TAKING RESPONSIBILITY

If you tell someone that they create their health and almost everything is curable, you would think their eyes would light up with images of possibilities. But that’s not always the case.

I recently read Louise Hay’s book “You Can Heal Your Life”, which links an emotional or mental cause behind each disease, and developed thought patterns for reversing illness and creating health. Her own journey is one of abuse and poverty.  She believes that forgiveness and letting go are keys to good health.  For example, circulation represents the ability to feel and express the emotions in positive ways. Throat problems represent the inability to speak up for one’s self. Swallowed anger. Stifled creativity.

Louise Hay’s book is a classic in the alternative health world. Written originally in the 1980s, Hay was way before her time. Still many are not ready for the information. She not only healed herself, she’s guided many others to healing.

However, if you look up her book review on about.com, you’ll see bad reviews such as “Perpetuates myths that head pain is psychological” and “Lacks reasonable medical foundation”, and “could actually be dangerous if people believed it and didn’t seek appropriate medical care.” Yet on the top of the page there is an advertisement for Advil. Hmmm . . .

There are some that will never accept that there are emotional causes behind every , or most, diseases or conditions. I was talking to a neighbor, telling her about the book. “Oh, don’t give me that crap.” she said. “Some things are genetic . . . then why do the doctors always ask you if certain conditions run in your family?  . . . Are you trying to piss me off?” It’s one thing to disagree, and not believe it, but why so angry? I wondered.

The thing is, telling someone who is very sick that emotions caused their condition is hard to grasp. For one thing, it’s against what the doctors, our medical experts  believe.  Also, they would have to deal with uncomfortable things such emotions and forgiveness.  For many, saying that you have control of your disease is too much to handle. It takes people out of a passive, victim’s role to having to step up and take responsibility. Many do not want to deal with that.

Also, of course the pharmaceutical folks don’t want ideas like this to known. They love and appreciate their customers as victims and dependent upon them. They would lose so much money.

Abraham Hicks, who does workshops all around the world on the Law of Attraction, believes that all diseases can be cured by changing your thoughts.

Excerpted from the workshop in Ashland, OR on Saturday, July 20th, 2002

But it does take the determination that you’re going to put your thoughts upon
something that does feel good. And so, here we’re going to make a very bold
statement: Any disease could be healed in a matter of days, any disease, if
distraction from it could occur, and a different vibration dominate — and the
healing time is about how much mix-up there is in all of that.

Any disease could be healed in a matter of days – now how many people would be open to believing that?

In the beginning of all Abraham Hicks CDs Jerry mentions that they want to get this information to “those who are attracting this information”. They understand that much of the world isn’t ready for their message, and trying to teach them would be a struggle, or like “paddling upstream”, as they say, and they would soon be discredited. As they are now, they have a great following and have done great work for those who are attracted to their information.

So my lesson is, don’t talk to anyone about holistic or alternative health. They have to be open to it and in a place to receive it. Otherwise, you’re wasting their time and earning yourself some bad vibes.

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“Me Too Drugs”

“Me Too Drugs” refer to the drugs that come on the market and are very similar to an already existing drug.  They are in the same class of medication, and often don’t have much, if any, benefit over the drug it is copying.

Examples of “Me Too Drugs”

1 – Prilosec and Nexium,

2 – Claritin and Clarinex

3 – There are several that work for cholesterol the same way: lovastatin (Mevacor), simvastatin (Zocor), pravastatin (Pravachol), and atorvastatin (Lipitor)

According to medterms.com, a company sponsored by webmd.com,

Me-too drug: A drug that is structurally very similar to already known drugs, with only minor differences. The term “me-too” carries a negative connotation. However, me-too products may create competition and drive prices down.

On the contrary, often the drug companies market and advertise a new product like crazy. When the patent expires then competitors can make generics and they will lose much of their profits.  So they will seek new ways to make that money. This is the perfect time to introduce a “Me Too Drug”.

Some facts about “Me Too Drugs”

• “75 percent of all new drugs coming to market are “Me Too Drugs”, merely imitations of existing medications

• The “Me Too Drugs” don’t have to be proven to be better than the drug that is already out. They only have to be better than the placebo.

• So the fact is that the older drug may not only be better, but there will be a generic available so it will be cheaper.

