From way back my decision has been to be open to new ideas, developments and inventions that I might bump into or that I look for; things that resonate, I need or connect with.
I never know when these will be eye opening, useful, negative, short lived or otherwise; and that I should question their validity and longevity.
I like to think that in the past, when discoveries were made, like the earth is round, skeptics questioned but came around, excuse the pun, after the finding could not be refuted with experience and history.
Man-made Inventions like the combustion engine needed questioning and skepticism but we didn't have the experience or knowledge to evaluate their potential impact or to predict the consequences they have wrought upon us. We only saw the benefits and never or seldom watched to see how they affected the environment. We operated outside of and separately from Mother Nature.
We needed to have kept an eye on these inventions, investigating and measuring their effects over space and time and then acted on the findings. Hindsight is easy and $ is hard to beat, lol.
So now I come to my direct experience with health and medicine which has some connection to the above.
Over a year ago I was diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome, IBS, by my USA physician. Her answer was, 'I don't know what causes it and you'll have to learn to live with it. You can take all the Immodium you want or need for the diarrhea, this poses no danger or problem'.
Since this was a non-real answer and a non-real solution, just do away with or cover up the symptom, I decided to research and find answers, if they existed, to the root cause of my problem and a possible solution. If people can find cures for cancer and other diseases, why couldn't I find a way to deal with IBS.
Low and behold, almost immediately, I bumped into information on the biogiome of the gut. This rang as a possible road to pursue as it coupled the experience of morning brain fog with my existing symptoms.
I had already ruled out milk and gluten intolerance and I tried a natural ingredient pill that knocked out the brain fog. What a relief since I had connected the fog with the natural experience of ageing. You get old, you get foggy, right?
Anyway, after a several of months of study, I opened up a potential route to understanding my situation, which seemed more like leaky gut. This was likely caused by the powerful antibiotics that I had taken to knock out a typhoid infection that then also probably knocked out all the good guys in my intestine.
What I experimented with was to re-establish a gut flora of bacteria through changes in eating. And voila! No more Depends and worry of being away from a bathroom when I go out. Granted I can't stray too far from healthy eating, I choose the isle seat on the airplane, but I'm not on Immodium for life.
All of this thanks to Dr. Mercola and peole like him that are exposing us to alternatives, solutions and behaviors that are cheap, naturally existing and available and that don't have, or have minor, secondary effects.
So, because of my experience, I trust and will listen to information presented by Dr. Mercola on Covid-19 as I will listen to others. I will still question the information to see what holds water and if it is supported by others and experience. No one person can possibly be correct a 100% of the time. We are all human but I am here today, in better health, because of the field of Alternative Medicine and that at 78, I am not experiencing secondary effects.
Haven't we wondered or questioned why the USA is experiencing so much illness and disease. In wellness we are 35th or worse in comparison to other 'developed' nations while having 'knowledgeable' doctors, health care systems and billions of dollars to spend. Makes me wonder. Surely we must be going down the wrong road?
Why are our children so much sicker now than in the past with diseases like asthma, allergies, autism, diabetes, obesity and others? The rates have gone up from 3.1% to more than 52% of our kids being sick with diseases, this happening in a span of less than thirty years.
Me thinks something is not right. That at least we should question, investigate with unbiased testing and studies, and then act on the findings, keeping our eyes open over years for questionable results.
We should study all our vaccines (oh, sorry, we can't talk about or question vaccines, they are as sacred as God or apple pie. The subject is hush-hush and forbidden); are the children, our future, not worth it if there is even a small doubt or question?
Over 4 billion dollars have been paid to families suffering from bad outcomes of vaccines. I think this makes for doubt on the notion of the complete safety of vaccines. We should identify the ones that aren't and assure ourselves that we use only safe effective ones.
We are on uncharted waters if answers are unavailable, in a country as rich and prosperous as ours, as to why so many of our children are ill and not healthy. So much sickness can't be called a scientific triumph.
Maybe Dr. Mercola and others like him, don't have lots or all of the answers. But at this stage, at least they are questioning and looking for root causes of illness and not just ameliorating symptoms that empty the pockets and keep us diseased.
Oh my, I'm sorry but this issue gets me going. Cruz
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