June 9, 2003
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sweet synchronicity…
By a chain of synchronicities I will bore you with below, I found a quite interesting, informative, useful and validating natural-health website (and I’ll share that link below, too).
- Recently, waiting around for someone to unlock a door for a meeting, Greyfox told someone else that he had once lost seven years of sobriety because of “a dysfunctional relationship and a prescription for Xanax.” The man’s response was, “Oh, prescription drugs are okay if the doctor gives them to you.” I would have jumped on that, but just then the man with the key came up and the meeting started. That absurd statement stuck in my mind, though, and Greyfox and I had discussed it later. Needless to say, we both know better.
- One of my email friends is host to a colony of Candida, as I am, and I have been sharing what I’ve learned of orthomolecular medicine from www.charlesgantmd.com and Dr. Gant’s book, End Your Addiction Now, to help her deal with the food cravings that are part of the yeast syndrome, which must be dealt with in order to control the yeast. I had mentioned Dr. Hulda Clark’s “zapper” to her as a way to kill yeast, but, again like me, she has a hard enough time affording a few bucks for supplements, let alone a few hundred for the electronic gadget.
- Yesterday, I received the last of the supplements I had ordered, and set up orthomolecular amino-acid supplement packages for Greyfox to take, to help him with the cravings he’s experiencing. I haven’t mentioned this before, but when he got sober this time, we both stopped smoking weed, he quit using tobacco and cut back greatly on his caffeine and sugar intake. To avoid the painful withdrawal symptoms, we are tapering off the caffeine gradually. Some support with his neurotransmitter imbalances was called for (I already have my supplements set up), now that we are both going drug-free.
- Thus, with Dr. Clark’s zapper on my mind and being primed for any mention of orthomolecular medicine, when the latest email newsletter from Dr. Clark showed up this morning, I read it. It mentioned a “Dr. Rath”, whom I had not heard of. The teaser for item #4 in the newsletter said, “How Dr. Rath Controls Many Conditions The Orthomolecular Way And His Stance On The Pharma Cartel.” That hooked me, not only with the orthomolecular connection, but because the last time we were together, Greyfox and I had been discussing the damage done by the pharma cartel to the sheep like that man at the meeting who believe any crap is okay as long as a doctor gives it to them.
I was not disappointed by what I found at Dr. Rath’s website. I was as excited about what he’s doing as I had been to learn that some of Dr. Clark’s people plan to go to Africa and use zappers to help with the AIDS epidemic there. There’s hope for this sick planet, after all.
Comments (6)
Wow. No caffeine? There is so much wrong with the treatment given by most doctors. Your self education and open mindedness continues to inspire me.
i have two friends with parents from somewhere other than north america. one’s mother was trained in medicine, including most doctory stuff, and completely mistrusts doctors’ abilities to diagnose anything, and will just bully perscriptions out of the doctor.
the other’s mother was trained as a pharmacist, and is amazed when any prescribed drug actually works.
Sounds like the two of you are trying out some of the things that come to me naturally. I’m half Native American and part Irish with alcoholism all over my family tree, so alcohol is a really bad idea. And yes, I learned that the hard way, but not too terribly hard. I’m asthmatic, so smoking might have killed me if I’d kept it up. My system seems really sensitive to any kinds of uppers or downers, and that includes sugar, caffeine, Benedryl, and all kinds of other seemingly harmless things, so I try to avoid them too, just so I don’t get sick or fall asleep. *shrug* It’s really not so bad… Water and orange juice are my friends. Though since I had the baby I’ve been craving root beer. Mostly because I want chocolate.
Oh, and too many chemical additives give me nasty migraines. So I can’t do boxed foods or tv dinners or any of that kind of crap. Hot Pockets made me want to put a drill to my skull. *shudder*
And I don’t trust doctors all the time either. Sometimes… But if it had been left to them I would have been on heavy duty steroids for asthma all my life. *snort*
Oh, and then there was the Ritalin crap… And the Prozac crap… And narrowly averting getting hooked on Tylenol 3… Ya know, I hope that guy at the meeting isn’t in for a rude awakening…
…ahhh prescription drugs….not sure where my new “mood stabilizer” fits into the equation although it isn’t addictive (I haven’t confirmed this myself)….and the Candida nightmare? I’ve been totally OD’ing on sugar, chocolate, caffeine and carbs this past few weeks. My excuse is that I’m comforting myself by indulging the cravings…instead of using alcohol to numb, as I did for a long while. Withdrawel from the above seems to cause MAJOR cravings for alcohol…so I’m going with “lesser evil” at the mo’….I wonder how long it actually would take to eliminate all of those cravings…
my brother…the alcoholic/diabetic was told by his physician that it “wouldn’t hurt” his diabetes to have a Scotch or two a day…
excuse me? wouldn’t hurt what doctor dickhead. i can’t figure out why i’m always so amazed when i see or hear things like that.