I like to put this disclaimer in once in awhile: I am not a journalist. I’m not a doctor. I don’t have a PHD and I don’t consider myself an author. I’m just a person in this world with an opinion on pretty much everything. I do try to make sure that my opinions are based on facts and I do research everything I talk about by either reading about the subject or listening to lectures and/or interviews with experts on whatever issue I am interested in (I also use my own life experience). I urge each and every person to do their own research on *everthing*. And if anyone ever questions something I write about or speak about, I’m more than willing to provide the sources I use. But, in some cases, the source is my own discernment and common sense. Thank you all for allowing me to share my opinions on The Rumble Strip.
If there’s one thing that most of us should have learned over the last “couple of years to flatten the curve” is this: We must take back our personal health.
Some of us had already taken charge of our own health years ago, but many of us have only recently realized that we really do have a lot of control over our quality of life when it comes to how healthy we are. I’m not naïve enough to think that no matter what we do, sometimes something is going to get us anyway. I’ve known people who never smoked a cigarette or ate a “bad for you” meal and somehow ended up with lung cancer. I’m sure most of you know folks like this as well. But this doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t make the effort to be as healthy as we can be.
You know what’s amazing to me? I see in comments from time to time, people making fun of those who actually care about their *own* health choices. We are often called hippies or other derogatory names just because we believe in taking a few supplements, doing a bit of moderate exercise once in awhile and eating vegetables that didn’t come to us on a ship from China or sit on a truck for 2 months before consumption. 20 years ago, I was one of those. Although I believed in supplements to an extent, I still could *easily* eat 2 Big Macs, a supersized FF, a Filet-O-Fish and supersized Coke-a-Cola and thought things were just fine that way (Even though I didn’t feel full afterwards!). Because of my busy work life (16 hour days on a rotating day/night shift) I thought that it was okay to eat fast food pretty much every day. But, you know what? I was sick *all* the time. I got 3 or 4 “colds” every year, had knee problems, back problems, sleep problems (and the list goes on).
And then one day I’d had enough. I ate at a fast food restaurant where I heard the cook in the back coughing and hacking and gurgling and ended up sicker than hell myself. I come from good genetics with people on both sides of my family that lived healthy lives well into their 80’s and even a grandmother that lived until age 102. All of them in their right mind pretty much to the very end. Independent. Able to enjoy life without spending half their time in doctor’s offices. I asked myself, “what am I doing differently than my elders? Why was I thirty (more like 50) pounds overweight even though I felt like I was taking decent care of myself? (After all, I was taking vitamin C, right?).
It hit me like a shot: I was eating garbage. I literally resigned myself that very day to stop *all* fast food. No more convenience store burritos. No more MacDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, (you know all of the names) and no more mom and pop fast food either. I decided to make literally *everything* I ate from scratch using the best raw ingredients I could afford. (I do buy a few condiments and other things but I even make many of my condiments as well…homemade mayo! You’ll never want store bought again). I went through our cabinets and read the ingredients on every bottle, can or jar and threw away hundreds of dollars of items where “High Fructose Corn Syrup” and sugar were the first ingredients on the list (which is pretty much *everything* and don’t get me started on how bad processed sugar is for us). I threw away anything that had more than one ingredient on it that I couldn’t pronounce. I bought a flour mill, meat grinder, bread maker, ice cream maker and a few other gadgets.
And guess what? Over the next two years I lost 30 pounds. I didn’t follow some “fad” diet plan. I didn’t work out with sweat pouring out of me for an hour a day. Then I started noting some other things… After that first year I realized I hadn’t been sick! I didn’t have allergies anymore. I didn’t get the dreaded 2 sinus infections a year anymore (that always had me reaching out to a “doctor” for antibiotics).
And you know what else? I didn’t stop eating fast food either, I just make the fast food myself! When I have a craving for a Big Mac… I make it myself using quality hamburger (often grinding my own so I know what’s in it), home made buns, home made special sauce. If I want French Fries, I choose a nice potato and cut the fries and yep, I fry them in oil. When I want tacos, I make my own. When I want ice cream, I make my own. I’ve never been a big dessert person anyway, but when I get a sugar craving, I don’t deny myself… I make a pie or a cake from *scratch* (*not* one of those boxes of poison) using safe types of sugar, etc.
I did this all on my own. No one helped me. Family thought I was nuts, but when they saw the results they started embracing my philosophy as well. We don’t have to deny ourselves anything to be healthier (or lose weight in some cases). What we *do* have to deny ourselves is the addictive fast food, convenience meals and other ready-made foods that are often loaded with sugar, the wrong kind of salt, and numerous chemicals (often waste products from industry), here in America.
We’ve been led to believe that because the “FDA” approves something, that item is completely safe. That we can “trust” a group of greedy psychopaths who have been bought off by the very industries they are supposed to be protecting us from to be on our side and think about our health while they make their “ruling”. Nothing could be further from the truth (and that’s a long discussion maybe for another time).
So where am I going with this? I’ll tell you where: Prevention of disease is much more important than donating (rounding up your bill at the store) to find a “cure” for said disease.