• In the past, the “Me Too Drugs” may have been improvements over the first generation of a drug, working more specifically or creating less side effects. However, now often the main motivation of “Me Too Drugs is profit.

• The ideal “Me Too Drug” will be only a slight modification of an existing drug, is approved by FDA just in time for the first drug’s patent to expire, will have studies that show an added benefit of this drug over the last, and will have a colorful marketing campaign.

• There is often a demand for the new drugs because they carry with them the idea that “new” is better and more desirable, not to mention the effects of the advertising campaigns.

When Prilosec’s patent expired in 2001, the drug maker was ready with Nexium, which has earned over $4 billion for its maker Astra Zeneca.

Claritin is a common antihistamine that most have heard about.

Antihistamines are supposed to help with symptoms of allergies, runny nose, itchy eyes, etc. The problem is that most antihistmines cause some degree of drowsiness. Benadryl (diphenhydramine) is a common over-the-counter antihistamine, is effective, but causes the most drowsiness. In fact, diphenhydramine is the same ingredient that is in most over-the-counter sleep medications, including Sominex, Tylenol PM. Chlropheniramine, found in Chlor-Trimeton and some other combination products also works well and causes less drowsiness than diphenhydramine.

And then there’s Claritin, with all the pretty blue boxes and tons of advertisements. It was advertised as the first “non-sedating” antihistamine. It is given at lower doses to keep it non-sedating. At higher doses it causes drowsiness as the other antihistamines. However, the tests are conducted only to prove that it works better than a sugar pill.  It was never compared to other antihistamines. In fact, a recent continuing education that I read claimed that Claritin is “not effective”; It doesn’t work. Yet that is no reason to not advertise the heck out of it and make lots of money.

Now Claritin is available over-the-counter, and then the me-too drug “Clarinex” came out but is only available by prescription. Clarinex shows no advantage over Claritin. Clarinex costs $120 for 30 tablets, whereas Claritin costs $30 for 30 tablets.

Similarly, Prilosec is now also available over-the-counter for approximately $30 per month. And Nexium and Aciphex, all similar in class and efficacy, are both still available only by prescription and cost over $150 per month.

Why the difference in price? Mostly if something is prescription then there’s a chance that the insurance companies will pay for it and they will get the price they ask for. If it’s over-the-counter, patients generally don’t want to spend that kind of cash.

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Over-The-Counter Pharmacy 101

There are some products that manufacturers have spent time and advertising dollars to become established household names. Branding takes time and costs a bunch of money. But what’s happening now is that in some cases the brand name doesn’t always mean what it used to mean, or what you think means. Instead, the manufacturers have chosen to use their brand names to maximize profits. Now you must look at the active ingredients and compare costs.

Here’s what I’m talking about:

The ingredient of Dulcolax has always been bisacodyl, which is a stimulant laxative. Good for occasional use when someone is constipated. Before you could just grab Dulcolax off the shelf. But now there is a Dulcolax stool softener, which has the ingredient docusate sodium, which is the same ingredient as found in Colace.

Most people have used or at least heard of Neosporin in the first aid aisle of the pharmacy. Neosporin is a well-known topical antibiotic ointment used for preventing infection due to minor cuts, scrapes, and burns. It consists of a combination of three antibiotics. But again look carefully because now there is a Neosporin AF, for athletes foot, as well as Neosporin AF for jock itch.??!! Both contain miconazole, the same ingredient already found in other brands, such as Micatin, Desenex prescription strength, and Zeasorb AF. Also should mention that it doesn’t have any advantage, or work any better than the products already available on the shelf.  There’s also a Neosporin Lip Treatment to relieve pain for chapped lips or cold sores.

Robitussin is also expanded into several products and combos of ingredients. Originally robitussin was associated with the expectorant Guiafenisin for those phlegm-y coughs. Most products still contain this, but there are a few, such as Robitussin cough, which contains only cough suppressant dextromethorphan, and Robitussin Night Time, which contains only diphenhydramine and phenylephrine.  Diphenhydramine is an antihistamine, and the the same ingredient found in Benadryl and phenylephrine is a decongestant.

