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Chronic Pain: SOME DAYS YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO DIE

9/30/2015

We’re not talking suicide or giving up, but somedays you do think you are dying. The truth is, you can’t really ever be sure that you are not. When pain is overwhelming, you haven’t slept and the brain is foggy, you wonder...

Is this how a body feels when its dying?

With loads of time on your hands and too many thoughts in your head you have to wonder if the pain is telling you that your body is just too tired to go forward. If that was the the truth, one might just decide to relax and let the process of passing take shape with harmony, but how do you know?

There are not a lot of people to talk to when you think you might be dying. First of all, most people don’t really understand chronic pain. They may not even believe you are sick. Secondly, you might find yourself invited to occupy a 72-hour holding cell if you talk to the wrong people and are misunderstood. Friends listen, but thinking you are just depressed, they can’t relate.

It is usually not depression that can bring a chronically painful body to think about dying. In fact, it’s probably just the opposite. Only the most courageous can sit with those thoughts and wonder what do do about them. These are difficult moments.

Chronic pain people learn to make peace with the inevitable. They learn to live life more completely. They limit things that are meaningless and harmful and appreciate every pain-free moment with enthusiasm. They learn to make lemonade, from even the most sour of lemons.

In the end, they may be the lucky ones.

Chronic Pain: THE LONELINESS OF PAIN AND ISOLATION

9/25/2015

Retreating to privacy during painful periods is what chronic pain people do. It cuts down on input and stimulation from others, which can be not only annoying, but an instigator for more pain. It seems easier to stay alone and retreat, but soon loneliness sets in and the tendency to become isolated becomes habitual.

Although respecting your own needs is important, you have to remember that you are a human being with complex social needs. If chronic pain won’t allow a full social schedule, it is easy to just delete that component from life. It works in the moment, but not for long.

When you lock yourself away in exile from a social life, a void is created that opens doors to depression. The depression feeds stress and stress feeds pain. Ultimately you become less able to cope with the race and find your personality and temperament changing. Maintaining a social life is a necessity, even if isolation is easier.

Realistically there are periods of time where people are just not helpful. You often need time alone with your thoughts and time with your body. Take those periods of time without hesitation. Plan them and feel no guilt about saying no to others who might feel the need to intrude. Give yourself and your body the quality time it needs to restore, knowing that companionship and relationships will also get specific attention as well.

Since your physical ability for social time is limited with pain, it is now important to choose the social time carefully. Take a look at who you are visiting and how the visits are affecting your body. If your body is drained and lifeless after a social visit, take a look at the visitor, length of the visit and the activity. If you are rejuvenated and full of energy, evaluate what happened to revitalize you.

You are responsible for choosing family and friends to visit who inspire the best of you. It is appropriate to say no or limit those who drain your energy and have expectations that you cannot meet while dealing with pain. Friends will not have the insight to guide your visits. You must. Keep drama out of your life and boundaries in place.

Why are You Still Buying Your Cancer When You Can Get it for Free?

9/17/2015

Cancer causing toxicity is everywhere. You can breath it, absorb it and walk on it without spending a dime. Why then do you insist on paying for more? Corporate American keeps serving it up and we keep buying.

There is enough toxicity in your day from just waking up on this planet to put you within range of illness. Apparently that is not enough for most people who take the next step and seek out an array of toxins in convenient packaging with colorful labels to bring home and store.

Open any cupboard in a typical home and you will find loads of cancer demons waiting to be released. Some of those products don’t even need to be opened to begin their aggressive push toward causing cancer to grow in your body. Just being near you and being able to share their alluring scents with your lungs can be enough to create an environment for cancer to flourish. Yet, we continue to buy.

We buy because we believe we are making choices. What’s important to note is that you are actually being served the same poisons in different wrappers by just a few corporate giants. On a marketing level, it’s called “the illusion of choice.” In real life, it’s called deceit.

Your packaged products likely come from one or more of the following primary producers: Kraft, Coca-Cola, Nestles, Proctor and Gamble, Pepisco, Kellogg, Johnson and Johnson, Mars, General Mills or Unilever. These companies and their sub-divisions are responsible for the greatest percentage of what is on market shelves.

These are the industry giants. Research any of their names in combination with cancer or toxicity, and you will find them mentioned. If you research these names with organics, you will find that they are all tapping into the concept of healthier living or at least, healthier marketing. Their efforts are weak and in many cases meaningless.

Attaching the concept of improved health, organics, pure, simply fresh and vitamin rich, not to mention “gluten-free” with these buzz words of the 2000’s these companies are now selling the “improved” versions of toxicity. If you want to increase sales and do little to actually improve the quality of your products you can change up a few words, spend a few cents and fool the public again into believing that what you are providing is an upgrade.

