Bad Water Equals Bad Health

Posted by R. Michael Stone on November 17, 2021

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The quality of the water you drink has a very big effect on your overall health. There is also a great deal of bad information on water out there. I want to relate my experiences with water and how I finally got decent drinking water. In the process, I experienced BAD tap water’s effects, “pure” water’s effects and the health consequences associated with them.

Back in the 1990s, after my father died, I decided I needed to focus on being healthier. I started going to the gym and also drinking more water. I had a carbon filter on my drinking water and I thought I was good to go. But, I wasn’t.

Drinking Enough Water is Important, But……

At the time, I was reading about the importance of hydration and that most people needed to drink from 1/2 gallon to 1 gallon of water per day so I decided that’s what I needed to do as well.

The first thing I discovered was that it is impossible to keep track of how much water you drink just using your memory. So I devised a system. I got a gallon container, stored it in the fridge (because I prefer cold water) and only drank my water from the gallon container. At the end of the day, I could easily tell how much water I had consumed and it was easy in the course of an entire day to drink 1/2-1 gallon of water.

So, I was getting plenty of hydration. What I didn’t realize until later when the symptoms kicked in, I was getting other things out of the water as well that were NOT good for me..

This didn’t happen overnight. But after several years I noticed that my skin was dry, my nails brittle, my hair texture not good and other symptoms, including a below normal body temperature. Yes, I was having hypothyroid symptoms. I got a book written by Dr. Broda Barnes called

Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness

It confirmed all the symptoms I’d been having and told what sorts of things caused it. The main cause was lack of Iodine. This was made worse by the halogens of iodine: Bromine, Chlorine and Fluoride. A halogen has similar chemical properties but is not the same. Let’s say that Iodine is gasoline for your thyroid engine, Bromine, Chlorine and Fluoride are diesel fuel. Technically, diesel IS a fuel but NOT for your gasoline engine. You put it in your car, your gasoline motor is damaged and stops working. That’s what happens to your thyroid with fluoride, bromine and chlorine.

I knew that I was filtering out the chlorine and I was not consuming products with bromine, so why did I have this problem? Upon further investigation, I found out that, after over a century of providing public water, the current people in charge of the water system decided to put fluoride in the water supply right at the time I started drinking more water. They did this despite heated public meetings of citizens opposed to it (State law requires public meetings on major decisions but the people behind the decisions NEVER listen to the public and view the meetings as an inconvenience to themselves; they do what they want, not the citizens). To my knowledge, there was No notice sent out on the monthly water bills alerting consumers to the fluoride plan or I’m sure a great many more people would have shown up to protest.

Thus, to be healthy, I had increased my hydration levels and so, every day, I was getting a mega dose of Fluoride without knowing it. The LIE about fluoride in the water is that it helps protect teeth from cavities. Did it help my teeth? That would be a BIG no. In fact, the health of my mouth got worse despite brushing and mouthwash. Then of course, my thyroid was damaged and my health deteriorated literally every day.

Having a whole house size charcoal filter on my drinking water taking out the chlorine. I thought I was safe but that type of filter is not capable of taking out fluoride. So, for a number of years without knowing, I was consuming water heavily contaminated, yes CONTAMINATED, with a toxic waste product that is so hazardous, the people who dump it into the drinking water supply have to wear protective suits and masks, e.g. hazmat gear, to avoid being killed by it. Yet, we are suppose to drink this stuff?

So, my “healthy” consumption of charcoal filtered water at hydration levels had wrecked my health in my early 40s. I had first hand experienced that consuming fluoride in the water was a hazard. I didn’t know it was there, I started having symptoms of my thyroid not working properly and my dental health deteriorated despite brushing, etc. This was my own personal blind experiment to the dangers of fluoride in drinking water because I did not know about the fluoride in the local water supply.

Fluoride is Bad News…. And Hard to Get Rid Of….

So I had to find a solution to get rid of fluoride because it is simply NOT cost effective to drink bottled water in the hydration levels needed and you cannot really trust most of the companies that bottle them anyway (some companies just fill up the bottles from their local tap).

So now I had a thyroid problem, which I didn’t have before, that I had to correct. I will tell you how I got my thyroid repaired in a future post.

