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This admission will affect the USA - the most medicated, prescription drug addicted nation on earth.

It's hardly surprising this admission. So I'm not sitting with my mouth open, gawking in horror.

Everything in life is hit and miss. But certain prescription drugs have been around long enough to have a proven track record. So one doesn't need to be a heathen 24/7.

However, the only part of the medical industry I believe in, is surgery - and by this I mean necessary surgery, life and death surgery, not having your tits made bigger.

Everything is about money, and it's been this way for quite some time now.

The professions are about money-making not helping people. If you think otherwise, you're not very bright.

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I agree about surgery. We are amazingly good here in the US when it comes to critical care and necessary surgery. There is also a lot of elective surgery or surgical treatment of chronic conditions. In the case of the latter, root causes are not always addressed and outcomes not as advertised.

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Ah, a chance to cut is a chance to cure......

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I agree to an extent about surgery, but the truth is much less surgery would be necessary if they really actually taught people how to be healthy. If you appendix is inflamed it’s because you aren’t healthy, if you have coronary artery disease it’s because you aren’t healthy. You don’t need surgery you need to adjust your lifestyle and eating habits. According the USDA’s last evaluation of nutritional sufficiency among the population only 4% (max, not min) can be nutritionally sufficient because 96% of the population is deficient in potassium (I think it was potassium). When you don’t have the nutrients your body needs to heal and make repairs or just operate optimally, you can’t be healthy. Most Americans don’t get enough protein in their diet. It is the most basic building block. So surgery after an accident we excel at but other types of “emergency” surgeries can largely be avoided. The body can heal amazingly quickly if the proper steps are taken immediately to reverse whatever is happening.

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Yeah, of the two biggest surgeries I've had, one almost certainly could have been avoided if I hadn't been eating the Standard American Diet for several decades, and the need for the other one was triggered by a Moderna booster. Luckily I switched to a Low Carb High [Animal] Fat diet between when the need for the first surgery was diagnosed and when I had that surgery. The positive changes in diet, lifestyle, and exercise allowed me to bounce back very quickly from both surgeries, even though they were only 6 weeks apart.

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Congrats! If I had known what I know now I would not have had my appendix removed.

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The problem is you'd have to have fixed the issues well before they became acute. I think Dr. David Unwin and some of his friends changed the way they practiced medicine because they hated the thought of all the limbs that were being lost to diabetes.

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The first signs of my appendix having a problem was 4 days before it was removed. It was removed in an emergency surgery because it was likely to burst. I fully believe today I had time to make changes that would have calmed the situation and allowed me to heal as opposed to having surgery. There are thousands of stories about people who changed and saved their lives at the last minute. Dr. Steven Gundry is a world renowned heart surgeon (still today and he hasn’t practiced allopathic medicine in like 20 years), he had a patient come to him that had been given a short time to live with an inoperable heart problem. That patient changed his life, through various supplements the patient completely reversed his condition. Dr. Gundry realized the supplements the patient had been taking were some of the exact same ones Dr. Gundry used via IV during surgery to preserve and protect the cardiovascular system. It never dawned on him taking them orally would do the same. He now helps patients avoid Dr.’s like he was. Even last minute, many times recovery is possible without surgical intervention. The human body is stunningly amazing in its capabilities, beyond our wildest imaginations.

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Last night we watched the GOP debate. It was refreshing to hear Vivek talk about how we have a 'sick-care industry' and the need to build up the preventive care/wellness side. There are many chronic conditions that could be prevented or reduced in impact with healthier living and good nutrition. It's more cost effective and should give better quality of life.

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At this point I will share the advice I always share on related topics:

The best way to achieve a healthy weight and many other well-being goals is to do the following:

1) Eat _real_ food, including plenty of animal-based products and natural oils (like ghee and olive oil).

2) Avoid sugar, corn syrup, and most other natural and artificial sweeteners.

3) Avoid processed foods, especially processed carbs and seed/vegetable oils.

4) Stop snacking and investigate intermittent fasting.

5) Get plenty of fresh air and sunshine, while avoiding sunburn.

6) Exercise moderately.

7) Sleep long enough each night.

8) Find non-drug and non-alcohol stress coping mechanisms that work for you.

9) Pray.

10) Communicate with friends.

