It was disheartening to watch the Oprah special on menopause with Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, and the fraudulent OBGYN turned self proclaimed Menopause guru, Mary Claire Haver. Basically the message they gave to women everywhere was, when perimenopause hits, you must get on prescription drugs or live a miserable and diseased life. What a load of crap.
I find it interesting how, and these women even admitted, women have been going through menopause since the beginning of time, but nobody ever talked about it. Well, yea! It's a normal transition in life we go through, not a disease that needs national attention and medical intervention! But like everything else in today's youth obsessed era, we must turn it into a marketing campaign
Have you noticed how everyone looks the same these days? You want lips like so and so? Buy them. A butt like so and so? Yep, you can buy that too. It's looking like a world full of expressionless barbie wannabes. All competing for that forever-young look. I find it grossly sad.
I refuse to get on drugs just because I'm aging. Half the symptoms these women hopelessly cry about can be prevented with lifestyle changes. No, I'm not talking about the wrinkles and saggy skin. That's just a normal part of aging. I'm talking about weight gain, joint pain, mood swings, insomnia, depression anxiety, vaginal atrophy, low libido, diabetes, bone loss, brain fog, just to name a few.
As for vaginal atrophy, like any other muscle, use it or lose it. Exercising your pelvic floor muscle brings healthy blood flow to that area which guess what...brings moisture. No need for pharmaceuticals. Just like healthy muscles make strong bones, not more estrogen.
Alcohol, processed foods, and inactivity cause most of the symptoms people complain about with age, AKA menopause. They are huge hormone disruptors, even in men and 20 year old women. But, people want a pill patch or potion instead of putting in the hard work.
So we have celebrities who are now reaching their menopausal years, making money off of it by selling bogus products that don't do shit, demanding everyone stop what they’re doing and listen to their protests about the natural consequences of aging, all while clinging tightly to their wine, cheese, starbucks, fast food, toxic relationships, and other lifestyle addictions.
Menopause is nothing new. Never before in history did women need to make menopause a worldwide protest until we started seeing aging as something that must be reversed. It's like a competition to see who can look the youngest, the older they get.
These women are getting rich off the biggest cash cow in the world. Women. How sick is that? We need to deal with the fact that we ALL lose our youthful good looks. It's inevitable. Focus on what you can control instead and you'll be much happier. Happy girls are the prettiest after-all.
These pharmaceuticals that are being dished out like harmless candy, will come with negative side effects, as all medications do. Estrogen is no different. We don't need the same amount of estrogen that we did when we were making babies, and to think that you can replace something your body no longer needs at the level it used to need it, is not only ignorant, but dangerous.
In real life, this war started with attacks from Israel from long ago.
There has never been a “good” israel.
In 2023, up to October 6 Israel attacked Palestine over 500 times Killed over 230 Palestinians, half of them civilians, including 47 children.
Isfael was created via 20 years of terrorism and provocation by Jewish terrorist organizations Lehi & Irgun that included massacres, train derailment, bombings, assassinations of peace mediators Lord Moyne-a close friend of Churchill, and Folke Count Bernadotte who was best known for negotiating the early release of 30,000 Jews from Nazi concentration camps. The man who ordered the assassinations, Shamir, became Israel’s prime minister.
Lehi, a Zionist terror organization, twice sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, offering to fight alongside them against the British. During World War II, it declared that it would establish a Jewish state based upon "nationalist and totalitarian principles.” After Stern's death in 1942, Lehi shifted support to Stalin's Soviet Union.
Lehi and the Irgun were jointly responsible for the Deir Yassin massacre April 9, 1948 beheading babies and raping women. Lehi made many other attacks on the British in Palestine. On May 29, 1948, the government of Israel inducted its activist members into the Israel Defense Forces.
The Irgun policy was based on: every Jew had the right to enter Palestine; only active retaliation would deter the Arabs; only Jewish armed force would ensure the Jewish state.”
Irgun is best known for bombing the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946. Irgun "committed acts of terrorism and assassination against the British, whom it regarded as illegal occupiers, and it was also violently anti-Arab.”
Irgun was labeled a terrorist organization by the United Nations, British, and United States governments; as well as by the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry.
Irgun's tactics appealed to many Jews who believed that any action taken in the cause of the creation of a Jewish state was justified, including terrorism.
The Irgun was a political predecessor to Israel's right-wing Herut (or "Freedom") party, which led to today's Likud party.
It has been guilty of genocide against Palestinians on an ongoing basis since 1948. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide in the following way:
Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Note that genocide does not have to involve the intentional destruction of a whole group. Intentional destruction of part of the group suffices.
Israel has killed members of the ethnic group Palestinians, because they are Palestinians.
Israel has caused serious bodily or mental harm to Palestinians because they are Palestinians.
In Gaza, Israel has over the last 16 years, and particularly since October 7th 2023, deliberately inflicted on people of Gaza conditions of life calculated to bring about the Gazans’ physical destruction in whole or in part.
