About a month ago, I underwent my annual physical. I’m required to do this to keep my medical insurance. As I generally avoid medical treatment, I don’t value medical insurance as highly as do most other people. On a society-wide basis, medical expenditures deliver poor return on investment. While 2010’s Affordable Care Act has extended medical insurance to 35 million more Americans—subsidized by $1.8 trillion/year in tax dollars—life expectancy is lower now than it was in 1996. Despite all of the additional money spent on Covid, including the vaunted “vaccine,” America, and much of Europe, have had sustained 8-40% excess mortality since March, 2020, including during the three years since the shots were introduced.
Excellent post and all true. I'm 70 and walk 11 miles per day, 5-6 days a week, do 700 military pushups as well, do my yard and garden, but at a lower level than you do, take some supplements, and just watch what I eat, indulging myself on occasion with pecan pie and/or ice cream. I'm 5'10', 176-184 and have been for many years. Played all types of sports and surfed all over both coasts, Mexico, and Australia, and like you, have had my share of injuries, but none serious, just dislocations, broken bones and torn muscles.
Like you, I wish I had all those hundreds of thousands of dollars I paid in premiums so I could have disposed of them any way I wanted and buying just catastrophic coverage. But insurance isn't about health, it's about power and greed. You've written mightily and accurately about this scam and genocide over the Wuhan virus. "Health care" by the socialists has only been partially about that: it's about control and those who administer it can play God and and at the same time, get rich.
Thanks again for writing the truth and sharing it with those of us who will read and think about your points. Slowly, populations everywhere are realizing the harm pharma/government/health industry industries have caused and it is writings like yours that expose it.
Danny, that's a very impressive regimen. You're exercising much harder than I am. I do 300 push-ups a week. I feel like that's enough. I think part of the reason I can still run, skate and throw well--though not as well as I did a few years ago--is that I've mixed in some rest. My joints hurt not at all. But maybe my lazy streak is wider than I think it is.
I've dabbled in surfing and would love to learn from you. I've never lived near the ocean, such that I could be there consistently. And I do wonder about getting more big doses of sunlight.
I wonder how many people are re-thinking medicine. Some are, but so many are true believers. They feel that only their meds and doctors are keeping them alive. When I suggest to them that the shots hurt and kill people and that many CV deaths were medical malpractice, they become outright angry.
I think quality sleep and enough of it go hand in hand with an active life, as does being outside as much as possible (that's where I have room for improvement). I learned fairly recently that both early morning sunlight and the light of sunset are especially beneficial.
Pls excuse the crosspost from Coffee & Covid, but what I said yesterday is right on point with your comments.
"Thanks for saying so, Annie.
I'm 61 (wife is 55) have no health insurance or monthly premiums since we dropped it this year. We decided to stop funding the Medical-Industrial-Pharm Complex and take care of ourselves instead.
I wish people would stop participating - stop with the annual checkups (which they do because their insurance requires it) and free themselves. You DON'T NEED constant prescriptions, You don't need annual checkups. Eat healthy and go outside everyday. Kill your television set and throw your cellphone in the trash.
Leave your pharmaceutical chains on the ground, and LIVE LIFE, PEOPLE!
Guess who's going on an extended European vacation next month! Think about what you can do with the thousands of dollars you now spend to keep Big Pharma stock prices from collapsing."
I began rethinking 'medicine' or medical system, after a close brush in late 2018, at 60, when I learned I had a degenerative, bi-cuspid heart valve that was about to crapping out. For those familiar, my ejection-fraction was below 30%. Thankfully, almost immediate heart surgery scheduled, but told to be a total couch potato until surgery. The (first) cardiologist also wanted me on a high dose statin, which I did. But then I began reading, research.
In my research, I came across many physicians, doctors, true investigative journalists - Dr. Malcom Kendrick, Maryanne Demasi for example, about the take over of medicine by Pharma and captured gov't agencies.
After surgery, I questioned the cardiologist about statins. Didn't like his answer and fired him. I've since fired five others...they all want me on a statin but each of them, also want me on some different pharma.
Now, I have a good homeopathic doc. I have a good idea of what supplements work, what exercise works and pretty much eat a real-food diet - not keto, not this or that latest fad...just real food, mostly organic/pasture raised and home cooked, almost nonexistent sugar and no seed oils. I still enjoy my micro-brew ales. I don't stress about cholesterol (another medical/pharma/gov't) scam, BP is good, BMI is fairly good...more importantly, I feel good.
I have a friend who most recent travail is ulcerative colitis. For years she stuffed herself with antibiotics and antiacids, consequently ruining her gut, the foundation of health. I think a lot of the people you mention are kept alive by the medical-industrial complex, but they never think about quality of life and the fact that their docs like to keep people alive to squeeze every last dime out of them.
The Covid fiasco most definitely damaged my trust in the medical system. At the same time I think much of what falls under alternative, holistic or functional medicine is also full of scams and scammers. I'm not going to change anyone's mind but AFAIAC much that gets touted on Substack and elsewhere couldn't possibly be what it's cracked up to be, given our scientific knowledge (not "The Science").
I'm not talking about anything exotic. I'm talking about eating only when hungry, not abusing substances or eating junk/wheat, being in motion, avoiding meds. accepting that old people die.
That's all good, I have no problem with that whatsoever. I'm talking about specific "healing modalities" that are highly touted and unlike the common sense things that you mention, can be quite costly.
