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Working With The System
Ok, you've read this far and are beginning to think: "this guy has a screw loose - this doesn't have anything to do with my eyesight". Oh, but it does. If you are thinking along those lines, you'd make a good doctor because you are thinking just like the modern medical professional; that your eyes can be treated completely separately from your body; that sewage dumped in the ocean just miraculously disappears and does not play any roll in the ecosystem or diet of the fish population that lives there. Your eyes are part of the body and very definitely part of the system. They are nourished by what you eat - good or bad.. Any kid who has played the childhood prank of putting sugar in the gas tank of a car knows that this works against the system - in this case a system that requires, among other things, clean processed gasoline as fuel to operate properly and efficiently. Think about this: what does the mechanic recommend to the car owner who has sugar in his fuel tank? Does he suggest modifying the fuel system of the engine to burn sugar? No. Does he suggest putting additives into the fuel tank to allow the engine to consume sugar? No, again. Does he suggest draining and cleaning the fuel tank to remove the sugar? Bingo!!
What about oil as a lubricant? Oil is expensive. Perhaps we should put cheap sand in the engine's crankcase and then find some modification that would allow sand to lubricate (screech!) like motor oil. Sand is cheap so why don't we put it in our cars for lubrication? BECAUSE, your engine will abruptly protest such an assault. Besides, the Arabs have just as much of a monopoly on sand as they do on oil. The difference with the human body is that it is designed so well that it fends off relatively minor assaults for long periods of time before it is forced to exhibit a serious symptom (diabetes, tumor, cancer). But eventually it can no longer do so and people are surprised that they "suddenly" have a tumor or high cholesterol or diabetes or heart disease - like they were minding their own business and - Wham!! - a meteor from space hit them hard. What a crock of shit!! We are immensely responsible and have enormous control over the health we enjoy (or don't enjoy). "You are what you eat" is absolutely accurate and timeless.
The lowly auto mechanic (my apologies to auto mechanics worldwide) even knows enough to eliminate the cause of the problem rather than to find some way to circumvent it. But, isn't it the exact opposite with most people and how they treat their bodies? For instance, consider the typical diet pill commercial or advertisement which pronounces:
Lose weight while eating as much as you want and anything you want. (example link only)
On the face of it, it's a ridiculous claim. Yet, this is what people believe because they don't want to take responsibility for themselves. What about the medical profession? If you look, you will see exactly the same posture. People with a pill to sell you will inevitably hold the position that the human body is full of deficiencies just waiting for someone to come along and find a "cure." But common sense should tell us that prevention is the real cure. Unfortunately, people are full of vanity and the desire to do whatever the hell they want. Most, bolstered by modern medicine's promises, prefer to pervert the system than to work with it.
Modern medicine (not completely, but for the most part) is nothing more than a profit seeking enterprise at the expense of true health. Rarely does a trained medical professional advocate a solution that does not involve the prescription pad. It has been said that when you are holding a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. Well, when you're holding a prescription pad, ...(need I finish?).
Consider also the pharmaceutical industry. Consider how the vast majority of Americans view prescription drugs as an inevitable part of life. Are you even beginning to see the distorted picture that most people have of their health and medicine. Why are we debating prescription drug coverage for seniors? Because most of them take prescriptions. And why the hell is that? My grandfather lived well into his nineties without so much as taking a daily aspirin. He ate in moderation, exercised, drank only a little alcohol, smoked a very occasional cigar and generally did not overload his body with garbage. My grandmother (she lived past 100) cooked very well for him and they both enjoyed a healthy lifestyle by working with the system. Why does it seem that everyone is on prescription medicine? Because they are!!! Pick up a current copy of Readers' Digest (only an example) and count the number of prescription drug ads. You will easily find 10 - 15 ads pushing any concoction of chemical compounds. If your eyesight is good enough, read the one-to-two-page warnings. It's enough to scare the shit out of you. Why do you think these companies advertise their little pills in Readers' Digest? Do you think it's because they did a survey and found that this is the magazine that most doctors read? No, guess again. Do you think it's because they have your good health in mind and want to reach the widest audience possible? No - well, maybe that is half right - they do want to reach the largest audience. But their motive is very clearly profit and you are being brainwashed to believe that any number of pills is the solution to what ails you. They are private, business enterprises with no true benevolent characteristics.
The modern medical profession including the pharmaceutical industry is working very hard to make every human being dependent on them and their products and services. And, by the looks of it, they are doing remarkably well. Have you been sucked in to this lie? It seems that just about everyone has bought this story. Should we eat good healthy food? Or should we pound down those potato chips while popping pills that block fat absorption? Am I worried about prescription drug coverage? You bet I am. But not because I worry that I won't be able to pay for MY PRESCRIPTIONS. Rather, I don't want to pay for anyone else's prescriptions.
I know some of you are thinking I'm off the deep end. You have such faith in the medical profession (think "industry") and can not fathom where I'm coming from. Indeed, medicine has brought us such wonderful things like penicillin and the polio vaccine. I AGREE. These were excellent discoveries. However, if you take the time to study how the polio vaccine works, you will understand that it works with the system. The body is introduced to a weak (or dead) virus from which it is able to "learn" and ultimately build up a defense before it is ever exposed to the *real* virus. Years ago, doctors and scientists worked with the system. Contrast that with a typical drug advertised in Reader's Digest. Most, if not all of them are now designed to interfere with your body's chemistry and have all sorts of contraindications, warnings, precautions and adverse reactions. They are chemical compounds designed to alter some metabolic function. For example, cholesterol lowering drugs (statins) work by blocking a key liver enzyme. This is interference. This approach requires no personal responsibility for what you put in your mouth nor does it require you to exercise. Pop a pill and your cholesterol goes down. This drug, one of the most prescribed in the world screws with the chemistry of your liver. You only have one liver folks and without it you die. Doctors will tell you it's safe. If that's true, why do statin users have to go for regular, periodic blood tests? I'll tell you why. It's so they can check your liver enzymes and see if your liver is being damaged.
Scientists now think they know how the entire system works (human genome is mapped but not understood) and now have developed a pride that allows them to feel they can tweak the system with impunity. I have full faith in the medical profession to manage sudden, acute crisis situations - that's what they should be used for. If I have internal injuries or other trauma from a car accident, the emergency room is exactly where I want to go. Just be careful what you define as a "sudden" crisis. Most problems have been building for years and their solution lies in the removal of a causative factor or factors.
Money and control are the driving forces behind just about every human action. That is true of government, doctors, medicine, corporations, banks, etc. Anything that encroaches on their control (or income) is pooh-poohed as ineffective or even harmful. Your body has a built-in system that seeks good health. It strives to heal itself and to maintain good health in spite of the assaults it receives. Imagine the good health and eyesight you could enjoy if you worked with the system. You should consider evaluating medical and health options through the lens of corporate greed. Consider what motivates your health care provider, the insurance company, the lab. Consider that no matter how good the intentions of your eye doctor, your proctologist, your cardiologist, your pediatrician, they are in the business of crisis management and seeking to make a profit. They absolutely do not work in the realm of preventive medicine. Although some now advocate early testing (mammograms, colon exams, etc), they rarely take a proactive approach to preventing the condition they are testing for. They are armed with a given set of tools and the solution they offer for a given situation will be met with one or more of these tools. Corporations can not patent eating properly. They can not patent exercise. They can not patent just about everything that is good for you (food, vitamins, fresh air). What they can patent is little pills with a plethora of side effects and high profit margins. Against them, you have no chance whatsoever ... unless you take ...