To stop the on-going damage to my thyroid and my health, I had to get the fluoride out of my drinking water.

When researching removing the fluoride out of the water, it was obvious a charcoal filter did not do the job. Actually, the only two ways to remove Fluoride is with either distillation or reverse osmosis. I also discovered there was a great many other things in tap water that were not good for you, so I knew I had to clean up the water.

Distillation is time consuming, expensive and makes only small quantities at a time so I opted for reverse osmosis. I needed something that operated itself so all I had to do when I needed water was turn on a faucet.

Now, the people advocating both distillation and reverse osmosis talked about the need to drink “pure” water. In other words, to drink the product of either distillation or reverse osmosis rather than doing anything to it. I discovered this was seriously BAD advice. Some of these people were suppose to be trained health care professionals!

I made the mistake of following this advice and let me tell you, it almost killed us and it did kill a beloved pet before I realized what was happening.

Drinking “Pure” Water is Not a Good Idea

Let me tell you WHY you should never drink distilled water or untreated reverse osmosis water: ACID. So-called “pure” water is a solvent that pulls minerals out of the cells; alkaline minerals that you need (ever heard of electrolytes?). The body has to exist in a state called homeostasis or balance. You input a lot of acid, e.g. distilled or reverse osmosis water, the body has to buffer it with your electrolytes of calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium to achieve balance. If you are not supplementing HEAVILY with these minerals, you run out and then what happens? You can die like my beloved pet (to this day, I feel awful that this happened when I was trying to do something good for everybody).

After I got the reverse osmosis system going, I was glad I was finally getting rid of the fluoride and other unsafe contaminants in our drinking water. However, I began to notice that the more of this “healthy” pure water I drank over time, the worse I felt; every day I felt worse. I started having high blood pressure to the point that the pounding gave me a headache. If I would drink something acidic like green tea, within minutes, the pounding would start and I would also have episodes of irregular heart beats which is a very disturbing feeling. I was confused because I thought I was doing something beneficial to my health by drinking “pure” water. After all, health care professionals said so.

Do NOT Drink “Pure” Water!

It took a number of months to figure it out but the light bulb eventually went off before it killed the entire family but I did lose a pet; this water was making us all sick and would have eventually killed us. It was just slower with us because people are bigger than a pet.

Drinking so-called “pure” water is a real hazard and yet I have seen supposed health experts advocating it. I guess they are counting on the fact that most people do NOT drink enough water every day because I can tell you from personal experience, if you drink the volume of water recommended for normal hydration, “pure” water will KILL you like it did the young woman in CA who was participating in a radio contest that required drinking a lot of water (The station supplied “pure” bottled water cleaned by reverse osmosis). The young woman died from losing too many electrolytes.

At this point, I was concerned because it was obvious that the “pure” reverse osmosis water had damaged our health. I did a lot of research and it seemed that properly re-mineralized water will not harm you, whereas “pure” water with no minerals will. As a matter of fact, when I was a child, they use to sell distilled water in the drug stores for steam irons and vaporizers. The bottles were clearly marked, DO NOT DRINK! Today, there is no such label on distilled water but there should be!

So, I got a pH test kit to see what the “pure” water being produced by the reverse osmosis system was reading and it was a pH 3, very STRONG acid and very unsafe to drink.

How to Make Reverse Osmosis Water Safe to Drink

Thus, I was back to square one. How to get an affordable but fluoride free water supply that was safe to drink.

I started doing research on pH and water. I found a book by Sang Whang called Reverse Aging (Still available and a good book). I learned that in Japan and Korea, strong alkaline water (electrolyte rich) is considered a medical treatment for high blood pressure and that they sell alkaline water machines, considered medical devices, to concentrate the minerals in their drinking water. Of course, they also don’t put fluoride in their water so they can use an alkaline water machine to concentrate their tap water minerals but such a device would not help my situation due to the utility putting toxic fluoride in the water supply. However, Sang Whang had manufactured a strong alkaline solution called ALKALIFE that treats reverse osmosis water to make it pH safe.

I did not know if it would work or not but I had to do something fast. “Pure” water was literally killing us.

I bought a supply of Alkalife. The product is still available and I continue to use it after 15 years. However, it is not cheap but it is highly effective; it works!

