Frustrated

I feel the need to write and I'm not sure that all my friends on Facebook really need to be subject to my ramblings.  I was woken at 4:30am to feed my gorgeous little boy (after staying up till midnight) and have been awake ever since, thinking about something I read and believed yesterday which turned out to be very misleading and bordering on untrue. Which you do need to expect if you're reading something on the Internet, but this was in an actual printed book that I purchased and to protect the author, who's heart is in the right place and I'm sure means well and is passionate about her subject, I won't name any names.

I guess this has just cemented my feelings of frustration and growing belief that you really can't trust anything you hear or read these days. So much for the Information Age. Maybe we should have called it the Misinformation Age. Now that we have Sam I have an even stronger drive to do everything I can to keep this family healthy and that really is easier said than done.

For example, doctors. I'm talking about the medical profession and the general practitioners that we all entrust our lives to. At least I did until a few years ago when I started realising that not all of them really know what they are doing. My husband, diagnosed with high blood pressure, prescribed high blood pressure tablets and told that he would be on them for life. Really? Even common sense tells me that losing some weight, doing some exercise and the right nutrition will go along way to fixing the blood pressure problem and we are currently in the process of proving that.

I've had my own health issues in the past which I've now been able to prevent by learning about diet, nutrition and the pH level of the body.  Doctors prescribed me course after course of antibiotics, which in the end did a lot more harm than good and are probably part of the reason why I now have food intolerances. I was referred to a specialist who wanted to send me to hospital for a treatment to supposedly fix the problem. Something told me to do my own research and I discovered the procedure had quite a poor success rate, something the specialist neglected to tell me.

So, while I know that there are a lot of very good doctors out there, I've realised they don't know everything and do get it wrong sometimes. I've realised that nutrition can prevent and fix a lot, maybe most, health issues. And I've realised I need to know a lot more so I can make my own educated and informed decisions.

I want to document  and share the truth as I discover it, I want to be as open-minded and unbiased as possible and I want to help others who don't have the time or inclination to do all this learning, research and studying themselves.  Feel free to join in and contribute if you have a similar mission. Or just follow along and comment when you feel the need.