10 Reasons I Avoid Prescription Drugs

This is not to say that I never have used, or never would use prescription drugs (I have on a couple occasions because I didn’t know what else to do…like for a bee sting, a toothache, and a urinary tract infection, and for anesthesia at the dentist), but on a fairly frequent basis, I butt heads with those who believe that prescription drugs are necessary to medicate all manner of human conditions and behaviors. I don’t take this stance because of influence by someone else or because of friends or family. This is MY view so please give me credit for thinking for myself, and also if you find fault with my reasoning I take responsibility for listening to your feedback.

What I can figure out about why I choose natural medicine OVER conventional medicine is that I see that acute care is one thing (which can help in an emergency when nothing else is available), but chronic use of drug therapies can be destructive in the body… leading to clogging the liver and altering the body chemistry. I try to avoid doing anything that alters my body chemistry negatively.

Here’s an overview of why I start dragging my feet when drugs are promoted to me, it is because:

• Searching for the root cause when at all possible is better
• I am in control of my own destiny and a partner with my doctors
• I have a dependence on nature and not on manufacture
• I think I’m being pragmatic and practical
• I believe in unlimited healing ability
• I feel a greater freedom
• It’s a different paradigm than the one I am in
• Safety during times of social-political-economic crisis
• I have an objection to being a cash cow for the disease care industry
• The survival of the fittest, actually, is a good concept

searching for the root

I think that it is better to search for the root cause of the illness if you can, instead of covering up the symptoms one by one. By doing this, you can save yourself future health problems, because the thing that is causing the problem can cause other problems. (Example: potassium deficiency can cause heart abnormalities, and you can take a drug for the heart, but still have problems from the deficiency that will come back to bite you later).

Regular physicians seem to gloss over the effect a person’s diet has on them, and prefer instead to use drugs and surgery. The drugs and surgery, in fact, have NOT corrected where the problem is stemming from. The symptom in question is gone, but there are others that will take its place.

We are not sick because we have drug deficiencies but because we have deficiencies in vitamins and minerals. When a drug is administered to shut off the symptoms that the deficiencies are causing, more symptoms will arise, because the problem is still there.

My objection against taking an antidepressant drug is that depression wasn’t the cause of my issues and I perceived the prescription as the lazy man’s way out. It so happened that I had real physical issues occurring that were setting me up for it, as well as financial and relationship issues that naturally would set one up for that. Rather, the physical issues were the cause of depression.

We are even medicating our pets now, as they are developing, on a human-made diet, the same conditions we have. C’mon people, smell the coffee! Animals in the wild don’t have this degree of dysfunction. Could we please trace our dysfunctions back to their cause?

Even a flu that takes a week and a half instead of three days is a signal to me about my low thyroid, for the our temperature and how hot we can get a fever reflects how effective our immune system will be. I could take my natural supplement for my thyroid, or I could go get a flu shot. If I get the flu shot, I still have the original reason why I was sicker longer.

If I had gone the drug route for what I’ve experienced, I would have been on about 15 prescriptions by now, and with no hope of a cure. The body chemistry would be so altered that experimenting with natural things could have easily been dangerous. I am able to work now, and with no prescriptions. Cash is not continually going out for health insurance.

in control of my health

For most of my health issues I was able to find an organic cause and find the thing that I needed to do to combat it. Especially the thyroid. I have spent thousands of hours studying to understand things on a deeper level. This leads me to be a partner with my doctor and in control of my own health and not at the mercy of the system. When you understand the science of why something occurs, you can be in control of your destiny.

I do not see doctors as gods, but as human beings who have studied a lot and who I may use as a resource. It may take several doctors to find exactly what is going on. They each have their own experiences and perspectives and it is by taking it as a whole but maintaining the right to disagree based on what your body communicates, that you may find the truth.

dependence on nature

I have found that when I have a diet high in LIVE food (not cooked or processed, but actually containing life force), then my symptom level goes entirely away. To me, I am as dependent on raw fruits and vegetables, seeds, and nuts, fresh air, sunshine, pure water, as most people are on their caffeine and prescriptions. I could convert myself over to boxed, processed, chemically altered food, but then I would need to also take prescriptions to combat the negative effects of that paradigm.

pragmatism

In event of socio-political-economic instability it is preferable not to have to take oodles of prescriptions because you could DIE if the services were interrupted.