I experimented with my gallon of “pure” reverse osmosis water that started out at a hazardous pH of 3.0. I would put in 10 drops of Alkalife and take a test sample to measure the pH. Using this process, I discovered that to bring up the pH to therapeutic alkaline levels, which is a pH of 10.0,  an entire gallon of “pure” reverse osmosis water required 60 drops of alkalife. That makes a bottle last less than a week at hydration levels of consumption.

Since it worked, this is what I did for emergency purposes but it was not a really cost effective solution because a bottle only lasted about a week which amounted to over 100$ per month of alkalife.

After the awful experience of the “pure” water, I was concerned if the Alkalife would do the job and make the reverse osmosis water safe. But drinking the alkalife treated reverse osmosis water solved the blood pressure problem and irregular heart issues. In other words, it made the reverse osmosis water safe to drink.

How to Make Reverse Osmosis Water Safe Economically

Although the Alkalife was very effective, it simply took too much of it per gallon of reverse osmosis water. Over 100.00 per month was simply too much to maintain so I had to find a less expensive way to make the “pure” water safe.

In my search, I discovered that the acidic nature of reverse osmosis water was common knowledge and that there were mineral filters you could add to the water coming out of the tank to automatically put the minerals back in. Usually, these re-mineralizer filters just had calcium in them and too much calcium is not good. However, I found a company that had a filter that was a 50/50 mix of calcium AND magnesium!

As a bonus, the filter housing was gigantic and the media lasted literally for years using it on a reverse osmosis system since it was actually a whole house filter designed to process thousands of gallons per year.

So, when I put this CAL/MAG mineral filter in the reverse osmosis tank output water, the pH coming out of the RO faucet was now automatically 8.0, very safe to drink but not up to the therapeutic level recommended by Sang Whang. So, I discovered if I put 10 drops of Alkalife in the gallon, it brought it up to therapeutic levels. That made the Alkalife cost effective AND the reverse osmosis water therapeutic. Putting in the calcium and magnesium along with the potassium and sodium of Alkalife  put the major electrolytes back in the water.

To be honest, when I first started with the experiment, I didn’t know if it was going to work but it did. As a family, we have now been using this water for 15 years. Everyone that has tried this mineralized water loves it.

We use a great deal of this water. We drink it and cook with it. The cooking water is right out of the RO tap at 8.0 pH and the drinking water is treated with Alkalife for a pH of 10.0+.

Setting Up Your Own Water Treatment System

I use a 5 stage REVERSE OSMOSIS unit as a starting point. You can find other companies making them now on Amazon but I originally got Watts Premier because 15 years ago, they were the most common.

Now, these units come with a 3 gallon tank which is totally inadequate for using at the levels we do here. A storage tank IS required due to the time it takes for the system to clean the water. 3 gallons was inadequate so I got a larger TANK. If you have more than one member of the family, you need a larger tank.

This larger size still fit under the sink in the kitchen and easily provided the 6-7 gallons of purified water per day that we as a family use.

Now, one drawback to a reverse osmosis system is that it is low pressure. That means the water comes out of the RO faucet slowly and you cannot get out the full capacity of the tank using this low pressure by itself. So, I discovered that you can add a BOOSTER PUMP. I got the model that ran off AC so I could plug into the outlet for the garbage disposal which was also switched and makes it convenient to turn the power off to the pump when you are changing the RO filters.

With this booster pump, I could utilize the full tank capacity and also, I could hook it up to the fridge ice maker to make clean, pH safe mineral ice cubes.

Tuning the Reverse Osmosis System

The basic system I started with 15 years ago has been tuned up over the years. The original unit came with a 24 gal per day membrane which I have replaced with a 75 gal per day membrane. The 75 gal per day membrane makes a gallon of purified water every 20 mins rather than every hour which is the output of the 24 gal per day membrane. It is also the fastest membrane you can get that still takes out the most impurities in the water. You can get higher production membranes but the water quality goes down.

Membranes have to be replaced every couple of years. Make sure you get a quality membrane. I use the Dow Filmtec. The cheaper ones do NOT remove the contaminants so beware of the cheap membranes on Ebay. Remember, depending on the quality of your local water, these membranes last at least two years. That’s when I have to replace mine with the quality of the local water supply.

