6 Tips for Avoiding Unnecessary Doctors

AVOIDING UNNECESSARY DOCTORS

1. PREVENTIVE ACTION

Years ago, a friend of mine suddenly started to go blind, so he went to the emergency room and the doctors informed him that he had diabetes.

I went to visit this friend while he was in the hospital, and when I walked into his room, I was shocked to see that he was in a hospital bed eating a "Wendy's" bacon cheeseburger, french fries, and a Coke.

Then I found out that there was actually a "Wendy's" fast-food restaurant inside the hospital.

"What kind of a "recovery meal" is that for a diabetic?" I thought to myself.

I then started to wonder how the ridiculous idea of putting a fast-food restaurant inside a hospital could have even been approved in the first place.

"If you want to know how well the medical industry understands health, just look at the food they serve in hospitals."
- Unknown

This incident helped spark my skepticism towards the health care system because it showed that some of the people in it are either ignorant about the connection between diet and health, or they know about it but don't want to talk about it because healthy people don't need doctors.

"There's no money in healthy people, and there's no money in dead people. The money is in the middle. People who are alive (sort of) but with one or more chronic conditions."
- Bill Maher

If a doctor is quick to prescribe drugs to people without even enquiring about their diet and lifestyle choices, then that "doctor" is basically a "drug dealer".

Some doctors will get a big financial bonus every time they put one of their patients on certain drugs. But if the job of a doctor was truly to keep their patients healthy, then they would be rewarded for every time one of their patients actually heals and gets off of drugs.

More than half of the deaths in the United States are due to "cancer", "diabetes", and "heart disease". And yet, many people are being led to believe that there are still no cures for these problems and that there is nothing that we can do on our own to prevent them from happening to us other than give money to research.

As long as there is far more money to be made off of us being sick than on us being well, then we need to take care of ourselves as much as we can so that we don't have to turn to a backward system like that for help.

2. DON'T TAKE PART IN THE MASS HYSTERIA

If you were to take a "medical dictionary", and randomly pick one of the thousands of different health problems that are listed in it, and then you devote some time to learning about that particular health problem and the symptoms that are associated with it, there is a good chance that you would start to worry that you have that health problem.

Now imagine what will happen if millions of people turn on the News and they hear that there is a deadly new virus going around and that the symptoms can be anything from coughing to headaches, and that you can even have no symptoms whatsoever and still have it.

What will happen is a "mass hysteria" where people will be lining up in droves to see a doctor so they can be tested and get shots.

There have been a lot of "end of the world" predictions that have come and gone over the centuries. And although none of them actually happened, it doesn't mean that they didn't cause a lot of destruction.

During a "mass hysteria", there can be so much fear that the fear itself can end up being even more destructive than the thing that everyone was afraid of in the first place.

If you have ever seen a bag of oranges where there was one bad orange in the bag that was moldy but all the others were all fine, it's because the bad one got smashed or damaged in some way, so it got taken over by mold. And the same thing happens whenever a terrible sickness is going around that seems to be targeting people with damaged health who are suffering from major health problems like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, or obesity.

The best "immunity" for "mass hysteria" is to get healthier so that you have a lot less to worry about, and so you can inspire others to get healthy and not live in fear either.

3. GO OUTSIDE AND GET SOME SUNLIGHT

Think for a moment about just how strong and resilient the grass in your front yard is. (You can walk on it, you can run over it with a car, and you can even cut it with a lawnmower, yet it will continue to live and grow.)

But if you simply lay a towel over a patch of grass and leave it there for a few days so that the grass won't get any sun exposure, the grass will start to turn pale and will eventually wither and die. And the same thing can happen to us if we don't get enough sunlight.

The sun is 93 million miles away from the Earth, yet it can open and close all of the flowers on Earth, and it can also strengthen all of our immune systems if we spend some time outside in it.

Like they say, "We are what we eat." and in the same way that plants that are kept indoors will sometimes lean towards the window on sunny days because they want to be in the sun, once I started eating a "plant-based diet", I found myself looking out the window on sunny days and longing to be outside in the sun, so I started going outside and eventually became an "outdoors person".

I believe that those who suffer from low energy and depression (and who also happen to be spending all of their time indoors and looking at screens) would literally feel like a battery being recharged if they started spending some time "unplugged" from technology and outside absorbing some sunlight.

