Human arrogance… Somehow, people bought into the myth that natural feelings are illnesses and if you are “sick,” whatever your problem is, you must take some synthetic chemical. As the article also observes, the body can get used to a synthetic replacement of something it normally produces. It happens for “high blood pressure” and “high blood sugar” all the time. Ironically, diabetes can qualify as an “infection” and the same can happen to “psychiatric disorders.”
“Doctors” cautiously avoid the options and ignore areal radiation and toxic exposure, too. They prefer to say, it’s a “genetic” disorder, while the DNA/RNA model has never been proven, and only seems to be a cover story for something else:
Between 1910-1920 the Rockefeller Foundation funded reforms at several prominent medical schools, including Washington University at St. Louis, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and Vanderbilt University. These reforms established a single high standard for medical education in the U.S. which resulted in influence of wealthy donors, particularly John D. Rockefeller, on medical education in the US.
8n 1913 Abraham Flexner (who had no nedical education) was hired by the Rockefellar Foundation to advise its General Education Board which marked the beginning of systematic funding for reforms at various medical schools. The Carnegie Foundation was very envolved as well.
Philanthropic funding from the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations helped to standardize medical education, ensuring that schools adhered to higher educational standards and evidence based science practices which were needed.
The problem was that the reforms promoted allopathic medicine, dependence on use of pharmaceuticals to treat disease, which became the dominant form of medical practice, sidelining other healing modalities like homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy, eastern medicine, ect.
Rockefeller’s influence didn’t stop at medical education. In 1901, he established the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University), a center dedicated to advancing biomedical research. The institute was instrumental in pioneering various medical treatments, including vaccines, antibiotics, and synthetic drugs, which would become the cornerstones of the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry.
Rockefeller's strategy was clear: focus on pharmaceutical-based treatments rather than natural or holistic approaches. This focus aligned with his business interests, particularly in the chemical industry, which provided the raw materials for many of the drugs being developed. By promoting a pharmaceutical-centered approach to medicine, Rockefeller helped create a market for chemical-based treatments, establishing a system in which drugs, rather than preventive or holistic care, became the primary method of addressing health issues
The reforms negatively impacted the ethos of medicine in its blind passion for science and education by aligning too much with the pharmaceutical industry's vaccines, antibiotics, and synthetic drugs, making medicine and medication about profit not people, and turning their backs on alternative modalities for treatment of disease and the use natural substances rather than a pharmaceutical synthetic drugs.
What was the cost of success, and who has borne that burden? Review of medical care in the last century documents that the trust and respect that were extended to the medical profession 50 years ago have been substantially eroded. There has been a fall from grace of the vaunted medical profession. Physicians have lost their authenticity as trusted healers. In the end, I believe its the billions of Patients receiving the medical treatment and the pharmaceutical drugs that have ended up paying the highest price...
I went trough it. Was on painkillers and benzos for chronic pain. Got so slow and sedated I took myself off everything cold Turkey without medical supervision. I can tell you it was super hard, I’ve never felt worse and for a long time. But now, six years later, I am restored. I took up walking and that has made all the difference to my chronic pain and I’ve cultivated a positive mind set which has made the whole process much easier. It was the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. I’m so glad I did it.
While I applaud your success, its typically a bad idea to stop many pharmaceutical medications abruptly. Vest to be safe and consult with a Healthcare Practitioner or even a Pharmacist as to the potential negative impacts, up to and including death, that may occur with stopping a drug "cold turkey".
Years ago I had six surgeries, two on each shoulder and two back surgeries, one on my upper back and one on my lower back all in a four year period. The pain was so severe that I ended up being prescribed six morphine pills a day plus a fentanyl patch. The pain was still pretty bad and the doctor said I couldn’t take any more pain meds because I was at the limit. After a few years I felt like the meds were killing me. I asked if she could taper me off and I did so in a month or so.
The first day of no meds was horrible. I couldn’t sleep or set still for a day and thought I was going to die. I made it through and realized what heroine addicts must go through with withdrawal.
Have to say I am better today and have my life back even though I still have some minor pain issues.
Just wanted to let you know I agree with your assessment based on your experience.
I hope my experience will help make a difference for others struggling with the same issues.
