Pharm-Bucks On Every Corner

There sure are a ton of pharmacies out there. Strolling thru NYC, I can easily spot 3-4 pharmacies on the same block. In rural US, pharmacies are generally the only places to find treatments and medicine... nary a natural food store in site.

Wherever you look, there's a Starbucks or similar coffee establishment next-door. Cow's milk, sugar, and high concentrations of caffeine are all contributing factors in anxiety and heart disease. Irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, headaches--why are we trying to cure them with some off-the-wall, over-the-counter pharmacy 'cure' laden with side-effects? Please don't have the nerve to drink coffee and then complain about discomforts to your doctor.

Sample Morning Expenditures:

$7.50 -- 1 Latte Grande con Bullshit
$25.00 -- copay / acid relief capsules
$10.00 -- diarrhea relief tablets
$5.00 -- t.p.
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= $47.50
2 feel like shit

Why is a natural food/herb store/treatment described as "alternative" anyway? Shouldn't a trip to a pharmacy stocked and loaded with synthetic goods, plastics, and harbored pills loaded with who-knows-what ingredients be a last resort? Shouldn't pharmacy be the alternative to natural healing?

Stop the crap. It's really simple... you are what you eat. You ACT how you eat. Get off the drugs and get on to nature. Only put things in your body that are Nat-Ur-Al.

Read labels. If you can't recognize the name of an ingredient, it's probably synthetic crap. Mother Nature is real. The Earth is real. Eat real because ur ur food, and food = Life.

Check this out... This pharmaceutical drug (I'm leaving out the name for obvious reasons) quells stomach acid problems. Listed below are the ingredients found in one capsule (and there are probably additional inert ingredients which the manufacturer doesn't disclose here).

Stomach Drug *******

"The active ingredient in ******* Delayed-Release Capsules, ******* for Delayed-Release Oral Suspension and ******** SoluTab Delayed-Release Orally Disintegrating Tablets is *******, a substituted benzimidazole, 2-[[[3-methyl-4-(2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-2-pyridyl] methyl] sulfinyl] benzimidazole, a compound that inhibits gastric acid secretion. Its empirical formula is C16H14F3N3O2S with a molecular weight of 369.37.

******* is a white to brownish-white odorless crystalline powder which melts with decomposition at approximately 166°C. ******* is freely soluble in dimethylformamide; soluble in methanol; sparingly soluble in ethanol; slightly soluble in ethyl acetate, dichloromethane and acetonitrile; very slightly soluble in ether; and practically insoluble in hexane and water.

******* may not be right for everyone and has a low occurrence of side effects such as diarrhea, abdominal pain and nausea."

Practically insoluble in water?

Side effects like abdominal pain and nausea?

Ladies and gents, we humans are 70-90% water. Why take a synthetic stomach remedy that may make your stomach hurt? Does it really make any sense to combat stomach acid with this?

Doesn't it sound more practical and preventative to try this?

Cut out/back processed and unnatural foods from your diet and drink plenty of fresh celery juice to help combat stomach acid and the symptoms of GERD. Drink it slowly and stop when you feel soothed. Repeat whenever necessary.

So, what's in celery juice?

Celery juice.

And, what are the side effects of drinking said celery juice?

Glory.

Try it.