The fact that none of these illnesses existed 200 years ago should say enough. 'Modern' life, 'Western' food (and to some extent, western clothing), allopathic meds, bring it on. Recently I saw people load a container with donated fabrics for African missions - all of them polyester, acrylic, and fabrics that people should not wear in the tropics. There is a reason for what African people wear!
I was diagnosed with Graves Disease, supposedly the hyperactive thyroid attacking something, making my heart race. "The heart has only so many beats" says the doctor. Therefore, my condition is terminal as heart failure will ensue! I was skeptical of the entire pronouncement but those close to me at the time, urged me to "get treatment." Refusing to have my thyroid irradiated or surgically removed, I took some pill. I had to go in periodically to have its level checked in my blood. That was the final determiner for me to stop the entire process. Sticking needles into my veins to draw blood became very old, very fast.
Instead, I decided to breathe, calm down & assess what was going on in my life that had me so "wound up." Excessive fear became apparent. I identified my internal triggers to some aspects of my current situation. I began to find ways to ease those while at the same time following calmness offered by Aruveda health principles. Changed my diet accordingly. In about a year, all was much better & improving.
That's amazing. I honestly thought I was dying when I had graves! I did take carbimazol for a few months. Weirdly went into remission, then showed up again for a time before disappearing again. I did follow it with psoriatic arthritis though!😳😬
My daughter was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism last year and was told irradiating - killing - her thyroid was the only cure. She changed her diet so she now eats like I do because that's how I got rid of my "auto-immune" conditions. Within a few months her blood tests returned to normal and all her symptoms are gone.
If she had accepted the prescribed therapy, not only would she have to be on medication for life, she still wouldn't feel well.
No, the body doesn't attack itself. And no, conventional medicine can't treat chronic illness much less cure it. Doctors are for emergencies and I'm grateful for that service. But for health, we need organic food, sunshine, pure water and to stay away from conventional medicine.
I was borderline hyperthyroidal when I finally figured out I was Coeliac! The medico wanted to put me on nasty drugs that wouldn't have worked anyway. I stopped gluten getting into my system (and house!) and lo and behold, my thyroid behaved again. No more nasty gut pains and no more crazy anger or bodily inflammation from all that. My joints work way better now that I'm not...poisoning myself. My thyroid acted up because I was eating the wrong stuff. Now there is no need to see the silly medico again, either.
I guess not all of us can take the same things in this world. I can't eat gluten or I get horrid symptoms. But my oldest child can have traces of gluten (ie can eat out 'GF') and is fine. I can eat apples, but they cause my eldest headaches. I can eat strawberries, but they cause my oldest & youngest problems! I can eat chocolate, but it causes my hubby migraines! Horses for courses, I suppose....the trick is to figure out what works for YOU.
good points and good for you healthwise too. but i think all the current food allergies (which were quite rare six decades ago) - probably have something to do with the massive amounts of vaccine-poisons given to children since then - also probably the GMO foods and heavy use of round-up/glyphosate.
'conventional medicine can't treat chronic illness much less cure it. Doctors are for emergencies and I'm grateful for that service. But for health, we need organic food, sunshine, pure water and to stay away from conventional medicine.'
Christmas is coming soon...and books are great gifts. No Autoimmunity sounds like a winner. Giving the gift of knowledge is one of the most valuable gifts one can give. It is something, which lasts way beyond Christmas Day. People must be aware that when they face a health issue that they have been doing something, which created it. Problems, just don't happen. I have solved all my health concerns by examining my foods and lifestyle.
Couldn’t agree more about books as gifts for Christmas.
My parents used to do the same for us every Christmas until we graduated college.
I believe I learned more from those books than I did in school.
My mother used to say, the most important thing one learns in school is how to interact with others. Education on the other hand should be our own personal responsibility !!!
Your mother was absolutely right...My parents were readers and set examples. I was taken at 4 or 5 to the library for the story hour. I still remember Wynken, Blinken and Nod... At 8, I had my own library card...and we walked miles to get there weekly for an armload of books. I lived in the fairy tales during my early years...Hans Christian Andersen's stories taught empathy.. I cried my eyes out reading the Little Mermaid...developed understanding with the Ugly Duckling and awareness about con artists in the Emperor's New Clothes.
When our family went on vacations in the car, my mother would read to us from books like Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Swiss Family Robinson etc.
Always an adventure and a learning opportunity !!!
I don’t have any children, but I sometimes wonder if mothers still read to their children or do they let the iPhone do the reading for them instead ???
