I suspect that believing a drug company would not be aware that Nutrasweet causes migraines would not be too much of a stretch for most readers of this newsletter.

I found the story quite amusing though, and an excellent example of the profound futility of the drug paradigm.

Drugs are rarely, if ever, the answer to long-term, chronic health problems. That does not mean, of course, that they should never be used. It makes no sense to throw the baby out with the bath water.

However, it does mean that one should exert a large amount of energy to find out the cause of the health problem rather than relying on band-aid approaches.

I have come to appreciate symptoms as friends.

Imagine someone with leprosy if you can. Hard to do for most of us as this disease has virtually been eliminated. Most people have no idea that the problem in leprosy is that people do not feel pain.

Because leprosy patients have an impaired sense of pain they lose their feedback loops. They could be sleeping at night and a rat could chew on their fingers and they would have no idea this was happening and not even wake up.

They could also get a pebble in their shoe and not have any pain and continue to walk until the pebble created a terrible ulcer in their foot that could get infected and cause them to have their foot amputated.

So although most of us would like to avoid pain and not experience it becomes quite clear that pain is a very valuable gift to us and really serves to keep us healthy.

That is why the drug model is so dangerous. It basically allows us to induce a form of chemical leprosy that blinds us to the underlying cause of the problem and the damage continues to occur because we are not using the pain to guide us to a permanent foundational solution.

I believe a major part of the reason why most are unable to find an effective solution to their pain is that the vast majority of it has an emotional underlying component.

This is especially true for those who have hormone problems. Most hormone problems are a result of impaired function of the adrenal gland. The adrenals are a potent influence on the female hormones, progesterone and estrogen, and the thyroid.

In my experience about 85% of the times the adrenals are seriously impaired and there is a problem with the thyroid or female hormones. There is an unresolved emotional stress that is impairing the adrenal glands causing very real physical symptoms.

Migraines are another example of a physical problem that usually has an underlying emotional cause. Most migraines have a food sensitivity element, and once one follows a good eating plan they usually are dramatically improved or disappear completely.

Those that fail to respond to the eating plan are nearly almost all related to some unresolved stress.

It is very rare where EFT is unable to completely remove the pain of this type of migraine. It usually works within seconds and the relief tends to be permanent.

If you are interested in learning EFT I conducted a workshop on how to perform it in late 2001 and that is available on video.

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