None taken, "999". There is much to be said on both sides - both pro and con. My experience is that mainstream has done more TO me than for me. I will not share the lengthy dissertation.

As for antibiotics, one could take the stance that what they have done is save some lives and made lots of nasty wee critters immune so that we can only wonder what the end result may be. When I needed an antibiotic for pneumonia, I found that the fact that I had taken none for 10 years was irrelevant. The nasty critters did not know me, they knew antibiotics and thumbed their noses at them.

Almost everything we humans get wrong with us can, in fact, be avoided or cured without the invasive and dangerous tactics. It is a known that most of the worst are being caused by toxins in the environment. This includes cancers, heart problems, obesity, and auto-immune diseases such as MS, MCS and more.

Even the nurse at the cancer clinic responded immediately, to the question, "why such an increase in breast cancer?" with a firm, "It's the environment!" I lived 17 years in an area where there were uranium mines - it was said to have the highest incidence of cancer in Canada. I liked living there; possibly it will cost me my life in the end but I have been around rather long enough anyway.

The environmental pollution is why I live with a high quality air cleaner, a distiller for water, carefully chosen foods without added chemicals, eat my yogurt, and take a limited, well chosen group of supplements.

It is good to know that the alternative of mainstream exists for those who need it and that could be me at some point but I sure hope not. The person I trust most for advice in Montreal is a mainstream person. I will continue to study the other options. Nothing is foolproof.