new alternate is Jardiance and (along with berberine) seems to be effective without destroying our lives. I am so tired of trusting the new medical professionals.
One of the less appreciated side effects is it lowering testosterone
Metformin has also been reported with some brands to have what goes into rocket fuel. You can probably just web search (please! Do NOT use vile Google!) for "metformin rocket fuel"
I take Metformin not for blood sugar, but for IGF-1, which is sky high. take 2 pills a week not a day. Curious to know, high level, what side effects. Now, one thing re. blood sugar, try time restricted eating (try to go 16 hours with no food) and **get off the seed oils*** (do a search on youtube for Dr. Chris Knobbe, lineolic acid) DUMP canola, soy, peanut, corn, safflower, grapeseed, sunflower and only use a GOOD brand olive (most are adulterated, California Olive ranch is a good brand - when opening, put a drop of astaxanthin - cheap, use the one from the pluvalis something or other algae, not the petrochemical derived one - NOW brands is good in to prevent oxidation). Use avocado (also only a good brand, as it is often adulterated) coconut, or ghee (clarified butter)
And yes, berberine is very good for blood sugar
I use greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com and drjockers.com for a lot of my info.
Kind regards, Jim
What is ignored is that metformin has immune suppressing activity. Gut pain being dominate because of enlarged lymphnodes. BMS pulled the brand years ago, but then came back with new massaged studies and it was re-introduced.
I am not a fan of metformin.
Thank you for your input. I know you cannot diagnose over Substack (though maybe these days that might be better!!!) but I'm only taking one tab (maybe two) per week of metformin. I picked this idea up from Doctor from Cornell med school talking at a conference (I automate hospitals for a living, PACS, EHRs, etc) . My own endocrinologist (I am in Naperville/Aurora IL area, DuPage Medical Gp, now Duly... and totally into the Big Medical stuff now....) said there is still not a lot known about IGF-1, except of course it is a growth agent - good for kids, not for someone in his 60s. Mine was up around 290 or so. I had a bit of a bout of cancer 5 years ago (fine now), but don't want any more "surprises." It's now half that doing 1/wk metformin, 3x/week berberine, walnuts (below) and time restricted eating, among other things. But again, I know you can't diagnose over substack!!!!
Another article said about walnuts and IGF-1 "they could have an extraordinary secret weapon against cancer: a trio of potent antioxidants that include tellimagrandin, juglone, and morin. Not only do these compounds reduce oxidative stress and inflammation that can trigger cancer, but studies have shown that they can suppress levels of a hormone known as IGF-1, which researchers say plays a key role in breast cancer. Research seems to support the cancer-fighting powers of walnuts. In one animal study, scientists found that the equivalent of two handfuls a day of walnuts cut risk of breast cancer by 50 percent.7 And, a study published in the International Journal of Oncology reported that morin has strong anticancer activity against human colon cancer cells.
The number one defense against all pathogens is a vibrant and strong immune system. Maintaining a strong immune system through out life ensures a long life. When there are lifestyle issues and nutrient deficiencies then health issues develop, then it is more difficult to beat cancer and other health issues. Google: "Lifestyle Medicine: A brief review 2017" and learn. That's why I embrace "N2E+ for Life". There is a blood testing company called "www.spectracell.com" that tests for nutrient deficienes. Sad to say I learned it was bought by the chinese in 2017. They are forward looking and understand the value. I address some of these issues on my substack. thomasabraunrph@substack.com
Did your homework!
Question is what to take for high IGF1, which is implicated in cancer? I take 1 tab once or twice a week (not per day)
Excellent, thx for this update
Many thanks - great information. Will do more checking. The patient was on four pills per day…far too many, it seems. Yet, his blood sugar was regulated. We use mostly evoo and avocado oils. Ta!
Cool. Check out time restricted eating (I just have a nice green tea for breakfast, or some lemon in seltzer, which is not enough calories to do anything. Your body then uses stored fat for fuel, not sugar, and you become metabolically flexible. But do check out Dr Chris Knobbe at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kGnfXXIKZM Of course, this may or may not work for you, but a lot of this stuff costs little to nothing, just lifestyle change...
Kind regards, Jim (aka "Blaise")
That approach works quite well!
