This is the perfect description for what's happening.
Fifteen years ago my health (at 42) was headed in the wrong direction. I was overweight, my eyesight was bad, I had hand tremors and had recently diagnosed with asthma. My doctor put me on an inhaler to help with the asthma and he told me I'd need it for the rest of my life and the dos…
This is the perfect description for what's happening.
Fifteen years ago my health (at 42) was headed in the wrong direction. I was overweight, my eyesight was bad, I had hand tremors and had recently diagnosed with asthma. My doctor put me on an inhaler to help with the asthma and he told me I'd need it for the rest of my life and the dosage would increase as my asthma progressed. I did it his way for a month and gained 10 lbs due to the steroids in the medication. I then did my own research, did a simple diet change (low carb) and my asthma disappeared almost overnight. Additionally I lost 40 lbs, my hand tremors disappeared and my eyesight improved to the point where I no longer need glasses. How many people out there can say that their eyesight got better as they got older?
I'm 57 today and after 15 years of much reading I now know that doctors are not focusing on the actual health issue that's plaguing the US today (poor diet leading to high insulin levels and poor metabolic health), they're simply loading Americans up with drugs that go after markers and symptoms.
To be fair, people brainwashed by the happy faces in the pharma ads probably go in expecting the doc to prescribe. And if he doesn't... Not happy. Look at the use of SSRIs in the US. Instead of working on your psyche, you take a pill that may damage your brain chemistry and be very hard to get off of. And patients expect to walk out with scripts.
This was right about the time of the housing bubble and as a contractor/home builder I knew that 99.9% of housing experts were wrong when they said prices would keep going up and people needed to buy now or get priced out forever. If not for every expert in my field being demonstrably wrong I may have not ever questioned that the majority of experts in other fields could also be wrong. It's pretty apparent in medicine though - we have drugs that are great at attacking risk factors for disease (i.e. statins) but debilitating chronic disease keeps going higher and higher. It's obvious medicine has gone off the rails... I want no part of it.
The housing bubble experience led me to question just about everything I thought to be true... I actually went through all my beliefs and examined the foundation for them. Some were sound, a lot were not (i.e. climate change). The takeaway is that very few people are able to question their beliefs, let alone change their minds when shown evidence to the contrary. Cognitive dissonance is real and people will rationalize just about anything to avoid it.
For me the lesson came with malpractice after I had AFib. The first care I got nearly killed me. That taught me a lesson: trust the signals your body is sending and don't settle for being shunted off on destructive meds for the rest of your life. Keep asking questions and fight back.
This is the perfect description for what's happening.
Fifteen years ago my health (at 42) was headed in the wrong direction. I was overweight, my eyesight was bad, I had hand tremors and had recently diagnosed with asthma. My doctor put me on an inhaler to help with the asthma and he told me I'd need it for the rest of my life and the dosage would increase as my asthma progressed. I did it his way for a month and gained 10 lbs due to the steroids in the medication. I then did my own research, did a simple diet change (low carb) and my asthma disappeared almost overnight. Additionally I lost 40 lbs, my hand tremors disappeared and my eyesight improved to the point where I no longer need glasses. How many people out there can say that their eyesight got better as they got older?
I'm 57 today and after 15 years of much reading I now know that doctors are not focusing on the actual health issue that's plaguing the US today (poor diet leading to high insulin levels and poor metabolic health), they're simply loading Americans up with drugs that go after markers and symptoms.
I'll never go back.
To be fair, people brainwashed by the happy faces in the pharma ads probably go in expecting the doc to prescribe. And if he doesn't... Not happy. Look at the use of SSRIs in the US. Instead of working on your psyche, you take a pill that may damage your brain chemistry and be very hard to get off of. And patients expect to walk out with scripts.
I know, I was one of those people.
This was right about the time of the housing bubble and as a contractor/home builder I knew that 99.9% of housing experts were wrong when they said prices would keep going up and people needed to buy now or get priced out forever. If not for every expert in my field being demonstrably wrong I may have not ever questioned that the majority of experts in other fields could also be wrong. It's pretty apparent in medicine though - we have drugs that are great at attacking risk factors for disease (i.e. statins) but debilitating chronic disease keeps going higher and higher. It's obvious medicine has gone off the rails... I want no part of it.
The housing bubble experience led me to question just about everything I thought to be true... I actually went through all my beliefs and examined the foundation for them. Some were sound, a lot were not (i.e. climate change). The takeaway is that very few people are able to question their beliefs, let alone change their minds when shown evidence to the contrary. Cognitive dissonance is real and people will rationalize just about anything to avoid it.
For me the lesson came with malpractice after I had AFib. The first care I got nearly killed me. That taught me a lesson: trust the signals your body is sending and don't settle for being shunted off on destructive meds for the rest of your life. Keep asking questions and fight back.
I'm a lifelong asthmatic and found the Albuterol and steroid inhalers made life unbearable. Insomnia, aggressiveness, palpitations.
I'm fine now without any asthma meds, just use common sense and avoid allergens.