I am a truth seeker, and therefore a rebel in a world where lies are often passed off as truths. If you’re a rebel too, then you stand against everything that claims to be good or better, but isn’t. You want the truth, even if the truth hurts. You’re tired of all of the wild claims, misinformation, and nonsense coming from the fields of allopathy, integrative medicine, naturopathy and from many individual herbalists and holistic practitioners. You want hard facts, not feel-good rhetoric from people selling you falsehoods that they themselves have fallen for with insufficient fact checking.
We rebel against dangerous modern ideas, that, instead of being science based and beneficial, are largely based on financial profit or inflated egos. Rebels don’t jump on bandwagons just because something sounds good, and we aren’t impressed with surface beauty. We know that everything that glitters isn’t gold, and we want to know the why and how, not just the what.
Rebels are more prone to serious research, and we aren’t afraid to accept the possibility that we might need to change, no matter how long we’ve held onto an idea or way of thinking. These are our lives, our children’s lives, our spouses lives, our parent’s lives, and the lives of our other loved ones, so we realize that it’s all about doing what needs to be done by whatever means necessary.
Like most people, I initially obeyed doctors orders with very few questions. Later, I turned to natural health for answers, and I found that some were good, but some were pretty bad. I learned this the hard way, much the same way that I learned about the many problems with allopathy. when I turned away from some very popular ideas in the areas of health, and I began to share important information that I learned through scientific research, it wasn’t well received by most. Some of the common ideas that I don’t subscribe to, within the allopathic and natural health communities, are:
Common Issues Within Allopathic Fields:
- If it works, then it’s good.
- If it doesn’t work well, automatically remove it.
- Approved prescription drugs are safe and better than natural alternatives.
- Research pointing to a possible link is good enough to claim or assume that one thing caused another.
- Research that relies on questionnaires or surveys is just as good as randomized controlled trials.
- If the research has been peer-reviewed then it’s reliable.
- If the government approved it, then it’s safe, and/or good, and/or best.
- Why do in-depth research when pharmaceutical reps provide all necessary information?
- Red Meat and saturated fat lead to heart diseases and other diseases.
- Alternative treatments are poor substitutes for drugs.
- Whole grains are health foods.
- Salt is unhealthy.
Common Issues Within Naturopathy/holistic fields
- Research pointing to a possible link is good enough to claim that one thing caused another.
- Research that relies on questionnaires or surveys is just as good as randomized controlled trials.
- If something seems to make you feel bad, then it’s bad; good, then it’s good. Feelings rule.
- Nuts, grains, seeds, and legumes are better sources or protein than meat, or just as good.
- Meat, especially red meat, are unhealthy.
- Dairy causes excessive mucus (this relates to the feelings rule)
- Natural is automatically wholesome, healthy, and/or safe.
- Fasts in general, or juice fasts are a good way to detox or cleanse.
- There are certain herbs that cure almost everything.
- If it works, then it’s good.
- There are foods that are alkaline (or alkalizing).
If you’re a rebel, or on the path to becoming one, welcome! You’re definitely in the right place, in a friendly space. If you’re not quite feeling what I’m putting down, I just ask that you browse the website and try to have an open mind as you do. Who knows, I just might make a rebel out of you.
Rebel well!