Take a look at greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com, and drjockers.com. I read them all, very helpful. I also take berberine - no probs with blood sugar, but something a bit related called IGF-1 (insulin growth factor 1), so trying berberine for that. My endocrinologist said they really don't know much about IGF-1, but I did find a doc from Cornell Univ. who said they were using Metformin for this, so I tried it (2 pills per week, NOT 2 per day as prescribed) and my IGF-1 is down by half (this MAY be related to cancer). Problem is, some brands of metformin - not all apparently - have rocket fuel residue in them. You could probably search for "metformin rocket fuel" to find out the brands. As noted below, PLEASE dont use vile, evil, disgusting Google or Chrome. Instead use Brave.com browser, which has its own search engine, or use Ecosia, SwissCows, Presearch, Freespoke. DuckDuckGo and StartPage not recommended any more, as probably go-opte.d
Or Yandex!
Watch out for metformin and your liver .. berberine .. please read for yourselves .
I guess they forgot the old saying if you hear hoofbeats think horses, not a zebra.”
Yet another example of how many in the medical profession have forgotten how to observe and apply reason to their analysis carefully.
Yikes.
I’m happy to hear that you’re loved one is OK.
Blaise Vanne- I also have this condition (low sodium in blood) but I do not have any issues from it (yet). If I may ask: what type of treatment did the naturopath suggest? Electrolytes? My doctor just keeps telling me to drink less water, and use more salt. One problem for me is that I do not like salt very much.
SSRIs also cause hyponatremia.
"Side effects may include suicidal ideations or shooting up your local high school with a rifle." Just some gallows humor there.
Unless I'm mistaken, the old FAA regulations (I'm talking about well before the Cvoid-19 "vaccines," when they had rigid standards for things like the heart health of pilots) were quite strict. There was a whole list of prescription drugs which precluded one from even flying private craft, and I think psych med was one of the disqualifiers. I imagine standards for commercial aviation were stricter yet. Slipping standards seem to be a feature of our modern society. That's probably great if you're a woke social justice warrior fighting for"equity," or even to address staffing shortfalls, but not so much for the overall benefit and safety of the public.
Look into humic and fulvic acid. Or maybe a clean liquid multi mineral solution. I'm sure there's something safe and effective available that won't cause more problems than it solves. Been meaning to get me some of that humic and fulvic acid. Food grade Diatomaceous earth is a good multi-mineral product too. I forgot about the mineral copper and the Vitamin A (retinol) combination. I recently watched a video with Dr. Mercola and another doctor stating how people are told they have an iron deficiency where they may actually have a copper deficiency, which I hear isn't usually tested for.
That is part of the root cause protocol. It's helped some of my patients and not done much for others.
I guess you're talking about the humic and the fulvic acid. If that be the case. I guess it could be one of those things that may work better for someone who has milder health issues to deal with. I'm sure that you and many doctors have learned or discovered through research or experience that different medicines work differently in different bodies. I like the way Dr. Lamm put it a couple of years ago. "One man's medicine is another man's poison.
Hopefully you're not still using processed table salt
Thanks Genevieve (beautiful name! If we had had a girl, that would have been a top choice!) Of course salt is the main RX for this - but NOT "regular," bleached salt, which is bad news. Rather, Celtic sea salt, or better Himalayan (or Utah) pink salt, as no microplastics. Her problem was that she was drinking FAR too much water. So it was pretty much just the salt. Someone else in this thread mentioned issues with the Redmond pink salt having sand (see below). I hope he/she can provide more details on that.
But I wonder if you might like the sea or pink salt better? It does taste a little different. Then, if it were me, I would check out sites like greenmedinfo.com, mercola.com, or drjockers.com, I would also just do a web search (Please! Get off "first do do only evil" Google and their Chrome! Brave.com is a good browser with search engine, or use search engines Presearch, Ecosia, SwissCows or Freespoke. Startpage and DuckDuckGo are questionable. Search for hypoleutremia (sp?). If you are near the Chicago area, I can put you in touch with a good naturopath.
Kind regards....
Yes, agreed! I am very appreciative of Midwestern Doctor for writing this post. (And all his posts.) His fourth paragraph really sums up the situation perfectly, "Before we go any further.... It’s a perfect recipe for going insane."
I've written several times in comments here about caring for a family member who was diagnosed with a mental illness around the year 2000. This individual was well-educated with a doctorate degree. She'd gone through very difficult and stressful experiences in a short period of time and started to experience panic and anxiety. We naively (stupidly) thought the medical system would help her-- provide some cognitive therapy, get her back on track. Instead, they destroyed her, assaulted and restrained her, and put her on drugs that turned her into a walking zombie almost overnight. The extreme weight gain was instantaneous-- she went from a cute, athletic 35-year-old, to an overweight, middle-aged woman that could barely function. When we as family got involved, the gaslighting re-focused on us along with threats of "putting her away forever." It was a horrible time and that continued for years as we tried to navigate the system with an electronic medical record that followed her wherever she went.