Eating only when hungry does not work for some people. I am finally getting enough sleep (after 20+ years of poor quality sleep) due to THC and I have found my appetite often nonexistent. I had to force myself to eat supper last night because if I don't eat I ruin my sleep in other ways (like getting up too often to pee, and getting up for me is best described as an ordeal). Who knew that THC was a diet drug? [joke, people, joke]
For those who would insist that if I just did XYZ (which is what I dislike about "alternative" practitioners), I have been butchered by surgeons which has left me seriously disabled, as well as 20+ years of nearly constant stress which has left me with serious adrenal issues. But my gut, my heart, my brain, work very well, and I do stay active physically though wobbily.
this is very impressive old timer, god bless you sir. Your words have actually inspred me to take some longer walks and do a few more push ups everyday.
BRAVO bud❗ your discipline is awe-inspiring❗my devotion to swivel-aided pushups 2x/wk pales😐. I limit my walks this time of year to under an hour during peak UV.
May you enjoy full vitality and mobility for as long as you care to😀👍❗
In my entire life, I have never had a primary care physician (PCP). Did I, here and there, "go to the doctor"? Yes, but with perhaps one exception, it was always "one and done" for a specific reason. Did I list a PCP for insurance purposes, but never see the person? Yes. I went for 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 without having a doctor or seeing one -- and as a woman, I'm 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 to have my parts checked year in and year out, doncha know? Honestly, decades ago, I began to see doctors as weirdos and started calling them "disease hunters." Really. I began to think that there was something wrong with 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. I think the Covid® operation has proved my hypothesis beyond doubt.
I have to have a PCP in order to get thyroid hormones my body does not produce (think of it like type 1 diabetics who don't make insulin). However, I think for myself and don't listen if he spews nonsense (he's a true believer in vaccines, groan).
Thank you, Joan. You're welcome. As a kid, I probably saw "the doctor" more frequently, but even that was kind of rare. My parents only had major medical insurance; insurance for major medical problems like broken limbs, deep wounds, serious diagnoses. So. "Going to the doctor" was something done only when something actually happened and not just because...I'm old enough that I was spared the horrendous "childhood 'vaccine' 'schedule.'"
I think if I had to I could probably count the number of times, as an adult, that I've gone to the doctor. One of those times was when my husband insisted that I really did need to see the PCP that I'd picked out for insurance -- "just in case." Just in case what?? Anyway, for him I went -- and that was the last time -- 2003 -- aside from a formal eye exam in 2016 (?) and then a year later with a different PCP (after my husband found her; she was an associate of his PCP 😂 ) for a severe back injury. Saw her once for the initial, then a follow-up -- and then never again. (Fixed myself through Egoscue followed by chiropractic.) Last time I went anywhere near the white coats.
Conversation with my primary who I see once a year:
Doc: your cholesterol is too high and you need a statin.
Me: I will never take a statin. I’ll change my diet and take a few supplements. See you in three months.
Doc: *rolls eyes* fine, but everyone says that and never does it.
Me: I’m not everybody
THREE MONTHS LATER
Doc: well, your cholesterol came down 75 points.
Me: see, I told you I’d get it down.
Doc: it’s still too high (202) you need a statin.
Me: *walking out the door* I will never take a statin.
Doc: See you in three months
Me: No, you won’t.
***I’m 65-years-old, 5’10”, 148, walk five miles six days a week and work out at a power lifting gym with a personal trainer three days a week. My body fat percentage is 19%. I take zero meds. And she still looks for problems and issues. I guess I’m just too healthy for her?
Exactly. We had the BMI conversation and I shared with her that BMI is a useless number. It doesn’t account for muscle mass. Just weight/height. Which anyone with a brain should know is meaningless. I’ve know MANY “skinny fat” people.
She nodded and agreed with the BMI vs. Body Fat % argument.
At my first visit with her about two years ago, chosen because she didn’t push the poison jab or require masking, she told me I was the healthiest patient she had in her practice. But she still tried to push the statins. It must be a $$$ thing foisted on them through corporate. I’m now switching to a small MD practice that is one doctor/no corporate overlord and very focused on a whole health model of diet/exercise/natural healing I’m hoping for a better fit.
My former plumber was given statins which caused him tremendous pain. He fortunately talked with a friend who had had the same response so he stopped the drug. He asked the doctor if she was getting a kickback, something I wish more people would do. (Because they are.)
Exactly. I got a call last week from Cigna-my Medicare provider- wanting to schedule my “annual” physical. I told them I just had my “annual” physical in July. “No worries”, he said, “it’s time for another one.”
I asked him if he understood what “annual” meant, thanked him for his call and promptly disconnected the call. They WANT US SICK AND DEPENDENT!!
Agree. Avoid all medicine (pharmaceuticals, physicians, "healthcare") as much as possible. Use critical thinking and not preventative medicine flow charts produced by big Pharma for the government.
I agree. After fighting with my doctor over my blood pressure, I had a 24-hour blood pressure test, and my average was 133/84 and overnight it was 118/70. I didn't think that was too high, but the doctor prescribed me pills, and when I said is that really necessary, he asked do you want to have a heart attack.😕
It seems like you have normal blood pressure! They changed the guidelines and end posts for high blood pressure. This automatically increased those diagnosed with high blood pressure to almost half the US population. As you age, your blood pressure will naturally increase, but they are still recommending drugs. Big pharma influence? My 88 year old mother's blood pressure gets so low, she gets dizzy and increases her likelihood of falling. The doctor says she needs it to stay under 130/80. Ridiculous.
Our society's idea of "preventive" care is is to subject the body to pills and procedures that cause the problems in the first place. There is no reverence or even respect for the awe-inspiring creation that is the human body, just the engrained belief that we cannot survive without all of these interventions, from birth onward.