DOES THE SUN CAUSE CANCER?
Our ancient ancestors worshipped the sun and realized that without the sun we wouldn't be alive. But doctors today will often tell their patients that the sun causes cancer and that they should either stay out of the sun completely or wear sunscreen as a "shield" from it.

But if the sun causes cancer, I would like to ask the following questions...

- Why is it that the body parts that men and women are the most likely to develop cancer in, just happen to be the intimate body parts that are the most covered up, and therefore get little to no sun exposure?

- Why is it that people's immune systems become the weakest during the winter when they are spending the most time indoors and the least time in the sun?

- Why is it that skin cancer is more common now than ever before, even though we are spending far less time in the sun now than ever before?

People used to work outdoors a lot, now most of us work inside buildings. People used to travel by foot or by horse, now most of us travel inside enclosed vehicles. Kids used to spend a lot of time playing outside, but now kids spend a lot of time playing video games inside their house.

I'm not suggesting that it would be impossible to get "too much" sun exposure, but I am suggesting that you can get "too little" of it and that a lot of people would benefit from getting more.

HOW TO GET "VITAMIN D" FROM SUNSHINE
"Vitamin D" is often referred to as "The Sunshine Vitamin", because our bodies produce it naturally as a result of sun exposure.

If you can do it, I would encourage you to start "sunbathing" by lying outside with as little clothing on as possible, and preferably none at all because the more of your skin that is exposed, the more sunlight you will absorb, and because no part of your skin is truly clean if it never gets exposed to fresh air and sunlight.

Where I live, I have neighbors who can see my backyard, but if I simply stack up some boxes I can build a "wall" that prevents them from being able to see me.

If you have really light skin, 20 - 30 minutes of direct sun exposure will probably be all the sun exposure that you need in a day. And if you have really dark skin, you can (and should) spend about twice that much time in the sun since you have more "melanin".

"Melanin" is a natural "sunscreen" that our bodies developed through countless generations of evolution, and the more of it you have, the darker your skin color.

Our ancestors who lived near the equator developed dark skin to protect themselves from the constant sun exposure they were getting. And our ancestors who lived in colder climates that had long periods of winter developed lighter skin so they could easily absorb sunlight whenever it was available.

The sun will only be strong enough for "Vitamin D" synthesis to occur during certain hours of the day though, so even if you're getting some sun exposure, if it's too early or too late in the day you won't be able to produce "Vitamin D" from it. (I like to sunbathe around 11:00 AM when the sun is strong, but not intense.)

If you live in a cold climate, you won't be able to get adequate sun exposure in the winter, so "Vitamin D" supplementation may be necessary, and it would also be wise to schedule any vacation time you have for the middle of the winter and to go someplace warm and sunny so you can get some good sun exposure during the wintertime.

I personally like to spend the winter in "Costa Rica" so I can get sunshine all year round, and you can click HERE to see some pictures of my first winter there.

4. AVOID SITTING

A lot of people will spend most of their waking hours sitting, and new research is suggesting that this is not only bad for your back, but that it can be just as bad for your overall health as smoking.

USE A STANDING DESK

If you have to spend several hours a day working at a desk, one of the best things that you can do is start using a "standing desk" which is a special desk that is high enough off the ground that you can stand while using it.

You can purchase a "standing desk", or you can do what I did and just turn a regular computer desk into a "standing desk" by using boxes to prop your keyboard, mouse, and monitor up high enough that you can use your computer while standing.

HANG UPSIDE DOWN

Gravity is constantly pushing down on us, which is why we all get shorter as we age, and one of the reasons that a lot of people end up with back problems.

A lot of people who used to suffer from back pain have been able to get a lot of relief from using an "inversion table" which is a device that allows you to safely hang upside down and reverse the effects of gravity by stretching and decompressing the spine.

I love using an inversion table, and when I'm upside down I like to do deep breathing exercises, spinal twists, and even upside-down sit-ups.

5. BEWARE OF THE SO-CALLED "EXPERTS"

There are a lot of "health experts" out there these days, and the "health expert" who inspired me to get into health and fitness was a man named "Jack Lalanne"...

JACK LALANNE AS A YOUNG MAN

JACK LALANNE TOWING 70 BOATS WITH 70 PEOPLE ON THEM FOR HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY

JACK LALANNE SHORTLY BEFORE HE DIED
Way back when televisions were still in black & white, "Jack Lalanne" had the very first exercise program on television.