"Kripke et al. 2012, BMJ Open — matched cohort, 10,529 hypnotic users vs 23,676 controls, adjusted for 116 strata of comorbidity:
Fewer than 18 pills per year: hazard ratio for death 3.60
18-132 pills per year: HR 4.43
Over 132 pills per year: HR 5.32
Dose-response relationship confirmed across all tiers
Cancer incidence elevated: HR 1.35 in upper third
Effect held across zolpidem, temazepam, eszopiclone, zaleplon, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, sedative antihistamines
Pre-existing disease did not explain the excess mortality
The mechanism your substitution addresses:
Magnesium — cofactor in over 300 enzymatic processes, directly involved in sleep regulation via NMDA receptor modulation and melatonin synthesis. Deficiency is widespread in Western populations eating processed food. Addresses the upstream cause rather than sedating the symptom.
Cannabis — particularly CBD and low-dose THC, shown to reduce sleep latency and improve slow-wave sleep architecture without the next-day cognitive suppression or dependency profile of benzodiazepines. No documented lethal dose. No HR 5.32 at any consumption tier.
The contrast:
A prescription that more than quintuples your mortality hazard at higher doses, for a condition addressable through mineral repletion and a plant, prescribed to 6-10% of the U.S. adult population in 2010.
That's not a treatment protocol. That's a market."
Your preaching to the choir. I wrote a thorough dressing down of the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations in another post for their part in pushing med school education to take the path of allopathic medicine using synthetic drugs while crushing the use of homeopathic, naturopathic, osteopathy and eastern medicine in treatment of disease. They made healthcare about money rather than people.
This may not be a welcome comment, but if you know that there is a multi-generational mental disease disorder(s) in your family, why would you go on to have children? There is a serious disconnect here...
I've seen it in families where there is a known probable risk of serious heart disorders in infants. They have been advised against future pregnancies, but "Oh, I'm a Christian..." Quite similar...
The mother gets her selfish wishes and the child and family (and medical system) suffer.
Human arrogance… Somehow, people bought into the myth that natural feelings are illnesses and if you are “sick,” whatever your problem is, you must take some synthetic chemical. As the article also observes, the body can get used to a synthetic replacement of something it normally produces. It happens for “high blood pressure” and “high blood sugar” all the time. Ironically, diabetes can qualify as an “infection” and the same can happen to “psychiatric disorders.”
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/what-has-been-causing-the-astronomical
Increasing levels of wireless radiation of all kinds can ID, track, and target a person, and they can converge:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-slow-and-invisible-killers
“Doctors” cautiously avoid the options and ignore areal radiation and toxic exposure, too. They prefer to say, it’s a “genetic” disorder, while the DNA/RNA model has never been proven, and only seems to be a cover story for something else:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/how-is-life-encoded
Between 1910-1920 the Rockefeller Foundation funded reforms at several prominent medical schools, including Washington University at St. Louis, Yale University, the University of Chicago, and Vanderbilt University. These reforms established a single high standard for medical education in the U.S. which resulted in influence of wealthy donors, particularly John D. Rockefeller, on medical education in the US.
8n 1913 Abraham Flexner (who had no nedical education) was hired by the Rockefellar Foundation to advise its General Education Board which marked the beginning of systematic funding for reforms at various medical schools. The Carnegie Foundation was very envolved as well.
Philanthropic funding from the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations helped to standardize medical education, ensuring that schools adhered to higher educational standards and evidence based science practices which were needed.
The problem was that the reforms promoted allopathic medicine, dependence on use of pharmaceuticals to treat disease, which became the dominant form of medical practice, sidelining other healing modalities like homeopathy, naturopathy, osteopathy, eastern medicine, ect.
Rockefeller’s influence didn’t stop at medical education. In 1901, he established the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University), a center dedicated to advancing biomedical research. The institute was instrumental in pioneering various medical treatments, including vaccines, antibiotics, and synthetic drugs, which would become the cornerstones of the burgeoning pharmaceutical industry.
Rockefeller's strategy was clear: focus on pharmaceutical-based treatments rather than natural or holistic approaches. This focus aligned with his business interests, particularly in the chemical industry, which provided the raw materials for many of the drugs being developed. By promoting a pharmaceutical-centered approach to medicine, Rockefeller helped create a market for chemical-based treatments, establishing a system in which drugs, rather than preventive or holistic care, became the primary method of addressing health issues
The reforms negatively impacted the ethos of medicine in its blind passion for science and education by aligning too much with the pharmaceutical industry's vaccines, antibiotics, and synthetic drugs, making medicine and medication about profit not people, and turning their backs on alternative modalities for treatment of disease and the use natural substances rather than a pharmaceutical synthetic drugs.