It’s probably about high time I see a doctor for a checkup but I have lost all but maybe 1 percent of faith in anything medical related. Admittedly I took a flu shot from 1996-2019 but never will again. I won’t take any kind of OTC medicine. The whole plandemic has completely flipped my way of thinking that even my wife- who was stridently against any Covid shot or an annual flu shot for that matter- thinks I’ve gone too far. Ok, maybe I’m paranoid. I told her I trust no one and demand veritable and concrete proof of results before engaging in any activities recommended, suggested, advised, proposed or ‘mandated’ by so-called experts. A couple or few capital letters after your name mean nothing to me. My trust is gone forever. And I don’t forgive. Sorry.
In Lynne Farrow's book she writes about women who told their doctors, "If you can't tell me what caused my breast cancer I am not following your 'treatment.' " They then rid themselves of their cystic breasts or cancerous tumors on their own.
When it comes to the blood glucose serum test, part of your metabolic panel, it is like a snapshot. It freezes the moment in time of the blood draw.
The A1C test, however, is like a movie. It indicates how your body has been processing sugars long term.
My glucose test always bumps the high end of the scale but my A1C is perfectly normal. So no worries. Yours is likely the same.
I had a family doc I liked. He understood me and we got along well. He left his practice. Stuck. I picked a guy I’d heard good things about. “He’s not seeing new patients” said the gatekeepers. So I wound up throwing a dart. Regretted it.
This new doc didn’t even open my EMR to look at my test results which echo yours when he started pressuring me hard to take Statins. He tried every trick on the book to scare me. I was very uncomfortable, basically told him to pound salt and never saw him again.
So I phoned a buddy who is also an MD. Well he used to be my pal for over 25yrs until we had a falling out over covid but that’s another story. I explained my strange encounter to him.
He told me that Doctors were being pressured hard to prescribe Statins to patients over 50 regardless of test results. He said they’d been told “studies show” a supposed major health benefit. He didn’t buy it. Neither did I.
Among the laundry list of Statin side effects one of the top is tiredness and muscle pain. People are obese enough. So they’re going to put society on a drug that turns them into couch potatoes then scold them for not getting exercise and being fat. Brilliant. I suppose then they’ll prescribe Ozempic.
“Jane, get me off this crazy thing!” comes to mind.
As a sidebar to the obsession with Cholesterol I used to work at a major cardiac hospital. Best in the country, probably the world. Our cardiac surgeons had reached the point where they’d become very skeptical of the notion of cholesterol as a marker for heart disease.
Point is we’d been beating the cholesterol drum for 50 years and heart disease is still the number one killer. Treating cholesterol hasn’t done anything to curb mortality.
Internally the focus was changing to inflammation as the root cause of atherosclerotic disease.
The new theory that supplants cholesterol is that everyone’s body goes through inflammatory cycles which are normal. Without inflammation your body cannot heal itself. However, too much inflammation over time roughens the smooth walls inside vessels causing plaques to build up and calcification to ensue.
Many of our docs were touting the Mediterranean diet rich in olive oils and staying away from refined sugar and processed foods to their patients. I trust these guys (and gals) because surgeons, unlike their counterparts in Cardiology, have little skin in the pharmaceutical game.
When it comes to vaccinations hospitals insist on them for their staff. Because a little known fact is our illustrious government snuck a little tidbit in Obamacare whereby if they don’t achieve 80% compliance their Medicare reimbursement is cut 5%. I’m unsure if similar “incentives” trickle down to patient compliance. But it wouldn’t surprise me.
Lastly, were you aware there is an ICD10 code for being non-covid vaccinated? Z28.310. So we are being tracked. Never has there ever been a tracking code for non compliance of any vaccine or drug. Ever. Your guess is as good as mine for why this was deemed necessary. Personally I find it extraordinarily creepy.
Throw away your credit cards and electronic devices. Don’t buy a new car or purchase anything with the prefix Smart or Connected in its name. Then the only thing you’ll have to worry about tracking you are the myriad of cameras/scanners on poles and police cars throughout your city and your utility company involuntarily hooking you up to their smart meters. A burner phone, cash, and living off the grid are the only ways to avoid tracking. But don’t worry, they’re working hard to eliminate them.
We’re well on our way - I ditched my cellphone, use only a landline now.
The automated license plate scanners bug me to no end tho. Local news bubble-headed bleach blondes chirping happily about how a local shopping center is “safer” cuz they are “monitoring” who enters and leaves now. Argh.
Doing my best to not comply with any of it.
Son was home on leave from Marine Corps last Xmas and we received a camera ticket because car he was driving was registered to us and allegedly didn’t have insurance. (In fact it *did* - he had his own insurance but we don’t pay for a policy for the car only he drove.)
Despite the Orwellian warning, we ignored it and no actual citation was ever issued.
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You and I think alike. They use the same tactics with every Orwellian program. The scamdemic really brought it to the forefront. They use safety and convenience to enslave us.
Questioning makes you instantly “Anti”. An insensitive Neanderthal. I’ve had every vaccination and so have my kids. But saying no to the coronavax makes me an overarching anti-vaxxer. A vaccine hesitant clown.
Question the Ukraine war and you’re a pro-Russia communist. But do give a nod to Chinese communism because they’re our business partner.
If you question Netanyahu‘s motives you’re totally anti-Israel.
They carpet bomb skepticism to keep us on track. They do the same tactics with surveillance in all its guises.
All bullshit to lead us by the nose to serfdom. Sadly, it appears to me that most people don’t even see it or question it anymore.
Nothing pleases our masters more than our inability to have civil discussions about important topics without it devolving into a shouting match. From their perspective that’s the sign of a job well done.