Israel is a genocidal state, and has been since 1948. Many members of the current government administration have made statements that make it very clear that the current killing, maiming, starvation, water deprivation, deprivation of medicines and medical facilities in Gaza are very, very intentional. Thus there is no question that the genocidal intent is there.
INTENT documents more than 400 statements of genocidal intent made by Israeli military, government, and press leaders, see here..
In a post that has now gone viral on social media platform X, a doctor posted the pictures of the liver of a "weekends only" drinker, leaving the internet shocked. He compares it with the liver of his teetotaller wife.
Alcohol is a poison. Period. Your liver works overtime to process it, and when you binge—even if it’s ‘just on weekends’—you’re overwhelming it. Over time, this leads to fatty liver, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and eventually liver failure. And guess what? By the time you feel the symptoms, it's already too late. This man didn’t just wake up one day with a failing liver. He spent years slowly killing it, one drink at a time, while probably telling himself, 'It’s not that bad.'
Dr Cyriac Abby Philips, famously known as ‘The Liver Doc’, often posts pictures and stories of his patients. He is an avid social media user and also debunks several myths around liver health.
In a recent post, he shared the two pictures and wrote, “Hello. Just wanted to show the inside of the liver of a 32 year old, ‘weekends only’ alcohol-drinking man, and the healthy donor liver of his wife, that he received, that will help him survive to see their little daughter grow up".
In the post, the wife's liver looks healthy, but the drinker's liver is dark and spotty.
Irrespective of popular belief, research has now shown that even a small consumption of alcohol could have a harmful impact on a person's health. There is no safe quantity of alcohol consumption. It impacts not only the liver but other organs like heart and brain as well.
If you consume alcohol at all, you’re at risk. Whether your go-to beverage is beer, wine, or liquor, all alcoholic drinks are associated with cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Your body metabolizes the ethanol in your drink into a possible carcinogen called acetaldehyde. This toxic chemical can damage your DNA, creating ruined cells capable of turning into cancer. And that’s just one way alcohol can heighten your risk of the disease. Alcohol can increase your blood levels of estrogen, a sex hormone linked to breast cancer risk, as well as hamper your ability to absorb and break down nutrients thought to be associated with cancer risk, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
The more you drink, regularly and over time, the higher your chances of developing cancer, the NCI says—even if you consume only one drink a day. And once the damage has been done, it can take years to reverse, if at all. One study, for example, showed that it would take more than 35 years for former drinkers to lower their risks of laryngeal and pharyngeal cancers to those of people who don’t drink.
In a sick society, drinking ethanol is normal, sexy, cool, and heavily glorified. ( just like cigarettes were) Giving it up forever is not. Who wants to be looked at as an alcoholic with a lifelong disease when they can be looked at as normal, cool, sexy and fun? NOBODY. And that's why nobody wants to question their relationship with booze.
I'm no miracle worker. I didn't cure any disease. I just chose to stop drinking a poison that made me feel, look, and behave like shit. It’s not willpower it’s determination. After a few months the cravings went away, and after a year or so I broke the decades long habit. Just like when I quit smoking. And toxic relationships. And eating mostly processed food. Anyone can do it if they truly want it.
I never miss drinking poison. It's not a one day at a time kinda thing, and I don't need meetings or chips as motivation. The truth is, I can't crave or miss what I don't want. Everything in life is a frame of mind and once we change our thoughts, we change our beliefs so we can then break bad habits. Once we break bad habits we change our life.
It's insane to hear former drinkers label themselves as alcoholics burdened with an incurable disease. They need to change their thinking or they will never be free, which is why AA has such a low success rate. Instead of thinking they are missing out for not "being able" to drink (poison) ”normally” they need to believe they did themselves a HUGE favor and never have to drink that filth ever again! They will be healthier and happier, just as an ex smoker would feel. These types of thinkers NEVER have the desire to go back to drinking poison. Instead of looking at drinkers as being "normal" or lucky to be able to "handle” a Class 1 carcinogen that brings out the worst in people, they should pity them for how stupid they behave, how unhealthy they look, wasting their entire next day hungover and useless. Mindset is everything!!!
People who make the choice to stop drinking poison aren't diseased, or unfortunate. They are fortunate, and wise. Just like ex smokers. People who continue drinking are in denial for thinking there's anything beneficial about drinking ethanol, and that life would suck without it. (People used to think cigarettes were beneficial.) They ignore their own bodies screaming STOP feeding me poison! By definition, THEY are diseased. Look up the definition of disease. Those are the symptoms of drinkers. Not non-drinkers. Drinking or not drinking is a choice. Not a disease. Enough with the absurdity.
Alcoholic is no longer the scientific term for ethanol addicts. The new scientific term is “Alcohol Use Disorder.”
You may have AUD if one or more of these statements is true:
You can't relax or fall asleep without drinking.
You need a drink in the morning to get going.
To be social, you have to drink.
Alcohol serves as your escape from feelings.
After drinking, you drive.
You mix alcohol and medications.
You drink when you're pregnant or caring for small children.
When loved ones ask how much you drink, you don't tell the truth.
