MEDS! Finally, my husband read his doctor the riot act.

[johnlucas]

48. When the Field of Medicine became purely Business, this was the result

The medical field is not about healing people.
It's about selling drugs & treatments to them.

There are some things we need medicine for but in truth the body mostly heals itself.
Every now & then it may need a little assistance from outside.
That's what medicines & doctors are for. That extra help from the outside so that the body can get back into regulating itself properly.

Many people don't link the ongoing environmental damage with their personal health.
The poisons in our air, water, & food.
Those poisons end up being too strong for the body to fight decently & you HAVE to depend on the medical field to live.
You HAVE to get caught up with all those drugs because without them you'll probably die.

All medicines are supposed to be temporary. You're not supposed to be on them for the rest of your life.

I ain't no overzealous count-the-calories health maven but I do my best to stay away from medicines if all possible.
I don't take sleeping pills or waking pills. I even hold off on aspirin & ibuprofen (luckily I don't get many headaches anyway).
I even cut the caffeine out of my life. I don't like the taste of coffee anyway. Always look on the label to see if it's caffeine free.
I used to drink drinks with caffeine in them but I stopped because I don't like the addictive behavior that goes along with it.
Where people get so dependent on having that caffeinated drink or they can't function.

I eat junk food. Oh yeah. Candy, chips, & all that. Big sweet tooth! And I'm aware that there's stuff in junk foods that are not the best for your body.
But I'm not dependent on them. That's the difference.

Medicines can addict you & give you so many side effects from their usage.
So I limit medicine intake as much as possible.

I'm currently getting over a mild cold & the most I do when I get a cold is drink citrus juices, eat lots of chicken noodle soup, & get plenty of bedrest.
I take NyQuil just to calm the symptoms to allow me that rest.
When I pile on that cold like that, it's usually gone in a few days.
Most of the work is done by my body & the help it gets from the nutritious fluids (soups, juices) while I sleep.
I don't mess around with all those over-the-counter cold medicines anymore.
They're just symptom fighters & often prolong the cold.
I picked NyQuil because of its strength & how it aids my ability to rest without coughing & blowing my nose over & over.
I usually don't have to take NyQuil more than once or twice.
Limited medicine intake once again.

Good for your husband that he rejected this sick pharmaceutical racket.
You have to watch out for yourself because you can't count on the doctor to do what's right.
Too much money to be made & it corrupts people.
Maybe we should blame the high costs of going to medical school for all of this.
All that heavy student loan debt seems to lead doctors into maximizing how much money they can get out of people instead of healing them.
John Lucas