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).
Yes I went to an osteopath who didn't tell me anything I didn't know, but was good to have my self diagnosis confirmed; of wear and tear arthritis in my knees (years and years of step aerobics- which if I had my time again I would still have done!)
I also am totally sold on the benefits of someone giving you their undivided attention whether it's polarity, stones or any other kind of non-touch treatment, and also of massage as often as possible. I had my first massage for ages at a retreat recently and had forgotten how amazing, life affirming, healing and magical it is.
You've just hit on something. There are benefits that everyone receives (and not just certain needy people) from undivided attention. This probably is one of the biggest factors in all the loneliness we're seeing today, especially as life is almost totally a virtual experience.
Yes, it wan't until replying to your comment I remembered how healing it is. And yes, our interactions are becoming more and more virtual, it can only get worse unless we decide to head in a different direction.
Good post. I agree it is basically the same thing.
Take this heart medicine it will help your heart and ruin your liver.
So we will throw in this liver medicine that will fix that right up, but it may damage your kidneys.
Don't threat, we can give you this pill and it'll help your kidneys stay working just fine. It just tends to make your bones brittle. So to counter that take this serum it strengthens your bones but it's not that good for your heart...
Now sign this credit application and put down your $1000 dollar deposit and see if you qualify for our super low interest repayment scheme.
And oh I want you to come back in 60 days and we can see how well it's working.
I've not heard of either of those. I don't think we have an equivalent to Jiffy Lube, what a brilliant name. I assume you mean somewhere cheap and cheerful and not necessarily built to last x
Its easier to hope for a magic pill that to take responsibility for ones own situation.....thats the American way.....the doctor recommended that i take statin drugs for cholesterol rather than recommending that I loose weight....i said i would never take a statin and still no other healthy suggestions were offered....drug pushers they are!
I believe that to be the case for MY dad, too. That whole cholesterol issue was a fraud!
But he's damaged, and now my mother is on them IF she remembers to take them... see my comment above... There's so much evidence out there, accessible, even, to have enough doubt to STOP prescribing them!! But no. Sooooooo EVIL....
I was forced by a judge not to try to get my mother off the statins she was prescribed for no fucking reason, and she's circling the dementia drain as I write this... Not that statins are the ONLY possibility, but... the timing of the prescription, and other issues... It's really hard to be pushed back by a judge -- who takes STATINS-- when you know it's sheer profit-driven quackery... Sigh.
I read your comments with interest but I am not at all certain that a vegan diet is the most healthy diet. There is scientific evidence that human beings do better if they eat high animal fats and reduce carbohydrates. There has also been gagging of academics who publish such data - for example Professor Tim Peake. I agree that we need to eat whole food freshly prepared; exercise; sleep; have sufficient rest; avoid pharmaceutical products. But animal fats have a bad press and the current trend towards a non-meat diet is not good for human health and not good for the environment in my opinion - based on scientific and academic papers that I have read over the years.
thank you for reading and for your concern. I think this is kinda my point, not to trust what anyone else says.
As far as I knowTim Peake wasn't gagged, only told not to give medical advice in a professional capacity in something,I think it was nutrition for breast feeding mothers, that he was deemed unqualified to give.
I know longer place any confidence in the 'scientific' arguments or what doctors or experts say. I know that the animal agriculture industry is heavily subsidised by tax payer money and that they deliberately set out to design experiments and fund particular researchers to show that, for example, saturated fats aren't as damaging as first thought.,even saying that now they are beneficial and vegans lack them!! Thousands of post mortems and my own and many others experience begs to differ.
I've been a vegan 8 years through out which time it had a very bad press indeed. I was blamed for cutting down the rainforest and goodness knows what else. It is only recently that MSM has changed, though they are all for eating insects aren't they, which is not meat free.
I've it's in the press, I don't trust it, and the powers that be are perfectly capable of using reverse psychology! Just because they say something is bad, like banning IVM for example, has created a market for it (the first Stand in the park seeing I went to, two separate people tried to sell me IVM, for what I asked, I'm in no danger!), doesn't mean it's good and we should rush out and pop it like sweets! https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/ivermectin
Hiya if you're referring to the blood type diet like that of J D'Adamo, no evidence for it has been found in the literature as no one has ever tested it https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23697707/
I love how organic food is smeared as being elitist and it turns out its probably the best way to try to avoid glysophate resistant engineered crops and food. The organic food is probably the closest to the 'plain old food' we used to eat as kids.
