A daily (or close enough to daily) video blog regarding everything from life to philosophy, the human condition and the bits and pieces that make up my life situation.
Yep. Natural Cures by Kevin Trudeau. He lists off a bunch of things one can do to improve the quality of you health. Some people that I have talked to in the past have tried to discredit him by saying, "I bought the book and I opened it up and there was no cures at all" as if they were going to open the book and poof here is the cure for AIDS. Other people have told me "I bought the book and all it said was to go to his website", which is also a load of crap. I have read the book and I can tell you he tells you how the FDA and perscription drug companies work and why it is they are doing it. Then it goes into these guidelines I was talking about and explains why each one of them is important. I reccommend it.
Wow, sounds pretty controversial! I love the stuff you talk about in the beginning - getting around to the truth about your excuses and seeing them as natural outcomes of a series of deliberate choices. There's a lot of power in that kind of ownership over your life and your circumstances.
The health stuff scares me a little more. Certainly there is SO much we don't understand about the ways our bodies work and there's a ton to be explored and learned from. These kinds of "heal thyself" ideas always make me worry though - after working with chronically ill patients for nearly 5 years, I can say the hesitancy to get care even when in dire need is great (for a multitude of reasons). I hate to see more reasons for people to avoid doctors who can truly make all the difference. Look at Asthma and diabetes, for example. Both conditions that have potentially excruciating even deadly consquences, and yet are fairly easily and very effectively managed with base-level medical care. And yet tens of thousands of people die every year because they didn't go to the doctor.
Not quite the same thing, but always a concern of mine. I don't doubt at all the power of positive thinking and especially of taking the control of your care into your own hands, but I've come to view that partnership with your medical team (and not just standard doctors but alternative practictioners as well) as an absolutely vital part of success. With the patient leading the charge of course :)
Yeah, true. And who is to say that we are at a point where our bodies will respond better to our own thoughts than to medicine. If we are becoming more and more dependent on medicine, then naturally our own ability to affect our well being will be weaker by comparison, even though it may still be there.
Definitely not an excuse to NOT see the doctor, but potentially an opportunity to see the doctor less. As with any idea, lifestyle or diet, there are ways to use it incorrectly and I think your examples are great to illustrate that.
Nice new website man. "Natural Cures" touches upon this concept of mind over matter just a bit. I'll have to check out this book your talking about.
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Is that the one that talks about fluoride? Whenever I brush my teeth I still think about what you said about fluoride.
ReplyDeleteYep. Natural Cures by Kevin Trudeau. He lists off a bunch of things one can do to improve the quality of you health. Some people that I have talked to in the past have tried to discredit him by saying, "I bought the book and I opened it up and there was no cures at all" as if they were going to open the book and poof here is the cure for AIDS. Other people have told me "I bought the book and all it said was to go to his website", which is also a load of crap. I have read the book and I can tell you he tells you how the FDA and perscription drug companies work and why it is they are doing it. Then it goes into these guidelines I was talking about and explains why each one of them is important. I reccommend it.
ReplyDeleteWow, sounds pretty controversial! I love the stuff you talk about in the beginning - getting around to the truth about your excuses and seeing them as natural outcomes of a series of deliberate choices. There's a lot of power in that kind of ownership over your life and your circumstances.
ReplyDeleteThe health stuff scares me a little more. Certainly there is SO much we don't understand about the ways our bodies work and there's a ton to be explored and learned from. These kinds of "heal thyself" ideas always make me worry though - after working with chronically ill patients for nearly 5 years, I can say the hesitancy to get care even when in dire need is great (for a multitude of reasons). I hate to see more reasons for people to avoid doctors who can truly make all the difference. Look at Asthma and diabetes, for example. Both conditions that have potentially excruciating even deadly consquences, and yet are fairly easily and very effectively managed with base-level medical care. And yet tens of thousands of people die every year because they didn't go to the doctor.
Not quite the same thing, but always a concern of mine. I don't doubt at all the power of positive thinking and especially of taking the control of your care into your own hands, but I've come to view that partnership with your medical team (and not just standard doctors but alternative practictioners as well) as an absolutely vital part of success. With the patient leading the charge of course :)
Yeah, true. And who is to say that we are at a point where our bodies will respond better to our own thoughts than to medicine. If we are becoming more and more dependent on medicine, then naturally our own ability to affect our well being will be weaker by comparison, even though it may still be there.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely not an excuse to NOT see the doctor, but potentially an opportunity to see the doctor less. As with any idea, lifestyle or diet, there are ways to use it incorrectly and I think your examples are great to illustrate that.