Brian Johnson uses George Washington's fatal bloodletting to argue that modern medicine repeats the same mistake: treating symptoms with expensive interventions like surgery and chemotherapy instead of addressing root causes through diet and exercise. Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, he claims, can be prevented or reversed with lifestyle changes.
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Hi, this is Brian with another mini.
Chapter from A Philosopher's Notes.
This one's called Bloodletting and Modern Medicine.
Did you know that George Washington was.
Drained of half his blood before he died of complications from strep throat? Yep. Is it just me or is that weird? Hard to believe that some of the.
Most brilliant, successful and respected allopathic doctors of his era, and remember this was.
Only 200 years ago, were convinced that.
Bleeding this great man of half his.
Blood was the absolute best way to cure him. Scratching my head seems a little barbaric.
From today's perspective, huh?
You might want to keep that in mind the next time you accept the almighty proclamations of your extremely well educated.
Invariably well intentioned, yet often remarkably misguided doctor. And please join me in a silent prayer that it doesn't take another 200 years for our current methods of treating cancer. The cut the tumor out, poison her.
With chemotherapy and radiation and heart disease.
Saw open his breastplate and inflate the.
Arteries and diabetes cut off an annoying.
Limb as we watch him go blind.
To be seen in the same barbaric.
Light as good old bloodletting.
P.S. of course I'm not against all instances of sophisticated invasive responses to advanced health challenges.
But here's the really annoying part.
We already have a cure for the.
Stuff that's killing us. It's called a healthy immune system.
Unfortunately, it's not nearly as profitable for those seeking immediate profits at the expense of the greater economy and our world's well being to sell a new set.
Of lifestyle choices rather than another bottle of pills or expensive cutting edge treatments.
P.P.S.
One more thing.
Did you know we can easily cure.
Most cases of type 2 diabetes in days?
Yep, just get someone off all the.
Stuff that's causing the insulin imbalance.
Sugar, animal products, refined foods, and get them eating what our bodies were made to consume. An abundance of nutritionally dense whole foods.
Then add some exercise and voila, diabetes is cured. Unfortunately, because they haven't found a profitable.
Little pill that could magically solve the.
Problem, the medical industry has deemed diabetes essentially incurable. Why aren't more people infuriated by that nonsense? Well, PPPs same rant applies to heart disease.
Why we'd rather have radical surgeries than.
Quit eating the stuff that's killing us is baffling.
Very baffling.
Scratching my head again. Stepping off the soapbox for now. All right, there you go.
Bloodletting and modern medicine. Let's keep these things in mind. There are proactive solutions we need to pay attention to. And seek out individually and as a culture.
All right, I need to get off that soapbox.
Don't.
I hope you enjoyed. Look forward to sharing more with you soon.