11) Consume fermented foods like natto, kimchi, sauerkraut, Greek Yogurt or Icelandic Skyr...

12) Take supplements like C, D3, K2... if you think you're not getting enough from real food.

13) Eliminate the need to take _any_ Big Pharma products for _chronic_ conditions.

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Yep, we follow many of these principles. I will admit to a weakness for a glass of adult beverage or dark chocolate . . .

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Some of us cannot consume chocolate, for better or for worse.

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How validating. I have said for years that I never felt benefits from any prescription medicines; only the side effects. And that is why I stopped taking all prescription medicines, years ago.

But this is the first I've ever read someone in the industry stating this as a fact.

Most people have looked at me weird when I say I take zero prescriptions. I think they are the weird ones for assuming it's normal "once you hit a certain age" to be on a number of daily pills.

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My 98 year old mom stops taking meds pretty much as soon as the doc prescribes them. She doesn't like taking them and generally doesn't think they're helpful. The exception is ibuprofen for her arthritis and an occasional pill for blood pressure. It was always stable until she had a hip replacement last year. Now it tends to drift down but she can't tolerate the dose they prescribed for her. She just tweaks things to suit her and enjoys a glass of sherry.

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I like your mom. Tell her to look into cayenne pepper for blood pressure regulation. It can take a couple weeks to adjust (ramp up). It sounds like she is very capable of taking care of herself.

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At 98, she no longer needs any doctors or drugs. She has made it to the top of the heap. I tell my dad this (age 96.5) but he still trusts his doctors.

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Yeah, my dad trusted the docs who prescribed him a mountain of stuff. He made it to nearly 98, but he had a lot of inflammatory stuff going on and I always suspected some of his meds were making him worse or interacting. I live far away and didn't try to talk him out of taking the meds. If I wasn't there to keep an eye on him, it didn't seem right to interfere.

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Amen!! I’m 64 & was told to bring my list of medications, to a dentist appt! Lol! One big blank sheet of paper! But I also very grateful for the torn ACL replacement surgery. Tore that dancing in the rain & slipped, while being dipped! ❤️

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My endocrinologist told me, after I told her I wasn’t going to take the prescribed pills, to think of the drugs as vitamins. VITAMINS!

🤣🤣🤣👍👌🤪

Maybe the drugs now identify as vitamins and I’m a racist for not accepting them. Ha ha ha ha! 🤡

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If clot shots can self identify as Vaccines, why couldn’t medications identify as vitamins?

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That’s pretty pathetic, even for docs!! Sick of them. I saw an endocrinologist once and never went back. Her male nurse practitioner was very rude to me. I found a holistic gut doctor who is fabulous

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 omg Kimberly, you made my day… actually, my year! I’m going to use that one with family and friends over the holidays, thank you! It’s hilarious because it is very true. Much love and peace to you and yours! 😍

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Gee, what a shocker. If drugs worked as claimed, the world would be experiencing a new wave of healthy living and longevity. The exact opposite is occurring. All big pharma drugs are poisons. Stay away!

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I always draw the distinction between medications for chronic conditions and those for temporary conditions. For me the medication for temporary conditions work almost 100% at the time, and for me the medications for chronic conditions work almost 0% of the time.

One positive exception was a CPAP machine, which worked quite well for me back when I needed it.

Providentially, recent changes to my diet, lifestyle, and exercise have resulted in me not needing any medications for chronic conditions.

I believe about 85% of all medications are for chronic conditions. If America could improve its diet, lifestyle, and exercise, then that would have a major positive effect on reducing the national debt.

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You were able to discontinue the cpap? Did you do it via diet and exercise? I’ve got a septoplasty coming up but docs are saying after that I’ll need a sleep study 😑

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I did it by a combination of

1) improvements in diet, exercise, and lifestyle

2) nightly use of a product called Somnifix (I know, one could consider using these bandages as not 100% natural, but still better than ingesting anything or surgery)

3) nightly use of a product called O2Ring by Wellue (this is a pulse oximeter that will wake me if my SpO2 goes below 88%, which was the threshold suggested by my sleep doctor)

With these three approaches, my results of the latest sleep test showed that my AHI was below the threshold where a CPAP is needed.

