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So we've got contraceptives causing cancer, statins causing Alzheimers and dementia, vaccines causing cancer, autism, allergies... what diseases are left that arent iatrogenic?

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Hmmm, trick question? You have to admit though, it's a brilliant business plan - create lifelong customers out of the people who took your 'miracle cure'.

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Great post!

I used the combo OCP for only 3 weeks when I was 20. It made me so sick, I had to take an anti-nausea tablet to cope! I remember when that anti-nausea tablet wore off and I thought I was going to puke on the desk at Uni! I went to the bathroom, somehow managed to not throw up, and said to myself "No more pill. Ever." And I've stuck to it!

The more I read about the OCP (in whatever form), the more problems I find related to it! Horrible things!

Interesting that the use of those nasty Mirenas have the highest increase risk of breast cancer. They have been pushed so much in recent years, with so many women allowing themselves to have them inserted! Urgh!

I honestly wonder why women subject themselves to these invasive procedures, or taking all sorts of chemicals with all sorts of negative long-term problems (which they're never told about by the way), just so they don't get pregnant? Then later on their 30s they clamour that they can't get pregnant, and many use IVF! I mean, it's such a stupid situation! And anyway, there's never a 'good time' to have a kid. It can always a bit tricky no matter when you have one! :-D

But it seems a really weird idea to spend so much time, energy and danger to NOT get pregnant, all so one can have the autonomy to say "I want a kid...NOW" later on. And invariably with environmental/genetic toxic build-up, that still doesn't happen anyway!

The snake-oil salesmen never went out of business, did they?! :-D

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With the benefit of hindsight, I guess you could say you were lucky that your body revolted so dramatically against the Pill, so that you couldn't take it for long.

Mirenas scare the crap out of me. They are sooooo heavily pushed by all the doctors and family planning clinics, just like they were pushing Implanon 30 years ago (now no one uses that crap except women in developing countries who are unlucky enough to attend a Gates-funded 'health clinic').

And yes, you are spot on about women desperately trying to avoid having a baby for 10-15 years of their lives, and then desperately trying to have one! The primary reason why they put off childbearing is to advance in their careers, yet how many have truly meaningful careers as opposed to what David Graeber has labelled 'bullshit jobs'?

I'm so glad my son interrupted my carefully-laid plans to finish my degree and Honours and maybe even a PhD - all while working full time - before I 'interrupted' my career to have children. Instead, I had him at 29 and his sister at 33 (still quite late by the standards of my mother's generation!) and worked part-time until they went off to school. I shudder to think what might have happened if my life had gone according to my plan; maybe I would have been one of the many women who left it too late.

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Thanks for your reply :-)

Well, I didn't meet the right guy until my early 30s! Growing up in a broken home, I decided that I most certainly WASN'T having kids with the wrong guy and repeating that broken home experience!! I knew my body through and through and so I never let that happen. I had 2 choices as I figured it: wait to have kids with the right guy - or never have kids. Just as well I met the right guy in time ;-) Had my first @ 34, my second @ 35 & my 3rd @ 38! If my kids wait as long as I did to have kids, I won't be able to do much grandparenting!

I already had 2 degrees & a Master's under my belt and had my own practice by the time I met my hubby - so none of my studies were being interrupted like you! Well, that's not quite true. Every time I seriously thought about doing Animal Chiropractic, I got pregnant! So I guess that wasn't to be, ha ha.

But yes, I am glad the OCP turned out to be terrible for me! At least my body knew it was wrong. I was a bit dumb at 20 so it took me 3 weeks to play catch up! Perhaps if I'd been given a progesterone-only pill I would not have had the nausea and then I might've been on it for YEARS. Eesh. Just as well medical doctors are mostly incompetent!! :-D

And yes, we are so determined to have our 'career' but now, at 44, I wonder, what was all the fuss about exactly? What real changes did I make in the world having my own practice and all? Did people listen to me and change their lives? Hardly. I spoke the truth and still they mostly ignored me even though they were paying me for my time! I lost so much $$ having kids over the years (Chiropractic locums are expensive and decent ones are almost impossible to find in the country!!), my business stressed me daily, as much as I loved my work, and now I look back and wonder if it was worth it at all? It certainly wasn't a 'BS job' - not the way I practice - but at the same time it's not fulfilled me, either. I honestly wish I'd met my hubby a few years earlier and had kids earlier. Because when it boils down to it, my career, like everyone else, has just been 'work'. I guess one's work is as meaningful as what you want it to be. My work paid the bills, I had autonomy, I felt it was a 'good' and 'helpful' job - but I was over-using my body (& mind!) to help people who mostly never really kept helping themselves, as it turned out. Over time, that wore me down a bit. Giving giving giving gets wearing after a while! Hence I've enjoyed taking a break from it!

We're all fed these lies of 'Get A Career!' but at the end of the day, I want my family near me, not my patients! Sure, Chiropractic is a handy skill to have, and so I'll never give it up, but to make Chiropractic - or any career - my 'world'? No. There is so much more to Life than a career.

At least neither of us left it too late in the end. I'm sure we both know women who are in that boat, though. They say it's fine, and they're happy with their career, and in many cases, they might be, but if the right partner came along (earlier), and there was a chance at a family, I bet you they would've all jumped at the chance.