About 10 years ago, we took the advice you give to others (VERY GOOD ADVICE) to find a physician that you pay directly. (While still in the system for catastrophic care, we pay outside for primary care.) The difference was like night and day. From there, we started on a journey of herbs, supplements, peptides, nutrition, blood work, etc. to try and undo the damage that had been done. And, we've largely been successful. Starting from a point over 10 years ago where she could barely draw the face on a clock or remember 3 words (standard memory test stuff), she now functions mostly independently and autonomously in a loving home with other family members around for support.
However, although we're in a pretty good place now, when I think about our past experiences or contemplate having to go back into "the system" for any tests or procedures, I almost have a panic attack. I think it is the PTSD from years of being abused and gas-lit not only by "the system," but also by the providers. I respectfully disagree with MWD that most providers are well meaning.... I am not a combative person, and I don't think I come across that way, but I have encountered some of the most evil, mean, nasty people in the medical system that I have ever met. They are so self-assured that they are right; they have no curiosity in looking beyond the surface, of digging beyond to find out why this has happened. If you even suggest that maybe there could be something further, they turn on you-- and they are mean. I don't think these people have any insight into how their decisions or power can destroy a life (and at the same time, a whole family) forever. As family members, we're the ones that have to continue on and pick up the pieces.
I've given a lot of thought to this, and I'm not sure why this evil is. Maybe because absolute power corrupts absolutely. Maybe it's because as C.S. Lewis said, "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." I don't know. All I know is that the medial system destroyed our family and someone we love. And our lives have been forever changed.
It genuinely makes me sad I have to give that advice but that's the way things are.
Just as an addendum, we use a health sharing plan (Liberty). When I left my full time job, we went with them (Christian Health Share, Samaritan, Medishare, etc are other) we joined Liberty Health Share. Cost - I kid you not - was 1/3 of our "regular" insurance, with MUCH BETTER coverage. Hmm.... better coverage for 1/3 of the price. Even tho I slept thru jr. high math, even **I** can do that kind math!
How do they do it? As you probably know, they don't pay rack rate (no $50 for that aspirin the nurse gave you), and they require no smoking, no drugs, minimal alcohol, and church attendance (some health share plans only require committment to liberty, they all vary).
Anyhow, WHY anyone would NOT use these vehicles are utterly beyond me.
Sassy, thank you for sharing your story. What you've been through for your loved one is horrific. I'm consoled to know it's behind you. In support of what you're saying, especially about being part of "the system," I decided yesterday that I will leave my allopathic doctor after 5 years. After a severe vaccine injury, which she acknowledged as my diagnosis at my first follow up appoint 1 year ago, she has now changed her tune. She is now saying that I never did have a vaccine injury and I don't now. The anger in her voice was palpable, cold, hostile even. She used to be kind, thoughtful, and actually helpful (pre-COVID). What has happened to our doctors? They have lost their minds....sold their soul to Big Pharma. Maybe it's because they just can't carry the weight of what they've done to kill and mame thousands of people after taking an oath of "first do no harm." Tyranny. No ownership. Too many big houses and boats to pay for. The whole system needs to be blown up. Big Pharma, Insurance, conventional medicine....all of it. I'm researching "direct pay" integrative doctors now.
People often get quite upset when you speak blasphemy against their religion.
Good for you! What a horrible, upsetting experience to have your doctor turn on you like that. Yes, while this was under the surface before, something has happened during COVID. I wish you well on your journey.
While you are in the process of looking for new medical care options, here are some things we've used that may be helpful. (You may already know about them....) 1. Labs - If you want to check your own labs like CBC, Comprehensive Metabolic Panel, etc. you can self-pay and go through Lab Corp (my preference) or Quest without a doctor's order. It's more expensive, but a good option if you need it. There's a lot you can learn from following your own labs over time. 2. Micronutrient Profile - This is offered by SpectraCell and looks at intracellular uptake of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and more. I believe you can order this without an MD order. It can give you a picture of how well any supplements are being absorbed and if there are major deficiencies. 3. We've found naturopaths, functional medicine providers, as well as longevity providers to be helpful as they all look at labs, nutrition, herbs, supplements, peptides, etc. to help you body heal itself. 4. Lyme disease doctors (at least the good ones) have been looking at things like inflammation, cellular and mitochondrial health, and how to heal these, long before COVID came around. Two of my favorite go-to doctors for information on these topics are vitalplan.com (also he has another website rawlsmd.com) and treatlyme.net. You can learn so much from them that is applicable to everyone for systemic health and not just for Lyme disease. They also have regular webinars that are very interesting and informative.
Good luck on your journey for health!
