Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Art of Self Medicine

I read something today about self medicine and art. It was quite good.

And now today, 2 days later of writing that first sentence before having life interrupted by a virus i have more to add.

Yesterday was a difficult day. Gerald is home for spring break and brought home a nice bug with him. It was pretty bad for him. We ended up going to the doctor, 45 miles away. On the way back for the first time in about 21 years, i got stopped by a police officer. I was going too slow. Way too slow. I knew it. I was tired, it was dark. The cop said i was suppose to pull over to let a person pass. I said i was doing pretty good till someone gets up on my butt with their bright lights and it freaks me out. He said he was at a safe following distance. I dont think so. He was very nice tho.

Going to the doctor is a bit surreal for me. It's about surrendering to what i know is a totally wrong approach to health. I think it comes from being brainwashed since birth that doctors and hospitals can fix you. My logical mind, after many years of research into this matter knows they do more harm than good. But the lure of a quick fix or the magic pills and the worry of a mom for her obviously sick child takes over. Or it's my vaccine damaged broken adrenals ;-)

Gerald was doing much better after a day of increased iodine drops and gargles along with epsom salt, baking soda and tea tree oil foot baths. But as evening set in so does the panic. The previous night had been fairly horrible. His throat hurt severely and it was inflamed. The inflamation had gone down remarkedly during the day of intense iodine regimine but the pain remained. And living in isolation far from a competent medical facility makes the night time hours of illness even more scary.

The thought of another night of not knowing how bad it was bothered both of us. So we went on the adventure thru the mountains into the city to find the cure. Was a nice easy drive on a sunny day.

The doctor didnt want to rx an antibiotic because the rapid strep was negative. Fever of 99. Tho nn the same breath she said the rapid strep test was only for one strain. Arent there millions if not thousands of strains? The other test for all those other strains would take 3 to 4 days to obtain results and so shouldnt start antibiotics till then. Ok i get that docs rx antibiotics way too much but is it safe to just let bacteria cook for days with no intervention if they just dont know? Shouldnt a doc know? We are lead to believe they should know. We are scared into believing.

So why did i go there, thinking this doc would help? Granted there are docs that might take the time to know what the patient was really dealing with. Didnt happen on this night. There are docs that might take the time to give a nebulizer treatment because they would know that nebulized magnesium sulfate has hundreds of efficiacy and saftey studies making it the ideal treatment for asthmatic and bronchial conditions (something gerald has had on occassion) but there was no mention of that. Just an albuterol inhaler and go home and await the results. Eat a BRAT diet and give em a call back. I had no idea what BRAT was.

Bout like torture. So i convinced at least for the script. After all, that was why i made the drive. And Gerald's peace of mind.

I think we have all been conditioned that we can't heal ourselves. That self medicine is not wise or proper. I could see it in the face of the doctor when i questioned her logic. I dont normally fall into the medical society trap anymore. I have learned thru research and practice that i can heal myself. And what began as story about what i had read about self medicine as an artform digressed into lack of faith in that art.

Finding the right balance of vitamins and minerals can be difficult for some. It can be more difficult than relying on a doctor and magic pills. The same way creating jewelry or paintings can be for others. After years of the damage imposed on our bodies by modern medicine some of us might need more art than others.

Great masterpieces can take years of intense work to become perfect. I have one jewel creation that i have been working on for more than a year. It hangs before my eyes each time i create and not yet complete. I have rearranged the materials a few times and rehang it because it just not "finished" And that is similiar to my own body. And yours.

With vitamins and minerals; iodine, magnesium, selenium,potassium; sea salt and protein, good clean water and with a little bit of sculpting (exercise) you have the wonderous array of materials for the art of self medicine.

The art of self medicine has been forgotten. Shamed. We have been made to feel we cannot take control of our own health. And most will live their lives that way. Not even truly living because life gets interrupted by virus and bacteria our bodies could defend against if that art hadn't been taken away.

I suppose it is easier to let doctors be the sculptors of our bodies. But what their art leaves us with is not health. They really do more harm than good, it's true, believe it. They leave literally half of us with chronic illness. They leave people with bodies that can't get out of bed, bodies that weep for no other reason than mineral deficiencies they won't tell you about but they have a nice new untested expensive pill with minor side effects (for most) that will make your body forget it needs that mineral. And lead to the next pill...

Their art is sick bodies that have constant pain or they cut and take junks of another's creation they know nothing about.

Their art leads you to believe you cannot be your own artist. As it has done to me in the past and still did yesterday. I didnt have faith in my materials, even as the evidence was showing they were working. So perhaps the difference between their art and the art of self medicine, aside from their coercion, is a faith in the natural substances our bodies need or the manufactured manmade materials they call art.

Self medicine with the basic materials listed above to form and sculpt a healthy specimen and you can see the true path to health. Your body, your own personal artform, is left to you. No one else.

Find your palatte. It's not rocket science. It is an artform, indulged in for a lifetime. The reward is a masterpiece of creation capable of enjoying life not merely exsisting in it.

Cheryl

Friday, March 12, 2010

Iodine Deficient Idols

I watched American Idol last night and as usual i see sick people. Kinda like in the movie when the boy says "I see dead people". It has the same unnerving effect I'm sure.

Crystal Bowersox is a very talented girl. Probably one of the few who will go on to lasting stardom on this seasons Idol. I suppose any season is going to pale after last season and the phenomenom of Adam Lambert, but i digress.

The girl appeared sick. I can imagine the stress of the evening is ruff on even the healthiest of people but it will really take a toll on an iodine deficient adrenal fatigued diabetic.

