With the recent Ozempic craze I’m just going to throw out something that helps me at 68, fight the insulin resistance of us senior citizens.
Cut out sugar as best you can, and flour & bread, and take apple cider vinegar (pill form for me) three times a day. It’s the slow way to losing weight but it works on the weight we gain in the middle that is so dangerous.
I just golfed with a painfully thin woman my age, who had an insulin patch on her arm. I of course, asked if it was birth control 😉
She was thin except around the middle and the only one of the three of us eating the bread at the table at dinner with her order of ravioli.
I wanted to ask to see her phone to see if her diabetes spiked but good manners took over and I just observed.
I’m on no medications though doctors are always anxious to get me on something. My friends say I should get my blood checked and I decline saying that doctors will find a pill to go with whatever they tell me is off.
I gage my energy level and mood and adjust accordingly.
Robin, that’s a great example of something people are rediscovering for themselves.
FYI - One slice or organic bread will raise my sugars by 100 pts. I check em a dozen times a day after every little thing I eat. It ain't easy playing this game of eat or starve.
Simple things like cutting sugar and refined flour can change the whole metabolic picture, especially as we get older. It’s not flashy and it doesn’t come in a prescription bottle, but it often works because it addresses the root instead of just the symptoms.
Apple cider vinegar has been around in folk medicine for generations for a reason. Sometimes the old remedies survive because they quietly do the job.
And your point about gauging energy and mood is important. Learning to read the signals from your own body may be the most underrated health tool we have.
Philip, that is a powerful story and I suspect many people recognize parts of it.
In fact, that is where I am at right now... cold turkey couple months ago, felt like a big turd for a while, then got better, noticed my body liking me a lot more. Go see my new PCP next week, Round 1, Get ready to rumble.
Once someone steps onto that conveyor belt it can be surprisingly difficult to step off. The body often has to recalibrate after being pushed and pulled chemically for years, and that adjustment period can be uncomfortable as you described.
But the key point in your story is sovereignty. You started asking questions and began making your own decisions instead of automatically accepting the next prescription.
That shift alone changes the whole dynamic.
Doctors can offer guidance, but ultimately each person has to live in their own body and decide what makes sense for their health.
While I was diagnosed two years ago with bladder cancer and lung cancer, and the treatments for both, (of which I know the underlying energetic cause), my outlook is rosier today than it has ever been, and I look forward to many continuing years of good health.
I am doing gym workouts with regularity, and feel very good.
Making your PCP a partner in your health, and not an authority is the key.
Maintaining centeredness and regulating my body in the presence of such calamity in our world is challenging, but not impossible.
Philip, that’s a strong outlook to carry through something like that.
Bro, I have survived both bladder cancer 20 years ago and a aggressive melanoma on my back about 8 years ago (probably caused by the SV40 in my tetanus booster 10 years ago). Am doing everything I can think of to get better, my first goal is to walk again.
The body can go through very difficult chapters, but attitude, awareness, and the will to keep moving forward play a bigger role than most people realize. Many people who face serious diagnoses end up becoming far more tuned in to their bodies and their lives than they ever were before.
Your point about directing your own health is important. Doctors and treatments can play a role, but ultimately we are the ones living in the body and navigating the path forward.
A clear mind and a determined spirit go a long way.
After two strokes, I am on a blood thinner for life as much as I hate it. My Dad (RIP) experienced strokes and was on a blood thinner (rat poison aka Coumadin) and a final one that ended him up in hospice where subsequently he died on of all things on my Mom’s Birthday…so there is that…how I ended up with my 1st stroke is a very long story but suffice to say that a cardiologist mis-prescribed a drug for me that possibly could have prevented the 1st stroke…so there is that…
Anywhoo, good article and thanking you, bother-wolf
Albert, that’s a rough road you’ve been down. Two strokes and watching your father go through it too… that leaves a mark. Medicine likes to present itself as precision science, but far too often it’s trial-and-error with people’s lives in the balance.
Coumadin really is rat poison — literally the same compound used in rodent control — and yet it became one of the most prescribed drugs in the world. That alone should make people pause and ask questions.