Yes. Self referred blood/pathology tests are certainly becoming more popular. https://imedical.com.au/order/comprehensive-blood-testing-immunization-services
https://imedical.com.au/order/collection-centres
In Australia you can also be de identified if you would prefer. Use the correct year of birth and gender (for accuracy of range) but different day and month. As this is not claimable on Medicare your name can also be altered (see below).
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****How It Works
Simply use the first two letters of your first name and the first two letters of your surname at the checkout in the 'details for Pathology referral' section
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Thank you for this Miriam Maxander PhD I, for one did not know it is available in Australia little less that you can de
identify. Thanks 👍😊
People will do about anything rather than admit they were wrong. She herself may have told people to get the shot. Now she knows the horror of what she has done, and the oh no, since I was indeed wrong, how is this going to hurt ME thought is running through her head. She may be getting sued for something or another doctor friend of hers is being sued. Can't have that now. So guess what. That diagnosis of vax injury didn't happen.
Did a little more research (Open Payments database) and found the head of the practice (of about 5 MDs) has been receiving payments from Big Pharma for roughly $98,0000.
I began having panic attacks after a traumatic event. I eventually started taking sertraline (Zoloft) and it upended my life. I became very depressed, made some very bad life choices,and didn’t realize it was caused by taking this drug until I finally quit taking it. It took a couple of years for my head to clear. I have since learned of suicides related to this highly prescribed drug. I never got there but I can understand how it could happen. Nancy Reagan was right: Just Say No.
Reagan's VP Bush was also largely responsible for getting those drugs on the market.
Of course. Cronyism.
Yes! I'm so sorry, but glad you were able to recognize the damage Zoloft was doing, get off of it, and believe in yourself while you took time for your head to clear. Sadly, many never do. You have an important story to tell. I have long suspected that some/many of these school shootings we see are a symptom of putting our children on antipsychotics and other mental health drugs.
I can’t image what it could do to a young mind. I was in my mid-50s.
I personally know two young people victimized by this drug. One made it through, one killed himself. I’m glad, more than glad, you’re okay.
Quite a few readers on here know people who severely affected by those drugs.
Every single antidepressant pill I was prescribed in the past always made me feel much worse and depressed. Stopped taking them long, long ago.
Thank you. I don’t even know why I stopped taking it, except for possible Divine Intervention.
Sandy Hook CT. shooter Adam Lanza was on a violence-linked anti-psychotic drug called Fanapt, as reported at http://www.businessinsider.com/adam-lanza-taking-antipsychotic-fanapt-2012-12 or http://naturalsociety.com/predictions-confirmed-shooter-adam-lanza-was-on-violence-linked-anti-psychotic-fanapt/. The Fanapt story was later retracted, but family friend of the Lanzas, Louise Tambascio, stated during an interview with 60 Minutes that “I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life.” http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/16/friends-newtown-gunmans-mother-home-schooled-son-kept-arsenal-of-guns/ Tambascio also told ABC News, “I knew he was on medication, but that’s all I know.” http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/16/friends-newtown-gunmans-mother-home-schooled-son-kept-arsenal-of-guns/ Lanza’s old babysitter, Ryan Kraft, also went on record as stating Lanza was taking medications of this sort early as age 10.
Maybe it’s time we had a national discussion about his cronies and lobbyists in Big Pharma, who seem to push kids into the latest drug du jour at the drop of a hat? Or doesn’t that fit the political agenda and his “never let a crisis go to waste” attitude?
It is already on the labels themselves that drugs, like Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, and Ritalin are causing people to commit violent acts (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QheBbuC5UU&feature=player_embedded#t=91s where a number of reputable psychiatrists comment on this issue). Read the documentation in the drug packages, or online, yourself – it’s right there in black and white. The top ten psychiatric prescription drugs linked to violence – as listed by Time Magazine - in a Jan. 7th, 2011 article at http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/07/top-ten-legal-drugs-linked-to-violence/#ixzz2FNH7YyEl - are the antidepressant/anti-anxiety drugs desvenlafaxine (Pristiq), venlafaxine (Effexor), fluvoxamine (Luvox), paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), sleep aid Halcion, ADHD drug Strattera, several brands of amphetamines used to treat ADHD, the anti-malarial Lariam, and the anti-smoking medication Chantix. See also http://healthland.time.com/2011/01/07/top-ten-legal-drugs-linked-to-violence/#ixzz2G16Hp6aG. Of course James Holmes in the Colorado massacre was also on psychotropic drugs, including a generic version of Zoloft called Sertraline, as well as clonazepam see http://www.naturalnews.com/039796_James_Holmes_psychiatric_drugs_antidepressants.html or http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-james-holmes-documents-20130405,0,6067279.story.) Yet a further analysis of the association of prescription drugs with violence and shootings, from Brandon Turbeville, is at http://www.thedailysheeple.com/psychiatric-drugs-school-violence-and-the-big-pharma-cover-up_012013, while internationally known psychiatrist Dr. David Healy agrees with the summary that these drugs cause violence – a Cliff Notes version of Healy’s sentiments is simply this: Psychotropic drugs “prescribed for school children cause violent behavior.” The non-Cliff Notes, detailed version of his rationale behind this may be found at http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/top-psychiatrist-meds-behind-school-massacres/ Healy has a website, RxISK.org, that allows people to post personal experiences with SSRIs, and is a data repository open to the public.