What was the cost of success, and who has borne that burden? Review of medical care in the last century documents that the trust and respect that were extended to the medical profession 50 years ago have been substantially eroded. There has been a fall from grace of the vaunted medical profession. Physicians have lost their authenticity as trusted healers. In the end, I believe its the billions of Patients receiving the medical treatment and the pharmaceutical drugs that have ended up paying the highest price...
I went trough it. Was on painkillers and benzos for chronic pain. Got so slow and sedated I took myself off everything cold Turkey without medical supervision. I can tell you it was super hard, I’ve never felt worse and for a long time. But now, six years later, I am restored. I took up walking and that has made all the difference to my chronic pain and I’ve cultivated a positive mind set which has made the whole process much easier. It was the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. I’m so glad I did it.
While I applaud your success, its typically a bad idea to stop many pharmaceutical medications abruptly. Vest to be safe and consult with a Healthcare Practitioner or even a Pharmacist as to the potential negative impacts, up to and including death, that may occur with stopping a drug "cold turkey".
~just a dose of caring advice from 50+ years RN.
DeeDee
Excellent advice.
Years ago I had six surgeries, two on each shoulder and two back surgeries, one on my upper back and one on my lower back all in a four year period. The pain was so severe that I ended up being prescribed six morphine pills a day plus a fentanyl patch. The pain was still pretty bad and the doctor said I couldn’t take any more pain meds because I was at the limit. After a few years I felt like the meds were killing me. I asked if she could taper me off and I did so in a month or so.
The first day of no meds was horrible. I couldn’t sleep or set still for a day and thought I was going to die. I made it through and realized what heroine addicts must go through with withdrawal.
Have to say I am better today and have my life back even though I still have some minor pain issues.
Just wanted to let you know I agree with your assessment based on your experience.
I hope my experience will help make a difference for others struggling with the same issues.
I'm so sorry you went through all that, but grateful you succeeded and have quality of life.
Coulda, woulda, shoulda. I’m very happy with my outcome and in retrospect, I had everything I needed to accomplish my goal and I did it.
As I said I applaud your success, but don't want others to play russian roulette with their life needlessly.
Well written & thorough, —thx 4 sharing. Suppressing sleep's restorative functions can never, but never be "healthy."
Thanks for the topic and I agree that in yet another area pharma is killing and injuring people at high costs.
I get valerian root, run it through a magic bullet and sleep soundly.
The findings are stark.
"Kripke et al. 2012, BMJ Open — matched cohort, 10,529 hypnotic users vs 23,676 controls, adjusted for 116 strata of comorbidity:
Fewer than 18 pills per year: hazard ratio for death 3.60
18-132 pills per year: HR 4.43
Over 132 pills per year: HR 5.32
Dose-response relationship confirmed across all tiers
Cancer incidence elevated: HR 1.35 in upper third
Effect held across zolpidem, temazepam, eszopiclone, zaleplon, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, sedative antihistamines
Pre-existing disease did not explain the excess mortality
The mechanism your substitution addresses:
Magnesium — cofactor in over 300 enzymatic processes, directly involved in sleep regulation via NMDA receptor modulation and melatonin synthesis. Deficiency is widespread in Western populations eating processed food. Addresses the upstream cause rather than sedating the symptom.
Cannabis — particularly CBD and low-dose THC, shown to reduce sleep latency and improve slow-wave sleep architecture without the next-day cognitive suppression or dependency profile of benzodiazepines. No documented lethal dose. No HR 5.32 at any consumption tier.
The contrast:
A prescription that more than quintuples your mortality hazard at higher doses, for a condition addressable through mineral repletion and a plant, prescribed to 6-10% of the U.S. adult population in 2010.
That's not a treatment protocol. That's a market."
Nod and Claude
Your preaching to the choir. I wrote a thorough dressing down of the Rockefeller and Carnegie Foundations in another post for their part in pushing med school education to take the path of allopathic medicine using synthetic drugs while crushing the use of homeopathic, naturopathic, osteopathy and eastern medicine in treatment of disease. They made healthcare about money rather than people.
I am not preaching, just sharing facts. I like to share.
Seems the safest course is whatever they tell you do the opposite! Or ignore altogether.
Ignorance is never one's friend, but you so you.
Do not so...
This may not be a welcome comment, but if you know that there is a multi-generational mental disease disorder(s) in your family, why would you go on to have children? There is a serious disconnect here...
I've seen it in families where there is a known probable risk of serious heart disorders in infants. They have been advised against future pregnancies, but "Oh, I'm a Christian..." Quite similar...
The mother gets her selfish wishes and the child and family (and medical system) suffer.
I was on serax for years, I got off it with zero withdrawals by starting another drug to help me sleep which was not a benzo.