Medical insurance doubles or triples the cost of health care (if you can call it that). If my forced medicare coverage ever demands I need a yearly physical, I am out. The modern stone age medical mafia is a plague upon the existence of mankind. It may be only viable in an emergency and just enough to keep you alive so you can re-exit the system before they murder you.
Telling people that sunlight is bad for them is one of the biggest cons in the history of the world. How can the thing that gives life to every creature on this planet be bad for you? The days in which I receive less sunlight than I should are the days I feel the worst, nothing better than going out in the sun to help improve your mental/physical health. I think that's one of the main reasons they wanted people to "shelter in place" and cracked down on anyone who attempted to hit up a beach or the local park, take away sunlight and peoples' health goes in the toilet.
Dr Brownstein in his video about iodine and the thyroid asked how many of the audience members worried about sun exposure when they were children (and imbibing iodine through bread, a far better carrier than salt). I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, and we never even thought about it!
I go to my PCP once a year in the fall. On my last visit a few weeks ago, flu, shingles and tetanus* shots were suggested. No, no and no thank you. She hasn't mentioned the clot shots since 2021 when I told her I will lose my job before I would take it.
*They sell you on a tetanus shot but there is no tetanus shot. If you comply, they give you a DTaP shot instead.
I used to have a tetanus shot since I live in the country, the people who owned my house threw all their trash outdoors including rusty nails, but I got that damned DTaP shot last time, had a huge allergic reaction, and remembered my holistic vet's advice: NEVER EVER have or give more than one vaccination at a time (holistic vets call bad reactions "vaccinosis"). The kitten from the shelter who was given every poison known to man died at 3 years of age; the kitten who showed up at our house and only received holistic treatment is 13 years old and very healthy. (And now I've got the most difficult dog I've ever rescued, four months in the shelter and filled with crap such as gabapentin and SSRIs. I'm trying to find out if the drugs damaged her kidneys because she's grown but has to pee constantly like a puppy.)
Good for you for saying no to the BP, cholesterol and other "helpful" Rx that only cause problems and are totally unnecessary. I have high cholesterol- it's a familial trait. My parents were on statins for years and they felt awful. They still live to be in their early/mid 90s- probably would have lived longer if they had not been on Rx for this- I just had my check up also. I was asked three times by two assistants and the Dr. if I had my flu shot. No, no, and no. Thankfully covid was NEVER brought up. I turned 70 a couple of months ago- had hip replacement 7 weeks ago and am getting ready for a 20 mile mountain bike ride this morning ( did the same thing on Tuesday). Walked 3.5 yesterday and swam a mile and a half on Monday and will do the same tomorrow. I weigh 130 and get into the weight room 3x week. Have been doing this since I was in my 20s and have hada some setbacks this last year as I had a brain tumor removed (acoustic neuroma)- but I feel my fitness level helped me recover so much quicker than had I been sedentary. My Dr. bought into (literally) the covid scam- he's from India and actually said "people are dying in the streets" early on. I kept my mouth shut but he knows where I stand and I know HE knows I was right all along...so we get along. Keep up the great body and mind work! :-)
How long will it be before all medicine deemed appropriate from the powers that be, will be REQUIRED if you want to eat! Never in my life time did I think this control over our lives was possible.I'm living in the twilight zone.
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Comparatively, the $741 Billion (2021 revenue) the Defense Industry pulled in makes them a laggard. They're also far behind in people killed. If asked, they'd say, "Working on it."
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Insurance, any kind of insurance allows people to transfer the burden of their stupidity to everybody else that participates in the whole mess.
Stupid drivers, stupid homeowners, stupid health choices......insurance is just plain stupid.
OAN, In my area, we've had numerous car/Amish buggy crashes, all in daylight and all the fault of the vehicle drivers.
As a friend, I'm personally involved in two of them trying to get the insurance companies to pay for the totaled buggies.
In one instance, I've called the company three times to request that they visit the people that were hit in order to make an assessment and settle for the amount of the repairs.
We've been waiting for a year and a half and no agent has shown up.
I suspect that the scumbag insurance company knows that ultimately, the Amish won't pursue legal action and are waiting for them to give up.
During the plandemic we were thrown out of a hospital for refusing masks. Our doctors refused to see us if we didn’t muzzle up so we said “see ya!” We found two nurse practitioners with their own practice who weren’t on board with the plandemic lies and who hired nurses fleeing from the corrupt disease management system. Naturally our medical insurance doesn’t cover the cost so we pay for our insurance plus our HEALTH care.
Thanks for another great post. May you and your wife have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Excellent post and all true. I'm 70 and walk 11 miles per day, 5-6 days a week, do 700 military pushups as well, do my yard and garden, but at a lower level than you do, take some supplements, and just watch what I eat, indulging myself on occasion with pecan pie and/or ice cream. I'm 5'10', 176-184 and have been for many years. Played all types of sports and surfed all over both coasts, Mexico, and Australia, and like you, have had my share of injuries, but none serious, just dislocations, broken bones and torn muscles.
Like you, I wish I had all those hundreds of thousands of dollars I paid in premiums so I could have disposed of them any way I wanted and buying just catastrophic coverage. But insurance isn't about health, it's about power and greed. You've written mightily and accurately about this scam and genocide over the Wuhan virus. "Health care" by the socialists has only been partially about that: it's about control and those who administer it can play God and and at the same time, get rich.
Thanks again for writing the truth and sharing it with those of us who will read and think about your points. Slowly, populations everywhere are realizing the harm pharma/government/health industry industries have caused and it is writings like yours that expose it.
Danny Huckabee
Danny, that's a very impressive regimen. You're exercising much harder than I am. I do 300 push-ups a week. I feel like that's enough. I think part of the reason I can still run, skate and throw well--though not as well as I did a few years ago--is that I've mixed in some rest. My joints hurt not at all. But maybe my lazy streak is wider than I think it is.
