I Won’t Make Any Friends Bashing Prescription Drugs.

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Prescriptions have become so much a part of western culture that just about everyone now is on one or another of them.

I will prolly piss some people off with this post.

Oh well.

…But often times when those of us who are NOT on drugs…be it legal or illegal…interact with others, we wonder why people seem kinda “off,” but cannot pinpoint exactly what is going on.

We notice their timing in conversation is slowed.  Or their sense of humor is unpredictable or nearly non-existent.  Or they have a sort of blankness to them…perhaps a smile, but an “empty” one.  Glazed eyes.  Or frequent miscommunications, misunderstandings.  And they drop things, or have an unusual awkwardness. 

Perhaps they just seem slightly stoned or drunk.

And we come across these kinds of people fairly often, and from all walks of life.

It’s because, my friends and those of you on the holistic well-being path…they are on drugs.

They just happen to be the legal ones that they won’t go to jail for taking.

Their consciousness IS altered.  They are out-of-phase with the reality, perhaps the “vibration” the rest of us are on.  They are out of tune.  Disconnected.  Ungrounded.  Loose and un-centered.  Out of sorts.

Does it occur to you, those on the path of health and enlightenment, how many of those around you are “under the influence?”

For most of us, it does not.

From our perspective, we think the world is just kinda going overall mad in some slow and perturbing way.

Because, this has become the “new norm.”

And those of us who choose not to go along on THAT ride, have to deal with the dizzy of everyone else.

Love, Happiness, Health and Peace………..Tim

Vitamin D for Weight Loss?

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Obesity and Vitamin D.

Ya’ll hear me rant about vitamin D and Dr. Holick’s work in the area.  I respect his opinion above all others in the area of vitamin D, and you’ll note his suggestions for dosages, and both sun exposure and tanning bed exposure goes beyond what is often suggested by other “authorities.”  

Hell, if we listened to certain authorities, we’d all be avoiding sunlight as if a minute’s worth of it would kill us.

(When the exact opposite is the truth).

The International Journal of Obesity reported on a study from the University of Minnesota that low levels of vitamin D increase the risk of obesity.

Here’s where my law education kicks in again.

We need to be mindful of what is NOT defined here, namely that of what is considered “low levels.”

If we listen to conventional medical doctors, “low levels” are those where we are basically in pain and/or dieing from lack of vitamin D.

(It happens…yours truly has lived it at one time, and it is a horrible experience).

And we know that North America, above a certain latitude, is especially prone to lack of D both due to lack of sun exposure as well as lack of D in the diet, which is tough to come by…just like trying to get D from the sun between about October and April is futile.

The article only went on to speculate about D supplementation as a possible effective route to weight loss.  (These statements always drive an analytical thinker mad as well, as there is a difference between weight loss and fat loss).

But the point is, the levels of D we should have according to Holick differ dramatically from levels suggested by the mainstream.  What if the reduced enrichment of our foods in D, and lack of understanding about the value of D, is in part responsible for the current out-of-control obesity epidemic that I reported on today in the Maintenance Motions blog?

Love, Happiness, Health and Peace……….Tim