Feb 9, 2023·edited Feb 9, 2023Liked by A Midwestern Doctor
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.
"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.
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
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.
I just told my wife (once again) that I'm thrilled to be alive during these times. Utterly fascinating and well beyond anything I could have ever imagined. Unbelievable for sure.
Another thing that's fascinating is the blossoming of communications such as we're now engaging in and you'll never know how happy I am to have discovered this site and that goes for the comments as well.
1: Mental/Emotional: Repeated daily affirmations -I am strong, healthy, and I will overcome my illness. Prayer.
2: Inflammation: Implemented an anti-inflammation protocol to include supplements, foods, and the removal of toxic chemicals in my body. I.e., infrared sauna, supplementation with a variety of anti-inflammatory herbs and nutraceuticals (NAC/ NADH/curcumin/resveratrol /spirulina/chlorella.
3: Committed to a clean life: No drugs, No Alcohol (easy one since not a part of my life), No parabens, etc., on my skin and hair. Clean Water ; spring or RO and filters in home.
4: Clean Food: no processed or chemicals in food and focused on correcting blood sugar by eating clean protein sources and decreasing bad carbohydrates. Organic /Grass-fed when possible, lots of green foods, specifically green beans, zucchini, parsley, cilantro, and celery.
Hi. My husband has seizures brought on by a BP spike during a stent placement. Now he is on Keppra but has a seizure even so every 6-8 weeks. He struggles physically somewhat after each seizure.
I have looked into alternatives to the Keppra, but have found nothing yet.
Are there alternatives to pharmaceuticals that will keep him seizure-free?
I have tried coconut oil daily (had seizure), CBD oil (had seizure while on that). MSM (had seizure while on that), NAC (had seizure while taking that). Nothing seems to help except the Keppra, but this brings with it ataxia and he gets so tired and lethargic if I give him more to prevent another seizure, I hate seeing him in that state.
Can you recommend anything else to keep him seizure-free? He is 83 and in good health. Thanks. Sorry to put this in another conversation.
In 2003, I started having debilitating migraines. I never had them before then. Most days, I couldn’t stand getting out of bed as the pain was so intense. For five years, I went to 20 different doctors. I was diagnosed with allergies and got allergy shots, which didn’t help. I was given five different migraine specific medicines, which didn’t help. I was given Naproxen, to Celebrex, to Vicodin, to Percocet, to Fentanyl patches, to OxyContin, which only made me sick and still have terrible migraines. I cold turkeyed off the OxyContin and thought I was going to die. It was horrid. I was told it was depression causing the migraines, not the debilitating migraines causing me depression. Lexapro, Zoloft, Valium, Ridalin, Adderall, and now Vyvanse. Then I was told that the answer to the migraines was absolutely hormonal. I had a full hysterectomy at 26, only to wake up from surgery with the same intense headache I went into surgery with. I was completely defeated and literally could not see the point of living. My dad called and begged me to see his pain specialist. By then I trusted no doctors and I didn’t have it in me to try. God bless my dad, he was persistent and insistent so I went to make him stop asking me. His doctor hardly had to touch me and said it was TMJ, a jaw disorder. I thought he was another crazy guy in a white coat, but I listened and did what he said, including wearing braces for a second time and eventually jaw surgery where 8mm of bone was removed from my upper palate. I woke up from surgery, face black and blue and more swollen than a basketball, but it was the first time in five years there was no pain in my head. I couldn’t help but go everywhere I couldn’t while I had been confined to bed by the intense pain. I’m sure I scared countless people with my face looking so bruised and swollen, but I didn’t care. I’ve never had a headache since and that doctor literally saved my life. I hope your patients know how blessed they are to have you as their doc, Midwest Doc. You are what is ‘extremely rare’ and what a precious resource you are for those under your care. I am truly thankful for all I endured during those five years. It prepared me and strengthened my resolve in having the largest part of my own health research and decisions. The insistence on the COVID vaccines by so many didn’t stand a chance against me after everything that happened to me years ago. I appreciate you, Doc, and all the knowledge you share with all of us. God bless you greatly.
Similar story for me, but migraines weren't as extreme as yours and the fix was also not as extreme. Had migraines for decades, tried many different doctors, a lot of whom where not the standard western doc's. But nothing helped. 20 years ago or so I discovered that one or two cups of strong coffee would knock out a migraine most of the time. (I was not a regular coffee or caffeine user.) So I just lived with them. I got them about every 3 weeks on average. A year and a half ago thru an unusual set of circumstances (I had an acute situation with head pain as base of skull) I saw a chiropractor (I'd seen chiro's in the past and they had not helped) because he had a PEMF machine. He told me he didn't think the machine would help and went on to say that the cause for 40% of migraine sufferers is muscular. He treated me by pressing very hard on my jaw muscles to release the muscle. Second time I saw him, I jokingly said, just don't break my jaw because it felt like he was pressing it so hard he actually could. He said, no, I'm not pressing that hard, and showed me by pressing on my wrist. Third time I saw him he said I'm going to release you, which meant, come back as needed. He initially thought I'd need to see a TMJ specialist and get a splint made, but now doesn't think so. I see him every 2 or 3 months. Haven't had a headache since starting to see him and that was a year and a half ago. I used to get one or two a month.
PS I did try a migraine pharmaceutical once, but hated the way it made me feel like someone was choking me. So at that time, I just went back to coffee. It was way more comfortable and more fun! ;-)
My son started having migraines when he was about 3 years old. I thought he had a brain tumor, so I took him to his pediatrician. She asked me a series of questions, things like: Do they wake him up at night? Does he vomit? And the answers were no.
She said, “Some kids just have headaches.” Several years and many ibuprofen tablets later, he started vomiting and they were waking him up at night. I was furious because I thought his brain tumor was now advanced.
At the same time, my daughter had developed scoliosis. The same pediatrician said that there was nothing we could do until it got worse, and then they’d do surgery.
She had also developed a severe ragweed allergy.
I was desperate enough to take her to a chiropractor, who managed to stop and then reverse her scoliosis.
We were in his office and while he was working on her, I read the chart on his wall and it said that vertebra out of place in a certain location would cause allergies. It was the same place her scoliosis had been.
It occurred to me that she hadn’t had an allergic reaction since we’d addressed her back problem.
Also on the chart, it said that vertebra out of place in the neck would cause headaches. I asked the doc if he thought he could do anything for my son’s headaches. He walked over to him, touched his neck and said, “If I press right here, will you get a headache?”
Son said yes. Doc took X-rays and his top vertebra was visibly tilted and out of place. It took a while to get the tendons and ligaments stretched out right so they didn’t continually pull that vertebra back out, but he completely quit having headaches.
He’s in his 20s now and he knows if he starts getting migraines, he has to go get popped and put it back in place.
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I had my thyroid removed 15 years ago for Graves disease. Almost died post op from a hematoma, asked for help breathing and why my neck drains were empty but my neck was wider than my shoulders. Result? Gaslit. Told I wasn't clearing my throat properly and sent a gadget to blow into. After attempting to get in my car and find a hospital that would help me, a doctor parking her car saw the urgency and used her scalpel to remove my stitches and hematoma partially to allow breathing more easily. Surgery to repair the bleed took nine hours and lost me my parathyroids. You'd think that was the worst over, but no. I had to beg for replacement thyroid hormone and, when that didn't work, asked for a different medication. Told it was levothyroxine or nothing. That was Gaslit no.2. Every symptom of the resultant hypothyroidism - fatigue, hair loss, memory loss, weight gain, low mood, chest pain, muscle pain - it was somatoform, all in my head. Sent to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and put on Zopiclone, Tramadol, Amitriptyline, Beta Blockers, Lactolose, Statins, NSAIDS etc. Went back, asked for my T3 levels to be treated, they were undetectable by now. Told it was not relevent when on levothyroxine. Gaslit for the 3rd and final time. Sacked that doctor's sorry ass and found one I could pay for, trust and work alongside. Got some desiccated pig thyroid, recovered all my health and haven't trusted allopathic doctors or the system ever since. As for the jabs, oh how I scoffed...
Wow, what a story. Sorry you had to go thru all that, but good to read that you found a good doc who's helping you. Here's to you continuing to get healthier and stronger.
Yes and it also proves your point about their training removing the potential to think outside the paradigm doc! There's a heck of a lot of money in keeping people under-medicated. We hoover up drugs like no tomorrow when hypo and usually go on to develop type 2 Diabetes and heart issues. I campaigned for T3/Natural thyroid and improved testing only to be met with Endocrinologists at the Scottish Parliament literally chanting "The Science is Settled".
I was dealing with this medical blindness frustration in 1999-2000 when I published the information on aromatase inhibitors - that antifungals given for vaginal yeast infections could cause miscarriages. Doctors, especially those involved in infertility treatments, just could not conceive that they could be causing the pregnancy losses of their patients. They responded with anger and hostility.
It was at that time, that J&J and Pfizer went after me.
Laura, see my comment above under Sassy. Yes, I used these words almost exactly. My doctor became angry and hostile with me in the middle of a conversation regarding my diagnose of "vaccine injury" which SHE diagnosed me with almost a year ago. Now she's changing her tune and completely back peddling.
I've noticed that it's the least competent doctors who get offended & defensive like this. The good & smart ones accept and consider new information without acting like their entire world is collapsing in on them.
This is also a trait to look for in a new doctor... if you ask questions or present additional evidence or disagree on a point, how do they react? Tells you most of what you need to know.
