I do a lot of reading.
I mean a whole lot of reading.
When I see something of interest I save it to my notes section. I apologize if any of these are quotes of others and I did not mention their names. That is not intentional.
Since yesterday was such a nice beautiful Spring Day, I decided to do some Spring cleaning of my notes section. Yes I did this sitting inside AFTER spending an hour or two outside in the Sun, getting the backyard in order and grilling/eating a few homemade burgers.
So here are some things of interest.
I save these as things to potentially write about here on Common Sense Health and Wellness.
Let me know if any hit home with you or make ya think.
Diabetes is being looked at all wrong.
The traditional method is to look at the blood glucose levels.
What if the Blood Glucose levels are a “Late” marker of Diabetes?
What if there are other earlier systemic markers of Diabetes that if evaluated and other systems are out into place, reduce the progression and complications resulting from Diabetes?
It’s not a What. There are many.
But the Traditional treatments for Diabetes still seem to be a singular focus on lowering Blood Glucose. This is analogous to cleaning up after a party that should have never started and saying you fixed everything, after damage has already been done.
Cholesterol is a marker.
Insulin resistance is a mechanism.
Markers don’t cause disease.
Imbalanced mechanisms do.
Medications that alter markers without affecting the imbalanced mechanism are not cures, not treatments nor preventives.
They mostly help your 401k if invested in #BigHarma
“You gotta challenge all assumptions. If you don’t, what is doctrine on day one becomes dogma forever after.” —John Boyd
Would you ever lecture your neighbor to keep their house clean and tidy if your own house was a mess?
What would happen if Big Pharma was no longer allowed to?
A: Advertise on TV
B: Make political contributions
C: Directly fund research at colleges and universities
Would any of the past 3-4 years have been handled in a different way?
So I am sitting at the beach, observing.
In front of me are a couple who have been sitting under an umbrella most of the late morning early afternoon. I guess they don’t want any VitD?
They have also been eating deep fried French fries in I’m sure inflammatory seed oils and dipping the fries in high fructose corn syrup ketchup. I guess they think meat is bad and anything vegetable is good?
Just about every hour they appear to be slathering on chemical laden sunscreen with who knows what toxicities? I guess natural suns rays are worse than the chemicals in sunscreen?They have also been drinking water from plastic bottles that have probably been in the sun awhile. I guess the hydration is more important than the toxic chemicals from plastics, xenoestrogens they get from the plastic bottle?
Maybe it’s time we all rethink a bit on what is healthy and what is not so much??
Just saying….
I’m walking along a South Jersey beach-boardwalk. There is certainly a whole lot of Diabetes evident.
If cholesterol causes heart disease, and if a poor diet raises cholesterol and increases the risk of heart disease, why is the treatment a medication instead of fixing the diet?
Wouldn’t a healthier diet reduce cholesterol and thus heart disease risk?
Why do we remember our grandparents and great grandparents who lived well into their 80s and 90s before cholesterol lowering medications were available?
Were they just lucky?
Why was heart disease infrequent in the 50s and prior and so rampant today?
What changed?
Did cholesterol all of a sudden become deadly 2 generations ago?
Dare I ask instead of cholesterol being the villain, might it instead be our inflammatory diet and lifestyle that is the real risk factor?
If so I ask again why is the treatment a medication as opposed to fixing the diet and lifestyle?
Did I ask too many questions?
Did I break anyone’s beliefs in Big Pharma coming to the rescue?
“It is hard to get a person to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it” —- Upton Sinclair
The story of our healthcare system the past three years
You don't need to be jacked with a six pack. But you do need to build a reserve of strength and muscle mass, because age will start taking it from you at some point no matter what. And the more you have to give, the longer you maintain your health span.
I think that’s enough for now.
Did any of my Spring cleaning make ya think?
I’m a firm believer in your common sense health
It’s all just reinforcing what you have already shared with all of us. Don’t stop talking about it. Maybe every time you write about it another person or two “gets it “. I think when the majority of people actually “get it “maybe just maybe people will push back against all the BS that we are force fed.