When choosing an over the counter medication, some may be overwhelmed by the variety and colors of all the choices. What’s the difference? Which is the best? Most over-the-counter cough and cold products, whether its tylenol cold, sudafed, triaminic, robitussin, most contain some combination of a only a handful of common ingredients. These ingredients are:

acetaminophen – Tylenol for aches and fever

guiafenesin – an expectorant for productive cough

dextromethorphan - a cough suppressant for dry hacking cough

chlorpheniramine – an antihistamine for runny nose or allergies

diphenhydramine – an antihistamine for runny nose or allergies, also added in nighttime products to promote sleep.

phenylephrine – a decongestant for stuffy nose or congestion

pseudoephedrine – a decongestant for stuffy nose or congestion. Because Pseudoephedrine is a common ingredient for those who create methamphetamine, it is now only available behind the pharmacy counter and can only be purchased in limited quantities with a proper identification.

These are generally what you’ll find in many of the over-the-counter cough and cold prodcuts. Moral of the story: forget about the fancy boxes and advertisements. And forget about those brand names that have become trusted household products. Need to look at the active ingredients in each product.

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The Cult of Pharmacy

As a little girl I remember watching on television with my family the news story of the Jamestown mass suicide led by Jim Jones.  At first I was saddened, but then I was in awe that so many people decided to end their life based on words and promises from a single man.

It was then that I decided that I too needed to change the world. I told my parents that that someday I would have a cult of my very own. I would dazzle my followers with my words, mesmerize them with stories of enlightenment in better worlds, all they would have to do is listen to my words, put their hearts and souls in my hands, and then I would give them the potions to lift them to higher plains.

But my parents didn’t take me seriously. And as life would have it, instead of becoming a charismatic speaker and leader, I became more withdrawn and somewhat nerdish. So my career decision to become a pharmacist seemed appropriate.

But it was a few years into my pharmacy career, in April during a busy Monday night rush,  I was working at my retail pharmacy when my life changed.  A woman was screaming at me about something that wasn’t my fault regarding a pill she really didn’t  need. It was during that night that I realized that you can “ask and it is given”, as dreams really do come true. I struggled to hold back the tears.

Here I was, right in the midst of a modern day cult, yet I had hardly realized! The customers were dazzled by new drugs and what possibilities they brought, and they were mesmerized into thinking they needed their medication, or whatever the doctor told them, without question. Not only did they think they needed it, but they demanded it and became hysterical if they thought they wouldn’t be able to get their hands on it. And here I was with my prestige and fancy title with the power to make their life easier or more difficult.

And then I realized that the modern day cult actually kept people alive to make a profit! How clever was that?

The patients put their faith in and put their health and wellbeing in the hands of the doctors and drugs. People such as myself gave years of study, my heart and soul, and dedicated my life to it.

But I didn’t like being a spoke in wheel for a higher cause that I did not have control of or power in. I wanted to be in charge. I remembered when watching “The Secret” they explained that you have to be really specific when you visualize, otherwise you can watch as your neighbor gets the car you’ve been dreaming about. So I realized that I probably hadn’t visualized clearly or specifically enough.

That’s when a sudden enlightenment came for me. The purpose of the fascination with the cult thinking was so I could be aware of how it works; not so I could create a cult of my own. And to use that understanding to make others aware. So I can help people have new perspectives on health, so I can help them start their holistic journey.

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Vaccines

At my work, they just recently decided that all pharmacists should be able to vaccinate as one of their regular duties. Not only will it help the community . . . is also a very good profit center.

So the employer paid for all the pharmacists in the area to learn how to vaccinate.

How do vaccines work?

The body is exposed to a virus or bacteria that causes an illness or disease.  If you don’t die during that time, the immune system will respond by building a defense. In fact, it takes two weeks to build a specific defense against invaders.

Then if the body is exposed to the same invader a second time, the immune system has already prepared it’s army, which will defend right away and the invader will not have an opportunity to cause disease.

The idea behind immunizations is actually quite clever. They take the part of the invader that causes the immune response, and separate it from the part that causes the disease. Thus it is able to create an immune response to the flu or a particular disease without threat of causing the disease. So if someone is then exposed to the invader, the immune system has already taken it’s two weeks to prepare and the invader then won’t have an opportunity to cause disease.

In the alternative healthcare world, there is lots of bad press about vaccines. What is the problem?

According to some sources, the MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine has been linked to causing autism. Although all “officials” studies claim that is false.

However, from the holistic world, autism in American children is up from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 166 today, an increase that coincides with the increase in number of childhood vaccinations since 1978. There is focused attention on vaccines with the parents claiming that they watched their children regress after they got the shots.