If anyone is wondering why the US leads in school gun murders, perhaps you might want to explore the relationship between drugging our kids and violence. Note that not only are school gun murders up, but youth suicides are up dramatically was well. This shouldn’t be surprising, of course, as both are cut from the same cloth – disinhibition, messing with brain function, disturbing the level of self-control, and more. Granting that correlation is not causation, Dr. Bertram Karon from Michigan State Univ. notes the US has six times as many children on Ritalin, around four million, as any other country, and all of France only has 8,000 kids, in total, on Ritalin, while his home city of Lansing Michigan, alone, has around that many. In fact, the US accounts for around 90% of Ritalin prescriptions in the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujuDvwSOFto&sns=fb
Thank you for sharing this. I took screenshots because I know someone who may benefit from your story.
Samantha, I wish them well. Encourage your friend to not give up on hope! While the journey has been painful and traumatic, I don't regret for one instance advocating as we have. It's just taken a while to learn and figure out which pathway to take.
Thank you, Sassy. I will let them know.
I think you are touching what a sociopath is. You don't tell a sociopath that they are harming you. They know they are harming you and they like harming you. They get paid to harm you too. Why would they stop?
With that I am NOT saying all doctor/nurses are sociopaths at all. I have met some really amazing doctors/nurses in my life. But I do think the power they have over someone tends to attract sociopaths. People got to stop thinking that all doctors/nurses care about people. Some simply don't care.
God blesses you as He helps you out of this critical time with overbearing doctors. May you and your loved one go forward happily and in good health. Trust in God first. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, Marsha.
Prayers, reading with tears....
Sassy, you are correct. Many of today’s crop of medical professionals are egotistical, lacking in humility, and downright nasty.
Yes, it is so sad. The most vulnerable suffer because of it.
Midwestern Doc is everything that is good about this country, and a signpost to the road back: Intelligence, compassion, hard work, ethics. One MWD (Midwestern Doctor) equals 1,000 fasco-Marxist Faux-i, Birxes, etc.
And yes, Lewis' quote is spot on... as was his prescient 75 year old book which predicted exactly everything we are seeing, That Hideous Strength.
In my mind the conspiracy to shift focus away from cause and launch a race for cures dates to PCBs which are made from petrochemical processing waste much like most herbicides. Harvard School of Public Health was a party to the coverup and GE branched into diagnostics to identify cancers its PCB pollution causes. Now Rockefeller-Gates cabal are gods of "healthcare" for all!
From PCB Timeline
1937 — The Harvard School of Public Health hosted a one-day meeting on the problem of “systemic effects” of certain chlorinated hydrocarbons including “chlorinated diphenyl” (an early name for PCBs).[10] The meeting was attended by representatives from Halowax Corp., Monsanto, General Electric, the U.S. Public Health Service, state health officials from Massachusetts and Connecticut, and others. Before World War I, the Halowax Corporation, in New York City, began manufacturing chlorinated naphthelenes as a coating for electric wire, and companies like General Electric began using it. ...
And so GE executives—contrary to their personal ethics—reached a business decision to continue using PCBs. Sanford Brown, the president of Halowax, concluded the meeting by stressing the “necessity of not creating mob hysteria on the part of workmen in the plants” where chemical-safety inspections were being made. Problems with PCBs and napthalenes, he predicted, “may continue, probably will continue for years.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20140904042417/http://www.americaunites.com/the-history-of-pcbs/
Did you know in certain parts of the world people steal transformer oil (laden with PCBs) and use it to fry food?
https://iharare.com/transformer-oil-is-being-used-for-cooking-fresh-chips/
Oh my goodness that's new to me, no end to the terrible toxic legacy, so tragic.
Can't imagine how that would taste. Rapeseed (canola) oil is bad enough!
I've seen people in Asia welding steel by tapping directly into overhead power lines and they weld without any eye protection! I wonder how long it is before they're functionally blind.