But on the same vein if I am using a pragmatic attitude, because I enjoy life and want to be here, I would take a drug for a short term purpose only if there were no alternatives available (epinephrine to combat possibly fatal reaction from a bee sting… and then next time around understand that adrenal glands produce epinephrine and having a bee reaction could mean low adrenal hormones).

unlimited healing ability

If you give the body the building blocks of nutrition it can accomplish healing beyond your wildest dreams. The body has a template that knows what wellness and balance is. All you must do is supply the building blocks so it can do that. Dr. Richard Schulze, M.D. is a proponent of the idea that there is no such thing as an incurable disease.

The decision to administer a drug may often time come with the attitude that something cannot be fixed or cured, and the only thing you can do is to medicate it to make the person more comfortable or prevent the offending symptom. There are many conditions now that can be removed through a more natural means.

Just because a doctor or a scientist says something cannot be cured doesn’t mean that they are right. If I believe that, then I will pay a price for being gullible. This price could be my life or the quality of my life. There are many that have gone on to beat cancer and other diseases which were thought incurable.

freedom

Americans are trapped between medical and pharmaceutical and food manufacturing companies. It’s all big business and they don’t see their way out…. big corporations are striving for control of your life. I hate to even say it, because it sounds so cynical, but the way things are makes money off of suffering and death. Across from the processed food in the grocery store you will find the drugs to fix the problems that the processed food causes.

I have had my body for longer than the doctors have been to school. If I evolve a body communication system so that I know if something natural is effective or not — if I know my own body — and I purposefully garner the knowledge — then I have somewhat of an edge over those who only have book learning. My experimentation with food and natural vitamin and mineral supplement powders has not been harmful in a body that has not had vastly altered body chemistry.

I am free, I am sovereign, I am the controller of my destiny, whether or not I should choose to use conventional medicine or alternative medicine to further my life and my goals. But there are many people that are not free. There are many people could not at will and without help alter: their mood, their sleep, their appetite, their body temperature, their heart rhythm, or anything else. I am able to alter these things because of a deeper understanding. If I understand that I am sovereign in my being and in my choices, I cannot be so easily manipulated.

Its a different paradigm…

The drug industry is a different paradigm than the one I am in. It may be valid for the people who use it to help save or extend their lives — people who do not eat live food and have no interest in health research, but my paradigm is just as valid to me in its effectiveness on my life and to me there is a lot about the other paradigm that is not valid.

SAFETY

Prescription drugs kill X number of people per year due to physician or pharmacy error, or body chemistry issues. Although, natural things can kill too. Basically, anything that could heal, could also kill.

money, money, money

The disease care industry makes money when we are sick. Since money drives the world, the incentive is to keep people sick. In at least one other country, the doctor is only paid if the patient gets well.

In the same grocery store you will find processed food, which is altered in its nutritional and energetic structure, and across the aisle, the prescription drugs to fix it. Cynically speaking, it’s a perfect racket for the disease care industry. On the grassroots level, though — not on the systemic level — I think most doctors, however, would think they are doing a service. It’s not the people that are at fault, but the system.

If a doctor tells you that you must take a prescription for the rest of your life, money is also part of this equation. The industries involved stand to profit. Why would they want to come up with a cure?

the survival

A. Drugs keep people alive when nature would have let them go. This isn’t always bad, but this isn’t always good. Because the law of the survival of the fittest isn’t invoked any more, we have people having children that should have never had children.

B. There is a REASON why the body becomes infertile or has no sex drive, and that is because nature could be saying that the conditions for the best offspring aren’t there and it is a strong hint that the person should not reproduce. As time goes on, the genetic pool is getting peed in, because people LIVE who would normally die in nature.

C. Finding out root causes could lead to less and less disease, thus strengthening the genetic pool. Adding prescription medications can lead to more and more disease, especially if you don’t realize how the Standard American Diet is harming you because of the symptoms you’ve got shut off.

conclusion

I feel that because of my interest level in health research and my personal experiences, searching for my root causes and correcting them with things arising from nature is superior to my relying on a chemical substance that humankind produced.

The things that I must do to support this paradigm is to depend on the products from nature that provide vitamins, minerals, and that contain living energy. If I depend on products of manufacture for food consumption, I must also depend on the pharmaceutical industry and be held hostage to what the doctors say and view them as gods and shell out my earnings for health insurance.

I know that the best health insurance is following the laws of nature in their entirety and being re-evaluated by a natural practitioner when needed. I feel that I am being practical, and feel that I have a better chance of contributing good genes to the gene pool.