My first two children were very much into reading and books. My third, a daughter chose Berkeley for college against both our wishes, but she had friends going there. It took her 4-1/2 years to get her degree.. it was a party school. She was mathematically inclined. This is how she got into college....on her math scores....not much of a reader.She doesn't read or write very much. She is totally into business and money! My 4th child started out well. I left my husband, when he was eight months old. I taught him to read, before he was in first grade. He did very well in school, until my ex-husband took him for a year.. My ex took me to court, with the charges that I didn't believe in vaccines and the child went with me one time, when i got a colonic. The court awarded him custody. However, after a year, he returned him to me. While he had him, he took him for vaccines against my wishes. The child never was the same, after he got the vaccines. He lost all his energy. He lost his ability to focus and read.. My Ex also gave him a Nintendo...and the child got hooked on playing video games.. He didn't want to do anything, but play with the Nintendo. My ex really messed him up! Such is life!
Of course, look after your immune system and it will look after your body, the body has amazing healing techniques and will never attack itself. I still hear this all the time that people are being told by doctors saying things like they don't know what it is but they think it is an autoimmune issue, so frustrating to hear all the time.
I guess the bottom line is: Eliminate the toxins invading the body and the immune system will not react to control and eliminate the toxin, when they are forever chemicals, it is life long problem. Vietnam vets were given an experimental vaccine that created a life long health issue. Do I have it right?
Thank you. I was diagnosed with MS in 2011. I ordered this right away. Thankfully I have had no known relapses since diagnosis but I was on DMT for 11 years. I’m an RN and believed all the allopathic “ways” until COVID hit and after managing 4 clinics through that nightmare, I became skeptical. I have since studied functional nutrition and became a certified functional nutrition counselor. I continue to learn more every day to try to help others— by following people like you. Thank you!
Well, I like the other books so much, I am ordering this one too. I now have a reputation among my formerly disassociated family members. It is a positive development. Maybe they can be saved after all. Thanks again, Unbekoming.
Barbara O'Neill doesn't believe in "autoimmune" diseases, either - sure, there may be symptoms, but people can recover & it's not because the-body-is-attacking-itself....
I have been compiling a personal repository of trusted health info using Obsidian that can be prompted at will for an 'alternative' opinion when most needed and Unbekoming content has become an integral part of that (which was also the most compelling reason to subscribe.)
Having noted that the last several books have been in print-only format is confounding that effort and causing concern about the quantity of valuable info that will be left out of that repository. Please consider releasing eBooks of these new titles to subscribers, or at least providing a modest purchase price option of these same titles in ePub format.
Many thanks for your tireless effort and devotion to the truth.
i laughed out loud when i read the title of this post, as i realized once again that we can believe almost NOTHING of what we have been taught all our lives by "the authorities".
plus the whole idea of autoimmunity has always sounded fishy to me.
I had Sarcoidosis and was told it’s my immune system attacking my lungs but "we don’t know why." What's the ONLY treatment? Prednisone. I was on it, lowered dosing ongoing, for 10 years. Left me with glaucoma but vision loss in one eye. Also had unrelenting sweating and bruises all over my arms and lower legs. In 2021, I MAHA'd my diet, lost the remaining of 80 pounds in 12 years, most (50) in the last six years and it has reduced mymeds to very few. Yay! My breathing improved because the load on my heart and lungs lessened. And I was finally taken off prednisone. Phew! Two years of improvement but...
Why does no one ever talk about Sarcoidosis? It mostly affects black people but I am white. No one knows much about it. The research just puts us in the MS, RA, lupus categories. Is it so rare? I remember hearing it mentioned often on the TV show “House.” In fact, when docs were trying to diagnose me - Is it lymphoma? Is it cancer? Is it MS - I jokingly said, "Maybe it's sarcoidosis." The oncologist stopped and said "maybe." Pulmonology consult and a broncoscopy biopsy showed it was "classic sarcoidosis." It appears inactive but the docs say it could return and "attack" other organs, or “live in fear, patient.”
The most odd part is giving my medical history and having to spell it and explain it to most all medical people. Then I have to explain to them what pulmonary fibrosis is.
Funny you should mention the TV show House. I'm currently re-watching it for the third or fourth time. It's entertaining, yet…reportedly they tried to keep it medically realistic, but it's totally exaggerated. I was diagnosed with one of the rare diseases that played a peripheral part in one episode, and that alone made me realize how exaggerated the medicine in the show is.
