How would you feel if you thought your cancer specialist was  profiting, not only as your oncologist, but as the provider of the drugs used in your chemotherapy?  Would it seem reasonable that your doctor who is making your life and death decisions and qualifying the need for chemotherapy was taking a great, big portion of the profits and making close to the same money as the pharmaceutical company who delivered them?


That is exactly what is happening, but your average cancer patient, stricken with panic and grief has no idea.  The system allows for the oncologist to purchase drugs wholesale from a pharmaceutical provider.  The drug prices are then inflated and billed to insurance or Medicare.  The excess, not covered by insurance, is then billed to the patient, the sick and dying patient.  The cost is at the discretion of  the salesman, your doctor.


We are not talking about a few bucks, we’re talking about a multi-million dollar industry.  How much is the mark up?  I’ve read a number of astonishing reports, but the amount of mark up is the decision of the doctor.  In one example given, the cost of the product was $4,000 from the provider.  The doctor marked it up to $12,000 and the insurance company paid $8,000, leaving the patient a $4,000 bill for each day of treatment, over the course of weeks and months.


If all of this feels less than reasonable, it should.  How unbiased can a doctor be who stands to make hundreds of thousands of dollars for suggesting treatment?  How willing is that doctor going to be when I suggest we try natural cures and put off the harshness of chemotherapy in favor herbs or marijuana?  From personal experience with two oncologists, I can tell you the willingness in both cases was not to be found.


Doctors who profit from what is being called “chemotherapy concessions” claim there is a justified reason for the up-charge   The rational is that the cost of doing chemotherapy in a non-hospital setting is done at a high cost to the oncology office.  They claim they are just trying to break even.  To that I say, Boo Hoo.  


People are dying from chemotherapy daily and the elusive “search for the cure” is disregarded in favor of profit.  The practice is so out of hand, that the US congress and insurance companies are finally fighting back and in favor of the public.  They are looking for change, as should patients, but it will likely be gradual and a compromise that will be less than adequate.  


Chemotherapy, like all suggested medical treatments, is a choice.  There are options that should not be overlooked.  The unfortunate circumstance of the chemotherapy concessions system, is that only a rare few can hope to get an impartial opinion about the absolute need for treatment without prejudice from a doctor who has this kind of abundant wealth at stake. 

Chris Shade talks about how to measure metals and how to carefully detox.  The connection and the healing of a leaky gut is also discussed as a precursor to detoxing.

A diagnosis of cancer is a crisis.   No one thinks clearly after hearing “it’s cancer.” It is probably the worse possible time to have to make the decisions you are facing, but decisions must be made.

If like most people, you falter and pause to think, a “team” of professionals is gathered within minutes of your diagnosis.  Your life is now in the hands of an oncologist, a surgeon, a radiologist and others you have never even met.  This team will guide you down the path they have designed for you because they do it everyday, but you haven’t.  It is all new.

In one moment you took your seat in the waiting room and the next you are signed up to take the ride, with an “E” ticket in your hand. The problem is, this is not Disneyland and it is not the “happiest place on earth.”

The urgency with which a treatment plan is made would make you believe there is seemingly no time to waste.  The truth is, there is time.  Cancer takes years to grow. Certainly one could take a few days or weeks to do the proper research to learn the vast possibilities for treatment.  More and more, people are opting to use alternatives or a combination of treatments, because of the failing statistics and harshness of chemotherapy. 

The time to make decisions about cancer are not best done from a gurney, or in a gown.  You are useless at that point.  Fear makes bad decisions.

Your best research is done now, before a crisis and without a threat.  There are some wonderful things being done, beginning with diet, that can assist a traditional or non-traditional  treatment plan. 

The options for cancer treatment run from whacky, to reasonable to horrifying.   To be sure there are proponents for all of these possibilities, but it is you that must decide.  The days of following into traditional cancer treatment have passed.  We now know there are options, but they take a bit of research to find what is best for  you.  

