Perhaps no section title for this site is more oxymoronic than this one, which combines medicine and health. For now this name will hold the space for information related to human health—both ill and good—and the unavoidable intersection with the practice of medicine.
The misfortune for many of us dealing with chronic disease, pain and depressed physical and mental performance is that we are conditioned to seek help from medical professionals, who in turn have been conditioned and trained to intervene with toxic pharmaceutical drugs, radiation-based imaging, a fixation on blood markers, and invasive surgical treatments.
It is not difficult to confuse these types of medical interventions with health. That system has even had the audacity to call itself the health care industry.
Genuine health is not an industry. It is a series of conscious lifestyle choices involving nearly every aspect of life, from where we life to what we eat to how we interact with others in the human race.
Anyone who has lived or grown up on or near a farm in the midwest, will no doubt recognize one of these steel grain storage bins. They come in various sizes and are used to store grain destined for an area storage elevator or feed for livestock. We had several of these bins at…
A recent experience drove home for me that the rotted foundation for explaining AIDS is still trying to support some pretty inexcusable medical practices at local doctors’ offices. My partner Michael is taking a class to get his EMS (Emergency Medical Services) certificate. One of the course requirements is that he get a series…
The Canadian Broadcasting Center (CBC) is doing what the mainstream media does so well for AIDS apologists: repeating inaccurate headlines without reading or thinking: Premature Aging of the Brain Seen in HIV Patients That is simply not what this study reports, and I blogged about it just a few days ago here. It is…
Peter loves all things Pharmaceutical and that is no surprise, considering he apparently lives a pretty good life taking his cut from Pharma profits. As he himself admits, he founded aidsmed.com so he could get off of his low paying disability income. The extent of his sell out is apparent to anyone looking at all the drug ads plastered above his mug on his blog.
Still, his latest post is pretty gauche, even for him. Peter all but begs Gilead, manufacturer of the top selling AIDS drug Atripla, to share some of their ever increasing profits with groups like his. “I certainly hope they’re giving back to affected communities — generously and often,” Peter writes.
Remember 2004 and 2005? The years you couldn’t walk without falling and spraining your ankles? You could no longer climb the stairs in your home without dropping to your hands and knees, and could only come back down by crawling backwards? Do you remember the times you came out of unconsciousness to see the…
Once in a while I come across a piece of writing that resonates so closely with my own experiences that I want to say “I wish I had written that”. Carl Stryg wrote just such an essay recently, published at The Truth Barrier, a website founded by journalist Celia Farber. From the first paragraph,…
What to do when research doesn’t provide the desired results? Conduct another study and change the parameters, of course. According to the AIDS mantra, penetrative sex without latex is the highest risk behavior for transmission of the HI virus. Yet, a recent study from the University of Florida–a state with a greater than usual…
Most people who pursue an “alternative” or natural approach to health will be familiar with the importance of drinking plenty of clean, pure water. Of course, we’re told, tap water in most cities isn’t really that pure. While Kansas City boasts of having some of the best treated water in the country, what comes…
For evidence that overuse of antibiotics and other drugs is causing more health problems than they cure, one need look no further than Norway.~ Antibiotics and MRSA That country embarked on a campaign 25 years ago to eradicate MRSA (antibiotic resistant staph infection) which has proven remarkably successful. A key component of that campaign:…
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