The reality is that these same corporations have known for decades that their products, processing and ingredients are killing their own customers. When they throw in an organic carrot or a few drops of essential oil we believe they are taking care of our health. Remember that “illusion of choice?” It has just been remodeled to include the “illusion of health.”

Personally, my trust is not going to the “reforming” corporate giants. They are making the most minimal of changes possible to maintain maximum profits. Not one of these giants has stepped forward to announce a commitment to health and chemically clean products. My money will continue to support those corporations that have, from inception, provided safe and clean products with health in mind.

Questions About Round Up asked of the City of San Diego...

9/5/2015

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September 5, 2015

To: (Sent to the Mayor, City Attorney, Country Officials, City Council Representatives and many others who represent the City of San Diego)
From: Susan Trump, Search for the Cause, Not Just the Cure
RE: Round Up Use on Public Lands and San Diego’s Responsibility

Dear Public Official:

The City of San Diego is liberally using Round Up, glyphosate, on parks, public areas and waterways. Entire countries, including France, Ski Lanka, Chile, Brazil and South Africa have banned the substance from use, sales and importation. We are past the age of ignorance. We understand the consequences and it is generally known that Round Up is not safe for humans, plants, insects or animals, yet its use continues to the extent it is now in the food supply.

The City of San Diego has just sued Monsanto on similar charges including deceit and dangerous substances. No one is blind to the fact that Monsanto has very little government regulation and has lied consistently over decades about the safety of their products, evidenced by the San Diego suit and many other suits against the corporation and its subsidiaries.

In trying to explain the dangers to your pregnant park employee, I was dumbstruck to find that she weighed her safety based on the fact that the City of San Diego and the County of San Diego have proclaimed “Round Up is safe.” This city cannot endure another financial crisis. At the point of recognition of the problem, the responsibility for change is due.

Below is a list of common side effects of glyphosate. You all have been touched by these conditions. I urge you to stand up for what is right and let us become a city that is proud of its dandelions.

ADHD:
In farming communities, there is a strong correlation between Roundup exposure and attention deficit disorder (ADHD), most likely due to glyphosate’s ability to disrupt thyroid hormone functions.

Alzheimer’s Disease:
In studies, it was found that Roundup causes the same type of neural death and oxidative stress associated with Alzheimer’s. It also affects CaMKII, which is an enzyme whose dysregulation has also been associated with the disease.

Autism:
Glyphosates have a number of known biological effects that are associated with pathologies that are known for autism. Furthermore, glysophates capacity to promote the storage of aluminum in the brain may be a leading cause of autism in the US.

Birth Defects:
Glyphosate can disrupt the signaling pathway for Vitamin A, which is crucial for proper fetal development. A study showed elevated level of glyphosates and birth defects in children, including an imperforate anus, growth hormone deficiency, heart defects, amongst others.

Cancer:
Glyphosate has a known capacity to induce DNA damage which attributes to the high cancer rates found. Common cancers associated with glyphosate are breast cancer, brain cancer, and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Celiac Disease and Gluten Intolerance:
Glyphosate causes imbalances in gut bacteria, mineral deficiency, amino acid depletion, and the impairment of enzymes used in detoxifying environmental toxins, which parallels characteristics of celiac disease.

Chronic Kidney Disease:
Glyphosate destroys the renal tissue when it mixes in with hard water and nephrotoxic metals and forms complexes, which has caused kidney failure in agricultural workers in India, Sri Lanka, and central America.

Colitis:
Glyphosate’s toxicity to beneficial bacteria that suppress clostridia, along with clostridia’s high tolerance to glyphosate, could be a major factor in the overgrowth of clostridia. Clostridia overgrowth, specifically C. difficile is a proven causal factor of colitis.

Depression:
Glyphosate disrupts certain chemical processes that impact the production of serotonin; serotonin impairment has long been linked to depression. It also regulates mood, sleep, and appetite.

Diabetes:
Rats that were fed an environmentally relevant dose of Roundup over 30 days at the onset of puberty had reduced testosterone production that altered testicular cell morphology and delay the onset of puberty. Low levels of testosterone is a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes.

Heart Disease:
Glyphosate disrupts the body’s enzymes causing lysosomal dysfunction, a major factor in heart failure and cardiovascular disease.

Hypothyroidism:
A house-to-house survey of 65,000 people in farming communities in Argentina where Roundup is used found a higher rates of people with hyperthyroidism.