Your body is your responsibility.  Allowing strangers to decide what treatment is best without some research is irresponsible.  You wouldn’t let the painter choose the color of your house.  Why would you jump into a failing cancer machine and just cross your fingers?

This is a simple test for candida that you can do at home.  As your diet and care of the gut changes, you can see the progress in reduced indicators.

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If your mouth is holding silver,mercury fillings, you have been lied to by a government, and a dentist, without regard for your life.  The dangers of mercury are basic.  It is poison.  There is no amount of mercury that the body can encounter without damage.

For those who claim, "it hasn't hurt me yet," your body is not different than anyone else on the planet.  It is not successfully managing the poison released every time you chew.  If you feel unharmed by your mercury fillings you are fooling yourself.  Your body is working overtime to keep you alive and one day it will, not might, falter.

Pain, autoimmune disease, kidney failure, depression, palsy, arthritis, neurological disorders, nerve damage, TMJ, candida, IBS, multiple sclerosis and many other common conditions have roots in mercury poisoning.  If you have silver fillings, which are 50% mercury, your body is working overtime to keep you functioning.  When it collapses, your symptoms will vary from fibromyalgia-like pain to Alzheimer's Disease.

Removing the mercury from my teeth removed crippling pain within hours.  I am not a miracle.
Many who safely remove mercury with a biologic dentist have lost symptoms of debilitating conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue very soon after removal of the poison.  To be sure there can be lingering effects and many do not report improved health for weeks and months.  Even though there can be permanent damage, healing can begin once the on-going source of poison is removed.

If you have mercury fillings the time to remove them is before you become symptomatic.  There is no advantage to causing your body to process or store toxicity needlessly.

Almost anyone can come home from a traditional doctor with the diagnosis of fibromyalgia.  The criteria is rather flimsy.  Even the Mayo Clinic has a weak explanation of the condition, claiming fibromyalgia is a condition with a variety of symptoms that are incurable.  If that is not acceptable to you, use caution before you accept the diagnosis. Buying into a condition that cannot be cured is a life sentence.  

I believe what is more truthful is that the diagnosis of fibromyalgia is a dumping ground by the medical profession for people who complain of a variety of aches, pains and symptoms that seem unfounded or random.  Although all who have fibromyalgic-like pain have similarities, our sources of pain vary.  Instead of searching for the cause of our issues, we are categorized into the designer condition called "fibromyalgia" and offered drugs to mitigate symptoms, but we are never expected to be cured.  

If you have fibromyalgic-like pain, your pain is real.  The diagnosis, in my opinion, is not.   I believe a bit more effort should be included in the diagnosis.

Pain is the only voice your body has and there is always a reason for it.  Finding its source is not easy, especially when a trusted medical community is satisfied to medicate you for a lifetime and categorize you as hopeless.

If you are to find wellness, you must resist the diagnosis of fibromyalgia as anything more than a description of your pain.  Next, begin a concentrated search for the source of your particular pain and look more deeply for the root cause or causes, knowing that the weakened body can manifest pain from more than one source.

What is common for chronic, fibromyalgia-like pain is the sensitivity to toxic substances and sugars.  Sugar exacerbates pain, no matter the original source of pain.   Most all painful bodies respond to lifestyle changes that clean up the body.

There are a few things every painful body should investigate to begin their search for the cause of symptoms if wellness is the goal.  You may find you have some or all of these potential contributors or, your cause might be completely different.

#1.  If you have silver, metal amalgam fillings in your mouth you are living with mercury toxicity.  It may take years to manifest but, at some point, metals toxicity will create pain and symptoms  that are often given the diagnosis of fibromyalgia.  You need to be tested for metals poisoning, being aware you cannot rely on a blood test for accuracy.  You will need a medical professional who understands metals and this is not likely going to be a typical, Western medical  practitioner. 