Your story about the cardiologist mis-prescribing something that might have prevented the first stroke is exactly the kind of thing that happens more often than the system ever admits. The official narrative always says the system works, but the lived stories tell a different tale.
Glad you’re still here with us, brother. Sometimes surviving the storm is its own kind of victory.
It should be noted that I can still drive, walk and talk alto Dear Wife says I have lost a step in my verbal communication since the 1st stroke…this stroke required six weeks of speech therapy…so I am eternally thankful and grateful that I survived these strokes relatively intact becos you and I are able to resonate with each other on such a deep level…so thankful for that alone
Albert, the fact that you’re still here driving, walking, talking, and thinking clearly after two strokes says a lot about the strength of your system and your will. Many people never come back from even one. Six weeks of speech therapy is no small climb, and the fact that you pushed through it tells the story.
I also appreciate what you said about resonance. That’s a rare thing in this world. Most conversations today bounce off the surface, but once in a while you run into someone who is operating on the same wavelength and the signal is unmistakable.
So yes, I’m grateful for that as well. Surviving the storms is one thing, but finding another human who can actually see the same patterns in the sky is something else entirely.
A few years ago one of my daughters, an RN, worked as a hospice nurse. She observed that people often came into hospice with a whole list of drugs they were prescribed, but in hospice they are taken off the drugs. There were people who actually got better after being off their prescriptions and were "discharged" from hospice! That really happens.
Donna, I have heard that same observation from hospice workers before.
❤😎 When the long list of medications is finally removed, sometimes the body begins to stabilize instead of continuing to decline. It’s almost as if the system finally gets a chance to breathe again.
That doesn’t mean every medication is unnecessary, but it does raise an important question about how easily people can end up buried under a stack of prescriptions.
Stories like the ones you describe are a powerful reminder that the body often has more capacity to recover than we are led to believe.
My mother was my greatest teacher in staying out of the endless loop I watched her go through for most of her adult life. Although I've had four blood clots in my leg, I refuse the offer of being on thinners for the rest of my life and have adopted a lifestyle where I manage the clots through proper food and exercise, rest and meditation. I was hospitalized last year, for my last one, took the thinners for a couple of months, and am now off of them. This works for me and I'm in no way suggesting anyone else take this risk with their body. I also use allopathic medicine for emergencies only, and eastern traditions for health and longevity. Getting to the root of what brought on the clots is what keeps me from being afraid of them. For me, it's my body's way of telling me that my thoughts are out of balance.
What I hear in your story is something most people miss entirely: the body is not an enemy to be managed — it is a signal system trying to communicate. When something goes out of balance in life, the body often speaks before the mind is willing to listen.
Modern medicine tends to treat the signal while ignoring the message. Sometimes that’s necessary in emergencies, but if the deeper causes are never examined, the “endless loop” begins — symptom, drug, symptom, stronger drug.
Your approach — listening for the root cause and adjusting your life accordingly — is the opposite of the loop. It’s sovereignty.
Everyone has to choose their own path, but the one thing I’ve learned is that fear is the real trap. When people understand their bodies and start paying attention to what the signals mean, the fear begins to dissolve.
My lack of fear of death/losing my body, comes from studying NDE's, and consciousness in general, with my father over many years, then with my life partner. I'm grateful to have your company, as well as that of your subscribers who are willing to share their experiences so we may all remember who we are.
The biggest knowing I got from my 1972 illumination experience was 'there is no death' ... it really does change everything. Glad to share with you and all the subscribers also... we have a gold mine here... fun chatting everyday. Lone Wolf
For a couple of decades I enjoyed writing letters to the editor of two daily newspapers in the San Francisco/Bay Area, CA. Here's one I found in the archives I have kept that fits with the article's theme.
>>>SF Chronicle/Letters to the Editor:
If you read the two recent articles in the Chron, Money won’t cure America’s agonizing spinal pain problem (2-13-08) and New insight about asthma (2-17-08)), you should be questioning conventional medicine’s approach to these and other chronic conditions suffered by increasing numbers of Americans. When one hears “that the nation is losing its battle against back pain and that many popular treatments may be ineffective or overused,” or “There is no cure for asthma, and no one is sure why some people get it and others don’t,” is it not clear that the trillion plus dollars being spent annually on research, development of drugs and surgeries, their promotion and distribution is a pitiful, if not criminal, waste? It all seems only to serve the all important virtue of growing our tumor-like economy. Commerce loves war, and battling symptoms is good for business, if for little else.
