Mindconnection Brainpower Informational eNewsletter 2024-06-02

I haven't been a consumer of medical services, so when I signed up as a patient with a Primary Care facility I was in for an eye-opening experience. First, you may be wondering why I signed up. Here's the story in a nutshell.

Why I signed up

In 2022, two events occurred at about the same time:

Doming. I was doing a Roman Chair workout. Every time I would come up, this small diameter abdominal bulge would be created as if someone were pumping air at that spot.
A hard bump. This turned out to be, as I had surmised, a small lipoma.

Avoiding triggers for the doming got the bulge to be far less whenever it did occur. But it would still occur and the lipoma didn't go away. So I wanted the lipoma removed and, if possible, a repair to be done so the bulge stops happening. A CT scan was inconclusive as to the existence of a hernia, but I am going to defer to the surgeon's judgment (and all the other clues) and go with the pinhole hernia theory.

The big lies

I noticed some big lies. Here three:

As with every other medical care system, this one lies and claims to be a "health care" system. The cornerstone of health care is attention to diet, and I have yet to encounter anything from them advising patients not to eat highly processed foods and not to eat seed oils. They should claim to be providers of medical care, because that is what they are.
They ask patients to wear an N95 mask while at the facility. I, of course, refuse because there is no medical reason to do so and because this ill-advised practice is part of what was spewed by the psychopaths behind the Covid scam.
They also had a sign on the wall of the exam room telling people to get the flu shot and another reminding them to get their Covid booster shots. These shots have zero protective value and yet carry significant risks. Zero protective value, partly because the vaccines are for a virus that no longer exists by the time the vaccines roll out and partly because we have no proof that vaccines prevent illness. In fact, illness rates among the unvaccinated are much lower than among the vaccinated. If flu is the concern, then they should have posters reminding people to supplement with D3, to eat their fruits and veggies, and to avoid breads, pastries, and other wheat products.

You can spot many other lies as you navigate through, and interact with, the medical care industry. Many of these lies are fairly harmless (e.g., the health care one), but others are very dangerous (e.g., the flu vaccines).

What to do about it

What you don't want to do is toss out the proverbial baby with the bath water. If medical care is warranted, then seek it out. And you don't want to attempt to educate medical workers on health care, they won't be receptive because they mistakenly believe they are already experts in this area despite not having any training in it and despite being exposed to anti-health propaganda for their entire career.

But also keep in mind that medical observation can point out where you have serious lapses in health care. For example, you have high cholesterol. They may ignorantly advise you to cut back on eggs and butter, the eating of which have ZERO effect on your cholesterol level because cholesterol cannot survive the acid bath of the stomach. They will likely want to put you on statins, rather than address the root cause. If they were part of a health care system, they would inquire as to whether you eat canola oil or other seed oils (or bread, which is normally baked with seed oils). Seed oils mechanically damage blood vessels, causing them to leak. When that occurs, the body signals the liver to produce cholesterol as a blood vessel leak plugger. If a test shows you have high cholesterol, then address the health care lapse reason for this.

Some general tips:

Avoid the medical care system as much as possible. Practice good health care, don't go for annual "checkups" (unless you have a condition requiring such), and don't get unnecessary tests. For example, if you're not eating seed oils then you don't need a cholesterol check.
Separate medical advice (which they are good at) from health advice (which they are bad at).
Don't say you're going to get a second opinion, instead ask for a factual explanation. "Can you tell me exactly how you reach that conclusion? I need to understand so that informed consent is possible." If you get an answer along the lines of the CDC recommends it, fire back that the CDC has zero credibility "for obvious reasons" you'd like an explanation based on medical facts.
Get a second opinion.
When it comes to vaccines and "fishing expedition" tests, follow Betty Ford's advice and just say no.
Do your best to be a good patient. Treat everyone with respect, wear a smile during interactions, and ask some softball questions to make the medical care provider(s) feel like you value their expertise and aren't trying to be a smarty pants.
Listen to the precautions they give. For example, if you get a tick bite and then get prescribed antibiotics use the entire prescription just as you were told to do. Don't second guess the treatment and keep your doctor in the dark about it.
If you receive advice you don't like, don't argue. Ask for clarification. Then get to common ground.

For example, I suspect the surgeon is going to tell me to stop working out for a couple of weeks. That isn't going to happen, I've already exceeded Jack LaLanne's record for unmissed workouts and am not going to stop now. But I know what is going on with the surgery and have already been redesigning workouts for the recovery period. They won't be as effective as my normal workouts in stimulating the adaptive response, but you can't have everything you want. So if the surgeon tells me this, I've already worked out what to say and how to say it in a way that shows I'm going to be a good patient. So I will start with, "I've been reading about this, and the advice is to not lift more than 20 lbs. This is really going to put a crimp into my workouts, for example I will not be doing squats or overhead presses with dumbbells. But on the dumbbells, I can sit on a band and press up while holding the ends; this isolates the core and I'm not handling any weight. Too bad about those squats, though.

What he's after is not that I don't work out but that I don't tear the stitches or whatever he'll be using.

Finally, in an unrelated note, here's some inspiration. Check out this 99 year old Crossfit athlete. She is amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OUdO2Y_Mm8

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