Inflammatory Bowel Disease:
Glyphosate can cause severe tryptophan deficiency, which can lead to an extreme inflammatory bowel disease. This severely disrupts the body’s ability to absorb nutrients through the gut due to inflammation, diarrhea, and bleeding.

Liver Disease:
A 2009 study published in Toxicology found that low doses of Roundup can disrupt human liver cell function.

Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS):
Glyphosate disrupts sulfate transport from the gut to the liver and over time it may lead to a severe sulfate deficiency in the brain. Sulfate deficiency in the brain has been associated with ALS.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS):
It is believed that IBS causes gut bacteria to leak into the vasculature, which triggers an immune reaction and consequently an autoimmune disorder resulting in the destruction of the myelin sheath.

Parkinson’s Disease:
It has been well documented that exposure to glyphosate leads to the onset of Parkinson’s and lab studies show that glyphosate induces the cell death characteristics of the disease.

Pregnancy Problems (infertility, miscarriages, stillbirths):
Glyphosate is toxic to human placental cells, and scientist say that it explains the amount of pregnancy problems experienced by agricultural workers exposed to the herbicide

Obesity:
Glyphosate exposure may contribute to obesity in humans because it produces a shift in gut bacteria to produce endotoxin-producers. A study transferred a strand of endotoxin bacteria from the guy obese human into gut of mice and the mice became obese.

Reproductive Problems:
Delayed puberty, decreased sperm production, and decreased testosterone production was found in male rats who were exposed to high levels of glyphosate either during prenatal or pubertal development.

Respiratory Problems:
High rates of respiratory problems was found when a survey of over 65,000 people in a farming town in Argentina where Roundup is commonly used.

This overwhelming evidence can only strengthen a fact that is already quite obvious: companies like Monsanto are creating products that do more damage than good. It is important that people keep informed about where their food comes from to live, long, healthy lives.

The source of the above list was: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28856-monsanto-s-roundup-enough-to-make-you-sick. The resources, however, are endless.

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Breast Cancer Ribbons Are Coming Out of Storage Again

9/5/2015

It’s almost October
and the pink ribbons are
coming out of storage once again
not because there is a cure in sight,
but because it is brilliant marketing
and big profits.

The Pink Ribbon Campaign was started over 14 years ago to bring awareness to the breast cancer crisis. It was started for all of the right reasons, but it has grown beyond its seemingly sensible beginnings.

Today it is a shameful display of clever marketing and deceit by Big Pharma and Corporate America. Together they have capitalized on creating victims of women and take in millions annually because of it. Corporations highlight everything they sell from airplanes to paper cups with pink ribbons to entice the most fearful of breast cancer to buy in the hopes of saving themselves from a terrible death.

It’s cool to care and what says I care about you more than displaying pink ribbons? I say much of this is bunk. Women are tired of the lies and they are rejecting pink ribbons in mass.

Funds raised are paying Big Pharma, the most corrupt industry in our nation, to create outrageously overpriced medications that you will pay for again. This is not logical. Why are we subsidizing one of the riches industries in this country? Not only is paying twice, and more, for harsh medications a crime, but we are paying huge salaries within the non-profits that partner with Big Pharma.

We have no idea how much of our pink ribbon buying actually gets to cancer research, but what is sure is that all of that research will be within the confines of traditional medicine that has failed us for 100 years. None of those funds are raised with the tag line “giving to the research of holistic remedies and marijuana cures.”

The true motivator for most of the ribbons you see is greed. The thought that these corporations are enjoying profits while others die is an unpunishable crime. It is time we stopped enabling the practice.

The ribbons normalize the breast cancer crisis and feminize it. It is not normal or feminine to accept breast cancer as part of life. It is time that we ceased to be victims of this disease and become armed with the facts about the cause and preventative measures.

Your acceptance of pink ribbon advertisers promotes the death of breast cancer victims. Women believe they are being protected and guided when in actuality they are being lead like sheep and failing to ask the important questions about alternatives to chemotherapy and radiation.

Stand up and say no this year to all things pink!
Do not accept the normalizing of breast cancer!
Ask for green research!

The power you have is with your dollars. Write letters and express your concerns. Ask for more research into alternative medicine, foods that heal, prevention truths and ask that someone Search for the Cause, Not Just the Cure.

NOTE: The original title of this article was "Think Before You Pink" and then I found an organization of the same name. It may be worthy of investigation @ http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org.

Chronic Pain: SOME DAYS YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO DIE

Chronic Pain: THE LONELINESS OF PAIN AND ISOLATION

Why are You Still Buying Your Cancer When You Can Get it for Free?

Questions About Round Up asked of the City of San Diego...

Breast Cancer Ribbons Are Coming Out of Storage Again

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