I've dabbled in surfing and would love to learn from you. I've never lived near the ocean, such that I could be there consistently. And I do wonder about getting more big doses of sunlight.
I wonder how many people are re-thinking medicine. Some are, but so many are true believers. They feel that only their meds and doctors are keeping them alive. When I suggest to them that the shots hurt and kill people and that many CV deaths were medical malpractice, they become outright angry.
I think quality sleep and enough of it go hand in hand with an active life, as does being outside as much as possible (that's where I have room for improvement). I learned fairly recently that both early morning sunlight and the light of sunset are especially beneficial.
Glorious dawn and spectacular sunset is also good for the soul.
The Golden Hours.
Pls excuse the crosspost from Coffee & Covid, but what I said yesterday is right on point with your comments.
"Thanks for saying so, Annie.
I'm 61 (wife is 55) have no health insurance or monthly premiums since we dropped it this year. We decided to stop funding the Medical-Industrial-Pharm Complex and take care of ourselves instead.
I wish people would stop participating - stop with the annual checkups (which they do because their insurance requires it) and free themselves. You DON'T NEED constant prescriptions, You don't need annual checkups. Eat healthy and go outside everyday. Kill your television set and throw your cellphone in the trash.
Leave your pharmaceutical chains on the ground, and LIVE LIFE, PEOPLE!
Guess who's going on an extended European vacation next month! Think about what you can do with the thousands of dollars you now spend to keep Big Pharma stock prices from collapsing."
“Think about what you can do with the thousands of dollars you now spend to keep Big Pharma stock prices from collapsing."
Like maybe investing in breakfast.
I began rethinking 'medicine' or medical system, after a close brush in late 2018, at 60, when I learned I had a degenerative, bi-cuspid heart valve that was about to crapping out. For those familiar, my ejection-fraction was below 30%. Thankfully, almost immediate heart surgery scheduled, but told to be a total couch potato until surgery. The (first) cardiologist also wanted me on a high dose statin, which I did. But then I began reading, research.
In my research, I came across many physicians, doctors, true investigative journalists - Dr. Malcom Kendrick, Maryanne Demasi for example, about the take over of medicine by Pharma and captured gov't agencies.
After surgery, I questioned the cardiologist about statins. Didn't like his answer and fired him. I've since fired five others...they all want me on a statin but each of them, also want me on some different pharma.
Now, I have a good homeopathic doc. I have a good idea of what supplements work, what exercise works and pretty much eat a real-food diet - not keto, not this or that latest fad...just real food, mostly organic/pasture raised and home cooked, almost nonexistent sugar and no seed oils. I still enjoy my micro-brew ales. I don't stress about cholesterol (another medical/pharma/gov't) scam, BP is good, BMI is fairly good...more importantly, I feel good.
I have a friend who most recent travail is ulcerative colitis. For years she stuffed herself with antibiotics and antiacids, consequently ruining her gut, the foundation of health. I think a lot of the people you mention are kept alive by the medical-industrial complex, but they never think about quality of life and the fact that their docs like to keep people alive to squeeze every last dime out of them.
The Covid fiasco most definitely damaged my trust in the medical system. At the same time I think much of what falls under alternative, holistic or functional medicine is also full of scams and scammers. I'm not going to change anyone's mind but AFAIAC much that gets touted on Substack and elsewhere couldn't possibly be what it's cracked up to be, given our scientific knowledge (not "The Science").
I'm not talking about anything exotic. I'm talking about eating only when hungry, not abusing substances or eating junk/wheat, being in motion, avoiding meds. accepting that old people die.
That's all good, I have no problem with that whatsoever. I'm talking about specific "healing modalities" that are highly touted and unlike the common sense things that you mention, can be quite costly.
Check out The Metabolic Typing Diet (eat what your ancestors ate); he says the same thing.
Eating only when hungry does not work for some people. I am finally getting enough sleep (after 20+ years of poor quality sleep) due to THC and I have found my appetite often nonexistent. I had to force myself to eat supper last night because if I don't eat I ruin my sleep in other ways (like getting up too often to pee, and getting up for me is best described as an ordeal). Who knew that THC was a diet drug? [joke, people, joke]
For those who would insist that if I just did XYZ (which is what I dislike about "alternative" practitioners), I have been butchered by surgeons which has left me seriously disabled, as well as 20+ years of nearly constant stress which has left me with serious adrenal issues. But my gut, my heart, my brain, work very well, and I do stay active physically though wobbily.
Wow! Danny I'm impressed. Good on ya.
this is very impressive old timer, god bless you sir. Your words have actually inspred me to take some longer walks and do a few more push ups everyday.
Embrace the pain!
BRAVO bud❗ your discipline is awe-inspiring❗my devotion to swivel-aided pushups 2x/wk pales😐. I limit my walks this time of year to under an hour during peak UV.
May you enjoy full vitality and mobility for as long as you care to😀👍❗
EdB
In my entire life, I have never had a primary care physician (PCP). Did I, here and there, "go to the doctor"? Yes, but with perhaps one exception, it was always "one and done" for a specific reason. Did I list a PCP for insurance purposes, but never see the person? Yes. I went for 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 without having a doctor or seeing one -- and as a woman, I'm 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒅 to have my parts checked year in and year out, doncha know? Honestly, decades ago, I began to see doctors as weirdos and started calling them "disease hunters." Really. I began to think that there was something wrong with 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎. I think the Covid® operation has proved my hypothesis beyond doubt.
Thank you for another great piece, Mark.
