Monday, August 14, 2023

Mortgage refi market is in a coma. Housing market is freezing up.

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In 2019, you only needed 21% of your income to buy a house; in 2023, it's 49% of your income

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Society was conditioned to believe that they needed a doctor to be healthy, rather than health being viewed as something each individual was empowered to seek for themselves.

Hundreds (or possibly thousands) of highly effective medical treatments for common diseases have been kept off the market to preserve the market for expensive but ineffective treatments that often require lifelong purchasing. For example, prior to the legislative battle to legalize acupuncture, I remember cases where Chinese immigrants were raided at gunpoint for practicing acupuncture in their own community without a license. 

Please read "How Corruption Dictates the Practice of Medicine," A Midwestern Doctor, April 16, 2022.

Society was conditioned to believe that they needed a doctor to be healthy, rather than health being viewed as something each individual was empowered to seek for themselves. This effectively created an unlimited demand for medical services, and as the above graphs show, an ever-growing need for medical spending.  Medical Nemesis by Ivan Illich was the earliest work I was able to locate detailing this change and its consequences.

Things that genuinely improve public health (and thereby reduce medical expenses) are typically not allowed to emerge, while pointless initiatives that do not improve public health (water fluoridation or annual flu shots) are continually promoted. Likewise, basic health education is not taught to most people, and instead, health behaviors developed by corporate interests constitute the majority of “health education” (industry-funded nutrition textbooks for example are very common in college courses). In short, there are dozens of simple and obvious policy changes that many have independently identified which could rapidly improve public health and save a lot of money, but despite decades of campaigning to enact them, most have never been adopted.

Hundreds (or possibly thousands) of highly effective medical treatments for common diseases have been kept off the market to preserve the market for expensive but ineffective treatments that often require lifelong purchasing. For example, prior to the legislative battle to legalize acupuncture, I remember cases where Chinese immigrants were raided at gunpoint for practicing acupuncture in their own community without a license. 
For those interested, I’ve spent decades tracking those “forgotten cures” down, and while I have found many that for one reason or another were oversold and didn’t really work, I also found many others that were highly effective.

Every medical service or product is designed to encourage the consumption of more medical services or products.

A rigid hierarchy was created to support this monopoly.

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" broccoli seedlings closest to the Wi-Fi router grew away from the router. Plants began to several small plants begin to die and mold developed in those Petri plates"

Check out Abstract #2.  Not only is Melatonin neuroprotective, but so is iodine and so is liquid chlorophyll. 

ABSTRACT #2 

Both in vitro and in vivo, melatonin was effective to prevent oxidative stress/nitrosative stress-induced mitochondrial dysfunction seen in experimental models of AD, PD and HD. These effects are seen at doses 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than those required to affect sleep and circadian rhythms, both conspicuous targets of melatonin action. Melatonin is selectively taken up by mitochondria, a function not shared by other antioxidants. A limited number of clinical studies indicate that melatonin can improve sleep and circadian rhythm disruption in PD and AD patients. More recently, attention has been focused on the development of potent melatonin analogs with prolonged effects which were employed in clinical trials in sleep-disturbed or depressed patients in doses considerably higher than those employed for melatonin. In view that the relative potencies of the analogs are higher than that of the natural compound, clinical trials employing melatonin in the range of 50-100mg/day are needed to assess its therapeutic validity in neurodegenerative disorders.  https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22391273/

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"The Grand Jury is still meeting. The law isn’t being followed. This is state sponsored lynching."

The Post-Gazette's investigations show that prosecutors have total control over the grand jury prosecutors alone determine the evidence that you receive and the witnesses they hear even rumors are admissible as evidence the defendant has no right to be present or to have an attorney rebut false testimony and expose the paid informants.  --Paul Craig Roberts


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