The vast majority of conventional researchers and practitioners are stuck in a fundamentalist, materialist, scientism. Their fear of being dubbed heretical is adequate motivation for continuing to wear their blinders. Ignorance, arrogance and greed is a very addictive cocktail. Fortunately, a steady stream of disillusioned, courageous patients and practitioners are breaking free and discovering causes and cures. They boldly experiment with alternative ways of understanding life, nature, and the interconnection of the seen and unseen worlds.
How we pay for healthcare should be an issue for serious discussion. But, so also should be the focus and actual results of the healthcare we’re paying for.
What you were pointing out back then is exactly the pattern many people are noticing today. A tremendous amount of money flows into research, drugs, and procedures, yet the list of chronic conditions keeps growing instead of shrinking.
When a system focuses primarily on managing symptoms rather than understanding root causes, the results tend to look exactly like what we see now — endless treatment without resolution.
Your point about courageous patients and practitioners stepping outside the prevailing model is important. Real progress in medicine has often come from people willing to question assumptions that everyone else takes for granted.
Sometimes the most valuable question is the simplest one: if the current approach isn’t producing healthier people, what are we missing?
With the recent Ozempic craze I’m just going to throw out something that helps me at 68, fight the insulin resistance of us senior citizens.
Cut out sugar as best you can, and flour & bread, and take apple cider vinegar (pill form for me) three times a day. It’s the slow way to losing weight but it works on the weight we gain in the middle that is so dangerous.
I just golfed with a painfully thin woman my age, who had an insulin patch on her arm. I of course, asked if it was birth control 😉
She was thin except around the middle and the only one of the three of us eating the bread at the table at dinner with her order of ravioli.
I wanted to ask to see her phone to see if her diabetes spiked but good manners took over and I just observed.
I’m on no medications though doctors are always anxious to get me on something. My friends say I should get my blood checked and I decline saying that doctors will find a pill to go with whatever they tell me is off.
I gage my energy level and mood and adjust accordingly.
Robin, that’s a great example of something people are rediscovering for themselves.
FYI - One slice or organic bread will raise my sugars by 100 pts. I check em a dozen times a day after every little thing I eat. It ain't easy playing this game of eat or starve.
Simple things like cutting sugar and refined flour can change the whole metabolic picture, especially as we get older. It’s not flashy and it doesn’t come in a prescription bottle, but it often works because it addresses the root instead of just the symptoms.
Apple cider vinegar has been around in folk medicine for generations for a reason. Sometimes the old remedies survive because they quietly do the job.
And your point about gauging energy and mood is important. Learning to read the signals from your own body may be the most underrated health tool we have.
— Lone Wolf
Robin, I can completely relate as I've cut out sugar, bread, pasta and anything with processed white flour. Except on rare occasion I will indulge.
I cut out sugar 30 years ago, use xylitol for sweetener, no after taste.
Some 15 years ago, I found myself on the full conveyor belt of pharmaceuticals.
Statins, allergy meds, and stomach meds - the never-ending loop of capture.
As I began to become more self-aware, I made a decision to stop all of it.
And so I did - cold turkey. And fired my PCP.
My body became extremely uncomfortable and reactive. Especially the stomach part.
It took a good 6 months to begin to feel myself and my health again.
And while I recently undertook a new PCP, at least now I am making my own choices and not blindly trusting a Doctor and pharma.
They're still pushing statins at me, but I have no problem saying "NO."
Philip, that is a powerful story and I suspect many people recognize parts of it.
In fact, that is where I am at right now... cold turkey couple months ago, felt like a big turd for a while, then got better, noticed my body liking me a lot more. Go see my new PCP next week, Round 1, Get ready to rumble.
Once someone steps onto that conveyor belt it can be surprisingly difficult to step off. The body often has to recalibrate after being pushed and pulled chemically for years, and that adjustment period can be uncomfortable as you described.
