Menstruation
FDA approves pill that stops periods; is womanhood a disease? (opinion)

WHAT NEXT? For painful periods, see raspberry leaves, cramp bark, blue cohosh, and many other natural remedies that help women to deal with painful periods and hormonal fluctuations. Before allowing these western methods to stop a natural process altogether, please seek an HERBALIST in your area to try a natural alternative.

THE BEST WAY TO TREAT PAINFUL PERIODS IS BY PROVIDING YOUR BODY WITH THE NUTRIENTS IT IS MISSING THAT CAUSES THE PAIN AND HORMONE IMBALANCE IN THE FIRST PLACE.

With recent other failures by the FDA such as Avandia (for diabetes) causing heart attack, it is clear that we should not take drugs before educating ourselves about what they will do to our bodies.

Conventional medicine has, for decades, preyed upon the “symptoms of womanhood” and attempted to transform every female activity from childbirth to menstruation into a disease requiring chemical treatment.

Today, the FDA approved Lybrel, a daily pill for women that stops periods… forever.

The concept behind such a pill is based on the false idea that menstruation is a disease requiring a medical fix. Most sane people would agree that menstruation is, in fact, a natural biological function and not a disease. So why take a pill to stop it?

If you ask the women taking this pill, it’s because their periods are extremely painful or inconvenient. Taking Lybrel to stop the period is a typical Western-mindset approach to all ailments: *Mask the symptoms and ignore the cause*. Painful periods have a cause, mostly related to hormone imbalances caused by poor nutritional habits, lack of exercise and exposure to toxic chemicals in foods, medicines and personal care products (which contain hundreds of hormone-disrupting chemicals).

Rather than addressing these underlying causes of poor health, many consumers wish to simply mask the symptoms and make them disappear at any cost, including ingesting potentially toxic prescription drugs whose long-term safety record is entirely unknown.

This desire to eliminate the symptoms of disease rather than addressing the underlying cause of poor health is a uniquely Western approach to health treatment. Americans mask joint pain with deadly COX-2 inhibitor drugs, they mask nutritional deficiencies with antidepressant drugs, and they mask poor cardiovascular health with statin drugs and blood thinners (which are made from rat poison chemicals, by the way, and that’s not an exaggeration). It’s like taking your car to a mechanic and instead of the guy fixing your engine, he just takes a can of spray paint and sprays over the engine warning lights on your dashboard.

Problem solved! No more engine warning lights!

Women who take Lybrel to stop their periods are, in my opinion, doing the same thing with their health. And they’re potentially taking a huge risk since no one knows the long-term consequences of such blatant disruption of normal hormone cycles. You can bet, however, that the results won’t be positive. Although this is just a guess, I believe that long-term use of such synthetic chemicals may greatly increase the risk of hormone-related cancers such as breast cancer and cervical cancer.

They may also cause blood stasis in the abdomen and could very easily, in my view, result in increased endometriosis and severe reproductive problems.

Both the manufacturer of this drug and the FDA, of course, say this chemical is perfectly safe. Then again, FDA-approved pharmaceuticals are right now killing 100,000 Americans each year, even when used as directed. Just one drug, Vioxx, reportedly killed well over 50,000 Americans according to the FDA’s own senior drug safety whistleblower, and yet the FDA voted to put that drug right back on the market!

The hysteria of modern medicine

In my opinion, any woman taking Lybrel is embarking on a foolish experiment with her own health. It is not merely a dangerous course of action to pursue, it is the ultimate surrender of personal responsibility for one’s own health. It also admits to a male-dominated medical system that womanhood is, indeed, some sort of terrible disease that requires treatment.

Note that the words /hysteria/ and /hysterectomy/ (the surgical removal of the uterus) have the same word roots. That’s because a /hysterectomy/ was a procedure originally developed by men and used as a surgical weapon to make women “less hysterical.” It was long believed that the uterus was an organ that caused insanity! In reality, the organ that no doubt causes the most insanity is the penis, but that’s another story… notice that you don’t see male doctors recommending /penisectomies/ as a cure for male insanity. Although, indeed, we would all be much safer if the arrogant men pushing these nonsense pharmaceuticals weren’t so cocky to begin with. Only women are advised to have their organs removed for emotional reasons. You ever notice that when it comes to cancer treatments for such organs, there’s a cry to “Save the testicle!” but “Remove the breast!” ?

(The word /menstruate/, by the way, has its roots in Latin, where the word /mensis/ means “month.” It has no relational meaning to the modern English word “men.”)

Men have always dominated Western medicine, and they have always used chemicals and surgeries to control or dominate women. Even today, the male-dominated breast cancer industry is a for-profit system that preys upon women through harmful mammograms that actually cause cancer and produce shockingly high rates of false positives. As I’ve stated in previous articles here on NewsTarget, mammography harms 10 women for every 1 that it helps. Conventional breast cancer treatment is largely a medical hoax where men use fear to control women by corralling them into treatments where they can poison them with chemotherapy or slice off their breasts. (Sound insane? It is.)

My advice to women is to *learn from your painful periods* rather than trying to dissociate yourself from them. A painful period is a messenger that’s trying to tell you something. Perhaps you need to take a new look at your diet, your lifestyle and your use of toxic cosmetics and skin care products that disrupt normal hormone cycles. *Painful periods can be transformed into painless periods through natural medicine*. Chinese medicine is especially good at supporting this transformation. Diet plays a huge role, too.

Take responsibility for your health rather than abandoning it.

Solving the health problem rather than simply masking it is the responsible thing to do with your body. It’s not an overnight solution like the seductively easy Lybrel pill, but it is a far wiser and more wholesome solution that honors your body rather than hijacking its natural functions. Chemical are not the answer to your health problems.
They are merely seductive, harmful synthetic substances that will inevitably produce harmful side effects.

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