Thank you for this post. We as a society have such a 'quick-fix' mentality when it comes to disease and sickness. Have a cold? Take some steroids. ADHD? Heres some ritalin. But we don't realize that these drugs actually have a profoundly negative effect on our bodies and totally mess up our body structure. I'm all for natural immunity. I find that going natural almost always makes me feel better in the long run than taking medicine.
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Quite a few parents relied on "natural diets" and "natural cures" and ended up with manslaughter charges for their child's death from malnutrition or lack of access to modern medicine.
Lumping ADHD and colds together with immunizations is such a scary thought to me. These things are nowhere near the same and should rarely be related together.
Appeal to fear is not the the path to logic, and is not the path to knowledge. Being stampeded into acting against self interest, by fear of authority, or fear of death is not the path to health or life. Everyone must be free to make their own decisions and their own mistakes. The choices here seem to inevitably boil down to individual potential for success, or enforced failure by mandate of authority, and/or manipulation by moneyed interests. I'll take my chances that my intelligence and knowledge will keep me safer than the corrupt and bumbling state.
Quite a few parents relied on vaccination only to have it turn perfectly healthy children into vacant zombies. Hygiene and sanitation have accomplished all of what the vaccination promoters have taken credit for. Results are the most desirable destination. This 'modern medicine', of which you speak, is not modern at all but is archaic, regulatory controlled, and soon to be mandated, poison that demonstrably harms and kills (see: iatrogenic death statistics). Better, safer, and cheaper technologies exist that are readily available, but illegal to promote due to the regulatory capture under which we live today.
Lumping fear together with logic and knowledge is unnecessary and is undesirable in the pursuit of wisdom related to health. Fear and logic are nowhere near the same and should rarely be related together.
@netuoso I see what you're saying and I can see how my above comment could come across as a sweeping statement in regard to the rejection of modern medicine.
I don't think natural cures are always the answer and I have read horror stories about how children have died because their parents never took them to a doctor. The point I'm trying to make is that society as a whole medicates as soon as it's suspicious of a disease or sickness. In the case of a cold, I don't know why one would take steroids that are harmful to your body in other ways rather than just rest. ADHD obviously is in a different realm of medicineand I'm not an expert on the subject. What I can tell you is that I've seen people gain weight, get seizures, lose their sensibilities, and transform into people I cannot recognize on drugs like Ritalin. I don't argue that it may be helpful to some, but I do see how that type of medicine damages your body.
Yeah I agree that big pharma pushes drugs instead of cures. I don't medicate at the first sign of illness but if it gets debilitating of course I would.
I think it seems that we are on a similar page.
I don't think @sbrukh was 'lumping' them together, but making a rather good point, that people seem to rush and rely on medication (some quite dangerous) rather than trying to boost natural immunity or find natural methods. I tend to agree.