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Why Self Care?
Dr. John C. Lowe
April 8, 2011
(Excerpt from the
Introduction to
Speeding Up to Normal: A Guide to
Safely Getting Well with Thyroid Hormone [in press])
Working Without a Clinician’s
Help
Today, more people are giving up on
professional health care providers or clinicians. They are instead
taking their health into their own hands. I strongly support this trend.
My main reason is that in general, those who are
suffering from health problems are the ones most motivated to
expeditiously find safe and effective relief from their suffering.
Motivation is more important than intelligence level. And if
motivation is strong enough, those of us who are compromised by lower
intelligence and education are nonetheless highly likely to surpass the
accomplishments of the most intelligent and educated people.
In addition, people looking for relief from their own
suffering from thyroid-related health problems aren’t likely to
compromise their mission for ulterior motives. Some will, but most
won’t.
For example, these people aren’t likely to accept pain,
depression, and other ways of suffering in exchange for financial perks
from drug companies. In stark contrast, since the Reagan Administration
in the US, mainstream medicine has clearly shown that it’s for sell. (I
have an entire library of recently published books by prominent and
highly-credible physicians and editors documenting the corruption of
mainstream medicine and medical research.) Without hesitation, it
will—and already has!—forsaken patients in exchange for financial and
other rewards from drug companies.
The corruption of mainstream medicine is so widespread
that it has given rise to the self-care movement. In regard to
physical health, this trend is like the mental self-help,
personal-growth movement of the 1960s and 1970s. That
movement was in part a rebellion against establishment psychology of
that time, which had been partly co-opted for military and industrial
purposes.
Rather than helping people achieve mental health, the purpose of establishment psychology had become more
sinister and profit-based. The people rebelled, and the people won. I
foresee a similar overthrow of mainstream medicine, and victory over it,
by the self-help movement of people with thyroid-related health
problems.
To help fuel the overthrow of mainstream medicine, we've now
refocused drlowe.com. Our main purpose, as in years past, is still to give
our readers scientifically- and logically-based information that they can
use to recover their health.
Before, however, we encouraged patients to share the
information with their mainstream clinicians, hoping that the clinicians
would positively respond to it and use it to help the patients. If that
approach works for patients, we still encourage it. But if it doesn't,
then our every intention is to help the patients help themselves.
It's not our purpose to placate mainstream clinicians. Instead, our
purpose is to
help people recover their health. Unfortunately, to accomplish that may necessitate staving off misguided
mainstream clinicians who would otherwise interfere.
We provide educational consulting to both patients and clinicians.
Phone us at 603-391-6061, or preferably, write to us at
Tammy@drlowe.com. Our fax number
is
303-496-6200. —Tammy Lowe
