Beating Back The Beast - one Week 6 days

I have spent the evening feeding the mind, as essential as feeding the body. I attended a writing seminar given by Brian Turner a NZ Poet Laureate, as famous as his sporting brothers Glen and Greg. Brian calls himself a politiacal animal and suggests it is up to us a writers to ask questions, I pondered this on my long drive home.

Here is my question. Why do we the people let traditional medicine continue to peddle the poison's of the pharmaceutical companies upon us? Why do we allow governments and bureaucracy to tell us we must follow blindly and take their drugs and their toxins into our bodies?

It is my understanding autoimmune disease begins in the gut. I have done a lot of research over the years and it always leads me back to this understanding. The seat of the immune system is the gut. So why are so many of us suffering from gut problems so serious they lead to our immune systems attacking our own bodies or failing all together?

In my case I feel strongly that antibiotics have played a huge part in the break down of my gut. I was a child who suffered many chest and throat infections. With the knowledge I have now I am certain it was caused by intolerance to dairy products. Back then though Dr's were gods! No mother should have the temerity to question the word of the Dr. So they pushed antibiotics down my throat and into my sensitive gut instead of looking for the cause of my respiratory problems.

Finally my gut gave up the fight and I was left with the Beast. A beast that would destroy its own host given half a chance. Would a traditional Dr listen to my concerns? Would a traditional Dr answer my questions honestly?

Brian it seems I have a lot of questions but for the most part they would appear to be rhetorical, for I already know the answers to them. I have been treated to the contempt and scorn of the traditional Dr for many years, for I have had the temerity to question them.

Perhaps my true question to them and the powers that be should actually be, when will you put the welfare of your people, your patients before the financial gains of the big machine? When will we matter more than the almighty dollar and power?

Perhaps these are things I should have  meditated on earlier when I was doing my stretch program. I will leave you with this thought. I do not believe it is just the writer who should be asking these questions. Whether it be our health or our environment we should all be asking the questions that need to be asked. We should all be looking to take responsibility for our part in it. For our health for our children's health.