Masslighting - medical gaslighting the masses. Unfortunately, the blindness begins with "cure". Today, most diseases are considered incurable - ADHD, arthritis, autism, bloat, back pain, cancer, Crohn's, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, gout, hypertension, inflammation...
Many more are "there is no cure for..." the common cold, COVID, influenza, measles - even as most cases are easily cured. What happens when a cure occurs? Masslighting. Cured is not medically defined for that disease - so no cures are possible. Cured is not medically defined for any disease cured by any "alternative medical practitioner" - so no cures are possible. Cured is not medically defined for any mental disorder, or any chronic disease, so no cures are possible. Medical gaslighting has been systemic for decades. In the early 1900s, doctors feared there were so many cures they might be out of a job. Today, there are no cures - just job security.
When we defined cure scientifically we are forced to understand and admit that most cures come from health, not from medicines, that cures are common - most cases of illness are trivial, easily cured, and that every so-called alternative medical practice produces many cures. That's a serious challenge to "modern medicine."
Most cures don't even create revenue by manufacturers. The cure for smoker's cough isn't a drug. Neither are the cures for obesity, gout, diabetes, hypertension, and more.
The biggest living example of medical gaslighting underway since Spring 2020 is what happened in the hospitals and how that is being covered up.
This is a huge problem that the more prominent "Covid oppositional celebrities" ignore which covers up the actual crimes that were committed.
Watch- few will discuss this as they try to rationalize away why this can't be talked about.
These crimes afflicted mainly the elderly who were vulnerable, the poor and the disabled and most of these people came from insitutional settings.
There was no viral event that caused mass death, that 6 week "spike" seen in Spring 2020 was entirely due to administrative slaughter and hospicide- this is well documented.
To remain ignorant on this matter and/or sidestep these facts is inexcusable at this point for anyone who sits at the head of the table of the "Covid dissidents." All of the “Covid deaths” are fraudulent and inventions from the Pharma/medical/media cartel. The vast majority are medical murder.
Why do the top tier "Covid dissidents" like Bigtree, Kirsch, RFK, Malone, Cole etc., avoid these facts and not cover this regularly. It's disingenuous at best- I find it disgraceful.
The biggest story emanating from the foundational fraud of the manufactured pandemic is the mass murder of milliions of people through mass medical slaughter/hospicide/eldercide.
That was what launched the perception that there was a "deadly pandemic"- there wasn't.
I believe it's because they feel if they take a position that is too radical or too confusing, it will blow their credibility to the public on the primary issues they are moving forward (especially since the degree to which COVID exists is an extremely nuanced subject).
If you want to be effective in politics and changing public opinion, you always have to do that.
Much of the public is way ahead of these so-called "Covid oppositional celebrities."
Lies of omission is bad policy. As a political tactic it has a history of failure.
The line you used is just a poor rationalization. This is usually used to provide a justification for continuing to please donors.
Further it is an insult to those in the trenches who have had their loved ones killed by medical murder- "shhh- can't talk about the public isn't ready."
True. Even someone with the stature and credibility of the famous Dorothy Thompson can get thrown under the bus for standing up for the truth.
She shared a lot of the fate of many whistleblowers and truth tellers and her story is worth a read even if it is only the WIki entry. All of these things tie together in very important ways.
Especially since early on, the diagnosis was made on a "positive" PCR technique, which was not designed to be a test at all according to Mullis, who invented the procedure.
In my social circle I meet a lot of health care personnel, especially doctors, and when they'd make the statement that so and so had "COVID," I'd ask them how they knew that. It was always "they had a positive PCR" at least til other tests came along. Not one ever believed me when I told them that it was not designed as a test. Also, apparently not one of them ever heard of false positive results and accepted a positive PCR as "gospel," symptoms or no.
As far as attempting to initiate a collaborative approach, I would guess a person would be battling a headwind since so many docs don't have a clue as to how little they actually know and that goes particularly for the young ones. They, like many young folk, act like they're convinced that they know everything. Part of it is the arrogance of youth coupled with a position of authority and a decent paycheck. I've long been amused at how people tend to act if they think they have a buck or two more than the next guy.
The other problem I see is that traditionally the route to obtaining medical training has been highly competitive so the ones that come through that come out thinking they must be gawd's gift to the world, a suspicion they no doubt harbored since forever. It's part of a the larger problem of handing out degrees to anyone and everyone able to get a loan and giving them some certificate that proves, in their (rather limited) minds, that they must have all the answers.
Ben Franklin, at the tender age of 16 and with two years of formal schooling under his hat wrote this editorial as "Silence Dogood." He was poking fun at the graduates of "Haw-vawd."
“I reflected in my Mind on the extream Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dulness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will needs send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.”
Before I was a pharmacist I worked in a coal-fired power plant as a chemist. One of the techs there had a Harvard MBA, and he was absolutely one of the dumbest individuals I’ve ever known in my life.
It's a brainwashing, obedient worker training, adolescent prolonging, narcissism promoting, and debt slavery system. To be avoided because no one really needs what they offer and it produces pompous mental and spiritual cripples who can obviously be rather easily manipulated through false promises and a herd mentality. All that is just for starters.
Accurate analysis. I will also include predictive programming in your list, as this contributes to the constantly confused mind and creates a permanent state of cognitive dissonance.
That could be fascinating. My PharmD nephew mentioned the CT findings in March 2020. I've heard almost nothing except PCR, and slight mention of antigens and antibodies, in the lamestream press. By "other infections" do you mean coronaviruses generally, or SARS/covid specifically? I noticed no bronchial inflammation from Omicron.
Well maybe they should be, but most seem to rely on the PCR "test" and maybe some antibody test. I doubt many patients have had a chest CT.
My point was that the true rate of infection is unknown because many doctors themselves haven't a clue as to how to diagnose it. Utterly ineffable incompetance or insouciance or worse.
"Caveat emptor" applies in spades when dealing with the commercial-medical complex.
Having lived in a neighborhood full of health care "professionals" who worked at a nearby "renowned" medical center opened my eyes to another side of reality. The general lack of integrity and humility was shocking with vanishingly few exceptions.
I have a friend that lives in a small town in the midwest who worked at a nursing home in their activities department for several years but had to change jobs because all the residents were dying like flies at the beginning of the fake plandemic. It was even closed for awhile until they were able to recruit more residents. I asked my friend what she thought caused the deaths. She had no clue. I assume it was from the vaccinations.
You're correct this was a psyop not a medical threat but your criticism of dissenting voices seems harsh and unfounded. This scamdemic has many facets that only a handful are reporting and in the cases of Del & RFK Jr. they have significant roles in legal actions striking down mandates which is essential to preserving individual sovereignty & no small issue.
CHD did a round table about disappearing flu deaths & fraud of novel cause of illness. Between tech censorship and activists spread thin it's hard to find but absence of high profile search results is far from confirmation it is not happening!
They have had nmultiple, multiple people reach out to them on this, including myself, and they have equivocated and dodged it at every turn. It's reprehensible. Too bad if that punctures one of your sacred cows it's the truth.
My criticism is harsh and rightfully so. Unfounded? Hardly- it is founded on countless examples that illustrate the veracity of what I said.
You know, there is one thing about truth, or even TRUTH: you can hold it up to someone, so he can slip into it like into a coat, or you can slap it into his face like a wet rag.😐😐
There are no sacred cows and pretty insulting to resort to name calling when you have no flippin clue what my values may be. It always amazes me as an activist for 25 years in the toxic product & policy space how folks who have no record of accomplishments in the public debate rather take shots at the fighters for not sharing their priorities than put that effort into aiming for dirtbags.
It's incredibly hard to be in any type of a leadership role for a movement and I am incredibly grateful I am able to put out positive messages I believe can lead things in a good direction without simultaneously having to be responsible for all the extra things one of those roles entails.
Some of what Allen says here is spot on, other things I strongly disagree with, but I believe it's important to have both sides of each issue be presented even when I don't agree with him. That said, like you, I do not believe in attacking people I believe are genuinely trying to make things better.
My Washington career spanned Watergate to Poppy Bush when the level of corruption was too deep for me to take part.. this isn't my first rodeo. Controlled opposition exists but the term it is as abused as conspiracy theory & serves as a dismissal w baseless label... spare me BS.
Mathew Crawford has done some great work with other activist sleuths identifying chaos agents. Stop wasting time, energy and good karma finding fault with what others don't do for you & focus on doing more yourself or targeting verified problems.
I appreciated reading this so much. My son and I survived a medical error with an injectable while I was in labor. He was no born alive and needed to be resuscitated and transferred to a NICU in a larger hospital. We had transferred as an attempted home birth. We were told “this is what happens with home births” and it wasn’t until he was 10 weeks old that we were told the truth. If we had been told immediately (as they knew immediately) it would have changed the entire experience. To have been ostracized from friends, family, community for advocating informed consent during the Covid shot rollout has been one of the most challenging things of my life. To have been hurt by allopathic medicine as we were and then vilified so openly has been so painful but I’m grateful for what I have learned and how it has changed my sense of motherhood. I’ve become alarmingly aware of the importance of self advocacy and clear as to what I’ll sacrifice to remain aligned with my experiential knowing.
Thank you for illuminating these topics, we need more doctors to speak out.
I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it. I wrote my undergrad thesis on the medicalization of childbirth. I think there may be other work at play here for me as related to this “accident”. Maybe one day I will watch it.