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This is one of the main points that Mary Harrington is raising: the entry of women into the workplace has, on the whole, not led to the deep satisfaction (and the adequate compensation for foregoing marriage and motherhood, or doing both but in a half-arsed manner, with strangers raising their kids for them) that was promised. Many get to their mid-40s, having invested the best years of their lives into climbing the corporate ladder, only to discover (to paraphrase Stephen Covey) that the ladder was leaning against the wrong wall.

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Yes, 'deep satisfaction' from paid work is a myth for many women. And probably men, too! :-D

I think covid fast-tracked that one for me, but to be fair, I was already trying to have extended time off work by the close of 2019. So I was already feeling the need to have more 'me' time and 'family' time rather than a pile of Work-Work-Work for my patients.

It wasn't that I couldn't handle the responsibility, rather that I felt my TIME was being pulled in too many directions and I didn't feel like I could sink my teeth into anything properly.

But keeping women at home, barefoot & pregnant, is not the way to achieve satisfaction, either. Working P/T & raising your family P/T is probably the best option BUT even so, that can still cause stress: because you feel like you are constantly wearing 10 hats! Perhaps there is no middle ground once you have kids?!

And yes, I am acutely aware that I'm at least halfway through my life now, and that I'm no spring chicken anymore. I do feel like I've wasted some of my life. I wish I could've met my hubby 10 years earlier, and had kids then! I would've made it work. I've juggled things anyway, but having kids earlier, one generally has more energy, and can be a younger, energetic grandparent etc.

In many ways, I feel like my kids should be around their late teenage years now instead of being 10 & under!

I do think modern society has their priorities wrong. Waiting until eggs get too old, and using old sperm as well (eg 5 days old or from a 50 year old) leads to all sorts of increased risks and other issues.

The basic premise of Life is to:

1. Survive &

2. Breed &

3. then I figure once the above is done, you can do what you want! :-D

But most people are barely getting by, and struggling with reproduction, so modern society, I think, needs a massive overhaul.

I don't like living with regrets, and ultimately, I have few, and they are small anyway, so I am lucky there, but it still seems I have wasted many years of my (fertile) life trying to get all sorts of things back 'on track' - mostly because modern society is so very backwards!

Indeed the ladder leans against the wrong wall for many of us, Robyn, even if we HAVE had kids.

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Mary Harrington isn't down with the 'barefoot and pregnant' thing; her point is that prior to the industrial revolution, the household was the basic unit of economic production and women were de facto in charge of the household. They worked at home, usually in some form of artisanal production or service provision (e.g. as midwives), and contributed to the household income while they raised their children. Then along came the industrial revolution, and the primary place of work moved to outside the home. This put poor women at the mercy of factory owners, who frequently sexually abused them, and of course they were paid less than male workers including their own husbands. Hence their overall power within society dropped, at least according to Harrington (I would need to read some other accounts of that era to confirm her thesis).

A startling statistic that I heard recently is that prior to the Civil War, 70% of American households ran a small business. It's amazing how effective war is at societal transformation. A cynic might argue that that is why the predator class is always hot for war.

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Thankyou for some history on Mary Harrington's ideas! I wasn't trying to suggest that she was promoting the 'barefoot & pregnant' thing, I was just using that as an example of one extreme of an argument ;-)

I'm quite happy with the P/T WFH thing, and that's actually what I'm aiming towards, so it could be said that by seemingly going backwards, I am actually going forwards! How mad the world is, eh?!

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Synthetic women's hormones are for men now, according to wokeology. I wonder what happens to a male who takes women's hormones, aside from breast growth.

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Judging by the crazed behaviour of the men-dressed-as-women who mobbed Posey Parker and besieged Riley Gaines, it ain't good.

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Strange that old blokes in lingerie always prance around in front of kids, never see them having 'drag' shows at old folks homes, I wonder why not, old folks would love the entertainment.

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The mental image of drag queens performing at an old folks home is going to give me nightmares for weeks 🤣.

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Thank you for this post!!!

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You are most welcome. This is such an important issue to bring to light.

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I tried the pill when I was 14, made my whole life worse and tossed it in the TRASH! No way we women are ok taking synthetic hormones 😭

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I have an alternate view on lung physiology that dismisses the notion of oxygen and carbon dioxide gaseous exchange

The article is titled

We breathe air not oxygen

I take you though all the steps that lead to this statement

Including how oxygen is manufactured

How oxygen is calibrated

Eg medical oxygen has 67parts per million of water contamination

Why oxygen is toxic, dehydrates and damages the alveoli

Lung physiology requires the air at the alveoli to reach 100% humidity

Can you see the problem?

The new take on lung physiology:

The lungs rehydrate the passing RBCs with iso tonic saline solution as they pass through the alveoli capillary beds

RBCs change from dark contracted dehydrated to plump bright hydrated form as they soak up the iso tonic saline solution the bursting alveoli bubbles throw upon the capillary sac

The airway mucosa conditions the breathe with salt and moisture

Seasonality of colds/flu is related to cold dry air and dehydration

Dehydration is the point of susceptibility

Find the article

Jane333.Substack.com

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