Also, something that I found really convenient to make certain the system was working properly was a inline TDS meter. This meter makes certain that your system is working properly, e.g. taking out the contaminants and also, you can see when you need to replace the membrane or if you accidentally got a defective membrane.

Although not needed for general use, I tuned the system up with a brine pump and different shutoff valve. You probably won’t need that if you just pull a few gallons per day. But they certainly speed up the tank refilling.

Companies I Have Used for Reverse Osmosis Supplies

Over the years, I have done business with the following companies who have provided good service and quality products:

Water Filters Online

Premium Water Filters

Water Filters online has a good department for technical support if you need it. In 15 years, I have needed it a few times.

Running Your Personal Water Treatment System

Once you make the initial investment for a reverse osmosis system, you have to change the filters twice a year and put in a new membrane every 2-3 years. My original booster pump lasted for over 10 years before the housing started leaking. Rather than replacing the pump which was fine, I was able to buy a replacement housing for 30$ from Water Filters Online.

Do you need to clean your drinking water? Yes!

This is a picture of a new reverse osmosis filter and the same filter at the 6 month change:

Filter Comparison

New Filter and Same Filter at 6 Month Change

The water that comes out of the faucet “looks” clean but this is what is really coming out. Remember, even if your water system does not put toxic fluoride in the water, they cannot really give you quality water going through 100s of 1000s of miles of pipe. It’s impossible for them to control the water once it leaves the storage tower tank.

All they can claim is that you won’t catch a disease from the water due to the heavy chlorine they put in it (you can always tell when there has been a line break because the odor of chlorine is very high. I can also tell by the input water TDS meter reading. Around here, these lines break at least once per week).

For your good health, you can economically be your own mini-water treatment utility. If you drink the recommended amount of water per day, 1/2 to 1 gallon, you really need to put in one of these systems to clean the water and then put the good minerals back in. Then you will have safe and healthy water!

 

 

 

 

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The First Step to Taking Charge of Your Own Health

Posted by R. Michael Stone on November 14, 2021

I learned many years ago that you cannot depend on someone else for your health and longevity. I watched what happened to my family members and it was fatal. So, what do you need to do?

The first step is to analyze your family health history. This is something the, now non-existent, family doctor use to do. Since doctors today don’t bother, YOU need to. So, let me share the main health issues my family experienced despite their dependence on the medical business.

The first concerning issue was heart disease which apparently ran rampant in my father’s genetic line.

My grandfather had a number of heart attacks in the middle 1960s when he was in his early 50s. He survived those because health care was better at that time but his health continued to go downhill. He was soon diagnosed with diabetes and prescribed the an oral diabetic drug, although it was known that those drugs had a 65% rate of a fatal heart attack and he obviously had heart problems. He likely was prescribed other drugs that I am unaware of, He took the drugs and followed the doctor’s advice but less than 10 years later, he dropped dead of a fatal heart attack one summer afternoon at his store.

My father had a series of heart attacks when he was in his early 40s. Again, he survived because health care was better. He eventually had bypass surgery from which he never totally recovered. He followed the doctor’s advice and took whatever drugs he was prescribed. When he was in his late 50s, he was diagnosed as diabetic and also prescribed oral diabetic medication which he took as prescribed. This despite his heart issues and the known 65% risk of a fatal heart attack from the oral diabetic drugs which killed his father. This was in the middle 1980s and the medical business had already deteriorated. One night, a few months after his 61st birthday, he died of a heart attack.

Both my father and grandfather left too soon. They weren’t ready to go. The medical business failed them. Personally, I didn’t intend to end up the same way. So, I started studying, learning everything I could about health and how the body functioned. Even in the present, I look for new information every day and there is massive new research, apparently ignored by most current medical business doctors, that show what causes degenerative diseases and how to avoid them.

After my father died, I started my search for solutions. At the time in the early 1990s, there were a few doctors who were breaking from the medical business model and trying to provide service like the doctors of my youth. Several of them had health newsletters which I subscribed to and learned a great deal of useful information as well as topics for further research. Unfortunately, because these doctors went against the norm, their newsletters were eventually taken over by medical establishment types who used the good name of the original doctors newsletters to spread bad advice and disinformation or were shut down totally. When this began to happen, I stopped reading them. Fortunately, other doctors, like Sherry Rogers, continued to offer solutions through her books and a newsletter.