I can tell, as she has said, she is a tuff cookie. For the person that doesnt see "sick people" everywhere one might not see the intensity of her illness. But i saw it. It was heartwrenching. And so unnecessary.

Even scarier is that she will probably get the "best medical care" that money has to offer at this point, which just might kill her. Or might impede her ability to reach that star. I would hope that she could find a good iodine doc or her own path to health. I tend to wish that for everyone tho, not just Idols.

Thinking about Idol and others who have won or left their impressions i think of Kelly Clarkson and Jordin Sparks. Both obviously (to me) iodine deficient/thyroid damaged and probably not headed in the right direction for a cure either.

I find it extremely sad that there are so many that entertain me that are so sick. Most dont even realize that the path to health is not rocket science. Sure it takes a little work, more for the severely damaged (such as myself) but starting that path today and making it part of your life every day will slowly but surely heal anyone.

It wont happen overnight, unlike the Medical Society's philosophy of overnight recovery, there is no quick cure to health. We have been iodine deficient our entire lives and the damage that has created takes time to fix.

Starts with one drop. A few companion vitamins and minerals. Good food. Clean Water. Natural Salt. The severely damaged, such as the next American Idol Crystal, or Idols Kelly and Jordin, it will take some additional thyroid, adrenal and enzyme support.

There needs to be some awakening in the worlds population. The path to health is not in the promises of the Medical Society, but in the promise of replensishing what the body needs.

And these Idols need Iodine.

Cheryl

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Whats in your water?

This is a really good letter about flouride.

http://times-news.com/letters2/x1004927893/Chinese-fluoride-is-a-homeland-security-matter

It's hard to imagine how people can be so ignorant about something so bad for us. Flouride is bad people. It's bad for your kids. It's not what helps teeth. Magnesium supplementation will do more for human teeth than any other thing you can possibly do!

Flouride in toothpaste is such a baddd thing! (Notice if a child eats a pea size call poison control?) A daily poison. And doctors are prescribing it for your child!

Here is a reallly good toothpaste, no flouride. Lots of good things for your teeth! http://www.swansonvitamins.com/DST026/ItemDetail?n=0

Anyone drinking city water or even cooking in it, is asking for a short, unhealthy, doctor/hospital filled life!

Off to make jewels, lots to create!

Cheryl

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

The new DSM

I saw this article today, written by one of it's own (psychiatrists, creators of the DSM or The manual, prepared by the American Psychiatric Assn., psychiatry's
only official way of deciding who has a "mental disorder" and who is
"normal.") and thought how their new classifications convert the physiological to psychological.

"Psychiatry's latest DSM goes too far in creating new mental disorders"

By Allen Frances
March 1, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-frances1-2010mar01,0,2030641.story

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This is a good article in it has some very telling statements.

The author doesnt acknowledge that these new "disorders" are directly related to biological function. Its not in the mind people! Its in the body! Its Iodine deficiency being magnified in a hundred different directions causing these disorders!

Her statement "expected memory problems of aging" ? This is why so many people think that memory problems with aging is normal. It's not. Memory issues are just one of the many symptoms of a sick body that these "experts" and the author pass off as aging.

Or Normal.

Another quote:
"If requirements for diagnosing a mental disorder are too stringent, some who need help will be left out; but if they are too loose, normal people will receive
unnecessary, expensive and sometimes quite harmful treatment."

That statement includes everyone ever diagnosed with the DSM.No, the author doesnt mean everyone, she is only speaking of a hypothetical few when she actually means everyone!

The depressed who are never tested for iodine deficiency but are given a whole lot of pharmaceuticals cause they fit the DSM. The only mental thing wrong here is listening to these experts.

They all need to be charged with medical malpractice. As the author noted these doctors have their own agendas. Well these agendas are killing people or making life miserable.

It's just so needless. These rash of suicides are another statement to the fact that the DSM is so wrong. People go to these doctors feeling depressed, sad, anxious, cant function and these docs tell em its in their mind and give em a pill or some mental therapy when if they looked a little deeper, without these agendas, they would see a body that is sick. They would see the biological problems within the body creating each and every one of their DSMs!

Its really very simple people. Its called Iodine deficiency.

The iodine deficiency leads to many if not all body functions being out of whack. For some they feel sad. For others they feel anxious. Some overeat trying to get the vitamins and minerals their bodies need but the iodine deficient body cant assimilate. The longer the person is iodine deficient the worse they become. Or how about those with "Hypersexuality disorder" (is that really a new DSM?) criteria being they they want sex too much? Or is it really, a person cant control their iodine deficient bodies' hormonal dysfunction. Hormones arent functionging properly! Its in the sex orgns people! Its not in the mind! The person that cant control behavior wont find the answer in the DSM. Or the myriad of pills the DSM prescribes. The list of their symptoms is really endless, depending on the doctor, and their answers are rarely true. The answer is iodine.

It doesnt have to be that way. If everyone questioned the DSM, if everyone asked "what causes these symptoms" instead of accepting the DSM as gospel.It would change. They, pscyhs, will tell you they dont know what causes most of their criteria(symptoms) for diagnoses. Or that some mysterious occurance triggered latent memories from the past or its part of aging or its Normal.

They are wrong. Simple as that. Iodine supplementation, along with the necessary vitamins and minerals to correct the damage(magnesium, Seleium, unrefined salt, Vitamin C, B vitamins) will eliminate all those DSM symptoms.

Got DSM? Try iodine instead of pills, lose the criteria. Forever.

Cheryl