Deaths from properly prescribed medications have been rising steadily over the past 20 years and have become the leading cause of death in the US. Drugs prescribed for depression and pain are responsible for more overdose deaths (45%) than cocaine, heroin, and amphetamines combined (39%). Deaths from properly prescribed medications now outnumber traffic fatalities. Studies revealing an astounding number of oncologists who wouldn't take their own treatment for cancer. Also consider, how many artificial additions to our food and water are now classified as drugs?
Whats wrong with this picture? What will it take for the public to take notice of what this represents?
We don't need more medication or another promise of a cure by a magic pill. We need proper education, of how our bodies work, what our body needs to sustain health, and how to keep balance.
We seem to have been programmed to believe that our bodies should just keep going despite pain, utter exhaustion, and illness. We shouldn't trust our body. All we need is to take a pill, get vaccinated, get over our hump and continue with society's acceptable hectic pace.
If that doesn't work we can always go back to our doctor and get more invasive tests that lead to more inconclusive results and another prescription for a new drug for us to trial. Sound like a familiar cycle? I have personally heard hundreds of these stories when i was in practice. I was one of those people too.
For a while it had been my job as a holistic consultant in pharmacies, to wean people off medication, reduce their dose or make complementary suggestions. That was very challenging. The lack of information people had was astounding.
I felt such compassion, they were fighting an impossible battle. My lists of inconvenient information, lifestyle change suggestions were competing with just one magic pill that could ease all their suffering immediately.
But those who had been taking that one pill, or 5 pills, for too many years were ready to consider they could no longer put up with the side effects of that convenience.
I wondered how many people get their education about what is needed to stay healthy from the media? magazines? from our doctors, whose education about nutrition is approximately just 2 weeks out of their 5 year degree? The nonsense information that I even considered fact caused me to suffer for too many years also.
I propose we take the time to invest in learning how to care for this magnificent vehicle we have been given. But who can we learn from? Who can we trust to give us the correct information?
How bout people who walk their talk? People who are vibrant, energetic, optimistic, and inspiring by their own example?
I'm convinced words don't teach. Actions do. Silent non interference speaks louder than words. I want to learn from people who are getting results who radiate well being, joy, trust and fulfillment in their lives.
I have joined a growing number of people who are not convinced by the ads and recommendations of a doctor. A doctor who is trained by pharmaceutical industry to sell me a drug whose research has been manipulated so shareholders can profit from my ignorance and ongoing suppressed suffering.
I believe that with all the information we now have access to, ignorance is a choice. That might sound harsh but honestly, at the end of the day, we are all responsible for every choice we make, and cant blame anyone.
The predominant results of the pharmaceutical industry don't inspire confidence. The harsh medical and barbaric options that are supposedly the only choice we have, don't feel right to me. Anyone living with a chronic degenerative illness can relate to this. This picture represents the majority's experience of the medical system!
I'm inspired by those people who are sharing their own stories of healing. The quiet and courageous achievers who don't have anything to gain but optimal health. Those people who choose not to be victims any more and instead embark on a journey of self responsibility.
People who are open minded and flexible, who question all that they have been taught. Who are willing to consider new possibilities of what it means to be optimally healthy. Are you one of those people? Will you join me?
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