Ha! Dr. House tested just about all his mystery patients as possibly having sarcoidosis. "Start steroids!"
My issue isn't that I don't understand the provenance, it's that the medical silence surrounding it is baffling. I know it was probably "caused" in me by 20 years of (stupid) flu vaccines... but it's odd that so many medical people have never heard of it (and can't spell it).
I was curious about the terrain, not the establishment story. And I wasnt looking for a cause. Maybe confirmation...?
I'm interested in the medical silence surrounding sarcoidosis. If it were the “usual" causes, more people would have it. It’s rare and I WAS a healthy person living a clean life. Your comment is tantamount to a brush off and I don't know why a stranger would take time to write such a dismissive comment.
You do not understand. Your condition is how your body reacts to the basic causes mentioned. Someone else may have develop[ed asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, or cancer. We all have unique responses to the poisons in our air, food, and water, along with the stressors inherent in human relationships at home, or at work. There is no medical science, it's all a fraudulent methodology to get you on drugs to mask the actual causes of your symptoms.
I'm not sure what to think about this - I have Hashimoto's, and shortly after the Covid nonsense, I did walk away from my endocrinologist, trusted my body's innate nature to heal itself, did everything possible to cultivate the best conditions for that through nutrition and stress management and movement... three years later I'm suffering through the most intense relapse into those symptoms I could possibly imagine. I'm back on NP Thyroid working with an osteopath and a few physical therapists to coax my body back into balance, and it is working. I subscribed just to make this comment and to express that balance is usually found in the middle. I have safely and successfully delivered myself from modern diet culture, so there is that.
I have changed my diet, lifestyle and on & on but still can't get myself into remission for my RA. I have been tweaking it all since 2008. It has probably helped some but not enough.
The fact that none of these illnesses existed 200 years ago should say enough. 'Modern' life, 'Western' food (and to some extent, western clothing), allopathic meds, bring it on. Recently I saw people load a container with donated fabrics for African missions - all of them polyester, acrylic, and fabrics that people should not wear in the tropics. There is a reason for what African people wear!
I was diagnosed with Graves Disease, supposedly the hyperactive thyroid attacking something, making my heart race. "The heart has only so many beats" says the doctor. Therefore, my condition is terminal as heart failure will ensue! I was skeptical of the entire pronouncement but those close to me at the time, urged me to "get treatment." Refusing to have my thyroid irradiated or surgically removed, I took some pill. I had to go in periodically to have its level checked in my blood. That was the final determiner for me to stop the entire process. Sticking needles into my veins to draw blood became very old, very fast.
Instead, I decided to breathe, calm down & assess what was going on in my life that had me so "wound up." Excessive fear became apparent. I identified my internal triggers to some aspects of my current situation. I began to find ways to ease those while at the same time following calmness offered by Aruveda health principles. Changed my diet accordingly. In about a year, all was much better & improving.
So glad you used your intuition and said no to the whitecoats!
Thanks! Never did like them ever since childhood when was was sent, against my will, to have tonsils cut out. Nasty!
That's amazing. I honestly thought I was dying when I had graves! I did take carbimazol for a few months. Weirdly went into remission, then showed up again for a time before disappearing again. I did follow it with psoriatic arthritis though!😳😬
My daughter was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism last year and was told irradiating - killing - her thyroid was the only cure. She changed her diet so she now eats like I do because that's how I got rid of my "auto-immune" conditions. Within a few months her blood tests returned to normal and all her symptoms are gone.
If she had accepted the prescribed therapy, not only would she have to be on medication for life, she still wouldn't feel well.
No, the body doesn't attack itself. And no, conventional medicine can't treat chronic illness much less cure it. Doctors are for emergencies and I'm grateful for that service. But for health, we need organic food, sunshine, pure water and to stay away from conventional medicine.
I was borderline hyperthyroidal when I finally figured out I was Coeliac! The medico wanted to put me on nasty drugs that wouldn't have worked anyway. I stopped gluten getting into my system (and house!) and lo and behold, my thyroid behaved again. No more nasty gut pains and no more crazy anger or bodily inflammation from all that. My joints work way better now that I'm not...poisoning myself. My thyroid acted up because I was eating the wrong stuff. Now there is no need to see the silly medico again, either.
