I don't take any medications. None. Never have. I go into the Dr. Office to have my cancer checked and they ask "what medications are you taking?" I respond "none" .... "NONE?????" "Yes ma'am. None" Sometimes they will roll their eyes or smile and say something like "That's very unusual for a 68 year old man" I usually just smile and say "I have always been a weird-O" or something like.
My principles (hear that?, they are "mine" ... doesn't mean you have to buy into them:
1) the medical profession has been 100% completely subverted by pharma, so that they are taught, trained, encouraged and compensated to seek a chemical solution to every ailment. I don't trust them. Even the good ones (and there are more than a few good ones)
2) I believe that losing weight, eating healthy, getting exercise, dumping stress will do FAR FAR more towards keeping one healthy than medications
3) I believe that even severe life threatening diseases that demand perpetual medication (thyroid diseases, which run in our family, and diabetes, which is quite terrifying, and cancer) can be "managed," if not eliminated, by bringing your body into a healthy state, and letting your own immune system fight the disease.
I want my life and my family to be one that a shutdown of deliverable drugs does not spell impending death for me or those I love. Therefore, I ain't taking your damned statins. I am not taking your blood pressure meds. When my mother in law died, she was taking maybe 23 medications daily, and I swear, if the Drs had told her to swallow a tablespoon of cyanide daily she would have nodded blankly and recited something like "well, I am not a doctor... I guess they know best."
It does bear thinking about that for those of us who think "what if" that one of the biggest blessings we would have in a crushing series of events is health. Crap, that is great even if there is no crushing series of events.
Finally, I will leave you with this. Carole mentioned seeing a guy in church who just went thru radiation/chemo. About my age. He is "cancer free" (a myth. everyone has cancer cells, they just sometimes go into hyperdrive and your body's natural defenses are suppressed and can't effectively fight them). I dunno if I am. I really thought last week I had a bowel blockage and I thought "oh well here it comes again." I no longer think that, but all this just makes me more aware of it all. Anyway, Carole said "I looked at you, and I looked at Tim and you just *LOOKED* overall healthier. Your hair, skin, eyes. You weren't pasty or drawn, though you are both thin." I know I feel better than I ever have, but I MUST stay on a strict diet (not of bill cosby's rice cakes, either... that was a hilarious episode if you saw that).
I dunno. I might die tomorrow, or next week. The cancer could come raging back and eat out my guts. If it does, I will starve the tumor to death. I might starve myself to death in the process, but at least I won't be throwing money at Upjohn. I am convinced of this. We are crazily over medicated and not at all prepared for a period of immediate supply chain drug provision. We need to break away from that.
YMMV
My principles (hear that?, they are "mine" ... doesn't mean you have to buy into them:
1) the medical profession has been 100% completely subverted by pharma, so that they are taught, trained, encouraged and compensated to seek a chemical solution to every ailment. I don't trust them. Even the good ones (and there are more than a few good ones)
2) I believe that losing weight, eating healthy, getting exercise, dumping stress will do FAR FAR more towards keeping one healthy than medications
3) I believe that even severe life threatening diseases that demand perpetual medication (thyroid diseases, which run in our family, and diabetes, which is quite terrifying, and cancer) can be "managed," if not eliminated, by bringing your body into a healthy state, and letting your own immune system fight the disease.
I want my life and my family to be one that a shutdown of deliverable drugs does not spell impending death for me or those I love. Therefore, I ain't taking your damned statins. I am not taking your blood pressure meds. When my mother in law died, she was taking maybe 23 medications daily, and I swear, if the Drs had told her to swallow a tablespoon of cyanide daily she would have nodded blankly and recited something like "well, I am not a doctor... I guess they know best."
It does bear thinking about that for those of us who think "what if" that one of the biggest blessings we would have in a crushing series of events is health. Crap, that is great even if there is no crushing series of events.
Finally, I will leave you with this. Carole mentioned seeing a guy in church who just went thru radiation/chemo. About my age. He is "cancer free" (a myth. everyone has cancer cells, they just sometimes go into hyperdrive and your body's natural defenses are suppressed and can't effectively fight them). I dunno if I am. I really thought last week I had a bowel blockage and I thought "oh well here it comes again." I no longer think that, but all this just makes me more aware of it all. Anyway, Carole said "I looked at you, and I looked at Tim and you just *LOOKED* overall healthier. Your hair, skin, eyes. You weren't pasty or drawn, though you are both thin." I know I feel better than I ever have, but I MUST stay on a strict diet (not of bill cosby's rice cakes, either... that was a hilarious episode if you saw that).
I dunno. I might die tomorrow, or next week. The cancer could come raging back and eat out my guts. If it does, I will starve the tumor to death. I might starve myself to death in the process, but at least I won't be throwing money at Upjohn. I am convinced of this. We are crazily over medicated and not at all prepared for a period of immediate supply chain drug provision. We need to break away from that.
YMMV