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A Midwestern Doctor posted a great article on hypertension and some of the ways that the medical establishment will use to create for lack of a better term an illusion that a problem exists and,”it is life threatening if you do not take the drugs that will save your life.”
It provides an interesting perspective from a medical professional who seemingly has worked in and continues to work in the industry. It is the reason he uses a pen name as these things he discusses would potentially have his license revoked. The information is sound I feel and is good to know when going to your next check up.
I have a theory that glucocorticoids are the pharmaceutical companies gateway drug. They cause hypertension, which automatically gets treated with thiazides, and usually a ACE inhibitor or ARB, which leads to glucose intolerance via potassium conservation (in the blood not the cell). This causes a need for Metformin once the blood glucose level reaches a level high enough to be considered type two diabetes. Then we get into the big ticket items once damage get sustained for a period of time, and cancers start to be screened for with positive results and treatments need to happen ASAP.
I am reading your article J.R.K. and some things I wish people knew…
“For example, as I discussed recently, once the statins drugs entered the market (which unlike their predecessors, could effectively lower cholesterol), the acceptable blood cholesterol levels kept on being lowered, and before long almost everyone was told they would die from a heart attack unless they started a statin—despite statins have an almost non-existing mortality benefit (e.g., taking them for 5 years at best makes you live 3-4 days longer) and causing (often severe) side effects for roughly 20% of users. Broadly recommending these drugs hence appears unconscionable, but as I showed in that article, these unjustifiable guidelines were a product of clever pharmaceutical marketing and targeted bribery of public officials.“
….”Additionally, as I showed in a recent article on the importance of sleep, poor sleep is immensely damaging to cardiovascular health and those effects extended to blood pressure (e.g., one study found a single night of partial sleep deprivation raised SBP [systolic blood pressure] by 6, another found SBP raised by 6 and DBP by 3 while a third study found it raised SBP 4.5 and DBP by 2.6 alongside using fMRI imaging to show it also impaired the brain’s control of blood vessel function).”
“Likewise, I’ve previously discussed how:
•A chemical imbalance from low serotonin was never linked to depression (in fact patients who commit suicide are found to have elevated brain serotonin).
•Acid reflux is due to too little acid in the stomach (as acidity gives the stomach’s opening the signal to close). However, in medical school, we are always taught it is due to too much acidity.
•”Sleeping” pills are actually sedatives that block the restorative phase of the sleep cycle.
Each of these drugs in turn is immensely harmful to their users, but due to how effectively these myths were established (just like “safe and effective”) they continued to be used by large numbers of people and harm them.“
“Additionally, one of the simplest ways to partially restore zeta potential, Earthing (putting your body in direct contact with the Earth’s electrical charge such as by walking barefoot in nature), in a small study of 10 patients was found to decrease SBP by 8.6% to 22.7% (averaging at 14.3%).”
I find this Doctors articles to be very much aligned with many of the points Dr Peat talked about. It gives hope that the entire medical industry is not rotten to the core, but has some good people that want to help extend longevity rather than the numbers in their bank accounts.
“15 minutes of grounding, sitting in your yard barefoot is being added to all proticols due to its profound anti-inflammatory, antithrombotic, heart, gut, kidney, immunity resetting effects, and balancing minerals and related destressing, nerve and endothelial health, the research on this is extensive”
“Grounding increases the surface charge on RBCs and thereby reduces blood viscosity andclumping. Grounding appears to be one of the
simplest and yet most profound interventions for helping reduce cardiovascular risk and cardiovascular events.“https://doctorgrouf.substack.com/p/adding-grounding-to-all-protocols?utm_source=email
This is how grounding can affect your blood in only a few minutes….
What do you think? pic.twitter.com/PszaotRTc8
— The Starfire Codes (@StarfireCodes) January 10, 2023
I had my blood pressure taken a few times at work, when they set up a nurse in a conference room. But that was years ago, and the test was free and noninvasive
I’ve never had my cholesterol measured.
“I find this Doctors articles to be very much aligned with many of the points Dr Peat talked about. It gives hope that the entire medical industry is not rotten to the core, but has some good people that want to help extend longevity rather than the numbers in their bank accounts.”
Why would you make this assumption?
Sure, his pen name is “A Midwestern Doctor,” but that doesn’t mean he is a doctor, any more than Dr. Dre, Dr. Scholl, or Dr. Pepper. If he is a doctor, he might not be a medical doctor. And if he is a medical doctor, he might not be practicing. Just taking a quick look at his substack, he writes very detailed, well sourced articles, usually posting a few times a week, which suggests he spends the bulk of his time these days writing. Since he is very critical of modern medical practices, I would think he is outside that system.
I have a lot of respect for Dr. Peat, but he was never a practicing medical doctor, to my knowledge. His PhD was in biology, and he was a teacher and private nutrition counselor. He was critical of the medical system, but doesn’t appear to have ever worked within the system. I would think “AMidwesternDoctor” is similar in that regard.
The practicing medical doctor has lots of loyalties before the patient (including the payer, whether that be government or insurance company, protecting his license, complying with state medical boards, complying with Federal agencies like the FDA, CDC, NIH, NIAID, Dept of HHS, and so on, keeping his malpractice insurance, and so on), that even on the very off chance he still is practicing within that system, I would have not have much hope that the patient is coming first (or second, or third, or fourth…..) anytime soon.
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