He also opened the first chain of "gyms" in America and invented some of the popular workout machines that can now be found in almost any gym. (Like the "pull-down machine", the "leg extension machine", and the "smith machine".)

He held the world record for push-ups and performed many incredible feats of strength throughout his lifetime, and even the exercise known as "jumping jacks" and the term "jacked" (which is used to describe a fit and muscular person) were all named after "Jack Lalanne".

He devoted his life to preaching about the importance of diet and exercise, and even though he grew up during "the great depression" and spent much of his early career being accused of being a "quack" due to people still believing back then that weightlifting was too dangerous, he also preached about the importance of keeping a positive mental attitude in life.

He was an incredible example of a "health expert".

But a lot of the "health experts" on TV these days NEVER even bring up things like diet and exercise, and instead of wearing work-out clothes, they tend to wear business suits, and instead of talking about the importance of keeping a positive mental attitude, they seem to want all of us to live in fear and seem far more interested in pushing drugs on people than in doing "push-ups".

A lot of the most well-known and trusted "health experts" these days might not even exercise or eat any better than the average American does. (That doesn't make them "bad people", but if they aren't taking their own health all that seriously, it wouldn't be wise to trust them to take your health more seriously than their own.)

If you are going to trust someone else with something as important as your health, I would encourage you to have some really high standards and to not automatically trust someone just because they use the word "science" a lot.

"THE SCIENCE"
I have always had a deep fascination with "outer space", and anyone who shares this fascination with me knows that some astronomers will talk about their theories about the universe as if they were "facts", and some of them are convinced that they know how the universe began, how the universe will end, whether there is life elsewhere in the universe, etc.

And while it may seem harmless for a scientist who studies outer space to believe that they have the universe all figured out, if a scientist believes that they have human health all figured out, and they also believe that they should have the legal right to force everyone on Earth to follow their personal health recommendations because they see themselves as smarter than all the rest of us, we should never grant them that kind of power.

"Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all."
- Voltaire

Back in the early 1900s, a lot of people were convinced that sickness and disease would be eliminated by the year 2000 thanks to all the pharmaceutical drugs that science was creating. And because of this belief, the natural remedies that people had been using for countless generations became looked at as "primitive" and "inferior" to the modern medicines that were being created in labs. So, people stopped using "natural cures" (and even demonized the term) in favor of the new and improved remedies that could be purchased at the drugstore.

Now that we are well into the 2,000s, we can look around and see that not only did pharmaceutical drugs not eliminate all sickness and disease by the year 2000, but there is actually more sickness and disease now than ever before. (And all of the natural herbal remedies that people had used for countless generations have been virtually erased from our collective consciousness.)

"Medical science has made such tremendous progress, that there is hardly a healthy human left."
- Aldous Huxley

It was also believed in the early 1900's, that through the help of medical science, people would be living a lot longer by the year 2000. And although there are indeed people today who are in their 80s, 90s, and even 100s, many of them are in nursing homes where they are confined to a bed or a wheelchair and are completely dependent on others to take care of them, and many of them don't even recognize their own children when they come to visit them. (If their family is even allowed to visit them since they are so "high risk".)

So rather than saying that people are "living" a longer life thanks to modern medicine, I think it would be far more accurate to say that people are "dying" a much slower death and are literally spending the last several years of their life on their deathbeds.

When an old person died in the past, it would often be quick and painless, and if there were any witnesses in the room, they would usually say something like the following...

"Our Grandpa was just sitting there in his chair talking, but then he suddenly closed his eyes and lowered his head, and that was how he died."

But nursing homes today are filled with old people who are dying such a slow and uncomfortable death, that when they finally do pass away, their loved ones will actually feel relieved and will be saying things like...

"At least Grandma can finally rest in peace now and won't have to suffer anymore."

Also keep in mind that not all "experts" agree with each other, and below is a quote from a medical doctor sharing his expertise...

"I declare as my conscientious conviction, founded on long experience and reflection, that if there were not a single physician, surgeon, man-midwife, chemist, apothecary, druggist, nor drug on the face of the Earth, there would be less sickness and less mortality than now prevail."
- James Johnston, M.D.

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