I wasn’t able to deal with healthcare as much in my SL text, so now seems a good time. We ALL want to be healthy, and with our modern medicine you would think that we should have no health issues of consequence, especially when compared to previous times in human history. We now, however, have a quadruple insult to our bodies on an almost daily basis. 1. Toxins from pollution in air, water, and agricultural systems; 2. Toxins in our processed food; 3. So called health care drugs that work in reducing symptoms but rarely the cause of a medical problems, and ultimately keep us on drugs for life. They many of these drugs need a cascade of other drugs to relieve side-effects of drugs being taken; 4. and of course, a western lifestyle of increased stress and poor lifestyle choices that is also a major cause of health problems.
One curious feature of US television is the inordinate selling of prescription drugs. I love how they show the benefits of the drug being portrayed and then, as a last second requirement speed through the side-effects (everything from nausea, G.I. distress, to death – and this might only be an acne medicine). Then the ultimate disclaimer, “Be sure to tell your doctor what other drugs you are taking,” or “ask your doctor if Zeronex is right for you.” (It might not actually help much but you will feel better about getting something to treat your ailment.) Then we also have these seductive, sensual middle-aged women (ex-models presumably) talking about how men should use the drug Stiffenitup to complete their sex life and have better relationships. Note, the women are always beaming from ear to ear once their aging male partner walks them through the surf like some after-scene of ‘From Here to Eternity’ (old Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr film – love in the surf, or getting sand in places you didn’t know you had places). Of course, one of the major side-effects of Stiffenitup is death, but at least you’ll die with a smile on your face! Do we really change doctors so much that our family doctor no longer knows (or cares?) what other drugs you take? Are doctors that blasé about their patients? It used to be that the doctor would tell you the options for what ails you, but now the profit-making drug companies have us obtain these drugs from pharmacies or simply have us tell the doctor what we want based on an advert seen last evening on the 6 o’clock news! This of course all panders to, and elevates the occurrence of, hypochondria because at least one of the minor symptoms for the drug seems to describe your condition nicely!!
Corporations like Monsanto and Bayer and the few remaining mega-corporate Drug companies produce great sounding propaganda about the wonderful products they make, and also spend inordinate amounts of money to cover up problems while lobbying for regulations that keep them dominant in a market increasingly more monopolist in their agendas. Drug companies produce chemical cocktails that purport to keep us healthy, yet also spend vast amounts of money to suppress and discredit healthier options that actually have the potential to cheaply treat and cure many diseases (yes, cure, not just mask symptoms). I saw an advert the other day that said that as we age the immune system gets weaker. Bull. Our immune systems weaken because of the continual barrage of toxins, chemicals, drugs, poor nutrient, and stress we impose on ourselves in the name of efficient profit making for the corporations. We don’t have healthcare, we have a sick-care system designed to keep you hooked into the system for the rest of your unhealthy life. A sad commentary is that 90% of healthsick costs occur during the last 2 months of waning life as the system desperately fights a lost battle to keep a person alive – even when death is preferable.
We buy into this unsustainable system because corporations and banks maintain the belief that money and profits are everything, and they control the educational system of what is right and false. Curiously, most of our modern medicine with its rigid attitudes can be traced back to John D. Rockefeller (the ultimate robber baron himself) who bought the massive chemical/drug company I.G. Farben (yes, the one that helped the final solution along for the Nazi’s some years later) and so began the pharmaceutical-oil connection. He hired an American Educator Albert Flexner to write a congressional report in 1910 discrediting anything but modern pharmaceuticals as the only way for medicine to proceed. Naturopathic medicine was debunked and ridiculed. The Greek physician Hippocrates wrote: “Nature heals. The doctor’s task consists in strengthening the natural healing powers, to direct them, and especially not to interfere with them.” Most natural medicine is designed to treat the body holistically, not to treat one disease or symptom.
In the mid-1970s, the great Biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling created a Vitamin C treatment for cancer that seemed to work! The Mayo Clinic set out to replicate his findings but seemed to do it with the intent to disprove it. They did not follow Pauling’s treatment protocol and concluded the treatment did not work – end of story. Back to the nice expensive chemo and radiation that try to kill the cancer before they kill the patient and in which, the Mayo was highly invested. In 1931, Otto Warburg won the Nobel Prize for his work showing cancer is caused by a lack of oxygen in your cells and that no disease could survive in an alkaline environment. So where is medical research with these incredible findings? – nowhere. Crushed into oblivion by the prestigious medical associations working hand-in-hand with prescription drug cartels. These stories are just ice crystals at the tip of a large iceberg of a system that refuses to accept anything beyond its own line of sight – profit-making scientism at its finest. To be Continued…..
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