For my the issue was tricky, because I had both Obstructive and Central Sleep Apnea, so merely losing some weight (from being at the top end of normal weight to more like middle of the range of normal weight) would not be enough. I hypothesized that if my low carb healthy fat diet was close enough to keto, then the central sleep apnea would be mitigated. My doctor was skeptical when I told her. However, after a year and having lost more than 10 pounds, she felt confident that insurance would pay for a new sleep study, which proved my hypothesis in an "N=1" study. N=1 is a terrible way to do science, but the only thing that matters to an individual patient.

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Wow, thanks so much! Great plan - congrats on your perseverance and insight

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I want to draw your attention to nutrient deficit and causative correlation to dementia and alzheimers symptoms.

The first symptom of dehydration is a headache. This is how quickly dehydration effects the brain. From our schooled daze we have been trained to ignore our bodily needs for toilet and water until the bell rings. Headaches treated with aspirin and Panadol instead of salt plus water.

Then in the 80s government dietary advice had us avoid salt as if it were a poison.

So the population of elderly people, especially women, are now reaping the ills from chronic salt deficits. Women (womb) have more mucosa to maintain hence greater requirement for salt.

Hyponatremia or low salt or dehydration are all the same thing. Hyponatremia is deadly.

The adrenals are the red alert organs that make major adjustments to rectify hyponatremia. But they don’t just produce aldosterone, they produce all their adrenalcortical hormones.

If the body is subjected to chronic dehydration or chronic low salt, the adrenals must also become chronically productive instead of responding to emergency call outs.

The adrenals have two choices: exhaustion or hyperplasia. So now think about: unexplained hypertension, unexplained diabetes, unexplained anxiety ...

Meanwhile everything gets sticky instead of slick as chronic dehydration robs the body of essential moisture.

Hip and knee replacements because the joints are raided for salts and once the salt goes, moisture is lost.

So my take is a mis-functioning brain is a dehydrated brain. A sticky brain instead of a moist slick brain. Hence plaques showing up.

My article is titled:

We breathe air not oxygen

And I explain the difference between air and oxygen

How the lungs rehydrate the RBCs and breathing has nothing to do with a gaseous exchange.

Why is oxygen toxic and it can kill?

Why is oxygen primarily prescribed for the terminally ill and not for breathlessness?

Palliative care is not kind!

https://open.substack.com/pub/jane333/p/we-breath-air-not-oxygen?r=ykfsh&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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This means that they cannot manufacture a “vaccine” that everyone must take for “herd” immunity. No product is good for all!

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Amen

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.

I Am Against Releasing

The Government Data

About The Vaccines

To The Public.

And Here’s Why:

It Takes All Of The FUN Out Of It

When They KNOW They’re Going To Die.

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Nah it’s way less than that. They deliberately target only terrible NNTs so they can sell more.

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That’s why Medicare part D became mandatory! To secure Pharma’s profit. Some of the consumers are on 38-40 meds..

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BS!

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Few even take into consideration NUTRITION and that Genetics Loads the Gun but LIFESTYLE pulls the trigger! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4991921/

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How perfect, now they can use all the data they are scrapping from inside our bodies via the hydrogel sensors they've installed in all of us and apply it to precision medicine. Soon they will be activating digital payloads to medicate us according to their will because after all the O’Bye**den regime cares so much about our health, not. These people are criminals of the highest order.

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And 99% cause harm to everyone who takes them. Stop buying the lies of allopathic medicine. From adverse events immediately upon starting to adverse events that don’t develop for years to simply causing nutrient deficiencies (almost every pharmaceutical interferes with the uptake and use of at least one nutrient) pharmaceuticals are toxins people voluntarily consume.

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Curiously, ironically, I'm being pushed toward use of a couple of the new cardioactive drugs despite the fact that one of them taken by patients of my age gains a enormously smashing 2.4 months of extra life, albeit one that is littered with nasty side effects. Said side effects could be "managed" by administration of other drugs, curiously bearing their own side effects. This magnificent syndrome is called the overdependence on drugs which are compounds carrying nothing but surprises. This is best described as practicing medicine via algorithm. Wonder why one of the big games in town is iatrogenesis?

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so where does this lead? - he says most drugs work in fewer than half of patients "mainly because the recipients carry genes that interfere in some way with the medicine," is the next sentence but luckily we now have gene based pharmaceuticals that can overcome this barrier?

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