I avoid going to PCPs. And taking PCP.
😂😂😂😂 Wise decision on both counts.
I have to have a PCP in order to get thyroid hormones my body does not produce (think of it like type 1 diabetics who don't make insulin). However, I think for myself and don't listen if he spews nonsense (he's a true believer in vaccines, groan).
The stuff of fallen angels.
Ha! Good one Mark! 🤣
You are rare in this world; thanks for sharing
Thank you, Joan. You're welcome. As a kid, I probably saw "the doctor" more frequently, but even that was kind of rare. My parents only had major medical insurance; insurance for major medical problems like broken limbs, deep wounds, serious diagnoses. So. "Going to the doctor" was something done only when something actually happened and not just because...I'm old enough that I was spared the horrendous "childhood 'vaccine' 'schedule.'"
I think if I had to I could probably count the number of times, as an adult, that I've gone to the doctor. One of those times was when my husband insisted that I really did need to see the PCP that I'd picked out for insurance -- "just in case." Just in case what?? Anyway, for him I went -- and that was the last time -- 2003 -- aside from a formal eye exam in 2016 (?) and then a year later with a different PCP (after my husband found her; she was an associate of his PCP 😂 ) for a severe back injury. Saw her once for the initial, then a follow-up -- and then never again. (Fixed myself through Egoscue followed by chiropractic.) Last time I went anywhere near the white coats.
Conversation with my primary who I see once a year:
Doc: your cholesterol is too high and you need a statin.
Me: I will never take a statin. I’ll change my diet and take a few supplements. See you in three months.
Doc: *rolls eyes* fine, but everyone says that and never does it.
Me: I’m not everybody
THREE MONTHS LATER
Doc: well, your cholesterol came down 75 points.
Me: see, I told you I’d get it down.
Doc: it’s still too high (202) you need a statin.
Me: *walking out the door* I will never take a statin.
Doc: See you in three months
Me: No, you won’t.
***I’m 65-years-old, 5’10”, 148, walk five miles six days a week and work out at a power lifting gym with a personal trainer three days a week. My body fat percentage is 19%. I take zero meds. And she still looks for problems and issues. I guess I’m just too healthy for her?
The approach is very rote. BMI ignores muscle mass.
And cholesterol does some good things for our minds and bodies.
But the same people who bought Coronamania are the statin swallowers.
Exactly. We had the BMI conversation and I shared with her that BMI is a useless number. It doesn’t account for muscle mass. Just weight/height. Which anyone with a brain should know is meaningless. I’ve know MANY “skinny fat” people.
How did she take that Cindy? I would venture to guess that with your regimen you are healthier than she is.
She nodded and agreed with the BMI vs. Body Fat % argument.
At my first visit with her about two years ago, chosen because she didn’t push the poison jab or require masking, she told me I was the healthiest patient she had in her practice. But she still tried to push the statins. It must be a $$$ thing foisted on them through corporate. I’m now switching to a small MD practice that is one doctor/no corporate overlord and very focused on a whole health model of diet/exercise/natural healing I’m hoping for a better fit.
My former plumber was given statins which caused him tremendous pain. He fortunately talked with a friend who had had the same response so he stopped the drug. He asked the doctor if she was getting a kickback, something I wish more people would do. (Because they are.)
How can statins be a money thing at this stage of the game since they're available as generics?
What is the one precursor found to be linked to dementia?
LOW CHOLESTEROL!!!!!
BMR -- basal metabolic rate -- is far more important than BMI, but do they even acknowledge it exists?
Yes, perhaps because she can't tick a statin box and make more money . . . .?
Exactly. I got a call last week from Cigna-my Medicare provider- wanting to schedule my “annual” physical. I told them I just had my “annual” physical in July. “No worries”, he said, “it’s time for another one.”
I asked him if he understood what “annual” meant, thanked him for his call and promptly disconnected the call. They WANT US SICK AND DEPENDENT!!
I got a similar call last year. Maybe it's the new form of crank calls.
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Agree. Avoid all medicine (pharmaceuticals, physicians, "healthcare") as much as possible. Use critical thinking and not preventative medicine flow charts produced by big Pharma for the government.
Excellent advice I also recommend.
I agree. After fighting with my doctor over my blood pressure, I had a 24-hour blood pressure test, and my average was 133/84 and overnight it was 118/70. I didn't think that was too high, but the doctor prescribed me pills, and when I said is that really necessary, he asked do you want to have a heart attack.😕
It seems like you have normal blood pressure! They changed the guidelines and end posts for high blood pressure. This automatically increased those diagnosed with high blood pressure to almost half the US population. As you age, your blood pressure will naturally increase, but they are still recommending drugs. Big pharma influence? My 88 year old mother's blood pressure gets so low, she gets dizzy and increases her likelihood of falling. The doctor says she needs it to stay under 130/80. Ridiculous.
Our society's idea of "preventive" care is is to subject the body to pills and procedures that cause the problems in the first place. There is no reverence or even respect for the awe-inspiring creation that is the human body, just the engrained belief that we cannot survive without all of these interventions, from birth onward.
I always instinctively thought it was wrong to use radiation to try to detect “growths” that can be caused by radiation exposure.
No thanks!
Well now, just put that common sense away. We live in the age of TheScience!
Your comment is PERFECTION. Thank You
It’s probably about high time I see a doctor for a checkup but I have lost all but maybe 1 percent of faith in anything medical related. Admittedly I took a flu shot from 1996-2019 but never will again. I won’t take any kind of OTC medicine. The whole plandemic has completely flipped my way of thinking that even my wife- who was stridently against any Covid shot or an annual flu shot for that matter- thinks I’ve gone too far. Ok, maybe I’m paranoid. I told her I trust no one and demand veritable and concrete proof of results before engaging in any activities recommended, suggested, advised, proposed or ‘mandated’ by so-called experts. A couple or few capital letters after your name mean nothing to me. My trust is gone forever. And I don’t forgive. Sorry.