I get that doctors go through a lot of training to become medical doctors. I also understand that the medical colleges are learned centers of control-by-prescribing-mediated-doses-of-poison.
I am a carpenter. I have invested at least $170,000 and 35 years in learning and owning the tools needed to perform the craft at the level I do. When I make a mistake I acknowledge it, throw the bad workmanship away and start again.
It takes a long time to teach an apprentice that trying to jury-rig some incorrect build NEVER results in satisfactory results. Throw it out (even complete cabinets or furniture pieces) and begin anew. If an apprentice insists on trying to hide his mistakes and half assed rig something together, I let him go.
Doctors however, don't understand the nature of what they are doing: ergo, they 'practice' all their lives. "If the medicine you are using is causing uncontrollable jerking reactions, don't worry: We have a pill for that".
Most peoples 'depression', for example, can be alleviated by doing something meaningful with themselves instead of being immersed in TV, video games, and social media. Go help a neighbor patch their roof, build a treehouse, plant a neighborhood garden. Volunteer at a 'retirement' home, the YMCA, or something meaningful and helpful. The results will be immediate and substantive.
Excellent advice. In my retirement I have volunteered at two totally unrelated organizations. In both I've worked "the desk," answering phones and greeting visitors, giving out literature and such. Anyone who's ever worked a customer service position with the general public knows it's a very mixed bag. I'd much rather do other stuff (at an animal shelter) -- walk dogs, "enrich" the cats, or even help with clean up. Even those volunteers with mobility issues can work the phones, for example. We even have one or more "desk" volunteers who apparently prefer that, as they rarely do anything else. Probably not having the personality of a cactus helps [grin]. One lady comes in weekly to help with laundry. Go figure.
It's literally a part-time job at least in hours terms. I contribute to my community, I make friends (2 and 4 legged), and I get about 3 miles a day of walking and other exercise. What's not to like? Oh, did I mention it's one of the most satisfying activities I've ever participated in?
In marked contrast, drugs/alcohol/TV/idleness are always an option. I did those quite enough in my younger years. I suppose I would revert to such (in)activity should I become disabled, but I don't look forward to it.
Excellent points! And you'd have made an excellent physician; for one thing, your "cures" are spot on and the one for depression applies to anxiety as well, I'd guess.
I do a respectable amount of custom metal work and the same applies there as well. It's extremely rare that one of my "inventions" works as well as intended the first two or three times around, and I could tinker with improvements forever. I have piles of discarded attempts to build something and am never completely satisfied with anything I've built.
Have physical issues. Get gaslighted. Its all in yer head, dear patient; we really care for you but there’s not much we can do. To help u live with it, we treat your anxiety with a drug or 2. It’ll cost you money, but what’s your mental health worth to u?
Take drug. Wait. Take more. Go crazy. New diagnosis from the ever-expanding mental diagnosis book. Change drug, go more crazy. Tired of living.
Offerred MAID to rid us of you.
Life and Death in postmodernist Chinada where your tax dollars get you killed.
Try homeopathic remedies. Don't give up. Get out of the allopathic model. Start with a combination remedy from Boiron and see if that helps. Look up the remedies listed on the package and see if any of them fit the description of what you are suffering from. Learn to treat yourself. Nobody knows your body better than you do. If you can find a homeopath to work with, that would be helpful. There are so many resources out there. https://homeopathy247.com/why-homeopathy247/
True, Tami. Much was said about it at the justice4vaxxed conference in toronto last week. Another speaker revealed the power of plasmalogens. They drop in cancers and jabs. And are crucial to recoveries, orally taken. Credit to Dr Goodenowe.
Another informative article. This "pandemic" has been the first time in my life, yesterday I turned 80, that I took health seriously. Yes I had an excellent diet from my mother and wife's cooking and along with good health and catching issues early with successful treatment (prostate cancer, shingles, polyps in intestine, etc.), I never considered supplements.
My fear of covid-19 and learning of successful early treatments, led me on a path to take many supplements. The single most important source of protocols has been flccc.net.
I have studied the immune system, microbes, biology, and a little bit of organic chemistry. It seems that each week I learn about another important supplement. Each Wednesday evening on flccc.net they cover a topic of interest. Last evening it was on berberine which I had never herd of and it looks like a multi functional drug like ivermectin that is useful to many conditions. Last night's session is not yet posted on their web site but I recommend it when it is available.
Now I have the issue that I am taking many supplements and have not found expert help to decide which ones are needed and the dosage. I have not set up appointments with appropriate people. Should I do that?
Much of it is guesswork. To the degree possible, eat like people who had access to good food ate before food production became industrialized, and you will have your supplements. Where that is not possible, supplements can be a workaround, but still guesswork.
Experts? Really? The only expert I know is the one that created all.
Good advice, but problem: He's not always available for consultation. A reasonable substitute, perhaps is that mortals are available. They vary widely in quality of wisdom possible ethical conflicts, etc. Yet with some wisdom and discernment, and admittedly, a bit of luck and perhaps prayer if you think it helpful, will improve one's odds.
I do think it helpful, but I am a huge skeptic of such matters and I didn't arrive where I am now because somebody else told me it was so. Neither would I attempt to persuade others, but I do occasionally offer "things to consider".
My central "offering" at present is that while excellent work is being done in exposing the misdeeds of others, I suspect that little attention is being paid to the nature of our own thoughts and actions. I happen to think that the two are closely related.
Listen especially if it talks to you a lot. Mine does, and it turns out that that is caused by a birth defect. Even the excellent, well-known functional medicine practitioner that I had at one time couldn't find it with all his tests. But when I finally gave in at age 67 and had a colonoscopy, the scope wouldn't pass all the way through and I had my explanation, and it was something my father had mentioned as a possibility when I was 20 or so (this evidently ran in his family), but he didn't elaborate at all -- something about "a kink in the gut" was all he said -- and I didn't understand that it was a well-known thing.
Identifying the cause of gut problems is not simple, especially in this broken world. If you ask God, you may very well receive an answer -- I have, many times -- but make sure you are watching and listening for it! Answers can come in many ways, sometimes right away, sometimes not.
Yes your gut microbiome is key to good health. It depends on what you eat and perhaps even more on what you do not eat. I am currently reading The Plant Paradox from Dr Steven Gundry, and following his diet.
Another good source on health is Dr Sten Ekberg on Youtube.
It appears that most food items promoted as healthy turn out to be quite the opposite. Talk about gaslighting...
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I sometimes get the feeling that when you tell your doctor that you are more interested in finding out what the cause of your problem is rather than tamping down symptoms you get very strange answers - none of which is an agreement to get to the bottom of things. This is especially true if you have several things going on that could be related.
I go to a PA (who I like) who I believe overly relies on a tool they use to diagnose patients and prescribe medicine. At least that is what I believe he is doing. We had a talk about it when I was last in and at the end of the conversation I said "My dad said to me when I was young - don't rely on the calculator so much because eventually you won't be able to easily recognize if there is an error and you will become less mentally nimble." I hope he was listening.
I avoided calculators for this exact reason after I noticed cell phones took away my ability to remember phone #s. I also largely avoid GPS for the same reason and just memorize the route beforehand.
True story: I had an event at a VFW post. I dutifully put the address into Google Calendar. Come the day of the event, I found that the address was private home several miles away. Turns out I had put in the lodge # and the City Name for number and street, respectively. Oops. Pity the government spooks: now they're trying to figure out how some some poor random SOB is linked to me (a known right wing paranoid and anti-vaxxer) and a neighborhood bar doing business as a military veteran's organization [grin].
Your comment is a hoot! 🤣🤣🤣 I truly hope and pray God sends me a random SOB who's a right- winged, anti vaxxer & knows what "government spooks" are!! If you are single, hit me up. If married, do you have any like minded single friends over 60?
True. I've volunteered as a cashier and after the total bill was calculated, would ask the kids what their change should be, and I could always beat them to it if they could do it all. I'd estimate that maybe 10% of them would even attempt to do it and most were wrong. I think it was that they'd learned to rely on calculators. Very sad.
Initially I didn't want that job but had a great time partly because a lot of recent immigrants would come through and I was able to learn enough of several languages to shock and amuse them and myself. Sometimes they'd have me guess where they were from, and I got to be pretty good at it which surprised and delighted them to no end.
I'm not sure there is money in it. Imagine if they figured out cancer, diabetes or asthma. Lots and lots of money to be made on various chemos, hacking out tumors, rerouting things around the pancreas. Asthma meds (the last I looked) are about 500 a pop. Not including emergency inhaler.
That's part of the money issue. It's also that the process of figuring it out would not pay anywhere near as well as most of the standard procedure based medical specalties.
They don’t care about finding the cause because that would mean a cure or at least lessening of the symptoms. It would cut income from big medicine and pharma and that can’t be tolerated. /sarcasm
The word "evil" or the Biblical word "wicked" means departed from original purpose ("evil figs"). A tree should bear according to what other similar trees bear, same thing about the behavioral pattern of animals and professionals. The real question is when did the doctor get corrupted?
The PCP I see refuses to allow for a collaborative relationship. She is the "Doctor" and I am the unwashed heathen.
Despite my research into my situations.
The Specualisr I see is the same way. And yes, they are both on the Insurance gravy train. They both look down on me for not accepting the "innoculations" to improve my immunization to CV19 which I already had. Looking hard to dump them.