2023. 86 years later. Gaslighters say "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity is really just Anxiety." (Multiple Chemical Sensitivity / Environmental Illness is really just health damage from chemical exposures, such as PCBs, and/or mould.)
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health/zeroing-cause-multiple-chemical-sensitivity
On the rare occasion I have visited an allopathic doctor, they always ALWAYS say I have anxiety. I never knew why (except for the time I was having panic attacks after a severe trauma) but it must be due to self-reported and significant sensitivities, mostly to medications. They got much worse after a tetanus booster. I will never again take a pharmaceutical product. Of course, all my reactions are “Coincidences”.
Tetanus boosters can do that.
I don't think you can get just a tetanus shot any more, as in tetanus and nothing else. They all come with whooping cough (do we REALLY need that?) and something else. I think "they" just want to make us sick.
My doctor wanted to give me some shots about ten years ago. Do you want the flu shot? No, Do you want blah, blah, blah shot? NO. What about tetanus? It's been more than ten years you had the tetanus shot. Okay. THEN THE DOCTOR SMILED. Kind of a smirky smile. Had to watch her face real quick or I would have missed it. I thought of back tracking on that oral agreement right away, but didn't have a real good reason besides her shady behavior.
I think about that moment all the time now. Maybe later when she diagnosed me with general anxiety, it was from that. I don't know. But I think back of why did I agree to tetanus shot?
So I guess it is still not culturally okay yet to say F U to these doctors when they suggest any shot?
It's getting worse. You're now considered "prehypertensive" if you systolic pressure's (upper number) 120... We need to stop feeding these trolls with M.D.s
Environmental toxins, questionable food additives, and so forth are examples of intractable (potential) health issues. Even if is possible to mount valid scientific studies of the phenomena, which is surely not always the case, there exist stupendous disincentives to fund or even allow such studies. There is simply too much money and power at risk. Noe that I'm not saying that there aren't real issues or that they shouldn't be looked into, merely saying there are huge barriers against anyone even looking.
At times I find it amazing that we have addressed some huge dangers, like the widespread use of lead in gasoline or trans fats, for instance.
Realistically the best you can do is self-education and pick your way as best you can. Even in the best case, it takes decades for institutional policy to change, to weed out outmoded beliefs and accept new research findings. Yet if one had some insider knowledge, one might have known as early as say the 1950s or 60s, that margarine wasn't not a good idea and one should stick with butter.
I was just thinking about the Margarine vs butter debate this morning as I buttered my sweet potato.
Every time I contemplate the 'fake food' revolution I think about the fake moon landing.
I’m slowly healing from this. And vacuum a lot for the biotoxins. Integrative medicine doctor is helping after 20 years of gaslighting by insurance dictated drs. & I acquired a bunch of autoimmune issues after a booster shot for work ( for an autistic classroom!) in 2001. I was in the prime of my life. It’s huge to have hope again & some quality of life after being written off for so long.
Speaking of General Electric in 1937, Gerard Swope was president of GE during that time (1922 to 1940). His history is worth studying because it fits a common patten and shows how deep business and government corruption have been for a long time. Much of it is truly beyond belief. As little as a 30 second read at Wiki will earn you a decent start and many a clue.
Swope was a de facto American dictator, being the author of the doctrine of government control of business, a supporter of the German government (and probably the USSR as well) via General Electric, and the author of the Swope Plan adopted by FDR as part of his New Deal program of centralized control of the economy.
Here’s a quote from an interesting article written about him by the famous Dorothy Thompson who was once known as the "First Lady of American Journalism"and was recognized in 1939 by the news magazine, “Time,” as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt and whose background is also worth familiarizing oneself with.
“[A special bill to help Swope avoid payment of US income tax was] introduced into the house by Representatives Reed (Republican) and Keogh (Democrat) of New York was an amendment to section 2055 of the internal revenue code of 1945.
… The bill was jumped over [“a log jam of 500 bills that had priority”] and passed both houses unanimously. There was still another obstacle. The secretary of the treasury, who had opposed the bill throughout, announced that he would advise the President to veto it. The veto could not be overridden because congress was in recess. “Tulin [Swope’s advocate] resorted to friends . . . (who) went to the White House. The amendment was signed and became law, Aug. 6, 1958.”
-Dorothy Thompson, Special Law Passed for Zionist,The American Mercury, January 1959, pp. 135-136
http://www.unz.org/Pub/AmMercury-1959jan-00135
The medical system is already in free fall. It's tearing itself down and hastening it's own death spiral in fast-forward mode due to the fraudulent and toxic injectable (and other) medications, as well as all the lies about their safety and efficacy that just won't stop. Never mind patients' actual experiences. YES, GASLIGHTING.