Before the pandemic I wanted medicare for all because I have crappy insurance through obamacare and in my head I didn't think my access to hospitals should be decided through my job. Now I'm not sure I'd want to go to the hospital versus accepting my fate at home anyway.
Anybody read 'The China Study'? An interesting read for anyone how has grown skeptical of mainstream narratives and medicine.
yes yes yes. The food our parents ate especially if our gran parents had allotments which most of them did, was so much more full of nutrients, no gmo's and no glyphosate or pesticides. Organic is definilty the way to go, and I raise you regeneratively grown, like the old days with cover crops and fallow periods. we seem to have forgotten everything sensible we ever knew.
I'm with you on hospitals. I worked in them for 25 years and loved the camaraderie, but I wouldn't go into one as a patient, unless I have broken bones I'll take my chances.
Yes I have read the China Study, well the short version. It's brilliant. And also interesting how MSM tried to say it had been debunked. which is never has been in any peer reviewed journal.
I agree with everything you're saying, except that being vegan is necessarily a good thing.
Maybe it's not a terrible thing, but...
I'm more inclined to say it's pretty much everything else rather than eating meat or animal products. I love animals, too, dearly, dearly, and I would FIX that horrible commodity thing today, if I were Queen of All... But ... 1 + 1 cannot equal 3 or 5-- There's some other missing numbers, in my opinion. I've been a food and nutrition researcher for years. Not convinced about veganism. I AM convinced about corporatized food "production" and CAFO's ...
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).
Yes I went to an osteopath who didn't tell me anything I didn't know, but was good to have my self diagnosis confirmed; of wear and tear arthritis in my knees (years and years of step aerobics- which if I had my time again I would still have done!)
I also am totally sold on the benefits of someone giving you their undivided attention whether it's polarity, stones or any other kind of non-touch treatment, and also of massage as often as possible. I had my first massage for ages at a retreat recently and had forgotten how amazing, life affirming, healing and magical it is.
Jo
Inflammation seems to be a HUGE problem for so many...
Sorry to hear your knees are troubling... I'm trying various things, such as turmeric...
they don't really trouble so much, I eat ginger and turmeric regularly, it's just that they hurt bit after a lot of dancing x
Blessings to you, Cousin. xo
I do relate and ... I won't stop dancing! ^_^
You've just hit on something. There are benefits that everyone receives (and not just certain needy people) from undivided attention. This probably is one of the biggest factors in all the loneliness we're seeing today, especially as life is almost totally a virtual experience.
Yes, it wan't until replying to your comment I remembered how healing it is. And yes, our interactions are becoming more and more virtual, it can only get worse unless we decide to head in a different direction.
🙏🏽
Good post. I agree it is basically the same thing.
Take this heart medicine it will help your heart and ruin your liver.
So we will throw in this liver medicine that will fix that right up, but it may damage your kidneys.
Don't threat, we can give you this pill and it'll help your kidneys stay working just fine. It just tends to make your bones brittle. So to counter that take this serum it strengthens your bones but it's not that good for your heart...
Now sign this credit application and put down your $1000 dollar deposit and see if you qualify for our super low interest repayment scheme.
And oh I want you to come back in 60 days and we can see how well it's working.
Quality.
thank you
Yes, health care is not a model of prevention but of causation.
Jo
PROFITS. :(
I have been saying, folks who go to CVS to get an injection probably take their car to Jiffy Lube.
I've not heard of either of those. I don't think we have an equivalent to Jiffy Lube, what a brilliant name. I assume you mean somewhere cheap and cheerful and not necessarily built to last x
Its easier to hope for a magic pill that to take responsibility for ones own situation.....thats the American way.....the doctor recommended that i take statin drugs for cholesterol rather than recommending that I loose weight....i said i would never take a statin and still no other healthy suggestions were offered....drug pushers they are!
OMG! Yes , 100% they are drug pushers. It's also what the testing industry is for.
Well done for resisting statins, my dad was fit and slim as a pin, an arbitrary test and a doctor told him he needed statins, which gave him dementia.
Jo
I believe that to be the case for MY dad, too. That whole cholesterol issue was a fraud!
But he's damaged, and now my mother is on them IF she remembers to take them... see my comment above... There's so much evidence out there, accessible, even, to have enough doubt to STOP prescribing them!! But no. Sooooooo EVIL....
