and takes no medicines
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Key to a long life.
Was going to say the same....also, stayed active and ate reasonable healthy.
“and takes no medicines
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Key to a long life.”
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Dad passed away at 96. Other than Tylenol, never took medicine up to age 92. Meanwhile, my older sister/husband needed a Publix shopping bag to cart out all their medicines/drugs (from the drug store). When Dad was 92, my sister managed to coax Dad to her doctor...yep, you guessed right...next thing I knew her doctor prescribed all manner of drugs, and then Dad also needed a Publix grocery bag to carry his drugs. In a few days Dad became so out of sorts that he peed on the floor, because he was unable to find the bathroom. Next, my sister went to her lawyer, and unknown to me obtained a durable Power of Attorney over my Dad. In a few weeks she placed Dad in a nursing home, where he remained until he died.
In just a few weeks Dad had gone from no prescription medicines to (”having to have”) nearly a dozen. But, what do I know? She said her doctor found that Dad had all kinds of problems, and that he needed all the medications.
I have never taken drugs, and having witnessed what happened to my father, I am determined to remain drug free.
Will never forget the story Doctor James Dobson (used to have a daily radio program) told, about a small female child. The mother had taken the child to a doctor and the doctor prescribed various medications. The child then began taking the drugs, but her problems began to get worse. Eventually the doctor said he could do no more, and sent the mother to another doctor. The new doctor began prescribing a different set of medicines, but the little girl kept getting worse. All the mother was doing was taking the child from doctor to doctor to doctor, with each new doctor prescribing what medications they deemed required. With the child near death, and with all the various doctors having given up, the mother took the child to a new doctor. The new doctor, looked over her records and in bewilderment said, “Lets just take her off all medications”. The girl began to improve, and eventually was completely well.
The thing of it is, getting people away from all their drugs is like trying to persuade someone to change their religious beliefs. It is indeed a faith based connection. People that are on various prescriptions will come after you and hurt you if you dare do anything to interrupt their drug supply.