DRUGS ARE NOT LIKE ANTIFREEZE

DRUGS ARE NOT LIKE ANTIFREEZE

Drugs are not like antifreeze.  Your heart is not a car engine that needs mechanical repair, like reconnecting the fuel pump or cleaning out the hoses.  As a human being you have a built in mechanism for repairing yourself.

Many of you must find a new model that is more powerful than last year’s model.  If you don’t get a prescription for a drug advertised on TV, you find your doctor lacking.  The pressure is on the doctor to prescribe new exotic drugs.

You don’t want your doctors opinion on the real dangers of new powerful drugs.   You expect medicine for every symptom you have.  When given a prescription, you are confident your doctor knows what he is doing.  Your body has the best pharmacy and releases the best natural drugs that will heal. 

Drugs and modes of treatment were used for hundreds of years and we recognized they did more harm than good.  Modern drugs can also be powerfully dangerous even when taken as directed by your doctor. The risks and benefits must be carefully weighed.  The dangers may be greater than the benefits.  

Many doctors overmedicate and fail to monitor the potent drug use long after the point where they were indicated.  The health problems may become even more severe than the ones for which the medication was prescribed.

All drugs go through a process where the drug is broken down for use by the entire human system.  All drugs have some side effects that can be harmful (called adverse reactions by the medical profession).  

Drugs alter and rearrange the balances in your bloodstream.  Your blood may clot faster or slower.  Your heard may go faster or slower.  Your stomach may increase in acids.  Your bone marrow may quit making blood.  Your blood pressure may go up or down.  Your sodium and potassium exchange may be altered.

You carry your own doctor inside you and you must give your personal inner doctor a chance to go to work for you.  If you listen to the message, dare to be yourself, and have the courage to act on it with purpose and creativity; you will cope with your infirmities.  The best medicine is to know you have a job to do, and fill it with a good sense of humor. 

As long as you can do things, there is no need to die. Let your work restore and regenerate you.  And above all, keep yourself young with laughter.

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