[sdiy] O/T Prescribed Drugs

[Graham Atkins]

Bob,

On 18 Oct 2009, at 23:16, Bob Weigel wrote:

> It's a crime Graham.  The Pharmaceutical companies use a very  
> convoluted approach. So many problems are just stemming from an  
> aspect of malnutrition.  We just have a basic failure on the part of  
> some pseudo-scientists, to recognize that the body is an amazing  
> machine and if you just feed it the right substances, it's cells can  
> flourish in the tasks the were designed to do.
>
> Long ago I realized that side effect causing things in general are  
> to be steered away from.  I just had faith that the God who made me  
> had a better plan for me that to damage one part of the body to help  
> another.  :-)
> So here I am..49 years old and still playing basketball  
> competatively with decent high school players.  (Well save the past  
> few months where I'm trying to recondition a knee that started  
> giving me some troubles...hehe.. but I mean last year I was still  
> dunking on a good day at 6' with short arms!!)  Now many of those  
> years I didn't even have a great diet.  In fact for my whole life I  
> had a weak immune system.  Probably because of immunizations as a  
> kid and not being breast fed...  The concept of simply building up  
> the cells with good nutrition so that they can kick the butt of any  
> intruder... has been substituted for a 'quick fix' solution which is  
> indeed convoluted and actually damages the immune system.
>
> But about 4 or so years ago I began..consistently taking a powder  
> shake mix supplement that has a short life once you mix it.  I  
> dropped from being sick an average of a couple weeks a year (I mean  
> DOWN time..not counting the month I'd caugh and the disabling  
> allergies etc.) to TWO DAYS the past several!!  By far the best in  
> my whole life.  Why?  The cells obviously have the materials they  
> need to work with so that they can do their job.  When I get sick it  
> lasts a short time intead of just laying their in misery for a week  
> at a time with a fever that won't go away!!
>
> The difference good nutrition can make is remarkable.  I really  
> don't believe a fully equipped body is in danger of being overtaken  
> by flu's etc. if a person upon getting the disease does anything  
> remotely right.  (ie. rests, forces liquids etc.  Some virus' it's  
> best to just soak them out.  But if you have a body that is prepped  
> with the right nutrition before the disease hits, then the body is  
> able to very quickly subdue it as compared to trying the same  
> treatment when the body isn't prepped I've found..)
>
> Anyway that 's my finding..  I'm a good case study because I've been  
> 100% drug free pretty much since children's aspirin days :-)   
> (Unless you count dental anesthetic I guess and one broken bone  
> surgery..)   Even when I broke my wrist though I didn't take any  
> pain killers etc.  So it makes the night/day difference the  
> nutrition made much less questionable I'm just saying.    Drugs can  
> really complicate the picture.. -Bob

I'm the same age as you and have to agree with most of your comments.  
Here in the UK where we have a state funded welfare system we do  
generally have very good doctors but we have a culture where they feel  
obliged to give out medicines to justify you going to see them. It  
does not help that the UK government have funded various studies to  
try and discredit the use of natural and herbal remedies (And most  
forms of alternate medicine) as "Quack" medicine. They have only  
recently decided that providing counselling for things like depression  
could actually be better and cost less less than handing out numerous  
amounts of anti-depressant drugs with all their side effects. I  
believe some of the European countries like Germany have a far better  
acceptance of alternate medicine.

I think regardless of this that people over here are looking to  
alternative medicine more and more and are starting to question the  
use of some drugs. We can't forget the Thalidomide drug that was given  
to expectant mothers back in the late 50's resulting in children being  
born with horribly deformed limbs.

As someone with a technical background I was very sceptical when I was  
offered the chance to try acupuncture in the ears as a means of  
relaxation around 15 years ago. It was absolutely amazing and I would  
recommend it to anyone. Those ancient Chinese certainly knew what they  
were doing.

Graham