You hurt people or become angry when you drink.
It's tough for you to remember what you did when you were drinking.
Your responsibilities suffer because of your drinking.
Drinking has caused you legal problems.
You tried to stop drinking but failed.
You can't stop thinking about drinking.
To feel the effects of alcohol, you have to drink more and more.
You have withdrawal symptoms after you stop drinking for too long, like shakiness, nausea, trouble sleeping, or seizures.
Most drinkers I know have most of these symptoms. And it’s only a CHRONIC disorder if you continue drinking even though it’s hurting your social life, your job, or your health.
Meaning, non-drinkers don’t have a disorder. Only drinkers.
The word alcoholic is a derogatory word. It's so derogatory that anyone who abuses alcohol refuses to admit it for fear of being labeled “alcoholic”. No other former addict (smoker, heroine junkie, pothead) gets a lifelong label like that. Why? Because it’s heavily marketed and glorified by big alcohol and everyone is doing it and if you’re not then you must have a problem.
Which brings me to the question..what power do people get by vehemently choosing to identify as a lifelong alcoholic?
Maybe, identifying as an alcoholic gives people power? They have a disease therefore, an excuse to fail at whatever they want to get away with? "Oh, she has a disease, let's not be so hard on her" "She’s an alcoholic, therefore has to work harder than the rest of us" It's a license to be pitied and coddled like a child instead of an adult with responsibilities, choices and consequences.
Identifying as an alcoholic could be a ticket to get away with all kinds of nonsense. It's powerful and comforting. I never understood why people in AA, insist on being called lifelong alcoholics who are soldiering through life to stay off the bottle. Why else would someone want to be identified with a lifelong disease that is completely out of their control? A lot of folks don't give up the booze for fear of being looked at in this way. So why do others embrace it like a security blanket?
Maybe because they love identifying as a perpetual victim of circumstance. It gives them a crutch to fall back on when they don't want to do what everyone else in life is expected to do. "I'm just this way" is a license to stay a certain way and never evolve into your higher self. So everyone walks on eggshells around the diseased one, who has no other choice.
Words are spells, they have power over our subconscious. That's why they call it spelling. We cast spells on ourselves and others everyday with our words. So telling ourselves that we have an uncontrollable disease, will keep us frozen and stagnant. But, if we identify with the things we actually DO and ARE, science shows that we can in fact rewire our brains creating new pathways and new behaviors. Who do you want to be? Whatever we tell ourselves, that's who we will become. Careful with what spells you put on yourself, it can change your world around.
Sadly, most people hate change and choose to remain lifelong victims, craving pity and endless pats on the back for their ability to crawl through life with the shackles of alcoholism around their feet, as an acceptable excuse for their every blip in life, without having to take full responsibility for their choices and consequences.
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Some like to tell me that I was never REALLY an alcoholic because I don’t crave or miss alcohol. Somehow it's unfathomable to think an ex drinker can live a happy life without the desire to ever drink. I know plenty of ex smokers who no longer miss cigarettes once they break the habit. In fact, they cringe when they think about it and look at smokers with disgust wondering how they could be so stupid smoking that nasty thing. But for some reason, ex drinkers go to their graves with a longing for booze. Maybe because everywhere you look alcohol is being shoved down our throats? I know if cigarettes were still advertised as sexy, cool and harmless like it once was, I would definitely have a problem not lighting up again. I blame big alcohol for their endless false advertising.
There's no question that I was addicted to alcohol from ages 14 to 41. I needed it to be social, relax, celebrate, mourn, and have sex. When I had kids, I would fill up my thermos with wine and bring it to their sports practices and games and drive them home while intoxicated. I had many cuts stitched up and broken bone surgeries from falling down stairs to horse riding accidents while drunk. I wasted many days trading quality time with my family and friends for nursing hangovers while I detoxified from ethanol poisoning. I got in horrible fights, some physical, with the people I loved and cared about. I lied a lot to others and especially to myself. I tried and failed many times to quit, even using hypnotherapy. I even gave AA a shot, but I hated the vibe and never went back.
Does this sound like someone who had an alcohol problem? Well, nobody told me I had a problem, in fact I had many friends and family who supported my drinking and they still to this day say they had no idea I had a problem with alcohol. And the ones who are still alive today, many have died from alcohol, still drink heavily and proudly according to social media. They do show support by congratulating me on my sobriety, while in the same breath insisting they have no problem controling their drinking...
I know it's unusual to hear ex-drinkers say they don't miss drinking and don't attend AA meetings in order to “stay on the wagon”. But that's no reason to insinuate they never had a drinking problem, because they believe real alcoholics die alcoholics, and must keep coming back to AA just to stay alive.
Diabetes and hypertension can be genetic but healthy diet and exercise can prevent it. Alcohol addiction can be genetic, but not drinking can prevent it. It's the only disease that can be turned on and off by the diseased. Some people love cigarettes after the first puff and get addicted while others don't. So what? Do we call them diseased for getting addicted? There's big money to be made in that logic.