You do well educating yourself. As for your doctor(s) what I (will try to) do is open the topic with my doctor. If she is not receptive, that's her choice. To the extent I'm able, I will try to inform the willing but converting the willfully ignorant isn't within my power. And I won't waste my time. You may be stuck with your current MDs. Even so, perhaps you can still use them, within their limits? Or do you have the option to seek other, possibly more receptive doctors?
Re his handle, I speculate it's a pun on the famous cartoon:
In fact, that's the only way to become educated and it's a lifelong, active process. One cannot be educated but only trained or schooled. Education is not a passive process.
Schools provide training only; they cannot and do not educate anyone despite the rhetoric to the contrary. A tragic outcome of schooling is that it produces people who fancy themselves as educated when the opposite is true. Schooling is only a part of becoming educated and a relatively small one at that.
Not to spam this thread, but Ben Franklin's "Silence Dogood" editorial sums it up nicely. And it quite entertaining as well, far surpassing anything one'd see on the boob tube!
Yep, the fasco-Marxist left LOVES their money, as Prof. Weston-like in CS Lewis' Perelandra, they cling to the rind of what is left in their miserable, atheistic lives, for which pleasure, power and sex are their only raison d'etre.
Truth is, all of us are going to be dead a whole lot longer than we are alive, and the frantic clinging to power and control - think fasco-Marxist Schwab, Gates, Soros, et al - are all predicated on their f-e-a-r. Truth is, their fear is justified, as while God is fully love, he is also fully just.
You, sir, are one of the reasons we will pull through this imbroglio.
I get it that this is basically Dec. 8, 1941, and we are - to change tropes, those in the Song of Roland. But, then, that is precisely where true heros are found, viz, in the breach. Or to change tropes again:
I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” “I wonder,” said Frodo, “But I don’t know. And that’s the way of a real tale. Take any one that you’re fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don’t know.
There should be a investigation or study into the various mentally ill who performed mass shootings, or mass murder of any sort, (like the guy who drove into all the paraders), to see their vaccination status and any correlation. Seems like it's been an epidemic as of late.
Yes, we've been aware of this result of anti-depressants. The lengthy list of violence in this article is way more than what has been publicized. It's criminal negligence for these drugs to be on the market at all. Going back to the Covid vaccines, the landscape of deaths and injuries they caused is a wake up call that big pharma is not to be trusted, is not our friend, and investigations should commence right now. The truth is they went way too far this time with unsafe drugs.
"...a wake up call that big pharma is not to be trusted, is not our friend, and investigations should commence right now..."
All of that is true. What most folks have not yet realized is that investigations have been done and punishments imposed, but still the damage they do keeps snowballing.
I have posted this ( Do We Need a Census of Worthless Drugs? by John Lear
The Saturday Review, May 7, 1960, pp. 53-57 https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1960may07-00053/Contents/) previously and do not mean to spam, but I urge everyone to read that brief article from `60 years ago. The point is that society has yet to find an effective cure for the crimes committed and for now people must learn to question authority, to stand up for themselves, and to spread the word.
"Authority" should never be handed either a blank check or a tabula rasa. I used that term because "tabula" is related to "table" and the word for "bank" in Greek is "trapezi" which is also the word for "table." A while back someone ran around with a switch upsetting tables full of money and there may be some good reasons for his behavior and some lessons there, I think.
However, none of us should think that such behavior will be either a panacea or permanent.
Unfortunately I can't read the article with that fine print. But I agree we need a census of worthless drugs. But even with all the worthless drugs and the deaths they cause, here and there are excellent drugs like Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Fenbendazole. The issue is to weed out the worthless and deadly drugs from the good ones.
The link should have an icon that you can click on to enlarge the print. All of Lear's articles are as fascinating as can be. The issues he raised 60 years ago are even worse today.
you know that A Midwestern Doctor did an article about that very subject, right? I found it on the main page for this substack but the link won't bring up the article.
That's another one of my beefs. In almost every incidence, either the FBI, family, local police, family doctor, knew ahead of time that the perp was a bomb ready to explode.
The selective, sensationalist bias of news media explains a lot of that. To investigate, one would need reliable statistics, as well as detailed history of each perpetrator. Another complication is that, despite our perceptions to the contrary, such mass killings are very rare events, in terms of the entire population, or even the entire gun-owning population, or indeed even the entire SSRI-taking, gun-own population.
It's very risky to attempt to draw generalizations from very rare events. For example, one can accurately state that driving drunk dramatically increases the risk of injury or death to oneself or others. Yet it's a statistical fact that the vast majority of people who drove drunk yesterday got from Point A to B without incident. That's not an argument saying it's OK to drive when intixicoted, it's to note the difference between relative and absolute risk.
Ideally one should keep those factors in mind when considering, for example, reported cases of death or heart failure from Suddenly. I am by no means denying that something unusual is going on, rather to state that we shouldn't just jump to conclusions.
As our Midwestern doctor points out, there have been many violent acts by people on antidepressants also, so it's not a stretch to assume that drugs can alter behavior in a negative way. It would be interesting to say the least if we could find out what drugs or vaccines were used by these violent people. If any at all. I think you're correct also that the majority of impaired drivers do manage to arrive without any deadly accident, those statistics no one will ever know about.
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.
Or maybe people would work enjoyably until their very late end, so no need to utilize the pension system.
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.
Let me eliminate it for myself. Don't you dare eliminate it FOR me.
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.
Then have no standardized system, thank you very much. And let's not be deploying anything across the world.
End systems. End 'globalization.'
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.
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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.
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 .
You "automate" hospitals. You are one of the evil ones who created this mess.
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.
I wish the cancer industrial complex would self-destruct. It's completely barbaric.
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.
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
%100. It didn’t take long for me to recognize what was happening with the jab.
I was a victim of the gaslighting technique as a young student in 1991.
Routinely I was told it was all in my head to stop acting hysterical.
Eventually, their unusual, not heard of before diagnosis ended up being Guillain-Barré and, yes, because of another understudied “vaccine.”
It took one courageous neurologist to call it what it was. They tried to break me, but it didn’t work.
Stay strong, people. It is getting real!
I have met people who got Guillame Barre from the COVID vaccine who were repeatedly gaslighted by everyone as their entire bodies became paralyzed.
(The fact that this happened to multiple people I've met still leaves me in disbelief)
I just told my wife (once again) that I'm thrilled to be alive during these times. Utterly fascinating and well beyond anything I could have ever imagined. Unbelievable for sure.
Another thing that's fascinating is the blossoming of communications such as we're now engaging in and you'll never know how happy I am to have discovered this site and that goes for the comments as well.
I'm happy that you found out what it was and I sincerely hope you're doing OK.
Thanks for the excellent comment.
I am! They told me I would likely end up in a wheelchair at 40. Today, I am healthy young 52 year old.
Looking back, I can honestly say that was my red pill moment from that day forward. And through the grace of God, I survived.
And as young registered nurse my eyes were forever wide open. Boy! The medical system has changed since those days.
I appreciate your concern.
It took many hours of additional nutritional study to make it all happen for me.
And I eventually found my way back to being a trained classical piano player and a ballet dancer. It ruins their narrative. 🦋💃🏻🙏🏻
Could you share the general gist of the protocol you used?
I focused on eight categories:
1: Mental/Emotional: Repeated daily affirmations -I am strong, healthy, and I will overcome my illness. Prayer.
2: Inflammation: Implemented an anti-inflammation protocol to include supplements, foods, and the removal of toxic chemicals in my body. I.e., infrared sauna, supplementation with a variety of anti-inflammatory herbs and nutraceuticals (NAC/ NADH/curcumin/resveratrol /spirulina/chlorella.
3: Committed to a clean life: No drugs, No Alcohol (easy one since not a part of my life), No parabens, etc., on my skin and hair. Clean Water ; spring or RO and filters in home.
4: Clean Food: no processed or chemicals in food and focused on correcting blood sugar by eating clean protein sources and decreasing bad carbohydrates. Organic /Grass-fed when possible, lots of green foods, specifically green beans, zucchini, parsley, cilantro, and celery.
5: GUT: Fermented foods, bone broth, HCL/ digestive enzymes/Clean Water. Coffee enemas.
6: Vitamin & Mineral supplementation (taken individually, not together) and nutraceuticals with a particular focus on antioxidants.
7: Sleep: Deep and restorative sleep.
8: Exercise: Gradual and slow so that it doesn't interfere with healing.
It wasn't easy, and it took a long time. I also didn't do everything all at once, so my list evolved.
I’d like to know more about correcting blood sugar.
:)
Hi. My husband has seizures brought on by a BP spike during a stent placement. Now he is on Keppra but has a seizure even so every 6-8 weeks. He struggles physically somewhat after each seizure.
I have looked into alternatives to the Keppra, but have found nothing yet.
Are there alternatives to pharmaceuticals that will keep him seizure-free?
I have tried coconut oil daily (had seizure), CBD oil (had seizure while on that). MSM (had seizure while on that), NAC (had seizure while taking that). Nothing seems to help except the Keppra, but this brings with it ataxia and he gets so tired and lethargic if I give him more to prevent another seizure, I hate seeing him in that state.
Can you recommend anything else to keep him seizure-free? He is 83 and in good health. Thanks. Sorry to put this in another conversation.
OMG! You don't know how happy I am that you recoveredso well; didn't know that folks with GB were able to.
