Supplements, The Newer Age Movement, and Cancer

Went to coffee with Tara tonight.  This is something Wendy and I would do - go to coffee with Tara on Saturday nights.  We would meet at Barnes and Noble.  The last time we did this would have been last year at this time or prior.  We then started meeting here at the house.  We would do supplements.  which means package them.  Wendy was taking upwards of 50 supplements a day.  Okay, she was taking at least 25 different supplements a day - upwards of 50 pills.  She started doing this after she started seeing Dharma which of course we all know is pronounce Ded um.  Hmmmm.

According to JP Sears who is leading the "Newer Age" movement, to be ultra-spiritual we no longer need to use names like "Sonata Rham Carh", "Whispering Light", "Bobba Ganoosh", "Krishna Yoga Nanda", "Rhotee", "Bulabonda", "Guru Punjah", "Dances with Wolves", "Rainbow", "Harmony Dolphin", "Shocktee", "Blossoming Lotus", "Rham Dhas", "Lhat Nham Carh Tarh".

Now you can have a name like, "Drew", "Karen", or "John" to be Ultra - Spiritual

But I digress.

You might be catching a glint of my thoughts on supplements.  I actually believe that some of them work for mitigating some of the symptoms of cancer and the side effects due to cancer treatment, namely "Chemo."  I am talking slight mitigation but that's about it.  Anyway Dedum is a nurse nutritionist who does kinesiology.  She would put stuff in Wendy's "field" and from that arrive at the types of supplements she should have.  Every time she went she would come back with two or three more supplements to take.  These supplements aren't like asprin of ibuprofin or peptobismol in terms of cost.  She was spending money on supplements to the tune of 500 to 1000 dollars a month.  None of it covered by insurance of course.  The only thing that made a dent in her cancer was the hormonal therapy which suppress estrogen to which her cancer cells were receptive.  This only works for a little while then the cancer "wises" up.

At the end of the day, to use and worn out phrase, certainly the greedy doctors made their money,  absolutely the awful insurance companies made their money, and without a doubt big pharma made their outrageous sums of money.  Also, the supplement manufactures made their money and every time Dedum added a couple of more supplements she made a couple of more bucks herself.  Hmmm.

Kinda strange that none of the doctors or "healers" like Dedum showed up at her funeral.