GOOD ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was forced by a judge not to try to get my mother off the statins she was prescribed for no fucking reason, and she's circling the dementia drain as I write this... Not that statins are the ONLY possibility, but... the timing of the prescription, and other issues... It's really hard to be pushed back by a judge -- who takes STATINS-- when you know it's sheer profit-driven quackery... Sigh.
I read your comments with interest but I am not at all certain that a vegan diet is the most healthy diet. There is scientific evidence that human beings do better if they eat high animal fats and reduce carbohydrates. There has also been gagging of academics who publish such data - for example Professor Tim Peake. I agree that we need to eat whole food freshly prepared; exercise; sleep; have sufficient rest; avoid pharmaceutical products. But animal fats have a bad press and the current trend towards a non-meat diet is not good for human health and not good for the environment in my opinion - based on scientific and academic papers that I have read over the years.
Hiya Judith,
thank you for reading and for your concern. I think this is kinda my point, not to trust what anyone else says.
As far as I knowTim Peake wasn't gagged, only told not to give medical advice in a professional capacity in something,I think it was nutrition for breast feeding mothers, that he was deemed unqualified to give.
I know longer place any confidence in the 'scientific' arguments or what doctors or experts say. I know that the animal agriculture industry is heavily subsidised by tax payer money and that they deliberately set out to design experiments and fund particular researchers to show that, for example, saturated fats aren't as damaging as first thought.,even saying that now they are beneficial and vegans lack them!! Thousands of post mortems and my own and many others experience begs to differ.
I've written about the corruption of the 'science' by the meat, dairy, sugar and junk food industries here, https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/whats-the-best-diet
I've been a vegan 8 years through out which time it had a very bad press indeed. I was blamed for cutting down the rainforest and goodness knows what else. It is only recently that MSM has changed, though they are all for eating insects aren't they, which is not meat free.
I've written about this too https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/conversations-about-how-we-produce
I've it's in the press, I don't trust it, and the powers that be are perfectly capable of using reverse psychology! Just because they say something is bad, like banning IVM for example, has created a market for it (the first Stand in the park seeing I went to, two separate people tried to sell me IVM, for what I asked, I'm in no danger!), doesn't mean it's good and we should rush out and pop it like sweets! https://georgiedonny.substack.com/p/ivermectin
thanks again for reading Jo🙏🏽 x
It can also be a blood-type thing. Real food, tho, regardless if meat or no.
Hiya if you're referring to the blood type diet like that of J D'Adamo, no evidence for it has been found in the literature as no one has ever tested it https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23697707/
Jo😺
I am extremely hesitant to trust ANY government entity...
very wise
;)
Agreed, I have the same exact thoughts.
Some random thoughts.
The world is a racket.
I love how organic food is smeared as being elitist and it turns out its probably the best way to try to avoid glysophate resistant engineered crops and food. The organic food is probably the closest to the 'plain old food' we used to eat as kids.
Before the pandemic I wanted medicare for all because I have crappy insurance through obamacare and in my head I didn't think my access to hospitals should be decided through my job. Now I'm not sure I'd want to go to the hospital versus accepting my fate at home anyway.
Anybody read 'The China Study'? An interesting read for anyone how has grown skeptical of mainstream narratives and medicine.
yes yes yes. The food our parents ate especially if our gran parents had allotments which most of them did, was so much more full of nutrients, no gmo's and no glyphosate or pesticides. Organic is definilty the way to go, and I raise you regeneratively grown, like the old days with cover crops and fallow periods. we seem to have forgotten everything sensible we ever knew.
I'm with you on hospitals. I worked in them for 25 years and loved the camaraderie, but I wouldn't go into one as a patient, unless I have broken bones I'll take my chances.
Yes I have read the China Study, well the short version. It's brilliant. And also interesting how MSM tried to say it had been debunked. which is never has been in any peer reviewed journal.
I agree with everything you're saying, except that being vegan is necessarily a good thing.
Maybe it's not a terrible thing, but...
I'm more inclined to say it's pretty much everything else rather than eating meat or animal products. I love animals, too, dearly, dearly, and I would FIX that horrible commodity thing today, if I were Queen of All... But ... 1 + 1 cannot equal 3 or 5-- There's some other missing numbers, in my opinion. I've been a food and nutrition researcher for years. Not convinced about veganism. I AM convinced about corporatized food "production" and CAFO's ...