Hey y’all, remember that commercial on TV when the guy held up an egg and said, “This is your brain.” Then he cracked it and dropped it into a sizzlin’ hot skillet and said, “This is your brain on drugs.” If you do, then I bet you’d agree that it had some impact on your life. What a contrast to the commercials we are bombarded with today: Roserum, Boniva, Claritin, Allegra, Ambien, Enbrel, Celebrex. Did you ever think you’d know so much about drugs? And yeah, these are just as bad for you as the illegal ones; just listen to the side effects. I’d rather live with the symptoms I have, thank you very much. And why am I telling my doctor that I have liver disease, kidney and heart ailments? Should he be the one telling me that?!
Let’s think about that for a minute; would the pharmaceutical industry have to push these on us if they were really all that great? Why do they work so hard at convincing us that “Mother’s little helper” is a cure-all? Uh, probably cause it’s not? You need it cause they need to make money. Wait, are we talking about the illegal drug pushers or the pharmaceutical companies?
The other danger that I am most concerned with, and what takes us back to the old “this is your brain on drugs commercial”, is the power of suggestion. Replaying an image over and over while repeating the way you will feel is a way to brainwash someone into believing the implied truth. Whether you pay attention to the commercials or tune them out, they are still repeating their mantra over and over in the background. Advertisers know that this subliminal bombardment eventually gets into your mind and takes root. I’ll give you an example; I often put one of the 24 hour news channels like MSNBC on while I work and I noticed one day that in the course of about an hour they aired a commercial for some drug for men. It starts by saying that many men over the age of 50 have prostrate problems. I bet I heard that at least 10 to 12 times in that hour and I started to wonder about my prostate. Then I thought, “Hey! Wait a minute! I take very good care of myself and I’m not gong to start believing that I will have these problems!” I realized that I was in a mental battle to not by into the suggestion. If I had not consciously fought it, I might be convinced that by the time I am 50, I will have prostrate problems. The truth is I could live to be 100 and never have a prostrate problem. So the drugs can get into your mind through your eyes and ears via the TV. Don’t let the bastards win. Make the conscious choice to be healthy and find preventative methods to manage your health choices; before you need drugs to remedy them.
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