But the key point in your story is sovereignty. You started asking questions and began making your own decisions instead of automatically accepting the next prescription.
That shift alone changes the whole dynamic.
Doctors can offer guidance, but ultimately each person has to live in their own body and decide what makes sense for their health.
Appreciate you sharing your experience.
— Lone Wolf
Cheers to directing our own bodies and health.
While I was diagnosed two years ago with bladder cancer and lung cancer, and the treatments for both, (of which I know the underlying energetic cause), my outlook is rosier today than it has ever been, and I look forward to many continuing years of good health.
I am doing gym workouts with regularity, and feel very good.
Making your PCP a partner in your health, and not an authority is the key.
Maintaining centeredness and regulating my body in the presence of such calamity in our world is challenging, but not impossible.
Philip, that’s a strong outlook to carry through something like that.
Bro, I have survived both bladder cancer 20 years ago and a aggressive melanoma on my back about 8 years ago (probably caused by the SV40 in my tetanus booster 10 years ago). Am doing everything I can think of to get better, my first goal is to walk again.
The body can go through very difficult chapters, but attitude, awareness, and the will to keep moving forward play a bigger role than most people realize. Many people who face serious diagnoses end up becoming far more tuned in to their bodies and their lives than they ever were before.
Your point about directing your own health is important. Doctors and treatments can play a role, but ultimately we are the ones living in the body and navigating the path forward.
A clear mind and a determined spirit go a long way.
Wishing you many good years ahead.
— Lone Wolf
After two strokes, I am on a blood thinner for life as much as I hate it. My Dad (RIP) experienced strokes and was on a blood thinner (rat poison aka Coumadin) and a final one that ended him up in hospice where subsequently he died on of all things on my Mom’s Birthday…so there is that…how I ended up with my 1st stroke is a very long story but suffice to say that a cardiologist mis-prescribed a drug for me that possibly could have prevented the 1st stroke…so there is that…
Anywhoo, good article and thanking you, bother-wolf
Albert, that’s a rough road you’ve been down. Two strokes and watching your father go through it too… that leaves a mark. Medicine likes to present itself as precision science, but far too often it’s trial-and-error with people’s lives in the balance.
Coumadin really is rat poison — literally the same compound used in rodent control — and yet it became one of the most prescribed drugs in the world. That alone should make people pause and ask questions.
Your story about the cardiologist mis-prescribing something that might have prevented the first stroke is exactly the kind of thing that happens more often than the system ever admits. The official narrative always says the system works, but the lived stories tell a different tale.
Glad you’re still here with us, brother. Sometimes surviving the storm is its own kind of victory.
— Lone Wolf 🐺
It should be noted that I can still drive, walk and talk alto Dear Wife says I have lost a step in my verbal communication since the 1st stroke…this stroke required six weeks of speech therapy…so I am eternally thankful and grateful that I survived these strokes relatively intact becos you and I are able to resonate with each other on such a deep level…so thankful for that alone
Albert, the fact that you’re still here driving, walking, talking, and thinking clearly after two strokes says a lot about the strength of your system and your will. Many people never come back from even one. Six weeks of speech therapy is no small climb, and the fact that you pushed through it tells the story.
I also appreciate what you said about resonance. That’s a rare thing in this world. Most conversations today bounce off the surface, but once in a while you run into someone who is operating on the same wavelength and the signal is unmistakable.
So yes, I’m grateful for that as well. Surviving the storms is one thing, but finding another human who can actually see the same patterns in the sky is something else entirely.
Glad you’re still on the field, brother.
— Lone Wolf
A few years ago one of my daughters, an RN, worked as a hospice nurse. She observed that people often came into hospice with a whole list of drugs they were prescribed, but in hospice they are taken off the drugs. There were people who actually got better after being off their prescriptions and were "discharged" from hospice! That really happens.
Donna, I have heard that same observation from hospice workers before.
❤😎 When the long list of medications is finally removed, sometimes the body begins to stabilize instead of continuing to decline. It’s almost as if the system finally gets a chance to breathe again.
That doesn’t mean every medication is unnecessary, but it does raise an important question about how easily people can end up buried under a stack of prescriptions.
