Curing the Root Problem
I do not want to offend; this article is only to provoke thought and possibly some action. Remember, reliance leads to subjectivity, and independence leads to, maintains, and cultivates freedom (and in this case, health).
If we do not embrace prevention, personal responsibility, and cures instead of (early detection and its ensuing counterpart of managing chronic conditions and disease), we are going to have a diseased fiscal problem in this country, as well as continued growth of current and new chronic diseases that sprouted from medicinal side effects.
Pharmaceutical companies have developed drugs that can help us deal with almost any lifestyle choices we have made and want to continue. This has caused many of us to adapt a mentality, that even if we’re not good stewards of our health, the medical system will fix and then maintain us. Out of curiosity I looked up top drug sales and wonder of wonders, it was Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at $55,918,791,640 in 2022 sales. It’s no wonder that natural immunity and therapeutics (to help suppress COVID-19 symptoms) were never embraced by the pharmaceutical or medical community. The great thing in this situation, for the pharmaceutical industry is they were able to turn the government into a gigantic cash-cow customer.
Cardiovascular issues are huge and is the number one killer of Americans, and in 2021, Pfizer (one of the top Covid-19 vaccine marketers), purchased Arena Pharmaceuticals for $6.7 billion gaining control of key cardiovascular treatments. If you recall, there has been lots of myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) issues since the Covid pandemic. In 2007 Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer, announced a worldwide collaboration to develop and commercialize, anticoagulant and metabolic compounds. Do you think maybe they benefit from all the blood clotting issues since the Covid pandemic? Sometimes there does seem the possibility that the provider of solutions may be the causation, (sort of a devil/savior). By the way, Scott Gottlieb, former FDA Commissioner is now on the board of directors of Pfizer.
Treating symptoms: simply treating symptoms is much like being given a bucket and mop to deal with a leaking pipe, instead of using the right tools and material to fix the pipe. Example: when you are told you’re a borderline diabetic, this is most likely is coming from a body growing weary of all the sugars and starches in your diet with very little fiber to slow down the sugar after consumption. A lot of people qualify for drugs such as metformin and other anti-diabetic drugs, and for many it is simply easier to take these drugs than change what they eat. Many of these drugs simply lower your blood sugar to safe levels but are not designed to cure the problem.
Example: If you sprain your ankle, what does it need from you to help it feel better? Does it want a drug in your system to desensitize you to the pain it is feeling? Or would your ankle rather you lighten up the load on it and put a support around it to hold it immobile while it is trying to recover? Masking the pain with a pain pill would probably let you continue putting pressure on this area, further injuring it, but then that makes you a better continuing customer for the pain management industry, right?
When we are told that we can no longer get a medicine or told a certain procedure will not be available for us, it helps us become proactive in doing things that go to the root of the problem. If it is possible to eliminate the root cause, it eliminates the symptoms and DRIES OUT the problem! This can be for something as simple as wearing a support belt for a hurting back or keeping a food log to figure out what foods or fluids are giving us digestive issues.
Questions: Do you know the real reasons why you have to take the drug and the symptoms it is addressing (this can sometimes yield a lifestyle change solution)? Are you guaranteed a life supply of this drug that you are growing dependent on? Is the insurance we have become reliant on to pay for these expensive drugs, going to continue to pay for the drug(s), or pay for the new drugs to cover potential side effect from the continued usage? Is there a lifestyle change you can make that will decrease your dependence on this drug?
Isn’t continuing to treat symptoms (without researching what is causing the symptoms) a little like unplugging your check engine light and considering the engine fixed?
