Keeping Healthy
Post-Pandemic
Christ has died! Christ has risen! Christ will come again!
Bystander: Risen?!?! Must have had one hell of a physician!
Bystander 2: No, a heavenly physician!
Healthcare is a concern for many, but in the post-pandemic years, a new awakening has taken place. People are challenging their doctors and medical institutions. A new healthy skepticism has come about. It is similar to the post-AIDS crisis. With Robert F Kennedy Junior in charge of the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, the food pyramid has been replaced with whole foods and away from highly processed foods. The whole foods movement of the 60s, 70s, and 80s has finally become established.
More amazing is the spread of health books. Robert Lufkin, author of Lies I Taught in Medical School (https://www.robertlufkinmd.com/lies/), explains the low-carb diet and how it reduces chronic illnesses. Also, he explains the value of intermittent fasting and how important it is. I enjoyed the book and learned a lot about health and illness, and how to improve my own health. The only bad thing is some parts sound too much like marketing.
Another author, Marty Makaray, MD, wrote the book Blind Spots (https://www.martymd.com). I highly recommend this book, particularly to anyone in the healthcare industry. He spells out the blind spots and errors in medicine and healthcare, and how dogma, groupthink, and indoctrination interfere with science. From peanuts to eggs to hormone replacement therapy, he provides the actual facts.
Yet, many people have health problems and medical expenses to pay. These books may not be much help to them. The expenses are enormous. This is why people should practice good health and invest in being healthy. Here are the expenses:
However, this organization, Undue Medical Debt (https://unduemedicaldebt.org/) is doing something grand. They help buy the debt and pay it off. Sounds complicated, but it is simple by financing the debt away. Anyone can donate and help out.
I am a raging skeptic regarding western medicinal complex. I marvel at how efficiently it keeps us unhealthy and reaps the benefits of dependable, never ending revenue. By my observations many providers follow the CPR model; Code, Prescribe, Refer.
As a nation I believe we significantly outspend many other industrialized nations yet outcomes fall well behind. That puzzles me.
To add to my frustration and curiosity, I believe:
0 illegal aliens struggle to pay their medical bills
0% of illegal aliens took an extra job to pay medical expenses
0 illegal aliens depleted their savings to pay medical expenses
0 illegal aliens have delinquent medical debt on their credit reports
0 illegal aliens are filing bankruptcy tied to medical debt
You don't suppose that could be contributing to the costs citizens bear, do you?
Amen. Christ is Risen Indeed!
And the center of that upended food pyramid needs to be chocolate.