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THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND OUR CULTURE OF UN-WELLNESS




THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND OUR CULTURE OF UN-WELLNESS

A hard target would be going after the pharmaceutical industry funding and training their doctors and scientists.

If they had their way, penicillin would’ve been outlawed and they would come up with ways to ‘manage’ syphilis and the like.

There are accredited doctors and scientists who are consistently and ‘legally’ (thanks to pharma lobbying and the enormous funding needed to bring a fully tested treatment to the market) shut down.

And that’s the PG version of what they do. Disease is a multi-billion dollar industry!

And should you come up with a cure, they’re not just gonna roll over and show you their belly!

And when you block the legitimate, it leaves room for the snake-oil salesman.

If I had to do it all over again, I might’ve become a doctor just to get a handle on the underpinnings of disease and health to help out my friends.

But that gets into the R and X rated version of what pharma is prepared to do to protect their systems of treating and managing un-health.

Say what you want about Dr. Sebi, but we need folk like him to help us THINK about the state of our un-wellness.

You know that Will and Jada’s son tried Vegan and got terribly ill, so he stopped.

Our disease culture is such that we have to take an active role in figuring it out for ourselves.

I’ve been a vegetarian for 30 years (the first 30 days of it was HARD) and only recently (past few years) went Vegan.

When I went veggie, my energy went up, my sense of smell improved and I no longer had those hunger pangs we get. There are still plenty of times when I’m eating and only later think, ‘Wow! I guess I was hungry!’

I had a little stomach ponch until I tried the Dr. Natura colon cleanse which worked like a charm!

Not only did it get rid of the ponch but eliminated my incontinence and an occasional pain in my gut; something I’ve struggled with since I was a child which many ‘traditional’ and ‘non-traditional’ doctors could not help.

I couldn’t give up the dairy. But then I went for it and found dairy substitutes and vegan places started popping up like they had in the West Coast.

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia (a precursor to diabetes, which runs in my family) and would nod off in the middle of the day.

I started drinking Kangen water which eliminated not only that but my need for coffee to ‘stimulate’ my energy during these times.

When we have our own media, we’ll delve into ALL of this.



Be well.

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