In the 1980’s I started seeing “round up for a cure” signs in stores everywhere and people wearing ribbons to virtual signal how much they care (and I’m not criticizing those who have bought into this, they have meant well). Before that, once in a while I might have seen a donation jar with someone’s picture on it. Someone who had a rare cancer, autism, or another very expensive-to-treat “disease”. But now, you can’t hardly go into a store anywhere and not see a sign to “round up” for breast cancer. Round up for prostate cancer. Round up for Autism. Round up for diabetes. Round up for Leukemia. Round up, round up, round up, round up to “find a cure” for all of the diseases that used to be extremely rare in America One day I realized that we only see the cry for donations to find cures for things. We never see donation jars asking for research to find out *why* we now have all of these diseases. Where is the “round up to find the *cause* of (fill in the blank)?
I’ve given all of this a lot of thought. What has changed since the 1970’s and early 1980’s? Why are we suffering with all of these diseases? The answer is simple (yet complex at the same time). One only has to look at how the American diet has changed to see part of the reason why. Then look at the amount of shots that people are “required” to take. Take a look at the amount of over-the-counter medications and prescriptions people are on now. I could go on and on. When I was a kid, the OTC isle was just a small section where you could get some cold meds, aspirin, etc. Now… OMG… Some stores have *huge* isles where both sides are just loaded with “FDA approved” over the counter poisons for everything.
I know I may be oversimplifying all of this (and mostly that’s for brevity… it would take me way too long to explain some of the deep dives I’ve actually done on this issue), but the fact remains: We have the power to improve our own health through the choices that we make. We must use some common sense when it comes to food, injections and drugs of any kind. Will everyone who does what I did have the same results? Maybe. Maybe not. Is it worth it to try? *Absolutely*. Is it a lot of work? Yep, but the work is satisfying. Does it take a bit of time to adjust to a new way of eating? Of course it does. The one thing that was really hard for me was realizing that what I make myself will *not* taste “the same” as something you buy ready made. And that’s a *good* thing! I don’t want my pizzas (and I’m really good at making them) to taste like Pizza Hut! I don’t want my ice cream to taste like some major brand. I want my food to taste like food that I made. (I do have to say, I’ve gotten pretty good at making Chinese food taste almost exactly like take out… without the MSG).
My point is this: If we want to get the “corporate/government/medical industrial complex/pharma” monkey off of our backs… we can! (Or at least we can make an attempt). Refusing to be part of the foods and medicines that are destroying our health and making “customers for life” for big pharma and big medical is absolutely within our control. It’s a *major* thing we can do to thumb our noses at the man. We may feel helpless to change what is going on in the world, but we most certainly *can* make changes on an individual level that have a significant impact (for the good) on ourselves and those we love and care about. We don’t have to participate in the things that are destroying us. We can, for now, still grow a lot of our own food *without* chemicals. We can refuse to buy things that we know are making us unhealthy. The corporations and drug companies might not notice the difference on their bottom line. But for those of us who choose this path, we *will* notice a difference. And that’s what ultimately matters in the end.
Thanks for reading. I’m not trying to change the world, but I am trying to get people to just think about things a bit differently once in awhile. Until next week. :)
You might want to look into terrain theory too. After this con-vid mess, I started to learn that injecting anything in the body is a recipe for allergies and side effects that can come years ahead.
Viruses are bunk. Many medicines are bunk.
They'll never look into the real cause of cancer and diabetes etc... Because our for profit system just promotes treatments not cures.
Videos here that go into the many issues with germ theory.. and how terrain theory is much more accurate in explaining the mechanisms of sickness
https://odysee.com/@drsambailey:c
From a reply to a good article on how even antivenom is problematic...
"The moral of the story that thankfully con-vid woke me up to is this:
Don’t inject yourself with foreign material (proteins, metals, nanoparticles).
The body is not designed to deal with directly injected materials that doesn’t get normally digested (but passes through the digestive system).
If only these freaking doctors would stop believing in this nonsense, then maybe we could have a system that is cheaper and more effective. But then, pharma would be obsolete.
I think a government run medicine research system would be much more effective, without the profit motive. I know people fear the government, but private corporations have much less liability and they tend to spend tons of money on lawyers to protect them, whereas governments face more direct public scrutiny.
Remember, private public partnerships, or state corporatism, is the definition of Fascism!
As for these state run medical research systems, Cuba has one and I’m not sure of their medicines but they have helped even victims of the 911 asbestos…. Perhaps they pretend it’s medicine, but are really just giving iv supplements? Who knows but they have much better results than the more expensive “high tech science” ones.
“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”. ― Nikola Tesla
There are a few key people (all online) that I would say I largely owe my vastly improved health and quality of life. They include: Dr. Mercola, Dr. Eric Berg, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Dr. Gundry, Thomas DeLauer, Dr. Joe Dispenza, Dr. Jason Fung, James Nestor, Gary Taubes, Dr. Paul Saladino, Dr. Shawn Baker, along with others in their orbits. Their videos, podcasts, articles, and books have been invaluable to me.