#2.  Candida overgrowth symptoms are also very closely aligned with the symptoms of fibromyalgia.  If you have candida overgrowth, a gut bacteria, you will need to make several lifestyle changes as it cannot be solved by a pill.  Sugar and flours, which are the favorite diet of candida, will inflame the body while candida thrives on them.  You will need a medical professional who understand how to cure candida or you can easily do the research to solve it yourself without products or pills.  Candida overgrowth responds to a healthy diet and probiotics.

#3.  Leaky Gut Syndrome is an offshoot of candida overgrowth and is actually caused when  the intestinal wall becomes permeated.  Once the intestinal wall becomes compromised, foods being digested fall through the intestinesl and leak into the bloodstream, causing guess what?   Yes, symptoms that are again exactly like those of fibromyalgia.  

#4.  Glutathione is manufactured by the body.  It is the master detoxifier of your body.  If you are sick or in pain, production is less than adequate to manage normal, daily detoxification needs causing...yes, symptoms just like fibromyalgia.

What is important about these four simple possibilities as potential sources of fibromyalgia-like pain is that they each affect about a third of the population.  It is incredible that a doctor would consider labelling a patient with fibromyalgia and medicate them without knowing if any of these four very common conditions are at play.  

​Your source of pain might not include any of these conditions and the possibilities are infinite.  What is sure, however, is that if you medicate the pain without finding the source, wellness will not be yours.

If you walk into your doctor's office and quote this information, it will likely be discounted in favor of drugs.  Your own research will be infinitely more important.

​ Your pain is real.  It has a source that is screaming for attention.  Find it and be well.

The headlines today are "Pain Pills May Prolong Pain."  This is not new news.  We have known this for a very long time.  We know that when chronic pain is masked, the body is pushed beyond its true ability.  When the pain is not respected and the body is forced to overdo, the cause of the pain is agitated instead of encouraged to heal.

The longer pain is allowed to reside in the body, the deeper its roots.  Secondary conditions develop at some point and the original problem becomes more complex.  Masking Pain, Manifests Pain.

So why is this groundbreaking news  today?  It is because those who misrepresent drug side effects, Big Pharma, and those who overprescribed pain killers for profit, doctors,  have found themselves in lawsuits.  Finally the addicted and families of the dead are taking charge and refusing to be victims of the system.  

Now that  addictions and deaths are of crisis proportions we will see change.   Those punished will never represent the true numbers of those who contributed to these crimes, but it is a start.  There are two things to remember before you accept drugs into your body.  #1.)  Properly prescribed drugs are the third largest killer in America, following only cancer and heart disease.  #2.)  Every recalled drug in America was once approved by the FDA

I have just taken a great bashing on a chronic pain site for saying I don't believe in living on pain drugs.  People went on attack saying I knew nothing about pain and that without drugs they would have no life.  

I do know something about pain.  We have an intimate relationship that has lasted decades. 

What I know is that when drugged, my body will perform many more tasks then it would without drugs.  It feels good to be more active but that overextension causes increased pain and allows pain cycles to have a firmer grasp.

I know that allowing pain to take up residency is dangerous.  Pain drains the body and forces its systems to become burdened.  Eventually these systems break down, causing secondary issues and illnesses that complicate life.

Learning about pain takes experiencing it.  If you are always medicated, it is impossible to experience anything.  I believe pain has something to say.  My choice is to listen and find out what it wants from me.  

Usually it wants the same old things.  That means the right kinds of rest, exercise,  nutrients and a diet that is clean and free of sugar, flour and chemicals.  It also asks that I cut my toxicity down to minimal exposure every day.   I offer it remedies in the form of essential oils, vitamins, minerals and foods that heal.

For the most part, living clean has become easy.  There are days, though, that I just don't feel like giving my body exactly what it needs.  There are days when I think we can manage some sugar and a few toxins.  There are days when I just want to behave like everyone else and if I do, I pay the price.  

In some ways, I think chronic pain people are the lucky ones.  When they finally find wellness, they understand how the body works and what it needs.  They have the ability and knowledge to treat it right and nurture it appropriately.  It seems they have a jump on learning to live through old age without illness and have the potential to die healthy.  That is the goal.