Growing Wary of Doctors and Pharma

Especially now that previously censored info is being exposed

I finally got a new pc.

In this post, I don’t mean to throw out the baby with the bathwater - of course there are good doctors and good medicines. But be alert. Get 2nd opinions. Give holistic, naturopathic doctors a chance to give their input. Carefully do your own research and especially on side effects and alternate options. Take care of your health and your immune system with good nutrition and water, exercise, and fresh air.

I forgot to turn the volume up when I recorded the audio version, so you’ll need to turn your own volume up…

I personally know a woman who was told to take memantine and donezepil to “possibly slow down her memory loss”. Both were subscribed by her "memory" specialist, who neglected to say to watch out for side effects and to stop taking these meds if there wasn’t any improvement. After several months, not only was there no improvement, she developed a very bad rash on her chest, with open, oozing, itching sores. She also this winter has had a very bad cough and has been complaining of excessive tiredness for some time.

I researched the side effects for her meds, and all of these side effects and many more are listed. Then I saw "If there's no improvement in memory, stop taking these drugs". That did it. I suggested that she stop them, and already her cough is better, and the rash started clearing up too. On the rash, a topical steroid was prescribed by her primary doctor, but fortunately was never used, because the side effects of that med is a rash! With a simple over-the counter antibiotic ointment, her rash is clearing up. Now that it's no longer raw, open sores, she’s been putting some DMSO cream (70%DMSO, 30% aloe vera) on it. It's looking a lot better.

I've discovered an excellent website where you can check for side effects of prescription drugs. It's drugs.com. Just do a search for "(name of drug) side effects" and you'll see a link for drugs.com. Be sure to educate yourself there before taking any prescription meds.

Meanwhile, I've come across this somewhat ‘crazy’ contrarian substack that has a great review on a book by contrarian doctor Vernon Coleman: “Coleman’s Laws: Twelve essential medical secrets which could save your life”

It is a fantastic read and I highly recommend it.

I've never been one to go to a doctor if I could avoid it. But it was 2 (3?) years ago that I became really skeptical. When I went to ER for a problem with a testicle, it was diagnosed as a hernia, (which made no sense whatsoever to me, since I had never hurt myself lifting, but at that time I still trusted doctors). Much to my regret in hindsight, I allowed 'hernia repair' surgery. Afterwards, I still had the original problem. When I asked the surgeon about it, he just shrugged his shoulders and had no comment. He made several thousand dollars for that operation - fortunately my insurance paid for most of it. But things like that are what make your insurance go up. I am 100% convinced it was an unnecessary surgery.

When I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure over a year ago, I was put on 4 or 5 prescription drugs. One was so expensive ($900/month) that I never bought it. I started tapering down on the others about 9 months ago. About 6 months ago, I stopped everything, and have been completely off drugs. My heart seems to have healed somewhat. I still get out of breath if I do too much, but I can do more work and exercise today than I could a year ago. My routine is every other day sets of 25 situps and 25 pushups, 3 sets at the very least, up to 6 sets some days (yes, that's 150 situps and pushups). The next day I do sets of weight routines (only 10 lb weights) - curls, straight up, knee bends, chest fly, and straight lifts. Again, at least 3 sets and up to 6 sets/day. Lately I’ve added stretching and planks.

Then almost every night (6 days a week) after supper I get on the treadmill for 30 minutes at a moderate speed and incline. I also try to get outside and do some work either in the woods, yard, or garden every day, and go for a little walk on our trails.

The other thing I've been working on is cutting down on sugar, eating as many fruits and vegetables as I can, mostly home grown, and lately have been adding sweet potato, cabbage (sauerkraut, coleslaw), green tea, and generally just 'real' food - not processed by Big Food companies. Also a little bit of fasting - skipping breakfast every Sunday AM until lunch after church.

Since Donald Trump won the election, all sorts of things have been coming out about Big Pharma and Big Food processors and the corruption caused by their lobbying of the NIH, CDC, HHS, and FDA. It’s the old story of ‘follow the money’. It seems corporate interests are more interested in making money than in making us healthier. Yesterday I learned that even medical training, doctors and hospitals have been largely compromised - doctors being pushed to treat the symptoms, with drugs, rather than holistically looking for and treating the causes, which are often due to a weakened immune system, which in turn is usually caused by a lack of good nutrition and exercise. The trouble is, corporations don’t make big money on real food or simple exercise. As for hospitals, medicaid and medicare only pay for treatments that are pushed by Big Pharma. This started coming to light last week as Elon Musk started having Medicare looked into.

One of the ways the big drug producers have been pushing us to take their medicines is by suppressing alternative health measures. I wrote some about this last week in The Science of Censorship.

Meanwhile, I’ve been reading a very interesting book - “Traced”, by Nathaniel T. Jeanson, on how male DNA from the Y chromosome can be traced back to previous paternal ancestors. I might do a book review on it, but for now I just want to mention that in his studies he came across evidence that the mainstream studies had filtered their data to essentially make it agree with their preconceived notions.

I’m also learning about the weakness of the “Amyloid Hypothesis”, which has been the recipient of grants and funding for Alzheimers research for the last 20 years, to the exclusion and the suppression of the study of other pathways to understanding Alzheimers, even though none of the expensive drugs developed by considering the amyloid theory have been effective. I expect to be writing more on this also, but am running out of time due to being without a computer for almost 2 weeks.

I’m very hopeful that more people will learn better ways to good health as a result of these recent revelations.