Show me the science! Where are the studies? What do the medical professionals say? What is my doctor telling me? Who are you to have an opinion? Trust the professionals! These are recurrent themes these days.
As I’ve mentioned before, my husband and I studied, researched, and shared these exact topics for decades.
Throughout the ages, medical practices have evolved, changed, and even come and gone (some quietly and slowly and some more quickly because they were dangerous and deadly).
When people look at the “science of today,” it is easy to get caught up in current information.
However, it is essential to use intuition and discernment as well. Unfortunately, the science of today can be disproven tomorrow. This has been shown repeatedly throughout history.
Fickle science is one reason I keep talking about the filter I use when it comes to health. I put everything through a filter, a filter based on the natural order. After all, there is a natural order for everything in the universe. Take gravity, for instance. It doesn’t matter if you see gravity, if you believe in gravity, if you have a scientific study showing gravity exists, or if you’ve never heard of gravity. If you jump off of a tall building, you will experience gravity. As my husband says, “he who jumps off a tall building goes splat”.
I don’t need science, evidence, or a medical opinion to understand the natural order. It is nice when it does match up, but it isn’t necessary. If you are new to this concept, it takes a lot of reading, researching, and learning to get a comfort level in this area. It is also important to remember that all truths are revealed in time.
I have compiled a small list of things that were, at the time, “scientifically proven,” and/or “doctor recommended” which are now completely abandoned, abolished and/or completely disproven.
Bloodletting – As far back as 1,000BC, doctors of the time practiced something called blood-letting (the instrument used was called a Lancet which ironically, is still the name of the prestigious U.K. medical journal that exists today, The Lancet). The thinking was that evil spirits, psychological problems, and illnesses could be removed through bleeding. Bloodletting was the “medicine of the day” all the way to the late 1800s. This would now be completely out of the question.
http://vaccineriskawareness.com/Stupid-Medical-Advice-Which-Has-Been-Consigned-To-History-Books/
Lobotomies – Lobotomies were common practice in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s for mental issues and a widely accepted medical intervention. Egas Moniz, who discovered the lobotomy, was even awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1949. The practice was detailed in a 2005 NPR article, “As those who watched the procedure described it, a patient would be rendered unconscious by electroshock. Freeman would then take a sharp ice pick-like instrument, insert it above the patient’s eyeball through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobes of the brain, moving the instrument back and forth. Then he would do the same thing on the other side of the face.”
The United States performed more lobotomies than any other country. Estimates range from 40,000 to 50,000. Many of these procedures elicited horrible consequences, including death, yet it was still readily and widely accepted. Other countries banned the procedures in the ’50s, and Russia went as far as to profess that it was “contrary to the principles of humanity.”
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https://psychcentral.com/blog/the-surprising-history-of-the-lobotomy/
Tonsillectomies – “In the 1930s, tonsillectomies were performed as preventive measures. By the 1960s and ’70s, close to 2 million were performed in the United States each year. The American Academy of Otolaryngology estimates that now fewer than 600,000 tonsillectomies are performed annually.” https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2000/oct/1/20001001-012109-2030r/
Tonsillectomies became the in vogue surgery of the time. We now know that tonsils have an essential purpose as part of your immune system. They are the first line of defense of the lymphatic system. If you take out this first line of defense, the patient is left susceptible to diseases of the lymphatic system like Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
Thalidomide – “Thalidomide was first marketed in the late 1950s as a sedative and was used in the treatment of nausea in pregnant women. Within a few years of the widespread use of thalidomide in Europe, Australia, and Japan, approximately 10,000 children were born with phocomelia, leading to the ban of thalidomide in most countries in 1961. Some countries continued to provide access to thalidomide for a couple of years thereafter. In addition to limb reduction anomalies, other effects later attributed to thalidomide included congenital heart disease, malformations of the inner and outer ear, and ocular abnormalities” Miscarriages were also very common.
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Smoking – It is hard to imagine, but doctors used to promote and condone cigarette smoking. It was recommended to relieve stress, help with a sore throat, curb anxiety, and lose weight. I came across my baby book, where my mom had a checklist of “things to bring to the hospital” when giving birth. On the list – cigarettes!