It must be difficult to be a well-intentioned and competent doctor in the USA, other countries too for that matter. The implosion you describe and collapse of trust in the medical system is one of a few silver linings to the disaster of the last 3 years. It's way, way overdue. My wife and I are well into retirement years and have realized for decades their objective is always to turn you into a revenue source, and they don't mind destroying you to do it. That fact has been as obvious, for a LONG time, as the scamdemic lies were. Nice to see more waking up, not that I really expect this to end well.
Sadly, I believe it's much easier in the USA than most other Western democracies. Despite everything I complain about, we have much more latitude here and patients frequently fly over from Europe to see USA doctors.
A lot of docs come to the US to train thinking that it's some kind of medical mecca; most of the ones I've met return home gladly and as soon as they can. They have received both training in their specialty (which they could have obtained at home), and an education ( about propaganda, which they could not have obtained at home).
That may also be due to immigration law. In the old days, it's my understanding, that foreigners who studied in the USA had to return to their homeland, or at least leave the USA for five years or some such, before they could return and presumably become resident aliens working here. Decadent as we are, the USA is still a damned sight better than most of the world. If this were not true, then millions of (mostly) poorer impoverished people would not eagerly seek to come here, legally or otherwise.
Perhaps such laws are still on the books. Doesn't really matter, since laws don't mean much any more -- just ask the millions of illegal aliens already here. The government doesn't even enforce laws any more; they don't even know how many illegals are here.
True, but my point was that most of whom I know who came here felt it was better back home (both in Europe and in Asia) and based on my experiences I have my dental work done in Asia because the quality and service is somewhat superior to what I've had in the US.
I'm not a huge consumer of medical "services," so have little personal experience to base a judgement on, but from what I've seen, the docs elsewhere are generally far superior to what we have were, the propaganda notwithstanding. I've known more than a few who come here thinking that they would get something special by training here, but they soon realize that their hopes were really dreams.
We are friends of a cardiac vascular surgeon who came here for a fellowship at a "world renowned" program who was shocked and more than a little disgusted at what was going on, and was recrutited to stay here and teach, but he turned the offer down without hesitation. Things were much better at home. His daughter recently graduated from a med school in their home country in fact. Could have easily come here for training if desired but she knew she'd get real life experiences there that she'd never get here.
For instance, the "world class" hospital I mentioned only allowed* its eye residents to assist in surgery during their last year whereas first year residents actually perform eye surgery in their first year (but under very strict guidance), and come out of their programs with judgement and skills that put ours to shame.
People typically want to think the best of their country and even the ancient Greeks had the methods of pandering to that sentiment well rehearsed. Plato's Menexenus explains it all and is a fascinating read. Short yet enlightening too. https://freeclassicebooks.com/Plato/Menexenus.pdf
*That may have changed by now.
I’m not sure I want a first year resident doing my eye surgery. Not sure I want a fourth year assisting it either.
Ideally, I wouldn't want the first year guys to do mine either, but I sure as bleep wouldn't want the guys who left training with no hands on experience and little responsibility trying their luck on me.
The first year guys start out doing simple things and tackle more complicated stuff as they demonstrate increasing competence and they are very strictly supervised.
I used to see a fair number of Canadians.
I'm a younger (61) senior, still relatively healthy thank goodness; I must reluctantly agree with your dreary observations. I would add to your "silver lining" list that, for me at least, the unprecedented mendacity, the bad faith from all quarters especially since January 2020, had made obvious the rot that has existed in the system for many decades prior. The sooner all this collapses and, hopefully, a freer system replaces it the better. Otherwise there's a very real chance that most of the world is really staggering into some form of global authoritarian state, a brave new world, a 1984, whatever.
This may collapse and be replaced with a freer system as you say. You know what happens then, don't you? Ten generations max and it's sick and ready for the ashbin again. The cycle continues. Is there a point to the endless rise and fall cycle? I dunno, beyond my pay grade. I do know humankind can't sustain a decent society in the context of civilization. Hunter-gatherer groups do much better in that regard. Seems that's what we're designed for and we can't handle modernity. One huge advantage primitive groups have is psychopaths can be eliminated, rather than allowed to thrive.
You’re exactly right. As I tell people, your doctors chose their careers and livelihood over their sacred oath to guard your life. You’re no longer patients. You’re a cash register.
I made a point to set myself up so that I would never be held in a career position where I would have to make those choices, but in many other fields, doctors are forced to either advocate for their patient or be safe with their employer and its often very hard to do both because doctors have a lot less power than they used to compared to corporate health care systems.
