The USA consumes 95% of the world’s opioid products. đ
Is it because we have more pain?…. or is it because there has been wolves in sheep’s clothing in Big Pharma in our country? I’m not a huge fan of CNN, but I was happy to see their article (below) today.
There are many “alternative” ways to manage pain that are underutilized. Frankly, I blame the insurance companies too….. for, more often than not, refusing to pay for many of the “alternative” modalities. It is my belief that pain relief should fall under the “Right to Try Act” that was passed a few years ago. I’ve watched and heard of way too many people dying of accidental overdoses from legal drug use. It happens. Don’t kid yourself into thinking it couldn’t happen to you or someone you love.
According to a legal eagle I know, this particular settlement is rather open ended (meaning families can still be compensated for bodily harm and wrongful death), although no amount of money could be compensation for someone’s life.
It’s been good to see this particular division of Big Pharma tighten up prescribing. Long term opioid use is an interesting creature. The more you use it to block pain, the more sensitive to pain you become…. so it’s really not a great answer for chronic pain (not to mention the dangers of it all).Â
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Addiction
The Covid Pandemic
The true pandemic. If you bought a few vowels, CVD would become the 2020 all too familiar word of the year.Â
17 million should have the mainstream media up in arms and fear mongering like there truly was no tomorrow… especially since that number dwarfs the current 973K worldwide #electioninfection deaths (200K in the USA)…. instead of the crickets we get on this topic. If all the attention had been on eliminating the risk factors of CVD, imagine how many lives would be saved yearly…. so why the crickets then?
…..Massive media attention to CVD (no vowels đ) would mean food would have to become healthy, exercise would become commonplace, Lazyboys would be empty, emotions would be dealt with in a healthy manner, cigarettes and vaping would be outlawed, and stress would be recognized and managed properly…… and who wants that kind of control raining down on them? I certainly don’t! We live in a free countryđşđ¸ thank goodness!… free to choose how we live and eat despite the health outcome.
Most CVD is ultimately self induced and it’s human nature to want to lay blame elsewhere rather than recognizing where the real problem lies. Perhaps that is also why putting faith in something that won’t even keep smoke out đˇ( not my words… the CDC said it ) instead of learning how to build and maintain a healthy immune system has been so easy to sell to the general public.Â
Our bodies will always be a work in progress, and having a healthy body you trust to protect and serve you requires an ownership mentality. Put in the effort and your body will respond accordingly, just as God designed it to.
Thank goodness we have health freedom here in the USA đşđ¸to do just that. Not every country is so blessed and given the climate in today’s world, we probably ought not be quick to take it for granted. Freedom isn’t free. It takes work to make it happen.
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#fixingwhatisbroken
#CVDisamajorriskfactoroftheCV19
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Power to Heal – part 1
Modern medicine IS our friend. Make no mistake about that. Like humpty dumptyâŚ. We cumulatively get âput back together againâ about 234 million times a year (major surgeries). But thatâs not all that goes down in the annals of modern medicine. An estimated 4.38 BILLION prescriptions đ get filled annually in the USA. ( 20 percent of Americans take at least 5 prescription drugs daily)Â
Thatâs a bucket load of modern medicine for anyoneâs book. Can too much of a good thing like modern medicine, be too much?Â
Our world has turned into a place of âinstaâ âŚ.-gram, -pot, -cart, -gratification, -weightloss, etc. We want the âstuffâ but not the work.
The pharmacy world has the capability to work that way too⌠âinsta-reliefâ, âinsta-Iâmnotgonnadiefromabloodclot, âinsta-birthcontrolâ etc….. BUT adopting a quick fix via pharmaceuticals for the long term solution will rarely end well for those who pursue it and make no effort to fix the root problems at hand. #thisiswhyIdowhatIdo
đHow can it possibly work for a diabetic who continues to destroy their body slowly with excess sugar and carbs, yet feels their disease is âunder controlâ because they are medicated?
đ What is someoneâs muscularly weak spine going to look like in the long termâŚ. When they opt for opioid or steroid pain relief instead of yoga, supplements that support proper inflammatory response, diet, and chiro or acupuncture care?
đMedicating long term will ALWAYS come with side effects. Medications are built that way because they are imperfect. Side effects are most often the result of a caused deficiency from the very medication designed to âfixâ something. What kind of deficiency you may ask? Well⌠that depends on the medication. It could be a vitamin, a mineral, a hormone, an enzymeâŚ. Or even a multitude of theseâŚ. And sadly, THIS is not taught well in pharmacy, medical, or nursing school. Â
đAddictionsâŚ. According to web.md, roughly 20% of the US population has (or is currently) abusing prescription meds. It can happen so fast, and even to the best of people. Iâve seen it more times than I care to think about in my 30 years of pharmacy. Innocent addiction.
đAntibiotic resistanceâŚ. Over use and improper use of antibiotics has led to this. The result? We have a LARGE problem on our collective handsâŚ. Super bugs that are harder to kill.
Yes, we have definitely benefited from modern medicine. But just like anything else, is too much of a good thing possible in health care? You can bet your health savings account on it! đ°And is there anything we can do about it? You bet your insurance policy there is! đ°
 Stay tuned for part II!
xoxo~ liz
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Quarantine Casualties
âQuarantine causality casualties are real. đ˘
#Astrongimmunesystemisultimatelyyourbestoption
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Covid Virus 101 – part 2
Post #2 Corona Virus 101…. The Facts… let’s unpack them, shall we?
