Trees vs the Forest
How do you view your health?
I think one of the bigger debates when it comes to healthcare is how we look at it.
I have always focused on the individual in front of me, sort of like an individual tree. I am aware of the forest around me and how it interacts with the individual tree, but when my job is to help the tree to be healthy and safe, my viewpoint is very focused.
Others, especially those in public health seem to be more concerned about the forest than the individual trees. This is why public health puts out protocols for all trees to follow.
But do they think about how individual trees may fair?
Do they not understand or do they just ignore the fact that all individuals are unique and may need different treatment choices?
So we have TREES and the FOREST.
Or let me phrase it a different way.
We have Individual Freedoms or we have Group Think Policies and Mandates.
Is what's good for the goose always good for the gander?
Are medical treatments that show some small benefit in the elderly also automatically good for children?
I am not here to tell you HOW to think.
As a tree in a large forest, you are allowed to analyze and think however you choose, as long as you do not willfully harm anyone else in the process.
I am here though to highly encourage you to think, and not just believe everything you see and hear in the media.
We all need to put information we obtain through our own smell check. We should never ever believe political or media fact checkers without looking closely at all sides of an issue first. We should also try to avoid allowing our preconceived bias to see things only one way.
We do not always need to prove ourselves right, regardless of whether we are or not.
We should though always try to get it right, even if it goes against our initial or preconceived beliefs.
Why am I writing this today?
I think we are at a breaking point in healthcare.
Government Public Health, Media, Large Corporations, Big Tech and Big Pharma have become very powerful over the past two years. Many of our freedoms have been taken away.
Did taking away our freedoms change the outcomes after two years? That can be a debate for another time, but from all the reading, data and research I have seen, the overall answer is a big NO. In fact if we are able to look back and truly research what occurred, I think we will find the public health response was more harmful than helpful.
Don't get me wrong.
I do not believe it was purposeful, always others might disagree.
Parts of what public health advised were helpful, moreso to certain segments of the population.
But where public health went wrong are the continued restrictions of our freedoms to live, work and travel unless we submit to medical treatments that many do not want. It’s almost like they created a class system of haves and have nots dependent upon taking a public health treatment.
Also do not forget the de-platforming and censorship of people who had views that differed from the establishment.
Is that how a free society acts?
What ever happened to free speech?
To conclude I urge you to look deeper at the issues occurring today as they relate to your health freedoms. I hope you will see that the forest is made up of many trees. We can't ignore the health and freedoms of an individual tree to appease the forest, especially when the protocols, regulations and treatments have not been thoroughly found to be helpful.
Agree with me or Disagree with me.
You are allowed to do either in a free country.
As always we can agree to disagree and remain friendly and cordial and work together on other issues we agree.
Below is a 9+ minute video about where another doc believes public health made mistakes.
“when the rules of government do not comply with common sense, it offends free Americans to have to abide by some silly rule and you can expect the objections we’re hearing from the public.” - Senator from Mississippi
Quick update- after a tough weekend of Gluten Free carb bingeing I am back on track and have lost the 2.5 pounds I gained.
Guess how I lost the weight?
I’ll tell you.
I used Intermittent Fasting of 19:5 on Monday and I did a 24 hour Intermittent Fast on Tuesday.
Ask me if I cared that I missed a meal…………………..
It’s almost Spring.
Do you know what that means?
As always questions and comments are welcome and encouraged.
LOVED the analogy of people/patients and trees!
Our property has about 200 trees, 8 of the older trees are black walnuts that are not really indigenous to the area. Some years they have no nuts. Most years they produce thousands. Some small, some as large as a soft ball. My husband and I learned how to harvest them. It is a lot of work, kind of like the dieting. Also, some of the large nuts contain small walnut meat and the small nuts large amounts of walnut meat.
I have found out that for "me" the keto diet is better. I had tried the carnivore diet for sometime. My weigh stayed the same. I have not lost much weight on keto but I have lost inches on my abdomen and upper legs and arms.
But the most important part of all this is we have a doctor/person who looks at us differently (like the trees) and does his best and more, to help us be in the best state of mind and body!
Let’s be honest and call it what it is, “deathcare”. Time you replant your tree out of the forest, to a clearing on a mountain top. This will give you a clear vantage point, and ample light.
*2.5lbs might have been “lost” in two days, but that is of course water weight. It takes time to put actual body weight on, and it also takes time to take it off👍🏻