In the immunization class, they mentioned that Andrew Wakefield, the British doctor who first  persuaded parents that the MMR vaccine leads to autism, has lost his medical license for being  “dishonest,” “misleading” and “irresponsible” in his research.

In a room with other pharmacists, the reaction feels something like “That shows that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about in the first place”. He has basically been discredited in the mainstream world and his words have less value.

In the alternative healthcare world, it’s clear to the people that the pharmaceutical companies have the big bucks and are friends with those who make the laws and decide the court cases. In this world, people realize that it’s not hard to make someone lose their license if they really want to.

Imagine if the police chef wanted your driver’s license revoked. So the police were watching you drive all the time. How long before they could find enough traffic violations to revoke your license. If it was me they were watching, it wouldn’t take that long.

Official research and statistics show that there is no connection between vaccinations and autism. But there are several individuals that claim that their child’s autism happened after a certain vaccine. Actress Jenny McCarthy shared on Oprah how her son’s speech slowed and how after the MMR vaccine “the soul’s gone from his eyes”. Soon after others from around the country spoke up to share similar stories. Too often doctors would disregard any connection.  A close friend said that her son’s speech and learning slowed down after the same vaccine.

The idea behind vaccinations is clever, and according to history books, they have helped eradicate diseases such as small pox and . But have they gone toxic and corrupt like so much of the healthcare and  pharmaceuticals?

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May Mixer

The theme was Cleansing and Detoxification, sort of like a spring cleaning.

As a pharmacist, it’s always hard for me to think of things to say about cleansing, because in reality we don’t learn about or promote any type of cleansing. The only cleansing is the golytely that people take to clean out their bowels before a procedure, like an endoscopy, where they put a scope up the backside to take a look around. Other than that, there’s no other need to cleanse.

Doctors will actually tell you that your body has everything it needs to clean itself out. But our food and diet has changed much quicker than our body can evolve. Our diets from 100 years ago, or even 50 years ago was so much more natural than all the processed junk we eat today.

What about emotions? For most of us, there is no one teaching us about how to handle emotions. They get suppressed. “Don’t cry, you’re acting like a baby!”, or hanging on to anger and pain for months, or even years.  If our emotions become overwhelming than  there’s a pill for that too. There’s lorazepam (Ativan) for anxiety and fluoxetine (Prozac) for depression. According to Abraham Hicks, mishandled emotions are one of the major causes of health conditions.

At the Optimum Health Institute in San Diego,  there is a class called mental detoxification. Here are the six steps to take next time you are triggered emotionally:

1 –  Identify the emotion you are feeling: jealousy, sadness, anger.

2 -  Observe where the feelings are in your body. Allow emotion to come into body completely. Will only last a few seconds.

3 – Express it privately. Talk out loud, write, journal, or draw a picture.

4 – Release the emotion through some physical activity. Will find a sense of relief. Release without causing harm to the environment.

5 – Share your feelings with someone who will listen to you and not judge or fix it.

6 – Celebrate!

At the event we had Jeanette Burson, a colon hydrotherapist, Cindy Dupuie, a certified nutritionist and my Bikram Yoga teacher for the past several years, and  MarilynRose Utovac, a registered nurse and wellness coach who does emotional detoxification through guided imagery.  How to clean yourself out from all the angles . . .

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Brand versus Generics

There is an annoying thing that happens in pharmacies everyday.  If people knew about it, most would be upset. This is about brand name drugs and insurance companies.

For a little background, a brand name drug is created by the drug company. Drug companies can take up to 10 years and millions of dollars to get a drug approved by the FDA. Then the company has a patent on the drug for so many years, during which time they have an opportunity to earn some of their research money back. After the patent expires then the generic version of the drug can be produced by the competitors.

Most people know that Brand name drugs are the more expensive version of a drug.  In some cases it can be considerably more expensive.

Here a few examples. These prices are from a retail drug store in Los Angeles.

Augmentin 500mg #20. which is an antibiotic commonly used for infections

Brand: $165.99

Generic: $78.99

Zithromax 200mg/5ml suspension 15ml, which is a commonly prescribed antibiotic in liquid form

Brand: $73.99

Generic: $34.99

Ortho Tri Cylen Lo, a birth control pill

Brand: $49.99

Generic: $32.99

Ortho Micronor, another birth control pill

Brand: $59.99

Generic: $38.99

Flonase Nasal Spray, a steroidal anti-inflammatory nasal spray for allergies

Brand: $123.99

Generic: $71.99
You can see that the price difference is significant, up to $87 per month on some.

