{"id":17073,"date":"2016-01-29T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17073"},"modified":"2016-01-29T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T16:44:43","slug":"be-your-own-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17073","title":{"rendered":"Be Your Own Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be Your Own Medicine<\/a><\/h3>\n

Treatment of atomized individuals in a setting of atomized symptoms and treatments is by any measure the opposite of a system that encourages and enables everyone to be their own medicine.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

I recently saw a slogan that encapsulated what’s wrong with the U.S. healthcare system:\u00a0Be Your Own Medicine<\/i>.<\/b>\u00a0To\u00a0Be Your Own Medicine<\/i>\u00a0is the essence of prevention, and a way of taking full ownership of one’s health, body, mind, diet, fitness and daily habits.<\/p>\n

Alas,\u00a0being your own medicine<\/i>\u00a0strips the $3.5 trillion healthcare system of profit, power and control,<\/b>\u00a0so the last thing the healthcare cartels want is for us to\u00a0be our own medicine<\/i>, as that would reduce our reliance on highly profitable pharmaceuticals, tests, procedures and high-cost facilities.<\/p>\n

Note the slogan isn’t “take your own medicine” or “make your own medicine”–it’s\u00a0be your own medicine<\/i><\/b>, which suggests that health is a way of being, not just a way of consuming, though what we consume is integral to being your own medicine.<\/p>\n

Our materialist-consumerist culture focuses almost exclusively on data, so “health” is quickly reduced to FitBit readings, test results and an obsessive monitoring of calories and diets, to the general exclusion of the mind-body as an integral system.<\/p>\n

The importance of what we put in our mouths is expressed by the old Chinese saying:\u00a0disease comes in through the mouth<\/i>, i.e. what we consume.<\/b>\u00a0But what we consume is not limited to food (or what is sold as “food”): it also includes what our minds consume in the way of “news”, entertainment, knowledge, etc., and what inputs we experience as stress.<\/p>\n

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Be Your Own Medicine Treatment of atomized individuals in a setting of atomized symptoms and treatments is by any measure the opposite of a system that encourages and enables everyone to be their own medicine.\u00a0 I recently saw a slogan that encapsulated what’s wrong with the U.S. healthcare system:\u00a0Be Your Own Medicine.\u00a0To\u00a0Be Your Own Medicine\u00a0is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[127,395,12054,3364,4924,8969],"class_list":["post-17073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-health","tag-materialist-consumerist-culture","tag-medicine","tag-oftwominds","tag-personal-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17074,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17073\/revisions\/17074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}