In this post I’ll show an example of how dangerous it can be to listen to a doctor or in this case a veterinarian.
My mother was telling me how sick one of her cats was. That it was throwing up multiple times a day and losing a lot of weight.
She had already taken it to the vet once which cost over $800, and the vet told her to give the cat some drugs and change the food.
My first thought was, well, if the cat is throwing up, could it be the case that she’s eating something that you aren't aware of?
That is generally a pretty good reason to throw up.
I suggested they confine the cat to one room for a day and remove most things that could be chewed on as an experiment to see if the cat would still throw up.
After offering this suggestion, both my parents started thinking about what she could be eating. My dad recalled that in one of the vomit piles he cleaned up that he saw a fabric label. Then also, my mom recalled she remembered seeing the cat eat some scotch tape.
Upon further exploration, my mom had found places where they had wrapped certain furniture in plastic to try to keep the cats from destroying it. She found behind the furniture a huge spot where the plastic was being chewed on.
Had they taken the cat to the vet again, likely what they would do is run some blood tests, and maybe they would find that the liver has some sort of elevated levels. Which in this case, could make sense if it is having to work extra hard to rid the cat’s body of all this scotch tape, plastic and fabric.
If a vet, unaware of the cat's eating habits, saw elevated liver levels, they might suspect a liver issue and maybe the vet suggests some sort of risky surgery. At this point my parents could then be spending a significant amount of money and putting the cat at further risk for other potential problems down the road when all they had to do was use their common sense and look at the environment to consider why it might be the case that the cat is constantly throwing up.
Or in this case the vet already wanted to put the cat on a bunch of drugs. Exactly like the doctors want to do to us when we complain about some sort of issue. Let’s not even consider what simple fixes in the environment that could allow our bodies to re-balance their ecosystem naturally. Most doctors will encourage us to instead use drugs, which, because they have a faulty understanding of the body, will work against it and place additional strain on it in it's efforts to continue to fix the original imbalance but now also to rid the body of this additional toxin that we are using to stop the body from doing what it needs to do. This is how most medical professionals think. Of course not all of them, a very small percentage won’t do this, but the vast majority do.
I’d bet if the cat is constantly eating scotch tape, plastic, and fabrics, it could definitely contribute to all this weight loss. And those things also certainly will cause a cat to throw up.
This is the common sense that is required to understand health.
Another point about those lab tests. And this is true for humans as well. I used to get my blood taken every 6 months and look up all these markers and be sure that all my levels were in “safe” range, so I understand why people think that is a responsible approach to health. However, what we find, particularly considering this example, is that those numbers could be high or low for many different reasons. In this case it was just an environmental issue where we just needed to get the cat away from tape and fabrics. Or it could just be the case that one person just naturally has that particular level lower or higher than the rest of the population. If we view health only through this prism, we may make a drastic mistake choosing some completely unnecessary surgery or taking some harmful drug when had we just not even done the tests, we'd probably be fine.
Similar concerns apply to certain practices in human medicine. In some cases, physicians will frequently place their focus on physiological causes for ailments rather than looking for the commonsense approach. So, they will theorize all these different potential explanations for why a certain ailment could occur when the reality is, the answer is much simpler.
What I’m hoping others can start to understand about how health works, is that symptoms, even worsening symptoms, do not indicate our well-being is declining. It indicates the body is working harder to solve an imbalance. Well-being and health only continue to decline when we either stop getting specific nutrients we need, or when we continually poison ourselves accidentally.
Many would ask, well if you don’t do the tests, then how do you know when something is wrong?
To quote Dr. Tom Cowan, “I wake up in the morning, and I ask myself how do I feel? Maybe my foot hurts. Well, then, maybe something is going on with my foot.”
It’s really that simple. Do you feel good? You’re healthy. Do you not feel well? Maybe something is wrong. But if so, your body is likely already working on fixing it.
I have found no evidence supporting this idea that we can be sick or be a “carrier” of disease yet also not be showing symptoms. I’ve placed this same concern regarding a lack of evidence to other individuals in the medical field, and they always claim that there exists significant amounts of evidence, however, they refuse to scrutinize the methodology in which the studies have been conducted.
I would encourage any medical professional who would like to prove this wrong, to address, specifically, the questions posed in the post, "Conversations with ChatGPT: Viruses", which, from what I am aware of, are questions no virologist wants any business trying to answer.
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