In Lynne Farrow's book she writes about women who told their doctors, "If you can't tell me what caused my breast cancer I am not following your 'treatment.' " They then rid themselves of their cystic breasts or cancerous tumors on their own.
When it comes to the blood glucose serum test, part of your metabolic panel, it is like a snapshot. It freezes the moment in time of the blood draw.
The A1C test, however, is like a movie. It indicates how your body has been processing sugars long term.
My glucose test always bumps the high end of the scale but my A1C is perfectly normal. So no worries. Yours is likely the same.
I had a family doc I liked. He understood me and we got along well. He left his practice. Stuck. I picked a guy I’d heard good things about. “He’s not seeing new patients” said the gatekeepers. So I wound up throwing a dart. Regretted it.
This new doc didn’t even open my EMR to look at my test results which echo yours when he started pressuring me hard to take Statins. He tried every trick on the book to scare me. I was very uncomfortable, basically told him to pound salt and never saw him again.
So I phoned a buddy who is also an MD. Well he used to be my pal for over 25yrs until we had a falling out over covid but that’s another story. I explained my strange encounter to him.
He told me that Doctors were being pressured hard to prescribe Statins to patients over 50 regardless of test results. He said they’d been told “studies show” a supposed major health benefit. He didn’t buy it. Neither did I.
Among the laundry list of Statin side effects one of the top is tiredness and muscle pain. People are obese enough. So they’re going to put society on a drug that turns them into couch potatoes then scold them for not getting exercise and being fat. Brilliant. I suppose then they’ll prescribe Ozempic.
“Jane, get me off this crazy thing!” comes to mind.
As a sidebar to the obsession with Cholesterol I used to work at a major cardiac hospital. Best in the country, probably the world. Our cardiac surgeons had reached the point where they’d become very skeptical of the notion of cholesterol as a marker for heart disease.
Point is we’d been beating the cholesterol drum for 50 years and heart disease is still the number one killer. Treating cholesterol hasn’t done anything to curb mortality.
Internally the focus was changing to inflammation as the root cause of atherosclerotic disease.
The new theory that supplants cholesterol is that everyone’s body goes through inflammatory cycles which are normal. Without inflammation your body cannot heal itself. However, too much inflammation over time roughens the smooth walls inside vessels causing plaques to build up and calcification to ensue.
Many of our docs were touting the Mediterranean diet rich in olive oils and staying away from refined sugar and processed foods to their patients. I trust these guys (and gals) because surgeons, unlike their counterparts in Cardiology, have little skin in the pharmaceutical game.
When it comes to vaccinations hospitals insist on them for their staff. Because a little known fact is our illustrious government snuck a little tidbit in Obamacare whereby if they don’t achieve 80% compliance their Medicare reimbursement is cut 5%. I’m unsure if similar “incentives” trickle down to patient compliance. But it wouldn’t surprise me.
Lastly, were you aware there is an ICD10 code for being non-covid vaccinated? Z28.310. So we are being tracked. Never has there ever been a tracking code for non compliance of any vaccine or drug. Ever. Your guess is as good as mine for why this was deemed necessary. Personally I find it extraordinarily creepy.
They can't track you if you never go to the doctor.
Throw away your credit cards and electronic devices. Don’t buy a new car or purchase anything with the prefix Smart or Connected in its name. Then the only thing you’ll have to worry about tracking you are the myriad of cameras/scanners on poles and police cars throughout your city and your utility company involuntarily hooking you up to their smart meters. A burner phone, cash, and living off the grid are the only ways to avoid tracking. But don’t worry, they’re working hard to eliminate them.
Just so.
We’re well on our way - I ditched my cellphone, use only a landline now.
The automated license plate scanners bug me to no end tho. Local news bubble-headed bleach blondes chirping happily about how a local shopping center is “safer” cuz they are “monitoring” who enters and leaves now. Argh.
Doing my best to not comply with any of it.
Son was home on leave from Marine Corps last Xmas and we received a camera ticket because car he was driving was registered to us and allegedly didn’t have insurance. (In fact it *did* - he had his own insurance but we don’t pay for a policy for the car only he drove.)
Despite the Orwellian warning, we ignored it and no actual citation was ever issued.
You and I think alike. They use the same tactics with every Orwellian program. The scamdemic really brought it to the forefront. They use safety and convenience to enslave us.
Questioning makes you instantly “Anti”. An insensitive Neanderthal. I’ve had every vaccination and so have my kids. But saying no to the coronavax makes me an overarching anti-vaxxer. A vaccine hesitant clown.
Question the Ukraine war and you’re a pro-Russia communist. But do give a nod to Chinese communism because they’re our business partner.
If you question Netanyahu‘s motives you’re totally anti-Israel.
They carpet bomb skepticism to keep us on track. They do the same tactics with surveillance in all its guises.
All bullshit to lead us by the nose to serfdom. Sadly, it appears to me that most people don’t even see it or question it anymore.
Nothing pleases our masters more than our inability to have civil discussions about important topics without it devolving into a shouting match. From their perspective that’s the sign of a job well done.
A Japanese cardiology clinic did a study on statins (30,000 patients) and found they interfere with mitochondrial function and damage the heart.