The information I am going to share in these series of posts has been collected over the last 20 years. Collecting this health information has been like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle that you have no idea what it is suppose to look like. But each piece has built upon the next and after 20 years, I have a better idea of how to stay healthy or fix what is wrong.

One of the main themes these renegade doctors discussed in their newsletters was CURES of degenerative diseases like diabetes and heart disease. Needless to say, that got my attention considering the loss of my father and grandfather.

One of the key elements to resolve both problems was a mineral: MAGNESIUM!

I discovered a couple of good books on the topic written by health care professionals. Probably the most readable was a book by Dr. Carolyn Dean, The Magnesium Miracle

This book had a wealth of researched information that was highly useful. Based on it, I was able to determine WHY my father’s father’s side of the family had both diabetes AND heart disease: LACK of Magnesium. Both diabetes and heart disease go hand in hand and a magnesium deficiency is a key factor.

I learned that not everyone processes magnesium efficiently and that magnesium has been lacking in the food supply since the 1930s. Thus, you have to supplement magnesium because it is used in so many critical body processes (over 300), it is constantly being used up and we don’t get it from food anymore. It also can take a couple of years of daily supplementation to resolve the deficiency.

Apparently, my father’s side of the family from his father’s mother’s side did not process magnesium well and I came to the conclusion, neither did I. I figured this out by reviewing my health history based on the data presented in The Magnesium Miracle.

So, I started working on my magnesium deficiency and learning everything I could on magnesium.

What I discover was that magnesium is just one critical piece to remaining healthy. None of the vitamins and minerals work alone, they work together just like a chemical equation and must be balanced.

In the case of Magnesium, you need Potassium and Sodium for it to do it’s job. Calcium depends on Magnesium to go where it is suppose to go. If there is insufficient Magnesium, calcium causes problems.

Calcium is EVERYWHERE in the diet and we consume a great deal of it without even trying. However, without Magnesium, it causes a big problem which can be easily corrected with Magnesium supplements. That is, unless you do not know you need to do it, like my father and grandfather.

The body needs calcium but calcium needs magnesium just like magnesium needs potassium and potassium needs sodium. It’s all part of a chemical equation that must be balanced. Calcium depletes Magnesium which depletes potassium which depletes sodium to balance the chemical equation.

So I will give you an example of how too much calcium and not enough magnesium can be fatal.

My mother’s younger brother was a thin framed individual. He was never overweight and not the type you would expect for heart problems. Yet at the age of 43, he had a massive heart attack, which he survived but a couple of years later, he had a fatal heart attack.

So, why did a person who looked like a beanpole die of a heart attack? The same reason that people in great physical condition like Jim Fix, the guy who started the Jogging Mania of the 1970s, who one afternoon dropped dead of a heart attack on his multi-mile daily run that he had done for years. I am confident it was lack of Magnesium and the other alkaline minerals because he certainly was not out of shape.

In my uncle’s case, he was an avid milk drinker which was not really the problem. I disagree with people who denounce dairy products in generalities. Organic dairy products are fine and people have existed on them for thousands of years. However, milk is loaded with calcium. My uncle consumed a lot of milk but no magnesium. The constant input of excess calcium used up his magnesium reserve causing a massive muscle cramp, his heart muscle. Had he been supplementing with magnesium along with his drinking of milk, rather than dying at the age of 45, he would probably still be here today. Had Jim Fix been taking magnesium along with the other alkaline minerals, e.g. electrolytes, he too probably would still be alive because he certainly was a fit individual.

But remember, it’s not JUST Magnesium, it is ALL the alkaline minerals. People who raise cattle know that they have to put out what is called Salt Licks. These blocks are loaded with all the alkaline minerals because cows use so much calcium, they have to be supplemented with magnesium, potassium and sodium. Unlike humans, cows realize they need this and naturally utilize the salt licks.