All insurance companies are different. However some patterns we see at pharmacies are:

If you have insurance and if there is a generic available, then chances are that your insurance plan will only pay for the generic

If the generic is not yet available, your insurance will most likely pay for brand.  The copay for a brand name drug is often higher than that for a generic drug.

Now here’s the annoying part:

Those who qualify on welfare will have Medi-Cal for insurance, in which their prescriptions are paid for by the California taxpayers, “the state”. However, there are a handful of drugs in which only brand name drugs are paid for, even when there is a generic available.  In other words, if a Medi-cal patient comes in the pharmacy with a prescription for Augmentin, or any of the five drugs listed above, the patient will be required to get the brand name drug at no charge. Medi-Cal will not pay for the generic even if there is a cheaper alternative available.

What could possibly be the logic behind this? Hmmm. The patient does not benefit as there is generally no significant difference between brand and generic. The California taxpayer does not benefit and they are paying a much higher price when there is a generic available.

The only ones that benefit are the drug companies – and possibly the decision maker working for the state who allows this to happen.

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Optimum Health Institute

Just came back from another week at Optimum Health Institute (OHI) in Lemon Grove, near San Diego, Ca. A peaceful place to relax, cleanse and detox, and learn about body, mind and spirit, to meet and make friends with those who think the same way, to reflect, to breath. And also wheatgrass. Wheatgrass drink, wheat grass in the eye, up the nose, on the skin, in an enema, almost every possible place . . . oh dear.

Goals after Optimum Health Institute

1 – Use planner that we learned about in Focus Class to make my most important things a priority.  To create a schedule where important things are planned.

2 – Write a detailed list of my ideal life in all areas, including spiritually, for health, mentally / emotionally, socially / relationships / financially. I am happy and grateful now that . . .

3 – Include one healthy juice or shake per day which will include proteins and raw vegetables and fruit and sprouts and flaxseed and whatever else the super healthy folks drink.

4 – Put out to the universe that I need to crave and enjoy all the healthy stuff. Not quite there yet . . .

5 – Use the Alpha meditative state for 5 minutes twice a day as much as possible.

6 – Lose 15 pounds in 60 days. By July 9^th. Was down 8 pounds after week at OHI. Cardio cardio cardio

7 – Keep in contact with those who are on the right paths. New BFF: Kelly from Oceanside, Alyssa from Sherman Oaks and MarilynRose from San Pedro.

8 – Keep focused on my goals of creating a starting point for those who want to start their holistic journey but don’t know where to begin. The fact that in California there are so many pharmacies, but only one Optimum Health Institute reminds me that there is a huge need for an awakening.

9 – Focus, create, love, let go, moving forward . . .

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15 Minutes or Less  . . .

At the last pharmacy manager’s meeting, I learned that Rite Aid is doing a trial program where they are committing to getting your prescription to you in 15 minutes or you receive a gift card to spend at Rite Aid.

As a consumer, you may be thinking “Great, no more long waits for my prescriptions, and if I go at a busy time, I’ll have a better chance to receive a gift card.” You may be thinking “what a great program, and why does it take so long to put some pills in a bottle in the first place?”

As a pharmacist, my first thought I remembered how Dominos was a huge success due to its unique selling proposition “30 minutes or it’s free”.

But then I started to think of the deterioration of the pharmacy profession.

How much more stress will this create for the pharmacy staff?

How many more errors will occur due to this? There are already reports that medication errors injure 1.5 million people and cost billions of dollars annually;

In an even more demanding time crunch, will retail pharmacists miss drug interactions?

Most pharmacists now carry the title “Dr.”. What other types of doctors work under these circumstances?

Aren’t pharmacies becoming more and more similar to fast food restaurants?

Wouldn’t it be better to just offer french fries with your prescriptions?

Pharmacy no longer portrays healthcare. Instead, it portrays the fast food industry, quick, convenient, and not necessarily healthy. I’m crossing my fingers that that program doesn’t come anywhere near the west coast.