They are indeed a nasty drug IMHO.
got it right here😀👍
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Medical insurance doubles or triples the cost of health care (if you can call it that). If my forced medicare coverage ever demands I need a yearly physical, I am out. The modern stone age medical mafia is a plague upon the existence of mankind. It may be only viable in an emergency and just enough to keep you alive so you can re-exit the system before they murder you.
Mark - Dr. Mercola had an article recently about sun exposure. It’s much more beneficial than what we’ve always been told. https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/sun-exposure-health-benefits
Good. Because I've had plenty. And like it.
Thanks for the link, Laura.
Telling people that sunlight is bad for them is one of the biggest cons in the history of the world. How can the thing that gives life to every creature on this planet be bad for you? The days in which I receive less sunlight than I should are the days I feel the worst, nothing better than going out in the sun to help improve your mental/physical health. I think that's one of the main reasons they wanted people to "shelter in place" and cracked down on anyone who attempted to hit up a beach or the local park, take away sunlight and peoples' health goes in the toilet.
Sunlight good
It's the "peak hours" that pose risk, roughly 10-2, so get a shirt, hat and sunglasses... and get outdoors.
Fresh air and contact with the Earth.
Dr Brownstein in his video about iodine and the thyroid asked how many of the audience members worried about sun exposure when they were children (and imbibing iodine through bread, a far better carrier than salt). I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, and we never even thought about it!
I go to my PCP once a year in the fall. On my last visit a few weeks ago, flu, shingles and tetanus* shots were suggested. No, no and no thank you. She hasn't mentioned the clot shots since 2021 when I told her I will lose my job before I would take it.
*They sell you on a tetanus shot but there is no tetanus shot. If you comply, they give you a DTaP shot instead.
I used to have a tetanus shot since I live in the country, the people who owned my house threw all their trash outdoors including rusty nails, but I got that damned DTaP shot last time, had a huge allergic reaction, and remembered my holistic vet's advice: NEVER EVER have or give more than one vaccination at a time (holistic vets call bad reactions "vaccinosis"). The kitten from the shelter who was given every poison known to man died at 3 years of age; the kitten who showed up at our house and only received holistic treatment is 13 years old and very healthy. (And now I've got the most difficult dog I've ever rescued, four months in the shelter and filled with crap such as gabapentin and SSRIs. I'm trying to find out if the drugs damaged her kidneys because she's grown but has to pee constantly like a puppy.)
Good for you for saying no to the BP, cholesterol and other "helpful" Rx that only cause problems and are totally unnecessary. I have high cholesterol- it's a familial trait. My parents were on statins for years and they felt awful. They still live to be in their early/mid 90s- probably would have lived longer if they had not been on Rx for this- I just had my check up also. I was asked three times by two assistants and the Dr. if I had my flu shot. No, no, and no. Thankfully covid was NEVER brought up. I turned 70 a couple of months ago- had hip replacement 7 weeks ago and am getting ready for a 20 mile mountain bike ride this morning ( did the same thing on Tuesday). Walked 3.5 yesterday and swam a mile and a half on Monday and will do the same tomorrow. I weigh 130 and get into the weight room 3x week. Have been doing this since I was in my 20s and have hada some setbacks this last year as I had a brain tumor removed (acoustic neuroma)- but I feel my fitness level helped me recover so much quicker than had I been sedentary. My Dr. bought into (literally) the covid scam- he's from India and actually said "people are dying in the streets" early on. I kept my mouth shut but he knows where I stand and I know HE knows I was right all along...so we get along. Keep up the great body and mind work! :-)
How long will it be before all medicine deemed appropriate from the powers that be, will be REQUIRED if you want to eat! Never in my life time did I think this control over our lives was possible.I'm living in the twilight zone.
The ACA was sold as free healthcare for all. Actually, it's a boondoggle designed by Healthcare to massively benefit itself.
Yes, $1.8 trillion/year is hardly "revenue neutral."
Comparatively, the $741 Billion (2021 revenue) the Defense Industry pulled in makes them a laggard. They're also far behind in people killed. If asked, they'd say, "Working on it."
Hahaha. I'd forgotten that particular lie.
Exactly !
Insurance, any kind of insurance allows people to transfer the burden of their stupidity to everybody else that participates in the whole mess.
Stupid drivers, stupid homeowners, stupid health choices......insurance is just plain stupid.
OAN, In my area, we've had numerous car/Amish buggy crashes, all in daylight and all the fault of the vehicle drivers.
As a friend, I'm personally involved in two of them trying to get the insurance companies to pay for the totaled buggies.
In one instance, I've called the company three times to request that they visit the people that were hit in order to make an assessment and settle for the amount of the repairs.
We've been waiting for a year and a half and no agent has shown up.
I suspect that the scumbag insurance company knows that ultimately, the Amish won't pursue legal action and are waiting for them to give up.
"insurance is just plain stupid.'
Insurance is a scam and total grift.
Ditto Mark. Well said. My husband and I concur.
During the plandemic we were thrown out of a hospital for refusing masks. Our doctors refused to see us if we didn’t muzzle up so we said “see ya!” We found two nurse practitioners with their own practice who weren’t on board with the plandemic lies and who hired nurses fleeing from the corrupt disease management system. Naturally our medical insurance doesn’t cover the cost so we pay for our insurance plus our HEALTH care.
Thanks for another great post. May you and your wife have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Thanks, JTW.
That's what so much of the past 44 months have been about: finding the sane people.
Another great read Mark.
Some great quotables in here: "conduct based insurance nullification." I like that.
Rember also, that the powers that be isolated and wrecked the lives of the elderly as well.
Terrifying them and isolating them from their friends and relatives, or making them die alone and in fear.
Those in power should never be forgiven for that, nor should the dcotors and nurses who enforced it.
Good reminder, Harry. Thanks.