renman01 wrote:I lost quite a bit of LBM after an initial diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis about 4 years ago that included "mandatory" abstention from the gym for a year. Love conventional medicine. I wound up losing about 15# of muscle while adding a ton of BF getting up to 196#. Finally, by using my own head and finding 'alternative' treatments, I got myself back to almost normality.
Yes, I recently experienced that myself with a sprained ankle that swelled up pretty good...conventional treatment was to do nothing but RICE for 4-8 weeks...I chose to do H.E.M. treatments and was off crutches the next day and walking normally with very little pain...
As an aside about conventional medicine, my mother was in medical research for 50+ years, and worked extensively on cancer--specifically on isolating aromatase enzymes for crystallization to determine their structures which would allow drugs to be developed. About 3 years before they retired they finally crystallized the third and final important enzyme which gave them a pretty complete picture.
That is a little background info, perhaps unnecessary to the story, but whatever...Anyways, she and a bunch of her colleagues attended a "cancer retreat" sponsored by one of the most famous cancer research/treatment facilities in the world, Roswell Park Cancer Institute(RPCI). There, the head of the Chemotherapy department exasperatedly asked them(and this is a direct quote) "Don't you have any other treatments you can give me? All of my patients are dying from the chemo."
Just remember this the next time you or someone you love is put on chemotherapy...the director of one of the biggest and most well respected cancer institutes in the world exasperatedly told colleagues that "chemo is killing all his patients". It cannot be stated strongly enough that you cannot heal the body by poisoning it. The strategy to treat cancer makes no sense...as another doctor only half-jokingly said at the same meeting "It's a race to see what kills you first...the cancer or the chemo".
Bottom line is, doctors only know what the pharmaceutical companies want them to know. They are in the pharmaceutical companies pockets, given lavish gifts, lunches and trips as long as they follow their agenda of pushing their side effect laden and 95% of the time unnecessary drugs. If they fail to hit the quotas the pharmaceutical companies require of them, they lose their trips and gifts.
Remember, every drug made is a synthetic form of something that occurs naturally. Somehow the pharmaceutical companies have brainwashed the public into believing that their synthetic forms of the compounds are better than the natural forms they occur in. Unfortunately, they failed to let the human body in on the secret, as it refuses to play paddycake with them. I mean when commercial after commercial for these drugs talks about side effects being Thoughts of Suicide, Heart Attacks, Stroke and Death, who in their right mind would take them??
Dr. David Williams has stated that the pharmaceutical companies, doctors and medical associations seem to have the belief that:
"A healthy person is one who simply hasn't been diagnosed properly.", and that when not enough people are qualifying to take a drug based on the AMA guidelines, the pharmaceutical companies simply lobby the AMA to lower their healthy threshold, which far too often they go along with, allowing previously healthy people to now fall into the "at risk" category and qualify for taking their medication, which the doctors are all too happy to prescribe.
The moral of the story is to never trust a doctor to have your best interest at stake...the new prescription he just gave you might have just earned him an all expenses paid trip for 2 weeks to the Bahamas for him and his wife at the pharmaceutical companies expense for meeting his quota...pretty scary when you think about it like that isn't it?