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Oxycontin or your life – March 2010

I turned and looked. My two coworkers who usually stand next to me must have gone up front. The only one there was a nice looking young black guy who was standing in the corner. I glanced at him and then went back to dialing the phone. It didn’t set off any alarm or panic in my mind. Even though I was in a pharmacy, it wasn’t my pharmacy and I only worked there once a week. So sometimes there would be people in there that I didn’t know who they were at first. Also it wasn’t unusual for Monique (Moshuga) to have a variety of friends. She was definitely a social butterfly.

Then I heard the voice. “You’re Protected”. The voice that comes from nowhere, that voice, that is clear as day, and pops in when I really need to know something, the voice of my higher self.

“I’m protected?” I thought. “From what?”

I looked around again. Where did everyone go? I looked at our young visitor and saw he had a gun in his hand. I put the phone down. He was on the other side, speaking quietly, almost mumbling. I had to listen carefully to hear him.

“Where’s your oxycontin? I’m not playing. I’m not playing. Where’s your oxycontin?”

He wasn’t looking at me but he was talking to me since nobody else was there. He was nervous, yet quiet, shy, maybe in his early twenties, good-looking, obviously new at this armed robbery thing, and maybe even polite. In fact, he’s probably a really nice guy when he’s not holding up pharmacies.

It’s over here. I waved him over to the safe. He dropped a cheap black duffel bag on the floor. I pulled the oxycontin out of the safe and placed it in his bag. Then he asked for the vicodin. So I gave him the one bottle we had. Then he asked for syrup. Syrup? I was sure he meant phenergan with codeine since that’s an exciting one for the partiers. I gave him a half bottle.

The entire experience was eerily calm, uneventful, not a shred of fear, almost in a very strange way. Probably because my higher self was guiding me. There no yelling or holding the gun in my face like you’d see on television. He then left.

I started dialing 911. Then another employee Michelle came from up front in a mad panic.

“Oh My GOD! OH MY GOD!!” she screamed. Her face was flushed and sweating and she was fanning herself with her hand.

I put the phone down.

“Oh my gosh, what happened? Are you okay?” I asked.

“WE JUST GOT ROBBED!” How many times have you heard or felt you’re higher self sending you a message, whether it was through words or a feeling?

Once I was working at a pharmacy with an intern. The intern was talking to a couple guys dropping off a prescription. They were all joking and laughing and having a good time, which in itself is a warning sign that something is off.

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Conscious Life Expo – February 2010

I just spent three days at the conscious life expo. Tons of products and services available to purchase. Indian food was definitely a hit. Felt refreshed afterwards. Felt reconnected to my purpose.
Not easy to tell which products or services are good and which are all hype. How do you tell the good stuff from the junk? It seems that most people believe in their product or service. Although I would imagine that it would be exhausting being a psychic or energy healer or something that the mainstream part of the world thinks is phony and they’re always needing to prove themselves to the skeptic. As a pharmacist, I’ve never had to deal with those issues. There are signs and advertisements all over the place “Pharmacist – #1 trusted profession” and “Ask your doctor or pharmacist if this is right for you.”

Which keeps society coming back over and over again for their drugs. But how do you tell if a product or service is real or a figment of your imagination? How can you tell the good from the bad? There is an overwhelming amount of information available on the internet and on television. Just because drugs have a great marketing system doesn’t prove that they are worthy.
So at the expo there are tons of products and practitioners, and you have to decide if its good for you. There is no guarantee of anything. To get a booth or be a speaker, the only requirement is money.

What are people searching for? Healing, new ways of thinking, information you won’t find in the mainstream news. Networking with people that have a similar ideas about the universe.

At any event there are things to learn and take with you. What did I take away from the meeting? I got a new shower filter for my shower. After spending a week at the Optimum Health Institute www.optimumhealth.org  in San Diego, I learned about water filters, and I also got to experience how different my hair and skin felt after taking showers in filtered water for a week as well as eating organic food. I also got some TKO Orange product – which is Orange Oil, with all natural ingredients, can be used for laundry, to clean stains, and to even wash the face.

Most importantly, I spoke to tons of people and I left reenergize to continue on my path of introducing those customers of western medicine to alternative health care options. The world is looking for better solutions for their healthcare.

To speak with Dr. Ali leave a comment below and it will be forwarded to her. You can also check out her alternative health practitioner directory – TheButterflyGuide.com

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