It's disappointing, although not in the least surprising, that doctors don't have an organization that has advocated for their ability to practice as so many would prefer. Instead, they've passively allowed the entire system to degrade and along with it their autonomy and ability to truly serve patients. If there is such an organization it's so ineffective as to be invisible. I will never forget when, as a young teen in the 60's I asked my mom why we weren't stopping by the cashier to pay as we left the clinic. When she explained "oh, nobody pays, everybody has insurance that pays" I knew instantly what that meant - the system would inevitably be taken over by the very worst individuals, and become a corrupt mess. Why most people can't understand how a system with every incentive to raise prices and no incentive toward efficiency must fail is beyond me. High prices benefit insurance companies, that should be obvious but apparently is not.
Great comment.
"Why most people can't understand how a system with every incentive to raise prices and no incentive toward efficiency must fail is beyond me. High prices benefit insurance companies, that should be obvious but apparently is not."
The fact that we're forced to buy health insurance is another clue that supports what you wrote there.
There are few incentives for delivering quality care either. In fact, it often works just the opposite as we can now clearly appreciate.
Also, the freedom from liability seems to encourage sloppy or harmful work and not only that, but government funding obviously encourages a race for the bucks and the short cuts that typically entails.
The object is to do just enough to get the handouts with little regard for the results. I have a brother, an engineer, who went to Bosnia after the war, with USAID. He was (naively )concerned about quality until a superior took him aside one day and told him that the object was just to spend money. Reminds me of the shocking scandals that took place when the railroads were being built in the USA 150 years ago. Apparently the situation regarding government favoritsm, spending, and graft has only worsened since.
If we cannot abolish monster government, then we should at least abolish corporations, but I doubt that'll ever happen.
Tragically, most doctors today function as little more than hired hands but that goes as well for anyone employed by large corporations. You are smart for seeing the trap and having the guts to avoid it.
It's really sad to think of how many years and how much effort docs have invested to secure their own slavery.
Just as the military seems to be finding it difficult to find good people, medicine will increasingly find that to be true as well. Part of the problem is that the quality of our journalists and politicians has been in a tailspin for decades too.
they get kick backs from pharma. Either in the form of vacations, parties or free fancy dinners. I know this.
So, if you are a doc in a "group", you might be able to decide how to treat your patients conservatively, or you might give in to the pressure of offering a new med that is horribly expensive but "we can give you a coupon". pharma needs people taking meds, Not old meds, new meds
By design. Saw it coming when managed care took hold.
You cite a good example of where it's useful to know about basic psychology: A rational person will tend to choose his own well-being, loyalty to family, friends, tribe, religion, nation, etc. over those of outsiders. There are many other ways that could be phrased: A rational person tends to act in his own self-interest. Sure, there are cases where a person will act altruistically and sacrifice himself for others or for a group, for an ideal he believes in. But that's rare. In other words, you are a fool if you put yourself into a position where you hope someone will put his own interests aside. Hoping that someone will risk his own ass just for you is not a smart way to bet. Note that none of the foregoing says a person so acting is "evil." Yes, surely the would-be beneficiary would be expected to feel that way. Yet the impartial observer would say no, the would be benefactor is merely acting in his own self-interest, and the "victim" is in the wrong, expecting others to act against self-interest.
That's why some knowledge of pop psychology is helpful. For example, consider an economic transaction (and seeing your doctor is one). How is the other party compensated? Complications like the risk of fraud always exist, but a lot can be inferred by knowing actual or likely potential conflicts of interest. Of course it depend upon the situation. For example, in court, plaintiff and defendant optimally want a lawyer who represents their interest only. The judge should be impartial, having no conflicts of interest either way. Alas, the real world is rarely so clear-cut. Oftentimes, the best one can do is to be aware of the actual or probable conflicts of interest and manage how they may influence the other party's behavior.
A final comment: I NEVER was taught anything remotely like the above in school, and I've got a BS STEM degree and a MA in a liberal art. The closest I came to moral insights might have been in various religion teaching I received. Yet the psychology or morality I outlined above is basic stuff. I learned it from articles, independent reading, even from economics texts.
Common sense wins out over the ivory tower morons all the time.
Almost no one truly gives a shit about your problems unless it affects them directly.
Most, yes.
Excellent comment.
And as a patient when the system does explodes and a new system takes place, can we again go back to nature? Can we simply use what nature/herbs more for chronic conditions? It isn't quackery if it works. Oh and bring back true double blind studies. The longer the term of the studies the better.
100% agree
Agreed