They Call them Epiphany Moments
a (1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something
(2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (such as an event) usually simple and striking
(3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure
b : a revealing scene or moment
Copied from Merriam Webster online
My epiphany came about in a moment, but was a lifetime in the development stage. It could have been when the doctor insisted I needed my thyroid removed because it had 'spots' in it and might be cancerous. Twenty years later I was told by another doctor spots in a thyroid gland are not uncommon, and you can tell whether they are cancerous by the type of spots they are. I'm not an expert, but my thyroid was not cancerous. Now after taking thyroid medication for thirty years every time I think on that it makes me angry. The medicine doesn't work for me, but I must take it, and the cost has skyrocketed beyond believable. Coupled with the idea that niggles in the back of my mind that there was no reason to remove it, except possibly to benefit the doctor in some way...perhaps monetarily?
No, that wasn't my epiphany. It could have been when throughout my life I heard the phrase, 'Weight loss isn't rocket science. It's calories in, calories out.' Even when struggling—especially after the thyroid removal—to lose or maintain a healthy weight no matter what I ate.
It might have been after hearing about the food pyramid since second grade, and how important it is to eat a healthy diet, only to have a well-known heart specialist confess 'We've been killing people all these years with our high carbohydrate low fat diet.' And also learning that all that bacon, lard, and butter even though for years it was off limits as not healthy, turns out that's not so.
No, there were other things that didn't add up that I put over on one side of the scale, but the flat out rebellious moment was when I had two grandbabies under a year old that had bad problems with eczema, and in doing research it blamed—leaky gut. I try to always keep my thoughts Christ-like, but when I read that, and I'm looking at one little sweetie who's being breast fed and never had solid food, and another little tyke who, yes, she's being bottle fed, but no solids, I'm not buying it.
In the last year, maybe slightly more, everything seemed to stem from leaky gut syndrome. If you had a headache and someone felt sorry for you, they had leaky gut...and you probably did too, so it seemed. Am I making light of the leaky gut diagnosis? No, and yes.
It's so easy for us to listen to those who pretend to be experts and just to follow along. We don't question, we nod our head and believe what they say because of course they are the experts.
If they are experts why do we refer to them as 'practicing medicine'? Here's some interesting tidbits:
*Most traditional doctors don't have any dietary/nutrition education
*Many traditional doctors pooh pooh the idea of supplements (I've heard more than once of a traditional doctor counseling a patient against taking vitamins etc. telling their patients they can get enough in their daily food)
*The iodine in iodized salt we have is enough iodine to prevent goiter for a fourteen year old school girl.
*In our state (Iowa) it is illegal to provide anything except traditional medicine
Two years ago a chiropractor told me milk is bad. I was raised drinking home produced raw milk. There is a difference between raw milk and store bought factory produced milk. However, she made no qualifications to her statement. She said milk was the same as puss.
I'm not a young person. I am a believer in an Almighty God, the maker and preserver of this universe, and what I told her was along these lines. "You mean to tell me milk that we feed our young, our babies is no better than puss?"
Well, she said, that which humans produce for their young is somewhat better.
"I don't believe that milk is the same as puss. I don't believe that the best our creator and Sustainer of life could produce for us to nourish our young (that includes cows for their calves as well as all mammals He created) was puss. I don't believe that."
There is a reason people are brushed aside if you don't agree with these so called 'experts'. If you are older your brain is soggy, if you're younger you aren't on their intellectual level. In the last year I was a patient to a new 'functional' health clinic. I was urged to give up all milk and dairy products by my doctor there as well. I'll admit I'm not a much of a milk or dairy drinker/consumer. At least I wasn't. Almost wicked smile here.
We are told that in other countries after a child is weaned from the breast they no longer drink milk—only in this country, and it's unhealthy. That may be true, but in most countries they do consume milk products such as cheeses, yogurt, sour cream, even alcoholic beverages made from fermented milk. And what they don't tell you is they have an agenda. I'm not exactly sure what that agenda is, but I have an intuition it is fueled by the vegetarian movement. And that's a topic for another day. And as the old 'star gazer' always says—Keep looking up.