In 2003, I started having debilitating migraines. I never had them before then. Most days, I couldn’t stand getting out of bed as the pain was so intense. For five years, I went to 20 different doctors. I was diagnosed with allergies and got allergy shots, which didn’t help. I was given five different migraine specific medicines, which didn’t help. I was given Naproxen, to Celebrex, to Vicodin, to Percocet, to Fentanyl patches, to OxyContin, which only made me sick and still have terrible migraines. I cold turkeyed off the OxyContin and thought I was going to die. It was horrid. I was told it was depression causing the migraines, not the debilitating migraines causing me depression. Lexapro, Zoloft, Valium, Ridalin, Adderall, and now Vyvanse. Then I was told that the answer to the migraines was absolutely hormonal. I had a full hysterectomy at 26, only to wake up from surgery with the same intense headache I went into surgery with. I was completely defeated and literally could not see the point of living. My dad called and begged me to see his pain specialist. By then I trusted no doctors and I didn’t have it in me to try. God bless my dad, he was persistent and insistent so I went to make him stop asking me. His doctor hardly had to touch me and said it was TMJ, a jaw disorder. I thought he was another crazy guy in a white coat, but I listened and did what he said, including wearing braces for a second time and eventually jaw surgery where 8mm of bone was removed from my upper palate. I woke up from surgery, face black and blue and more swollen than a basketball, but it was the first time in five years there was no pain in my head. I couldn’t help but go everywhere I couldn’t while I had been confined to bed by the intense pain. I’m sure I scared countless people with my face looking so bruised and swollen, but I didn’t care. I’ve never had a headache since and that doctor literally saved my life. I hope your patients know how blessed they are to have you as their doc, Midwest Doc. You are what is ‘extremely rare’ and what a precious resource you are for those under your care. I am truly thankful for all I endured during those five years. It prepared me and strengthened my resolve in having the largest part of my own health research and decisions. The insistence on the COVID vaccines by so many didn’t stand a chance against me after everything that happened to me years ago. I appreciate you, Doc, and all the knowledge you share with all of us. God bless you greatly.
Similar story for me, but migraines weren't as extreme as yours and the fix was also not as extreme. Had migraines for decades, tried many different doctors, a lot of whom where not the standard western doc's. But nothing helped. 20 years ago or so I discovered that one or two cups of strong coffee would knock out a migraine most of the time. (I was not a regular coffee or caffeine user.) So I just lived with them. I got them about every 3 weeks on average. A year and a half ago thru an unusual set of circumstances (I had an acute situation with head pain as base of skull) I saw a chiropractor (I'd seen chiro's in the past and they had not helped) because he had a PEMF machine. He told me he didn't think the machine would help and went on to say that the cause for 40% of migraine sufferers is muscular. He treated me by pressing very hard on my jaw muscles to release the muscle. Second time I saw him, I jokingly said, just don't break my jaw because it felt like he was pressing it so hard he actually could. He said, no, I'm not pressing that hard, and showed me by pressing on my wrist. Third time I saw him he said I'm going to release you, which meant, come back as needed. He initially thought I'd need to see a TMJ specialist and get a splint made, but now doesn't think so. I see him every 2 or 3 months. Haven't had a headache since starting to see him and that was a year and a half ago. I used to get one or two a month.
PS I did try a migraine pharmaceutical once, but hated the way it made me feel like someone was choking me. So at that time, I just went back to coffee. It was way more comfortable and more fun! ;-)
My son started having migraines when he was about 3 years old. I thought he had a brain tumor, so I took him to his pediatrician. She asked me a series of questions, things like: Do they wake him up at night? Does he vomit? And the answers were no.
She said, “Some kids just have headaches.” Several years and many ibuprofen tablets later, he started vomiting and they were waking him up at night. I was furious because I thought his brain tumor was now advanced.
At the same time, my daughter had developed scoliosis. The same pediatrician said that there was nothing we could do until it got worse, and then they’d do surgery.
She had also developed a severe ragweed allergy.
I was desperate enough to take her to a chiropractor, who managed to stop and then reverse her scoliosis.
We were in his office and while he was working on her, I read the chart on his wall and it said that vertebra out of place in a certain location would cause allergies. It was the same place her scoliosis had been.
It occurred to me that she hadn’t had an allergic reaction since we’d addressed her back problem.
Also on the chart, it said that vertebra out of place in the neck would cause headaches. I asked the doc if he thought he could do anything for my son’s headaches. He walked over to him, touched his neck and said, “If I press right here, will you get a headache?”
Son said yes. Doc took X-rays and his top vertebra was visibly tilted and out of place. It took a while to get the tendons and ligaments stretched out right so they didn’t continually pull that vertebra back out, but he completely quit having headaches.
He’s in his 20s now and he knows if he starts getting migraines, he has to go get popped and put it back in place.
Doc said it was probably injured at delivery.
Do you remember which vertebrae was correlated with the allergies? I've never heard of this but would be interested to know.
It was right in the middle of her back. Next time I’m in the office, if I can remember it, I’ll take a picture and email it to you.
The good ones seem to be really good and thank goodness for them.
Very happy for you : )
Wow. God bless you Gia.
I had my thyroid removed 15 years ago for Graves disease. Almost died post op from a hematoma, asked for help breathing and why my neck drains were empty but my neck was wider than my shoulders. Result? Gaslit. Told I wasn't clearing my throat properly and sent a gadget to blow into. After attempting to get in my car and find a hospital that would help me, a doctor parking her car saw the urgency and used her scalpel to remove my stitches and hematoma partially to allow breathing more easily. Surgery to repair the bleed took nine hours and lost me my parathyroids. You'd think that was the worst over, but no. I had to beg for replacement thyroid hormone and, when that didn't work, asked for a different medication. Told it was levothyroxine or nothing. That was Gaslit no.2. Every symptom of the resultant hypothyroidism - fatigue, hair loss, memory loss, weight gain, low mood, chest pain, muscle pain - it was somatoform, all in my head. Sent to Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and put on Zopiclone, Tramadol, Amitriptyline, Beta Blockers, Lactolose, Statins, NSAIDS etc. Went back, asked for my T3 levels to be treated, they were undetectable by now. Told it was not relevent when on levothyroxine. Gaslit for the 3rd and final time. Sacked that doctor's sorry ass and found one I could pay for, trust and work alongside. Got some desiccated pig thyroid, recovered all my health and haven't trusted allopathic doctors or the system ever since. As for the jabs, oh how I scoffed...
Wow, what a story. Sorry you had to go thru all that, but good to read that you found a good doc who's helping you. Here's to you continuing to get healthier and stronger.
It's amazing how stubborn some doctors can be to only use levothyroxine...
Yes and it also proves your point about their training removing the potential to think outside the paradigm doc! There's a heck of a lot of money in keeping people under-medicated. We hoover up drugs like no tomorrow when hypo and usually go on to develop type 2 Diabetes and heart issues. I campaigned for T3/Natural thyroid and improved testing only to be met with Endocrinologists at the Scottish Parliament literally chanting "The Science is Settled".
Midwest Doc,
Very insightful article.
I was dealing with this medical blindness frustration in 1999-2000 when I published the information on aromatase inhibitors - that antifungals given for vaginal yeast infections could cause miscarriages. Doctors, especially those involved in infertility treatments, just could not conceive that they could be causing the pregnancy losses of their patients. They responded with anger and hostility.
It was at that time, that J&J and Pfizer went after me.
Laura Kragie MD biomedworks.substack.com
Laura, see my comment above under Sassy. Yes, I used these words almost exactly. My doctor became angry and hostile with me in the middle of a conversation regarding my diagnose of "vaccine injury" which SHE diagnosed me with almost a year ago. Now she's changing her tune and completely back peddling.
Damn!
I had no idea
Thank you for standing up for the truth and not backing down. That is practicing the art and science of a gifted medical doctor.
I've noticed that it's the least competent doctors who get offended & defensive like this. The good & smart ones accept and consider new information without acting like their entire world is collapsing in on them.
This is also a trait to look for in a new doctor... if you ask questions or present additional evidence or disagree on a point, how do they react? Tells you most of what you need to know.
Masslighting - medical gaslighting the masses. Unfortunately, the blindness begins with "cure". Today, most diseases are considered incurable - ADHD, arthritis, autism, bloat, back pain, cancer, Crohn's, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, gout, hypertension, inflammation...
Many more are "there is no cure for..." the common cold, COVID, influenza, measles - even as most cases are easily cured. What happens when a cure occurs? Masslighting. Cured is not medically defined for that disease - so no cures are possible. Cured is not medically defined for any disease cured by any "alternative medical practitioner" - so no cures are possible. Cured is not medically defined for any mental disorder, or any chronic disease, so no cures are possible. Medical gaslighting has been systemic for decades. In the early 1900s, doctors feared there were so many cures they might be out of a job. Today, there are no cures - just job security.
To your health, Tracy
Author: A New Theory of Cure
One of the things I've always been amazed by is how effectively the usage of "cure" has often effectively been outlawed in medical practice.
When we defined cure scientifically we are forced to understand and admit that most cures come from health, not from medicines, that cures are common - most cases of illness are trivial, easily cured, and that every so-called alternative medical practice produces many cures. That's a serious challenge to "modern medicine."
Cures kill revenue streams. Working on a cure promotes endless revenue streams.
Most cures don't even create revenue by manufacturers. The cure for smoker's cough isn't a drug. Neither are the cures for obesity, gout, diabetes, hypertension, and more.
The biggest living example of medical gaslighting underway since Spring 2020 is what happened in the hospitals and how that is being covered up.
This is a huge problem that the more prominent "Covid oppositional celebrities" ignore which covers up the actual crimes that were committed.