So, this part of the good health jigsaw puzzle requires the alkaline minerals in this order of use: Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and Sodium. We humans could benefit from a salt lick for good health but the capsules work just fine. Remember, the RDA for potassium is 3,000mg. No one gets that much potassium in their diets and it is critical for magnesium to work properly.

Also remember, Calcium is EVERYWHERE, the rest of the alkaline minerals are not, well except perhaps for sodium that is overloaded in processed foods. Too much sodium can deplete the alkaline minerals above it such as potassium and magnesium. Lack of potassium and magnesium leads to heart problems and cramps among many other things you will discover in The Magnesium Miracle.

So how do you know if you are taking enough magnesium and potassium? For myself, I have found that a hair analysis test is economical and gives me a good idea of the status of my alkaline minerals. There are other more expensive tests that Dr. Sherry Rogers talks about in her books but I’ve found the hair analysis is a good indicator.

The Hair Analysis tests are available to health care providers, such as NDs and integrative physicians because the lab does not deal directly with patients. They are professional grade tests to screen for heavy metal toxicity and also assay good metals and minerals. It will show if you have a deficiency of what you need and also if you have a heavy metal problem. You pay the health care provider and can get them to request the test. You get a kit from them to provide a hair sample and you send the sample directly to the lab. The results are then sent back to the health care provider who requested the test who in turn sends you the results. All total, it take a couple of weeks to get the results. This gives you the information you need to start taking charge of your health.

The medical business loves to run exotic and expensive tests. However, this test, which cost about 130.00, gives you, the consumer, information that will help you improve your health. I’ll discuss it further in later posts and tell you how this test saved my life.

 

 

 

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Why I took Charge of My Health and You Should Too

Posted by R. Michael Stone on November 12, 2021

Let’s face the facts, so-called “modern” medicine has failed us!

Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis ALS, obesity, etc. are killing more people than ever. We’ve all been following the advice of how to stay healthy from “modern” medicine for the last 60 years and this is the result. Let me tell you how I view it.

I am almost 70 years old now. I have outlived my father and his father by many years. They went to the doctor a lot and ended up in the the grave yard at a much younger age their their parents and grandparents, basically, people who lived before the dawn of “modern” medicine.

What has happened to medicine? It has degenerated into a business, in my opinion, with the goal of, not healing or curing, but “managing” illness for a constant cash flow.

When I was a child, you had a genuine Family doctor. The doctor was invested in your health. In many cases, the doctor delivered you, tended to your health and sometimes, despite best efforts attended your funeral. The doctor of my youth was on call 24/7/365 and despite the excessive workload, lived a long time. You could go to his office without an appointment and no matter how busy the doctor was, you would be seen before he went home for the day. If you were too sick to come to the office, he made house calls after he closed his office for the day.

The doctor of my youth entered into the profession knowing that he was relegated to a lower middle class income (in 1976, the family doctor who had delivered me decades before was charging 5$ for an office visit – can you believe it?). Obviously, the doctor of the past was not in it for the money, he was in it to heal. The doctor of my youth knew your name and your entire family. He was familiar with health history and customized his treatment protocols based on WHAT you needed, not what the books said was AVERAGE for you gender and age. People were much healthier in my youth despite some of the communicable disease problems such as polio.  Today, we have replaced polio, which did not affect massive numbers of people by the way, and other pathogen based diseases, with alzheimer’s. cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, ALS, MS, and other so-called “incurable” degenerative diseases that WILL kill you.

During the  1940s and later, these dedicated doctors where glorified in film and TV. Who remembers Dr. Kildare? Marcus Welby, MD? Medical Center, Ben Casey? The list is extensive and highlighted medicine in the way it once was, not like today.

Of course anyone born in the last 40 years, eg. since 1980, have no idea of the valuable service the medical professionals of the past use to perform. When they passed away, so did the standard of care they use to provide.

What do we have today? It’s all about the money and convenience. Call “your” doctor for an appointment and you will be seen, maybe in a month or longer (I once called about a skin issue and was told 4 months). If it’s urgent, (who calls the doctor for fun?) they tell you to go to the ER to deal with doctors who have never seen you, have no clue about your health history or what you actually need and will basically guess.

Today, most child deliveries are “scheduled” rather than trusting mother nature for the right time. Either the labor is induced with drugs are the child is just cut out for the convenience of the doctor. Either way, both mother and child suffer and I’m confident this has contributed to the overall health decline of people under “modern” medicine.