Cigarettes were deemed safe for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. You can see a print ad for Camel cigarettes by a medical doctor in the picture banner above , and here you can see an advertisement for Camels by a medical doctor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI. Can you imagine that, knowing what we know about cigarettes today? Yet, it was widely accepted and even encouraged by scientists and doctors. It is no wonder why an entire generation was so strongly addicted to smoking. They were duped by the “science of the day”.
http://vaccineriskawareness.com/Stupid-Medical-Advice-Which-Has-Been-Consigned-To-History-Books/
Oral Polio Vaccine– There are other problems with the Polio vaccine (see more in the link), but the oral version was pulled from the market because it CAUSED most of the polio cases in the United States since the early ’60s. “In 1963, the U.S. replaced Salk’s IPV vaccine with an attenuated (weakened, not killed) oral polio vaccine (OPV) developed by American physician and microbiologist, Albert Sabin. As a live virus vaccine, it, too, was (and continues to be) capable of giving its recipients polio. Not only can OPV trigger vaccine-strain polio in recipients, it can also cause polio in those who come in contact with recently vaccinated individuals due to shedding of live vaccine-strain poliovirus in bodily fluids. In validation of this very theory, Dr. Salk testified before a Senate subcommittee in 1977 that the oral polio vaccine had caused most of the polio cases in the U.S. since the early 1960s.” https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/vaccinations/polio-vaccines-medical-triumph-or-medical-mishap/
(Note: I will have more on vaccines coming soon)
Drug Side Effects – Have you ever sat and watched T.V. for any length of time and NOT seen an advertisement from a law firm stating, “If you suffered injury or death after taking (((insert drug name here))), call us today. You may be due money”? This happens all the time! The most recent commercial I saw was for Zantac (a common over the counter drug for heartburn). The class-action suit claims the manufacturer knew there were cancer-causing carcinogens in the product but did not inform the public.
Remember Vioxx? It was widely prescribed for arthritis starting in 1999 and through 2003 until it was linked to over 27,000 deaths due to sudden cardiac deaths. It just went away silently when the FDA pulled it. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6192603/ns/health-arthritis/t/report-vioxx-linked-thousands-deaths/#.XxYKypNKh0s. Shockingly, it may be making a comeback for severe joint pain caused by hemophilia. https://www.bmj.com/content/360/bmj.k242
While I’m on the topic of drugs, did you know that there are thousands of iatrogenic deaths every year? Iatrogenic deaths are deaths caused by medical errors. In a 2016 study from Johns Hopkins University, “Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to medical error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ, surpasses the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s third leading cause of death—respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year.” https://hub.jhu.edu/2016/05/03/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death/ This is considerably more than the numbers for coronavirus deaths.
Don’t Eat Butter/Eat Butter – See picture. In 1961, Time Magazine featured the work of Ancel Keys and his lipid hypothesis. All studies and science pointed to fat as the cause of heart disease. In 1984, Time Magazine gave us “And Now the Bad News” about cholesterol. Fast forward to 2014, and the cover reads, “Eat Butter.” Inside the article, you will find the “new” science that shows butter is not bad after all and healthy fats are essential. How would laypeople, relying on scientists and doctors, have imagined that they were sold a bill of goods and flat out lied to?
https://ilovebuttercoffee.com/bulletproof-coffee-recipe/grass-fed-butter/
Over Medicated Childbirth – I was born in 1970. At that time, a common practice was to give the mother morphine (basically knock her out), keep the father out of the room, and pull the baby out. I was born via forceps delivery. As a result, I sustained an injury to my neck. Because of the traumatic birth process, I also had severe in-toeing (pigeon toe), where I had to wear a brace between my two feet to turn them outward. Although anesthesia is still prevalent today, Having a mother rendered useless in pushing a baby out of the birth canal is no longer routine practice.
“One hundred years ago, most children throughout the world were born at home. Although many factors contributed to the movement of childbirth from the home to the hospital, one important reason for this change was the development of pain-reducing childbirth anesthesia, which was only available at the hospital.
During the 1950s and 60s, women became more aware of the problems associated with heavy anesthesia during labor. Dense anesthesia:
· Had negative physical effects on women and their babies (see more below in How has pain management changed?)
· Left women unable to play a role in their own care and that of their babies.
In addition the use of heavy anesthesia shifted control of childbirth from women (the birthing mother and her midwife), to the physician, (generally male at that time).”
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These are just some examples of how science and medicine can be accepted during one period of time and disproven and abandoned later. There are many, many more.
Our healthcare system is broken. It is a sick care system – you only enter it when you start having symptoms and the only solutions are drugs and surgery. The statistics of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, autoimmune disease and many others are higher than ever before.
Even during this pandemic, how many mainstream doctors, experts, and scientists have you seen encouraging people to eat healthy food, exercise, avoid toxins, keep a positive mindset, and build your health and immunity? Not many. Most everything we hear is related to “wear a mask”, “social distance”, and “wait for a vaccine.”
That is why my husband and I are always telling people to take control of their own health. You have to become your own advocate. You have to research what you are putting in your body (food, medications, toxins, pollution) and what you are taking out (surgeries). There is often (almost always) agendas and financial conflicts of interest present in science and healthcare. That topic deserves a whole article on its own.
The point is that you MUST use discernment, you MUST look at all of the facts, you MUST use your intuition.
Stay anchored my friends.