Watch- few will discuss this as they try to rationalize away why this can't be talked about.
These crimes afflicted mainly the elderly who were vulnerable, the poor and the disabled and most of these people came from insitutional settings.
There was no viral event that caused mass death, that 6 week "spike" seen in Spring 2020 was entirely due to administrative slaughter and hospicide- this is well documented.
To remain ignorant on this matter and/or sidestep these facts is inexcusable at this point for anyone who sits at the head of the table of the "Covid dissidents." All of the “Covid deaths” are fraudulent and inventions from the Pharma/medical/media cartel. The vast majority are medical murder.
Why do the top tier "Covid dissidents" like Bigtree, Kirsch, RFK, Malone, Cole etc., avoid these facts and not cover this regularly. It's disingenuous at best- I find it disgraceful.
The biggest story emanating from the foundational fraud of the manufactured pandemic is the mass murder of milliions of people through mass medical slaughter/hospicide/eldercide.
That was what launched the perception that there was a "deadly pandemic"- there wasn't.
All else flows from that.
I believe it's because they feel if they take a position that is too radical or too confusing, it will blow their credibility to the public on the primary issues they are moving forward (especially since the degree to which COVID exists is an extremely nuanced subject).
If you want to be effective in politics and changing public opinion, you always have to do that.
Doesn't work.
Much of the public is way ahead of these so-called "Covid oppositional celebrities."
Lies of omission is bad policy. As a political tactic it has a history of failure.
The line you used is just a poor rationalization. This is usually used to provide a justification for continuing to please donors.
Further it is an insult to those in the trenches who have had their loved ones killed by medical murder- "shhh- can't talk about the public isn't ready."
Disgraceful.
True. Even someone with the stature and credibility of the famous Dorothy Thompson can get thrown under the bus for standing up for the truth.
She shared a lot of the fate of many whistleblowers and truth tellers and her story is worth a read even if it is only the WIki entry. All of these things tie together in very important ways.
"All of the “Covid deaths” are fraudulent..."
Most of the diagnoses are as well.
Especially since early on, the diagnosis was made on a "positive" PCR technique, which was not designed to be a test at all according to Mullis, who invented the procedure.
In my social circle I meet a lot of health care personnel, especially doctors, and when they'd make the statement that so and so had "COVID," I'd ask them how they knew that. It was always "they had a positive PCR" at least til other tests came along. Not one ever believed me when I told them that it was not designed as a test. Also, apparently not one of them ever heard of false positive results and accepted a positive PCR as "gospel," symptoms or no.
As far as attempting to initiate a collaborative approach, I would guess a person would be battling a headwind since so many docs don't have a clue as to how little they actually know and that goes particularly for the young ones. They, like many young folk, act like they're convinced that they know everything. Part of it is the arrogance of youth coupled with a position of authority and a decent paycheck. I've long been amused at how people tend to act if they think they have a buck or two more than the next guy.
The other problem I see is that traditionally the route to obtaining medical training has been highly competitive so the ones that come through that come out thinking they must be gawd's gift to the world, a suspicion they no doubt harbored since forever. It's part of a the larger problem of handing out degrees to anyone and everyone able to get a loan and giving them some certificate that proves, in their (rather limited) minds, that they must have all the answers.
Ben Franklin, at the tender age of 16 and with two years of formal schooling under his hat wrote this editorial as "Silence Dogood." He was poking fun at the graduates of "Haw-vawd."
“I reflected in my Mind on the extream Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dulness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will needs send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.”
Silence Dogood
(Silence Dogood, No. 4)
Printed in The New-England Courant, May 14, 1722.
https://franklinpapers.org/framedVolumes.jsp
Before I was a pharmacist I worked in a coal-fired power plant as a chemist. One of the techs there had a Harvard MBA, and he was absolutely one of the dumbest individuals I’ve ever known in my life.
I always appreciate it when someone makes the point to repeatedly tell you they went to Harvard ;)
“You can always tell a Harvard man. You just can’t tell him much.”
Because they haven't the capacity to learn much.
Even Ben Franklin made the point. Did you notice the "Silence Dogood" quote I posted? If not, you'll probably get a hoot out of it.
Best response: "Oh really? I couldn't tell."
Like the Colonel I worked under. Terrible officer. “West Point this, West Point that...” was his mantra.
Yes, big egos indeed. We can, in part, thank the education system in America for that one.
They make it seem as if there are only a few universities every child must attend to be able to have any worth in society.
Shameful.
It's a brainwashing, obedient worker training, adolescent prolonging, narcissism promoting, and debt slavery system. To be avoided because no one really needs what they offer and it produces pompous mental and spiritual cripples who can obviously be rather easily manipulated through false promises and a herd mentality. All that is just for starters.
Tragic.
Accurate analysis. I will also include predictive programming in your list, as this contributes to the constantly confused mind and creates a permanent state of cognitive dissonance.
Good to chat with you, Goeff.
Covid diagnoses are based on chest CT showing bronchial inflammation. (NB: Not generally advised because it causes high radiation exposure.)
There are also fairly distinct laboratory values you don't see in other infections.
That could be fascinating. My PharmD nephew mentioned the CT findings in March 2020. I've heard almost nothing except PCR, and slight mention of antigens and antibodies, in the lamestream press. By "other infections" do you mean coronaviruses generally, or SARS/covid specifically? I noticed no bronchial inflammation from Omicron.
Well maybe they should be, but most seem to rely on the PCR "test" and maybe some antibody test. I doubt many patients have had a chest CT.
My point was that the true rate of infection is unknown because many doctors themselves haven't a clue as to how to diagnose it. Utterly ineffable incompetance or insouciance or worse.
"Caveat emptor" applies in spades when dealing with the commercial-medical complex.
Having lived in a neighborhood full of health care "professionals" who worked at a nearby "renowned" medical center opened my eyes to another side of reality. The general lack of integrity and humility was shocking with vanishingly few exceptions.
"… but man, proud man!
Dress'd in a little brief authority,—
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence,—like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal."
MEASURE FOR MEASURE Act2, Scene 2.
by William Shakespeare
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1530/pg1530.html
Even with his erroneous idea regarding the spleen, I think Shakespeare would've made a better physician than a lot of what we're burdened with today!
Via Remdisivir here and Midazolam in UK
I have a friend that lives in a small town in the midwest who worked at a nursing home in their activities department for several years but had to change jobs because all the residents were dying like flies at the beginning of the fake plandemic. It was even closed for awhile until they were able to recruit more residents. I asked my friend what she thought caused the deaths. She had no clue. I assume it was from the vaccinations.
My brother was murdered in hospital.
Fauci death protocol
Sorry to hear this.
If you want that story documented and wish to look into legal action I can facilitate this.
https://chbmp.org/cases/
I'm so very sorry! Your brother's death is heartbreaking and tragic. It should not have been.
Terrible. Every case. So sorry.
You're correct this was a psyop not a medical threat but your criticism of dissenting voices seems harsh and unfounded. This scamdemic has many facets that only a handful are reporting and in the cases of Del & RFK Jr. they have significant roles in legal actions striking down mandates which is essential to preserving individual sovereignty & no small issue.
CHD did a round table about disappearing flu deaths & fraud of novel cause of illness. Between tech censorship and activists spread thin it's hard to find but absence of high profile search results is far from confirmation it is not happening!
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/rfk-jr-podcast-flu-data/
CHD has been terrible on what I just referenced.
They have had nmultiple, multiple people reach out to them on this, including myself, and they have equivocated and dodged it at every turn. It's reprehensible. Too bad if that punctures one of your sacred cows it's the truth.
My criticism is harsh and rightfully so. Unfounded? Hardly- it is founded on countless examples that illustrate the veracity of what I said.
You know, there is one thing about truth, or even TRUTH: you can hold it up to someone, so he can slip into it like into a coat, or you can slap it into his face like a wet rag.😐😐
Or in this case you can camouflage it or cover it up with a thousand distractions and excuses.
There are no sacred cows and pretty insulting to resort to name calling when you have no flippin clue what my values may be. It always amazes me as an activist for 25 years in the toxic product & policy space how folks who have no record of accomplishments in the public debate rather take shots at the fighters for not sharing their priorities than put that effort into aiming for dirtbags.
It's incredibly hard to be in any type of a leadership role for a movement and I am incredibly grateful I am able to put out positive messages I believe can lead things in a good direction without simultaneously having to be responsible for all the extra things one of those roles entails.
Some of what Allen says here is spot on, other things I strongly disagree with, but I believe it's important to have both sides of each issue be presented even when I don't agree with him. That said, like you, I do not believe in attacking people I believe are genuinely trying to make things better.
Yes. Paul Alexander frequently discusses this in his substack: https://substack.com/profile/58916651-dr-paul-alexander
Thanks for that. All of Thucydides is worth a read.
Maybe because they are controlled opposition.
My Washington career spanned Watergate to Poppy Bush when the level of corruption was too deep for me to take part.. this isn't my first rodeo. Controlled opposition exists but the term it is as abused as conspiracy theory & serves as a dismissal w baseless label... spare me BS.
Mathew Crawford has done some great work with other activist sleuths identifying chaos agents. Stop wasting time, energy and good karma finding fault with what others don't do for you & focus on doing more yourself or targeting verified problems.
