I include this in my gout series, as a contrast between the great
gout giver so revered in society, alcohol, and the plant which is so reviled in
society. This is relevant because through my research I have found that alcohol and cannabis are
opposites. Hmm, a gateway is both a door and a path. To where does this
path lead? What if cannabis is actually the gateway back to sobriety?
Gout #8, The Battle for the Mind
From Wikipedia: “Addiction is the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences, or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors.” Alcohol is a fairly simple addiction to understand: I couldn’t stop drinking alcohol. This is a collection of experiences which shows the internal manifestations of alcohol addiction in the mind, and the intervention of supernatural forces.
Gout #7, Meditation
It is so important to be able to gain control of one’s
emotional machinery, to be able to wait with patience. This allows the personal
scientific method operated by both the mind and the spirit to become employed. It
really does stop fear, worry, doubt and life grows to become completely different
than the previous cursed life of being enchanted and trapped in a continuous mind-loop.
Gout #6, The Stomach is a Sophisticated Food Detector
All these blogs share some relevant observation that I
myself made, independently of what I knew at the time. I don’t write much about
what others have discovered but rather refer the reader to these writings. The
role of the stomach was something that I never considered, but it made my life
a lot easier, and took some of the pressure off my monkey brain (we seem to
have another brain in the gut). I provide it as a good example of how becoming
your own doctor and using the personal scientific method will deliver results,
hard fought for and won, that come out of nowhere.
Gout #5, Hyperventilation and Correct Breathing
Ever wake up from a full night’s sleep (say 8 hours) and
feel terrible? You feel off in some way but can’t put your finger on it?
Perhaps it seems that the moving parts in your head are sticking and grating
each other? Well there could be many reasons for this, but one key issue is
that you may have been hyperventilating during your sleep.
Gout #3, The Personal Scientific Method
Movies and television these days are obsessed with stories of “superpowers” that people possess: telepathy, mind control, teleportation, and all types of super soldiers. One superpower is overlooked in these days, and the one superpower that I believe all possess is the conscience. “con” is a latin prefix that means “together, with” and Latin “scientia” means “knowledge, a knowing, expert”. From etymonline.com, conscience comes from Latin consientia “knowledge within oneself, sense of right, a moral sense”. Maybe this was the power that Adam and Eve received from eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. In any case, every human being can be “with science” or conscience/conscious.
Gout #2, Embrace the Pain and Pain will Go
Here I was at the key point in my journey of curing my gout, and my being knew it. 9 months ago I had made a New Year’s resolution to not take any pain killers to dull the intense burning pain of my occasional gout attacks. And after learning so much about my body and my gout I had arrived: here it was, my test, my Jom Gabbar
Gout #1, The Cause of Gout
Recently I met with a rheumatology doctor from a large hospital who informed me that a large percentage of the population is taking allopurinol for life, to avoid the pain of gout. Gout is often a side effect of the other pills that people take in their allopathic quest for “health” (really absence of symptoms) and apparently, gout is an epidemic in this current period of toxic and nutrient deficient foods.
So what is the medical profession's opinion of gout?
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