I guess not all of us can take the same things in this world. I can't eat gluten or I get horrid symptoms. But my oldest child can have traces of gluten (ie can eat out 'GF') and is fine. I can eat apples, but they cause my eldest headaches. I can eat strawberries, but they cause my oldest & youngest problems! I can eat chocolate, but it causes my hubby migraines! Horses for courses, I suppose....the trick is to figure out what works for YOU.
good points and good for you healthwise too. but i think all the current food allergies (which were quite rare six decades ago) - probably have something to do with the massive amounts of vaccine-poisons given to children since then - also probably the GMO foods and heavy use of round-up/glyphosate.
Probably!
So many poisons it's hard to know which one's the problem, eh? Probably all of them to varying degrees....
Death by a thousand cuts ...
Yes! Primarily stay away from allopathic "medicine." Do what deeply feels best to you as you care for yourself.
'conventional medicine can't treat chronic illness much less cure it. Doctors are for emergencies and I'm grateful for that service. But for health, we need organic food, sunshine, pure water and to stay away from conventional medicine.'
Amen to that.
Christmas is coming soon...and books are great gifts. No Autoimmunity sounds like a winner. Giving the gift of knowledge is one of the most valuable gifts one can give. It is something, which lasts way beyond Christmas Day. People must be aware that when they face a health issue that they have been doing something, which created it. Problems, just don't happen. I have solved all my health concerns by examining my foods and lifestyle.
Couldn’t agree more about books as gifts for Christmas.
My parents used to do the same for us every Christmas until we graduated college.
I believe I learned more from those books than I did in school.
My mother used to say, the most important thing one learns in school is how to interact with others. Education on the other hand should be our own personal responsibility !!!
Your mother was absolutely right...My parents were readers and set examples. I was taken at 4 or 5 to the library for the story hour. I still remember Wynken, Blinken and Nod... At 8, I had my own library card...and we walked miles to get there weekly for an armload of books. I lived in the fairy tales during my early years...Hans Christian Andersen's stories taught empathy.. I cried my eyes out reading the Little Mermaid...developed understanding with the Ugly Duckling and awareness about con artists in the Emperor's New Clothes.
The library card.
One of my treasured items when I was a young boy.
When our family went on vacations in the car, my mother would read to us from books like Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Swiss Family Robinson etc.
Always an adventure and a learning opportunity !!!
I don’t have any children, but I sometimes wonder if mothers still read to their children or do they let the iPhone do the reading for them instead ???
My first two children were very much into reading and books. My third, a daughter chose Berkeley for college against both our wishes, but she had friends going there. It took her 4-1/2 years to get her degree.. it was a party school. She was mathematically inclined. This is how she got into college....on her math scores....not much of a reader.She doesn't read or write very much. She is totally into business and money! My 4th child started out well. I left my husband, when he was eight months old. I taught him to read, before he was in first grade. He did very well in school, until my ex-husband took him for a year.. My ex took me to court, with the charges that I didn't believe in vaccines and the child went with me one time, when i got a colonic. The court awarded him custody. However, after a year, he returned him to me. While he had him, he took him for vaccines against my wishes. The child never was the same, after he got the vaccines. He lost all his energy. He lost his ability to focus and read.. My Ex also gave him a Nintendo...and the child got hooked on playing video games.. He didn't want to do anything, but play with the Nintendo. My ex really messed him up! Such is life!
My wife was diagnosed with scleroderma. My guess is it was caused by something covered here.
Yes, 😢
And vaccines, which causes autoimmune disorders.
Of course, look after your immune system and it will look after your body, the body has amazing healing techniques and will never attack itself. I still hear this all the time that people are being told by doctors saying things like they don't know what it is but they think it is an autoimmune issue, so frustrating to hear all the time.
You made a big push to get paid subscribers earlier this year. Now we are not getting the ebooks....?
I guess the bottom line is: Eliminate the toxins invading the body and the immune system will not react to control and eliminate the toxin, when they are forever chemicals, it is life long problem. Vietnam vets were given an experimental vaccine that created a life long health issue. Do I have it right?
yes. but they're all experimental.
Thank you. I was diagnosed with MS in 2011. I ordered this right away. Thankfully I have had no known relapses since diagnosis but I was on DMT for 11 years. I’m an RN and believed all the allopathic “ways” until COVID hit and after managing 4 clinics through that nightmare, I became skeptical. I have since studied functional nutrition and became a certified functional nutrition counselor. I continue to learn more every day to try to help others— by following people like you. Thank you!
Well, I like the other books so much, I am ordering this one too. I now have a reputation among my formerly disassociated family members. It is a positive development. Maybe they can be saved after all. Thanks again, Unbekoming.