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-attack-dog-barks-part-2
https://rumble.com/v28yjc2-chaos-agents-themis-report-author-revealed.html
I appreciated reading this so much. My son and I survived a medical error with an injectable while I was in labor. He was no born alive and needed to be resuscitated and transferred to a NICU in a larger hospital. We had transferred as an attempted home birth. We were told “this is what happens with home births” and it wasn’t until he was 10 weeks old that we were told the truth. If we had been told immediately (as they knew immediately) it would have changed the entire experience. To have been ostracized from friends, family, community for advocating informed consent during the Covid shot rollout has been one of the most challenging things of my life. To have been hurt by allopathic medicine as we were and then vilified so openly has been so painful but I’m grateful for what I have learned and how it has changed my sense of motherhood. I’ve become alarmingly aware of the importance of self advocacy and clear as to what I’ll sacrifice to remain aligned with my experiential knowing.
Thank you for illuminating these topics, we need more doctors to speak out.
Thank you. Have you seen the business of being born by any chance? It's a great documentary you'd probably appreciate.
I haven’t been able to bring myself to watch it. I wrote my undergrad thesis on the medicalization of childbirth. I think there may be other work at play here for me as related to this “accident”. Maybe one day I will watch it.
I am happy you survived.
Thank you Celayne. Who knows maybe if that hadn’t happened we would be suffering from a Covid vaccine injury or worse be dead.
Maybe it was a blessing in disquisition, but it’s too bad you had to go through that pain and fear.
I get that doctors go through a lot of training to become medical doctors. I also understand that the medical colleges are learned centers of control-by-prescribing-mediated-doses-of-poison.
I am a carpenter. I have invested at least $170,000 and 35 years in learning and owning the tools needed to perform the craft at the level I do. When I make a mistake I acknowledge it, throw the bad workmanship away and start again.
It takes a long time to teach an apprentice that trying to jury-rig some incorrect build NEVER results in satisfactory results. Throw it out (even complete cabinets or furniture pieces) and begin anew. If an apprentice insists on trying to hide his mistakes and half assed rig something together, I let him go.
Doctors however, don't understand the nature of what they are doing: ergo, they 'practice' all their lives. "If the medicine you are using is causing uncontrollable jerking reactions, don't worry: We have a pill for that".
Most peoples 'depression', for example, can be alleviated by doing something meaningful with themselves instead of being immersed in TV, video games, and social media. Go help a neighbor patch their roof, build a treehouse, plant a neighborhood garden. Volunteer at a 'retirement' home, the YMCA, or something meaningful and helpful. The results will be immediate and substantive.
Excellent advice. In my retirement I have volunteered at two totally unrelated organizations. In both I've worked "the desk," answering phones and greeting visitors, giving out literature and such. Anyone who's ever worked a customer service position with the general public knows it's a very mixed bag. I'd much rather do other stuff (at an animal shelter) -- walk dogs, "enrich" the cats, or even help with clean up. Even those volunteers with mobility issues can work the phones, for example. We even have one or more "desk" volunteers who apparently prefer that, as they rarely do anything else. Probably not having the personality of a cactus helps [grin]. One lady comes in weekly to help with laundry. Go figure.
It's literally a part-time job at least in hours terms. I contribute to my community, I make friends (2 and 4 legged), and I get about 3 miles a day of walking and other exercise. What's not to like? Oh, did I mention it's one of the most satisfying activities I've ever participated in?
In marked contrast, drugs/alcohol/TV/idleness are always an option. I did those quite enough in my younger years. I suppose I would revert to such (in)activity should I become disabled, but I don't look forward to it.
Exactly as life was intended: The young inheriting from us, til our last breath, everything that they need from us. Especially wisdom.
Excellent points! And you'd have made an excellent physician; for one thing, your "cures" are spot on and the one for depression applies to anxiety as well, I'd guess.
I do a respectable amount of custom metal work and the same applies there as well. It's extremely rare that one of my "inventions" works as well as intended the first two or three times around, and I could tinker with improvements forever. I have piles of discarded attempts to build something and am never completely satisfied with anything I've built.
It's all flawed.
Do I know that experience!
Key word: training
Not learning. Training.
Excellent.
Have physical issues. Get gaslighted. Its all in yer head, dear patient; we really care for you but there’s not much we can do. To help u live with it, we treat your anxiety with a drug or 2. It’ll cost you money, but what’s your mental health worth to u?
Take drug. Wait. Take more. Go crazy. New diagnosis from the ever-expanding mental diagnosis book. Change drug, go more crazy. Tired of living.
Offerred MAID to rid us of you.
Life and Death in postmodernist Chinada where your tax dollars get you killed.
Try homeopathic remedies. Don't give up. Get out of the allopathic model. Start with a combination remedy from Boiron and see if that helps. Look up the remedies listed on the package and see if any of them fit the description of what you are suffering from. Learn to treat yourself. Nobody knows your body better than you do. If you can find a homeopath to work with, that would be helpful. There are so many resources out there. https://homeopathy247.com/why-homeopathy247/
True, Tami. Much was said about it at the justice4vaxxed conference in toronto last week. Another speaker revealed the power of plasmalogens. They drop in cancers and jabs. And are crucial to recoveries, orally taken. Credit to Dr Goodenowe.
Cheers
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Another informative article. This "pandemic" has been the first time in my life, yesterday I turned 80, that I took health seriously. Yes I had an excellent diet from my mother and wife's cooking and along with good health and catching issues early with successful treatment (prostate cancer, shingles, polyps in intestine, etc.), I never considered supplements.
My fear of covid-19 and learning of successful early treatments, led me on a path to take many supplements. The single most important source of protocols has been flccc.net.
I have studied the immune system, microbes, biology, and a little bit of organic chemistry. It seems that each week I learn about another important supplement. Each Wednesday evening on flccc.net they cover a topic of interest. Last evening it was on berberine which I had never herd of and it looks like a multi functional drug like ivermectin that is useful to many conditions. Last night's session is not yet posted on their web site but I recommend it when it is available.
Now I have the issue that I am taking many supplements and have not found expert help to decide which ones are needed and the dosage. I have not set up appointments with appropriate people. Should I do that?
I am really happy FLCC is doing this :)
Eat real food!
JERFer here (Just Eat Real Food).
If it was made in a factory, avoid as much as possible. Even “organic” brands that are highly processed are not healthy for us.
Healthy junk food is still junk food!
And avoid both panic and panic promoters!
😂👍
And eat nothing processed or stored in plastics or aluminum.
Much of it is guesswork. To the degree possible, eat like people who had access to good food ate before food production became industrialized, and you will have your supplements. Where that is not possible, supplements can be a workaround, but still guesswork.
Experts? Really? The only expert I know is the one that created all.
Good advice, but problem: He's not always available for consultation. A reasonable substitute, perhaps is that mortals are available. They vary widely in quality of wisdom possible ethical conflicts, etc. Yet with some wisdom and discernment, and admittedly, a bit of luck and perhaps prayer if you think it helpful, will improve one's odds.
I do think it helpful, but I am a huge skeptic of such matters and I didn't arrive where I am now because somebody else told me it was so. Neither would I attempt to persuade others, but I do occasionally offer "things to consider".
My central "offering" at present is that while excellent work is being done in exposing the misdeeds of others, I suspect that little attention is being paid to the nature of our own thoughts and actions. I happen to think that the two are closely related.
I understand what you’re saying.
I believe at this point, it’s between God and us.
Listening to your gut.
Unless you can find a good holistic doctor.
But even they can be greedy.
Sadly this is also true (in reference to you last line)
Listen especially if it talks to you a lot. Mine does, and it turns out that that is caused by a birth defect. Even the excellent, well-known functional medicine practitioner that I had at one time couldn't find it with all his tests. But when I finally gave in at age 67 and had a colonoscopy, the scope wouldn't pass all the way through and I had my explanation, and it was something my father had mentioned as a possibility when I was 20 or so (this evidently ran in his family), but he didn't elaborate at all -- something about "a kink in the gut" was all he said -- and I didn't understand that it was a well-known thing.
Identifying the cause of gut problems is not simple, especially in this broken world. If you ask God, you may very well receive an answer -- I have, many times -- but make sure you are watching and listening for it! Answers can come in many ways, sometimes right away, sometimes not.
Yes your gut microbiome is key to good health. It depends on what you eat and perhaps even more on what you do not eat. I am currently reading The Plant Paradox from Dr Steven Gundry, and following his diet.
Another good source on health is Dr Sten Ekberg on Youtube.
It appears that most food items promoted as healthy turn out to be quite the opposite. Talk about gaslighting...
Some people (but not by any means everyone) respond really well to his lectin diet.
For a somewhat more humorous version of "gas lighting" look on images.google.com the search Family Guy. "What wouldn't Peter do?"
That’s my question as well… So many supplements…
So many supplements....
What supplements do you take on a regular basis doc?
I never heard of flcc before so I checked it out. Based on this,
https://covid19criticalcare.com/metabolic-syndrome-defined-and-how-to-treat-it/
I'd say that those folks are awesome. I am a congenital "anti-fadist," but they strike me as having a good deal of validity.
Once again, thanks so much for all you're doing.
I sometimes get the feeling that when you tell your doctor that you are more interested in finding out what the cause of your problem is rather than tamping down symptoms you get very strange answers - none of which is an agreement to get to the bottom of things. This is especially true if you have several things going on that could be related.
I go to a PA (who I like) who I believe overly relies on a tool they use to diagnose patients and prescribe medicine. At least that is what I believe he is doing. We had a talk about it when I was last in and at the end of the conversation I said "My dad said to me when I was young - don't rely on the calculator so much because eventually you won't be able to easily recognize if there is an error and you will become less mentally nimble." I hope he was listening.
