Prevention vs cure and the problem with 'healthcare'
and the real elephant in the room
I first realised the fatal flaws in the ‘health’ system when becoming vegan for animals 8 years ago and I wondered if it was true that I might die! I began researching and became more and more gobsmacked at the absurdity of the medical model.
Imagine if I put the wrong fuel in my car, didn't top up the water and never changed the oil. When it started making weird noises or smells or stopped working altogether I went to the mechanic. She said she wasn’t sure what was wrong with it, but they’d run some tests. She gave me some chemicals to put in the car anyway and told me to come back in two weeks.
It’s been two weeks and the car is worse. I take it back to the mechanic and she says I will have to leave the car in the garage for her to observe. She continues to put in the wrong fuel as well as some more harmful chemicals, lets the battery go flat and doesn’t clean out the oil.
I go back to visit my car and am pretty shocked by what I see.
I decide to take my car home. I do some reading and realise I’ve been putting in the wrong kind of fuel. I learn that the battery will go dead if I don’t regularly go for a spin. Perhaps I don’t do any research at all, I just stop watching the news and ignore the latest discoveries and advice on what to put in cars and listen to my common sense. The car is right as rain almost instantly and all going to the mechanic did was to cost me a lot of money and pain.
I may have another car which runs perfectly well until a seed of doubt is sown and preventative chemicals or tests are recommended. Arbitrary cut offs as to what is normal may make me put more harmful chemicals in to protect the gears, which make the brakes stop working, needing different chemicals, which irreversibly damages the steering.
Real preventative medicine for humans, avoiding tests, vaccines, medications, recreational drugs and excess alcohol, getting good sleep, eating plenty of fresh fruit and veg, leafy greens, beans and whole grains, being in the sunshine and having fun, having someone’s undivided attention is completely safe, very, very effective; though not very lucrative.
Medical style preventative medicine such as cholesterol lowering with statins may be effective at reducing the risk of secondary cardiac events, but is like a mechanic trying to tinker with the engine to make it accommodate using the wrong fuel, instead of putting in the right fuel.
Use of statins are associated with neuropathies, dementia and increased risk of breast cancer. They are very, very lucrative for Pharma. Pfizer’s Lipitor, for example, has made well over $130 billion, yet the US and the UK are fatter, sicker and on more drugs that ever before. Obesity is the biggest risk factor for type 2 diabetes ( on average about 27 diabetic amputations are performed by the NHS every DAY), CVD, kidney disease, some cancers, hypotension and a premature death.
Something happened at the end of 2019 which stopped everyone talking about this, unless in the context of co-morbidities. The main cause of obesity, apart from the rise of convenience and junk food and lack of access to fresh fruit and veg, is the epidemic of loneliness. Pharma style prevention and healthcare made loneliness much, much worse.
Politicians will never make policies or kick the political football of the NHS in such a way that will actually improve our health. We now have all clearly seen, politicians are puppets or shareholders of Pharma. I am so glad that my heart lead me to whole food, regeneratively grown, organic plant diet which healed my depression and enables me to be full of beans, drug and morbidity free, and that I clearly saw the healthcare system for what it is; a money maker.
I am free from health advice and doctors trying to fix something that’s not broken. In order to heal ourselves we need to create supportive face to face communities and increase the prevalence of dancing, sport, fun, hugging, acceptance and forgiveness.
Jo
For the lonely everywhere
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Don't get me wrong, If a person thrives on a vegan diet... Great! And your overall sense about health is spot on. However, those of us who choose a more varied diet can still stay very healthy as well. We just use a different set of rules to judge what keeps us tuned up. IOW, there really is more than one way to live a long, healthy life. Cheers!
Yes, the first course of action when something goes wrong should be to double-check everything you're doing to make sure you're not neglecting or abusing your health. After that, if it doesn't clear up, I always go get it checked out by a non-threatening health professional (my chiropractor usually who can help in various ways and wants me to help myself as much as possible). So far this has worked. But you only learn how far you have to persevere on this path after a drug injury and seeing the doctors take no blame and not be helpful in helping you out other than prescribing more drugs. And along the way they threaten you with ugly consequences (which are exaggerated so that you sign back up for more harmful treatment).