Barbara O'Neill doesn't believe in "autoimmune" diseases, either - sure, there may be symptoms, but people can recover & it's not because the-body-is-attacking-itself....
I have been compiling a personal repository of trusted health info using Obsidian that can be prompted at will for an 'alternative' opinion when most needed and Unbekoming content has become an integral part of that (which was also the most compelling reason to subscribe.)
Having noted that the last several books have been in print-only format is confounding that effort and causing concern about the quantity of valuable info that will be left out of that repository. Please consider releasing eBooks of these new titles to subscribers, or at least providing a modest purchase price option of these same titles in ePub format.
Many thanks for your tireless effort and devotion to the truth.
i laughed out loud when i read the title of this post, as i realized once again that we can believe almost NOTHING of what we have been taught all our lives by "the authorities".
plus the whole idea of autoimmunity has always sounded fishy to me.
I had Sarcoidosis and was told it’s my immune system attacking my lungs but "we don’t know why." What's the ONLY treatment? Prednisone. I was on it, lowered dosing ongoing, for 10 years. Left me with glaucoma but vision loss in one eye. Also had unrelenting sweating and bruises all over my arms and lower legs. In 2021, I MAHA'd my diet, lost the remaining of 80 pounds in 12 years, most (50) in the last six years and it has reduced mymeds to very few. Yay! My breathing improved because the load on my heart and lungs lessened. And I was finally taken off prednisone. Phew! Two years of improvement but...
Why does no one ever talk about Sarcoidosis? It mostly affects black people but I am white. No one knows much about it. The research just puts us in the MS, RA, lupus categories. Is it so rare? I remember hearing it mentioned often on the TV show “House.” In fact, when docs were trying to diagnose me - Is it lymphoma? Is it cancer? Is it MS - I jokingly said, "Maybe it's sarcoidosis." The oncologist stopped and said "maybe." Pulmonology consult and a broncoscopy biopsy showed it was "classic sarcoidosis." It appears inactive but the docs say it could return and "attack" other organs, or “live in fear, patient.”
The most odd part is giving my medical history and having to spell it and explain it to most all medical people. Then I have to explain to them what pulmonary fibrosis is.
Anything on that odd one, Sarcoidosis?
Funny you should mention the TV show House. I'm currently re-watching it for the third or fourth time. It's entertaining, yet…reportedly they tried to keep it medically realistic, but it's totally exaggerated. I was diagnosed with one of the rare diseases that played a peripheral part in one episode, and that alone made me realize how exaggerated the medicine in the show is.
Ha! Dr. House tested just about all his mystery patients as possibly having sarcoidosis. "Start steroids!"
My issue isn't that I don't understand the provenance, it's that the medical silence surrounding it is baffling. I know it was probably "caused" in me by 20 years of (stupid) flu vaccines... but it's odd that so many medical people have never heard of it (and can't spell it).
I was curious about the terrain, not the establishment story. And I wasnt looking for a cause. Maybe confirmation...?
You take good care! God bless 🙌🏻
Same causes: diet, lifestyle choices, stress, dental procedures, medications, chronic exposure to toxic chemicals.
I'm interested in the medical silence surrounding sarcoidosis. If it were the “usual" causes, more people would have it. It’s rare and I WAS a healthy person living a clean life. Your comment is tantamount to a brush off and I don't know why a stranger would take time to write such a dismissive comment.
You do not understand. Your condition is how your body reacts to the basic causes mentioned. Someone else may have develop[ed asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, or cancer. We all have unique responses to the poisons in our air, food, and water, along with the stressors inherent in human relationships at home, or at work. There is no medical science, it's all a fraudulent methodology to get you on drugs to mask the actual causes of your symptoms.
And you presume I never thought of any of that. And that I haven't done my research. Bugger off.
I'm not sure what to think about this - I have Hashimoto's, and shortly after the Covid nonsense, I did walk away from my endocrinologist, trusted my body's innate nature to heal itself, did everything possible to cultivate the best conditions for that through nutrition and stress management and movement... three years later I'm suffering through the most intense relapse into those symptoms I could possibly imagine. I'm back on NP Thyroid working with an osteopath and a few physical therapists to coax my body back into balance, and it is working. I subscribed just to make this comment and to express that balance is usually found in the middle. I have safely and successfully delivered myself from modern diet culture, so there is that.
I have changed my diet, lifestyle and on & on but still can't get myself into remission for my RA. I have been tweaking it all since 2008. It has probably helped some but not enough.