As far as the medical business is concerned, a person is just a case number to be dealt with at their convenience. They sort of treat you like an automobile that needs to be repaired and are just as impersonal towards the “patient”. There have been cases where the doctor operated on the wrong body part because they didn’t even know who they were cutting on. Also, the number of people who die from medical mistakes is in the hundreds of thousands per YEAR. (In the late 1960s, I read a book by a doctor who used the alias Dr. X, which told of the massive numbers of mistakes and deaths caused by doctors. He had to hide his identify to avoid retaliation) If a doctor really knew their patient, would these mistakes happen?

Unlike the family doctor of my youth, the current medical business is impersonal. When was the last time a doctor sent a sympathy card to a family when their patient died? If that happens, I’d like to know. When was the last time “your” doctor attended a funeral of a family member that died under their care? Does it even happen anymore?

The impersonal nature of the current medical BUSINESS means that your health and longevity needs to be important to someone and that someone is YOU! No one is going to care more about your health than you should care.

If you have a doctor that actually views you as a person, listens to you and works with you, explains the risk of what they are prescribing so you can make your own decision, you have a rare treasure. But it’s so rare, you need to learn how to take care of yourself, just like my great grandparents and great great grandparents did who lived  years longer than their off-spring, and myself who has outlived my father and his father despite a family history of serious degenerative diseases (I will talk about that in future posts).

Taking care of yourself is not complicated. It requires gathering information that will help and it is not complicated. For starters, I would recommend starting with the books of Dr. Sherry Rogers.  You can find them at NEEDS , Books by Sherry Rogers at company that also carries the health products Dr. Rogers recommends.

Dr. Rogers is about my age, if not a little older. However, earlier in her life she had massive health issues. As an MD, she had access to the best doctors and best medical resources available. But NOTHING that “modern” medicine had to offer helped and she was well on her way to dying when she was in her late 20s. Now if an MD cannot get the lifesaving help from the medical business that they need, what chance do we ordinary people have? So she did what the majority of her colleagues refuse to do, she looked elsewhere. Her series of books document her journey from almost dying to a healthy, rewarding life which is still going strong over 40 years after she was close to death. It is inspiring to know that YOU TOO can overcome life threatening health issues.

Over the next series of posts, I will tell of my health journey and recommended books that I have found helpful. There are many books out there, some good, some worthless and some with just outright bad information. I’ll share the titles of the ones that I found best.

You do not have to be sick, you do not have to die early, you can take charge of your health. You do not have to die early like your relatives. If you do get sick, there are many things you can personally do to fix it.

Is there such a thing as an incurable disease? From my personal experience and research, I would say NO! There are many experts, such as Dr. Rogers, that agree and I will be sharing those book titles over time.

 

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What Is the Purpose of Supplements? Why It Is Important to Take Charge of Your Health

Posted by R. Michael Stone on November 10, 2021

There is a great deal of misinformation out there about taking supplements. If you listen to anyone from the medical business (Yes, it IS a business), they will almost always tell you that taking vitamins/ minerals is a waste of money and that they do you no good. Well, the purpose of taking vitamins/minerals is to stay healthy and the medical business is all about treating sick people. Less sick people means less money to be made. Hence, the disinformation about the value of vitamins/minerals supplements. Honestly, taking health advice from a medical business person (they have all the same degenerative diseases as we do) is like taking longevity advice from a funeral home owner, each has to protect their cash flow!

But I have seen firsthand, the value of vitamins/mineral supplements. Back in the 1970s, I worked for a while as a Mental Health Counselor in an Alcohol Abuse Unit. One of the things we were instructed to do was provide vitamins to the clients. The heavy alcohol abusers were in poor health from malnutrition and other effects of excess alcohol. The ones that took the vitamins improved in their health. This is just a factual observation.

I have also experienced firsthand, the extreme value of taking vitamins/minerals every day; they protect you from the unexpected.

Over the next series of posts, I am going to tell you how I got into monitoring my own health and how it has kept me alive for almost 70 years. I will start at the beginning and recommend books that I found helpful over time. I hope you enjoy my story.

 

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