Stories like the ones you describe are a powerful reminder that the body often has more capacity to recover than we are led to believe.
Thank you for sharing that.
— Lone Wolf
My mother was my greatest teacher in staying out of the endless loop I watched her go through for most of her adult life. Although I've had four blood clots in my leg, I refuse the offer of being on thinners for the rest of my life and have adopted a lifestyle where I manage the clots through proper food and exercise, rest and meditation. I was hospitalized last year, for my last one, took the thinners for a couple of months, and am now off of them. This works for me and I'm in no way suggesting anyone else take this risk with their body. I also use allopathic medicine for emergencies only, and eastern traditions for health and longevity. Getting to the root of what brought on the clots is what keeps me from being afraid of them. For me, it's my body's way of telling me that my thoughts are out of balance.
Laila, that is a powerful share.
What I hear in your story is something most people miss entirely: the body is not an enemy to be managed — it is a signal system trying to communicate. When something goes out of balance in life, the body often speaks before the mind is willing to listen.
Modern medicine tends to treat the signal while ignoring the message. Sometimes that’s necessary in emergencies, but if the deeper causes are never examined, the “endless loop” begins — symptom, drug, symptom, stronger drug.
Your approach — listening for the root cause and adjusting your life accordingly — is the opposite of the loop. It’s sovereignty.
Everyone has to choose their own path, but the one thing I’ve learned is that fear is the real trap. When people understand their bodies and start paying attention to what the signals mean, the fear begins to dissolve.
Thanks for sharing that perspective here.
— Lone Wolf
My lack of fear of death/losing my body, comes from studying NDE's, and consciousness in general, with my father over many years, then with my life partner. I'm grateful to have your company, as well as that of your subscribers who are willing to share their experiences so we may all remember who we are.
The biggest knowing I got from my 1972 illumination experience was 'there is no death' ... it really does change everything. Glad to share with you and all the subscribers also... we have a gold mine here... fun chatting everyday. Lone Wolf
For a couple of decades I enjoyed writing letters to the editor of two daily newspapers in the San Francisco/Bay Area, CA. Here's one I found in the archives I have kept that fits with the article's theme.
>>>SF Chronicle/Letters to the Editor:
If you read the two recent articles in the Chron, Money won’t cure America’s agonizing spinal pain problem (2-13-08) and New insight about asthma (2-17-08)), you should be questioning conventional medicine’s approach to these and other chronic conditions suffered by increasing numbers of Americans. When one hears “that the nation is losing its battle against back pain and that many popular treatments may be ineffective or overused,” or “There is no cure for asthma, and no one is sure why some people get it and others don’t,” is it not clear that the trillion plus dollars being spent annually on research, development of drugs and surgeries, their promotion and distribution is a pitiful, if not criminal, waste? It all seems only to serve the all important virtue of growing our tumor-like economy. Commerce loves war, and battling symptoms is good for business, if for little else.
The vast majority of conventional researchers and practitioners are stuck in a fundamentalist, materialist, scientism. Their fear of being dubbed heretical is adequate motivation for continuing to wear their blinders. Ignorance, arrogance and greed is a very addictive cocktail. Fortunately, a steady stream of disillusioned, courageous patients and practitioners are breaking free and discovering causes and cures. They boldly experiment with alternative ways of understanding life, nature, and the interconnection of the seen and unseen worlds.
How we pay for healthcare should be an issue for serious discussion. But, so also should be the focus and actual results of the healthcare we’re paying for.
2-18-08
Ron, that letter aged remarkably well.
What you were pointing out back then is exactly the pattern many people are noticing today. A tremendous amount of money flows into research, drugs, and procedures, yet the list of chronic conditions keeps growing instead of shrinking.
When a system focuses primarily on managing symptoms rather than understanding root causes, the results tend to look exactly like what we see now — endless treatment without resolution.
Your point about courageous patients and practitioners stepping outside the prevailing model is important. Real progress in medicine has often come from people willing to question assumptions that everyone else takes for granted.
Sometimes the most valuable question is the simplest one: if the current approach isn’t producing healthier people, what are we missing?
— Lone Wolf