Your Doctor Would be Flabbergasted if You Got Better

Doctors are not used to people getting well. It isn't part of the plan.

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Before we begin, I want to say that doctors have done a ton of good in the world. We need doctors, and they have saved so many lives. Like the doctors (and nurses) who helped my wife give birth twice safely. The doctor who patched up my children when they broke bones. The doctor who helped my dad when he got pneumonia and needed to spend time in the hospital on oxygen. The doctor who helps my friend with Crohn’s Disease. The doctor who takes care of my brother-in-law who is a type 1 diabetic.

Doctors have done so much good. Thank you.

And yet.

Doctor: Take these pills, do exactly what we say, and we guarantee you that you will never get better, and you will always need these pills.

Patient: Okey dokey smokey. Whatever you say.

Health Care System or Sick Care System?

Many health conditions don’t require medication. Surprisingly, almost 100% of people can reduce their blood pressure to normal and 80% of people can reduce their blood sugar to normal. This requires the radical and dangerous steps of eating well and taking care of your body.

Yet, doctors don’t tell you that it’s even possible.

Doctor: Huh. High blood pressure. Have I got a pill for you!

Patient: Isn’t there any way I can lower it without pills?

Doctor: Nope! Forget that!

However, there are obvious and easily accessible ways. You could use exercise to lower your blood pressure. And according to this study, “fasting appears to be a safe and effective means of normalizing blood pressure and may assist in motivating health-promoting diet and lifestyle changes.”

But doctors don’t like these approaches. It’s too hard to “make” you do it, they say. And there is big money in selling drugs. Exercise and fasting are free.

It’s now a well-known fact that up to 80% of type 2 diabetics will go into remission if they make the right lifestyle changes. Yet, here we are. Doctors don’t talk about that. They flat-out refuse this possibility. Why?

One in three people suffering from anxiety and depression do not respond well to medication. But that’s typically the first thing we give every single patient, even though exercise has been found to be as effective or more effective than medication, FOR ALL PEOPLE. So why is it that workouts aren’t the first thing prescribed?

Heartburn is a widespread problem that usually doesn’t need drugs. It’s a symptom of you putting the wrong food in your mouth. Your gut lining is inflamed and sick. The solution is to stop inflaming it by eating something different.

How about the side effects of a common acid reflux medication? From this study Adverse Effects Associated with Long-Term Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors:

The most common side effects of PPIs may include headache, constipation, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting.4 In addition, long-term use of PPIs found to be associated with some serious and rare adverse effects including kidney diseases (acute kidney injury, acute interstitial nephritis, chronic kidney disease, end stage renal disease), cardiovascular disease (myocardial infarction, stroke), liver disease (hepatocellular carcinoma), fractures, infections (Clostridioides difficile infection, Community-acquired pneumonia, COVID-19), micronutrient deficiencies (hypomagnesemia, anemia, vitamin B12 deficiency, hypocalcemia), dementia, and gastric cancer.

Are you a doctor? Then I ask you to look at yourself honestly, and see in what ways you’re part of this problem.

How many people are you curing? How many people are you just giving prescriptions?

Are you encouraging people to lose a little bit of weight so that their blood pressure will drop? Or is medication your go-to?

How many guys have you prescribed dick pills to instead of getting them to drop the weight that is causing them to have erectile dysfunction?

How many people are you giving statins to even though that’s probably one of the things that will kill them?

These are the questions that people could ask themselves if they are in the medical profession. Are you really doing your best for your clients? Or are you just doing what is popular, what everyone thinks is the right thing to do, but that actually has not been working? I mean, if it was working, wouldn’t people get better?

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I was in a bad work accident years ago. I was thrown and mangled by a piece of oilfield equipment, and lucky to have lived.

The doctor told me I would never walk normally again. He was quite matter-of-fact about it. In his opinion, my leg was wrecked, my lower back was wrecked, and these things could never be fixed, no matter what surgery or medication I took. He shook his head sadly as he tried to doom me to a life as a pitiful victim.

He handed me a prescription for extra-strong, addictive painkillers.

In my head, I told him to fuck off. I left his office on my crutches to go see what I could do about it myself.

I spent months doing exercises in physiotherapy and recovering. A year later, I was walking without crutches.

Yes, doc, you can shove those pills up your ass.

These days, I’m a runner. I will never be the fastest, but I can run for an hour or longer. I’m glad I didn’t listen to that guy who wanted to limit my thinking to a victim mindset.

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It seems like some doctors have given up. If you’re too fat, they’re just gonna give you a pill. It doesn’t matter what the long-term effects are, if they can somehow force you to stop eating with a pill, they’re gonna do it.

I’m not saying that that’s wrong. I am not saying not to take Ozempic. I’m just saying that they have admitted that they have no hope of fixing the problem without pills. They do not expect you to recover from your problems, or get any healthier ever. They expect that you’re a fat slob who must take pills, and they admitted that there is no way they could help you without giving you pills. If there was a way to help you without medication or surgery, don’t you think that they would use it? But they just don’t think there is one, because they don’t think that you have the ability to change your own life.

If you were to make up your mind, and if you got some help, you could do so much. I believe in you, you have more agency than you think.

Many of the health problems that we think are uncontrollable are partially, if not fully in our control, And all we have to do is look around at the people that have taken charge of their lives and we will see that there is plenty of proof of this. There are people that went into remission from cancer, from diabetes. There are people that used to have high blood pressure and now don’t. All kinds of people have fixed their health, and they have done it themselves, quite often against the orders of their doctors.

And the doctors will say things like “Wow! It’s a miracle, I have never seen anything like this.” But they will never tell their other patients about it, they will never admit that actions you took were the cause. It was a “miracle,” and therefore unrepeatable.

In general, you are a threat to their way of thinking and their livelihood. They will deny that there is any way that it was anything besides an accident , an ct of God, or some other fluke. And they will quite often say things like “Well for now you’re OK, but it’s just going to come back. For now, yes, you have no symptoms, but don’t worry they’ll be back right away, and then you’ll need these pills again.”

It’s Your Body

Go to your doctor. But never stop thinking for yourself.

Research. Don’t just bend over and take it. Don’t jam pills down your throat without exploring your options. Maybe that medication is appropriate and will save your life, but maybe it’s not the right choice.

Did you recently find out you’re pre-diabetic, diabetic, have high blood pressure, or have a mild autoimmune disorder that might be caused by inflammation? Keep an open mind and explore your options.

Resources

How One Harvard Doc Is Astonishing the World by Curing Mental Illness with Diet

Books:

Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars, by Richard K. Bernstein MD

Move the Body, Heal the Mind :Overcome Anxiety, Depression, and Dementia and Improve Focus, Creativity, and Sleep, by Jennifer Weisz, PhD

The Great Cholesterol Myth, Revised and Expanded: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease--and the Statin-Free Plan that Will, by Jonny Bowden, Stephen T. Sinatra M.D. F.A.C.C C.N.S.