Boy my last blog was a downer. Since then I’ve gotten a little more sunshine in my heart. Wow! Someone please get me some psychotropic drugs. Actually I have, in my drawer at work, given to me by my doctor for PMS, Lexapro. I am anti-drugs. In fact I will wait quite a while before I commit to even taking an aspirin. Although I love Dr. Putta; she is perhaps the busiest most totally dedicated doctor I’ve known but she is not beyond prescribing drugs. Although she leans towards eastern practices at times, she is still compelled to prescribing drugs so prevalent in western medicine. The Lexapro I have are 10 mg samples, which she whole heatedly placed in my hands with a suggestion to take one at the onset of PMS. The skeptic and non drug user that I am looked up info regarding Lexapro, it’s side effects, and what it does to the body. I actually had no intention of taking the meds, but after reading about it certainly wouldn’t want anyone, who isn’t truly ill, to ever take them. It seems they hand these drugs out like candy, not even explaining side effects, or even trying to find out the underlying causes of the problems. I’ve lived all these years with PMS, I think I can manage to live a few more years during my “transitional phase” without the aid of drug supplementation.
After reading a wonderful book by fitness trainer Jillian Michaels, I am on a one woman mission to rid my life of toxins and harmful foods. Everything commercial seems to contain harmful substances that could alter our body mechanics and hormones. Even innocuous stuff like plastic bowls, may contain PFCs which can send a body completely out of whack. Today we see so many children with ADHD, and they are prescribed meds to combat their symptoms. Diabetes seems to be at an epidemic level, and yet modern medicine combats that with meds as well. And if they do suggest diet changes it’s generally incomplete and as human nature has it if we’re taking a pill for it then we think we’re free to eat anything and everything we want. Fast foods, processed foods, HFCS, growth hormones, pesticides, PFCs all lead to dramatic changes within our bodies, and it messes with our hormones. You know, pharmaceuticals is a billion dollar a year business, and we keep it in business by consuming the very things that are causing our problems. I’m not saying all medicine is bad, to the contrary, but the increase of statin drugs is an indication that our society is so out of touch with nutrition and health that they send their bodies spiraling and then require a drug to artificially bring it back to optimal levels. If there’s such a thing. I think I may dedicate this blog to information and support on how to rid your life of toxins ultimately improving your overall health and well-being. Yeah, I have a mission. I will start soon. Every week will be a different topic, researched, and distilled for your dancing pleasure. 