I avoided calculators for this exact reason after I noticed cell phones took away my ability to remember phone #s. I also largely avoid GPS for the same reason and just memorize the route beforehand.
True story: I had an event at a VFW post. I dutifully put the address into Google Calendar. Come the day of the event, I found that the address was private home several miles away. Turns out I had put in the lodge # and the City Name for number and street, respectively. Oops. Pity the government spooks: now they're trying to figure out how some some poor random SOB is linked to me (a known right wing paranoid and anti-vaxxer) and a neighborhood bar doing business as a military veteran's organization [grin].
Satan's Doorknob
Your comment is a hoot! 🤣🤣🤣 I truly hope and pray God sends me a random SOB who's a right- winged, anti vaxxer & knows what "government spooks" are!! If you are single, hit me up. If married, do you have any like minded single friends over 60?
Thanks for the giggles!☺️😉
True. I've volunteered as a cashier and after the total bill was calculated, would ask the kids what their change should be, and I could always beat them to it if they could do it all. I'd estimate that maybe 10% of them would even attempt to do it and most were wrong. I think it was that they'd learned to rely on calculators. Very sad.
Initially I didn't want that job but had a great time partly because a lot of recent immigrants would come through and I was able to learn enough of several languages to shock and amuse them and myself. Sometimes they'd have me guess where they were from, and I got to be pretty good at it which surprised and delighted them to no end.
So true! I used to know so many phone numbers. Now I know mine and a couple of others.
Imagine how excellent medical care could be if doctors just tried to get to the root cause of the problem.
I'm not sure there is money in it. Imagine if they figured out cancer, diabetes or asthma. Lots and lots of money to be made on various chemos, hacking out tumors, rerouting things around the pancreas. Asthma meds (the last I looked) are about 500 a pop. Not including emergency inhaler.
Oh I imagine it though.
That's part of the money issue. It's also that the process of figuring it out would not pay anywhere near as well as most of the standard procedure based medical specalties.
They don’t care about finding the cause because that would mean a cure or at least lessening of the symptoms. It would cut income from big medicine and pharma and that can’t be tolerated. /sarcasm
"At the same time, it’s rare for me to meet doctors I consider to be evil; ..."
Maybe not "evil", but your industry sure seems to have more than your fair share of amoral pill pushers.
Unthinking and arrogant pill pushers too. Even that wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so often
arrogant and smugly lacking in curiosity to boot!
The word "evil" or the Biblical word "wicked" means departed from original purpose ("evil figs"). A tree should bear according to what other similar trees bear, same thing about the behavioral pattern of animals and professionals. The real question is when did the doctor get corrupted?
The PCP I see refuses to allow for a collaborative relationship. She is the "Doctor" and I am the unwashed heathen.
Despite my research into my situations.
The Specualisr I see is the same way. And yes, they are both on the Insurance gravy train. They both look down on me for not accepting the "innoculations" to improve my immunization to CV19 which I already had. Looking hard to dump them.
You do well educating yourself. As for your doctor(s) what I (will try to) do is open the topic with my doctor. If she is not receptive, that's her choice. To the extent I'm able, I will try to inform the willing but converting the willfully ignorant isn't within my power. And I won't waste my time. You may be stuck with your current MDs. Even so, perhaps you can still use them, within their limits? Or do you have the option to seek other, possibly more receptive doctors?
Re his handle, I speculate it's a pun on the famous cartoon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pep%C3%A9_Le_Pew
"You do well educating yourself."
In fact, that's the only way to become educated and it's a lifelong, active process. One cannot be educated but only trained or schooled. Education is not a passive process.
Schools provide training only; they cannot and do not educate anyone despite the rhetoric to the contrary. A tragic outcome of schooling is that it produces people who fancy themselves as educated when the opposite is true. Schooling is only a part of becoming educated and a relatively small one at that.
Not to spam this thread, but Ben Franklin's "Silence Dogood" editorial sums it up nicely. And it quite entertaining as well, far surpassing anything one'd see on the boob tube!
https://franklinpapers.org/framedVolumes.jsp
Here's another (one source of many).
A. J. Nock, The Theory of Education in the United States
https://mises.org/library/theory-education-united-states-0
Love yer handle and get the"-que" and the "Lepew," but I'm lost on the "Leskun." Would love to know!
From the John Lenon school of poetic license.
When money speaks, truth is silent.
Yep, the fasco-Marxist left LOVES their money, as Prof. Weston-like in CS Lewis' Perelandra, they cling to the rind of what is left in their miserable, atheistic lives, for which pleasure, power and sex are their only raison d'etre.
Truth is, all of us are going to be dead a whole lot longer than we are alive, and the frantic clinging to power and control - think fasco-Marxist Schwab, Gates, Soros, et al - are all predicated on their f-e-a-r. Truth is, their fear is justified, as while God is fully love, he is also fully just.
I fully believe that too. When you're alive, your priorities should be:
*Fully experience being alive.
*Positively impact the world.
*Learn and grow.
Give or take everything else is a very poor use of the life allotted to you.
You, sir, are one of the reasons we will pull through this imbroglio.
I get it that this is basically Dec. 8, 1941, and we are - to change tropes, those in the Song of Roland. But, then, that is precisely where true heros are found, viz, in the breach. Or to change tropes again:
I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” “I wonder,” said Frodo, “But I don’t know. And that’s the way of a real tale. Take any one that you’re fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don’t know.
There should be a investigation or study into the various mentally ill who performed mass shootings, or mass murder of any sort, (like the guy who drove into all the paraders), to see their vaccination status and any correlation. Seems like it's been an epidemic as of late.
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-evidence-for-antidepressants
Yes, we've been aware of this result of anti-depressants. The lengthy list of violence in this article is way more than what has been publicized. It's criminal negligence for these drugs to be on the market at all. Going back to the Covid vaccines, the landscape of deaths and injuries they caused is a wake up call that big pharma is not to be trusted, is not our friend, and investigations should commence right now. The truth is they went way too far this time with unsafe drugs.
"...a wake up call that big pharma is not to be trusted, is not our friend, and investigations should commence right now..."
All of that is true. What most folks have not yet realized is that investigations have been done and punishments imposed, but still the damage they do keeps snowballing.
I have posted this ( Do We Need a Census of Worthless Drugs? by John Lear
The Saturday Review, May 7, 1960, pp. 53-57 https://www.unz.com/print/SaturdayRev-1960may07-00053/Contents/) previously and do not mean to spam, but I urge everyone to read that brief article from `60 years ago. The point is that society has yet to find an effective cure for the crimes committed and for now people must learn to question authority, to stand up for themselves, and to spread the word.
"Authority" should never be handed either a blank check or a tabula rasa. I used that term because "tabula" is related to "table" and the word for "bank" in Greek is "trapezi" which is also the word for "table." A while back someone ran around with a switch upsetting tables full of money and there may be some good reasons for his behavior and some lessons there, I think.
However, none of us should think that such behavior will be either a panacea or permanent.
Unfortunately I can't read the article with that fine print. But I agree we need a census of worthless drugs. But even with all the worthless drugs and the deaths they cause, here and there are excellent drugs like Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, Fenbendazole. The issue is to weed out the worthless and deadly drugs from the good ones.
The link should have an icon that you can click on to enlarge the print. All of Lear's articles are as fascinating as can be. The issues he raised 60 years ago are even worse today.
I agree with the points you made.
We need a physician for our society!
Looked for that icon but wasn't there for me. Agree fully with you
you know that A Midwestern Doctor did an article about that very subject, right? I found it on the main page for this substack but the link won't bring up the article.
Yes, and I mentioned about it in the comments section. I thought I'd mention it again since I didn't see other similar comments.
Yes! Or what other Pharmaceutical “ cures” they are on.
Also, why does the FBI always say. They knew! Hmmmmm
That's another one of my beefs. In almost every incidence, either the FBI, family, local police, family doctor, knew ahead of time that the perp was a bomb ready to explode.
Right!
We always hear.
FBI watch list.
What, FBI you watch him commit crimes!
Or FBI, do you drug, mess with the minds of the unstable, provide expensive weapons and push a narrative!?
MK all the way.
A lot of SSRI’s. With weed mixed in.
The selective, sensationalist bias of news media explains a lot of that. To investigate, one would need reliable statistics, as well as detailed history of each perpetrator. Another complication is that, despite our perceptions to the contrary, such mass killings are very rare events, in terms of the entire population, or even the entire gun-owning population, or indeed even the entire SSRI-taking, gun-own population.
It's very risky to attempt to draw generalizations from very rare events. For example, one can accurately state that driving drunk dramatically increases the risk of injury or death to oneself or others. Yet it's a statistical fact that the vast majority of people who drove drunk yesterday got from Point A to B without incident. That's not an argument saying it's OK to drive when intixicoted, it's to note the difference between relative and absolute risk.
Ideally one should keep those factors in mind when considering, for example, reported cases of death or heart failure from Suddenly. I am by no means denying that something unusual is going on, rather to state that we shouldn't just jump to conclusions.
As our Midwestern doctor points out, there have been many violent acts by people on antidepressants also, so it's not a stretch to assume that drugs can alter behavior in a negative way. It would be interesting to say the least if we could find out what drugs or vaccines were used by these violent people. If any at all. I think you're correct also that the majority of impaired drivers do manage to arrive without any deadly accident, those statistics no one will ever know about.