đFact #1:
NOTHING is secure about the statistics being presented…. NOTHING.
Current stats as of Friday 3/6/2020…….
101,714 confirmed cases and 3,461 deaths from the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak as of March 06, 2020, 18:05 GMTâŚ.. remembering that this doesnât even include mild cases that havenât been tested or were tested with a false negative. If the rational person were to factor in the false negatives AND the mild cases that aren’t even tested at all…… the conservative estimate of deaths vs illness would be <0.1%, with most of those deaths having primary serious health issues already. (more on this in a later post).
đ Fact #2: Corona VirusâŚ.. A cousin of the common cold virus with a ground zero in Wuhan China….. although strong evidence suggests that contrary to popular news coverage, this particular virus likely originated in a high security lab at the University of North Carolina several years ago. As is common practice, scientists from another part of the world (Wuhan, China in this case) bought into the research, and took some of the findings back home with them. #thingsthatmakeyougohmmmmmm
Additionally, this particular virus has, within its DNA, the written chimera (ie: a grafting) of an RNA snip of one of the HIV retroviruses…. something that is impossible to achieve in nature. Again,….. #thingsthatmakeyougohmmmmmm
This does NOT mean someone can get HIV from this virus… (so don’t go there mentally), but it does indicate manmade tampering and a “gain in functionality” which means the virus transmits more easily than the traditional common cold virus.
FOLLOW THE MONEY: This is a multibillion dollar business (if not trillion)…. Approximately 20 companies are vying for the right to make a vaccine….. whomever “wins” will make billions of $$$
đFact #3: Donât compare to 1918 spanish flu or any other historical plague like eventâŚ. They were all Pre antibiotics, pre- better hospital care and most importantly…. before we had better hygiene practices.
đFact #4 251,000 deaths per year due to errors in medical care, 3rd only to heart disease and cancer…. WHY are we not talking more about THESE things? THIS topic should warrant pandemic alarm…. and all we hear are.
đFact #5 National Institutes of Healthâs infectious disease chief, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said, âThe mortality rate (of Covid 19) looks like 2% to 3% but could be much lower if many mild cases or infections with no symptoms are going undetected.â SARS proved fatal in about 10% of cases. The fluâs mortality rate is only 0.1% btw this year.
đ Fact #6 Pollution (external and therefore internal) and the role it plays in disease and immune support…China has among the worldâs most dangerous air pollution… Ya’ll…. have you noticed that even when there isn’t a pandemic virus in China, many citizens still wear face masks? Take a look at this link for more info…
https://qz.com/âŚ/pollution-in-china-daqing-sees-its-air-quâŚ/
đFact #7 Smokers…. China, and some of the newer harder hit countries are still heavy smokers. In China, an estimated 354 MILLION people still smoke regularly. #healthhabitsmatter
đFact #8 the Germ vs Host Theory
I can’t take credit for this well written piece…. but it hits a homerun in truth and it’s THE reason I implement toxin free living suggestions in my health coaching. Either you are or you are not living this way. There really isn’t much of a gray area here.
“The big difference between the two is this: If your garbage piles up in your home for weeks or years, you will invite pests, rats, cockroaches, mice, antsâŚall sorts of unfavorables to your home. The Germ Theory states we need to continually bring something in to kill the pests, while the host theory states, âHey, how about we take out the garbage?â
Dr. Julian Baldor, a surgeon, in a speech before the Florida League of Human Progress, talked about Dr. Bechamp as one of the greatest scientists of all time. He said, âDr. Bechamp proved that our bodies become hosts to a germ only after chemical and mechanical changes have damaged our system and that as long as our bodies and tissues retain a high vitality and resistance, a germ, infection or disease will not make progress. Furthermore, the disease organism will not survive after its entrance into a healthy organism. For example, we see flies on a manure pile, and other parasites also. Some of these parasites may be dangerous and capable of producing disease under favorable circumstances. If, however, we remove the pile of manure, the parasites disappear at the same time. Which do you think is the more intelligent: To fight disease by swatting flies or removing the pile of manure?â
Pasteur was better connected, more well-spoken, and wealthier than Bechamp. When it came down to it, these proved to his advantage when their two scientific papers went up against each other. Pasteur won out, paving the way for the Germ Theory to gain in popularity. Bechamp fell into disfavor and his books listed on the Index of Librorum Prohibitorum (the index of books prohibited by the Catholic Church).”
Please see the entire article below if you are interested in learning more.Â
đFact #9 …5G – What in the world? What does faster stronger cell phone reception have to do with the virus? This topic is for another post another day…. but understand this…. regular exposure to 5G very much has MUCH to do with how easily people contract a virus or bacteria. Wuhan was one of the first countries to roll out 5G and they have over 10,000 cell phone towers in their city. The citizens of the city simply cannot get out from under that radio frequency…. that frequency affects us at a cellular level. This (in addition to the pollution/toxin load) is VERY important to keep in consideration. #unplugregularly
…..more to come friends. Stay tuned.đ
xoxo ~ liz
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