WhyJoin SLF?
A letter by our President, Phil Jacklin
The Smart Life Forum is a family of ‘strangers’, a community. We are a well-informed and, let me say, a ‘loving’ group of people and we have wonderful meetings and projects. If this works for you, you are welcome.Joining Smart Life Forum is about what learning for yourself and about yourself by being a part of this community. I recognize that our membership dues cost money, but in my opinion this is a small costs for huge benefit. After all, it’s your body and the only one you will ever have. It’s a shame to suffer or even die needlessly when the information you need is already out there. We can help bridge the gap.
Smart Life Forum is a cooperative search for practical wisdom.
We are, so to speak, all in the same boat. We are all trying to stay healthy in a crazy world. It's a crazy world in which hospitals can be dangerous and doctors even know less than we do about vitamins and hormones. It's a world dominated by big drug companies that poison us and HMOs that save money when they deny service to sick people or require their doctors to see four patients per hour.
Smart Life Forum is about finding community in that crazy world.This is a pretty radical, old-fashioned idea – that we need to think and study and stay in communication with other intelligent folks, so that we can take care of ourselves and those we love. The Smart Life Forum is a way to do that. Few of us are authorities on anything, or claim to be - but collectively we are amazing. Smart Life Forum is a kind of ‘group mind’.
Of course, each of us comes to our own conclusions. The only thing we agree on is that we should take responsibility for our own health. Smart Life Forum takes no positions as a group on specific supplements or drugs or anything else.
One more thing you should know -
We challenge conventional wisdom and the conventional authority.Conventional medicine is often life-saving. But sometimes it is a threat to our health and even a killer. And more often than not, it is an obstacle to optimal health – well-being and the maintenance of maximum capability. I say let's not worry about being confrontational and avoid the failures of the medical establishment. Let’s just come as we are, ask questions and let the chips fall as they may.
Kind Regards,
Phil Jacklin