I’m Not a Conspiracy Theorist — I’m Just Paying Attention

I’m Not a Conspiracy Theorist — I’m Just Paying Attention

I’m not a conspiracy theorist.
But I am someone who notices patterns.

Somewhere along the way, asking thoughtful questions became equated with being irrational. Curiosity got mislabeled as paranoia. Discernment became something to mock. And yet, when you step back and actually look at the bigger picture, it becomes difficult to ignore how many things no longer add up.

Questioning the systems we live within doesn’t mean rejecting reality. It means engaging with it honestly.

So let’s talk about what many people quietly sense but hesitate to say out loud.

The Food, Water, and Environment We Live In

Our food supply is saturated with artificial dyes, preservatives, pesticides, and additives that have already been banned in many countries due to links to inflammation, hormonal disruption, behavioral issues, and chronic illness — yet they remain common in the U.S.

Modern farming practices have stripped soil of vital minerals, meaning even fresh produce often contains far fewer nutrients than it did decades ago. At the same time, the majority of supplements on the market are synthetic, lab-engineered, or derived from petroleum, which helps explain why so many people take handfuls of vitamins and still feel depleted.

Tap water, often assumed to be safe, can contain chlorine, fluoride, heavy metals, PFAS, pharmaceutical residues, and microplastics — substances the human body was never designed to process daily.

Even ingredient labels can be misleading. Terms like “natural flavors,” “fragrance,” or “proprietary blend” legally allow dozens of undisclosed chemicals to hide behind a single line of text.

The Medical Model & Chronic Illness

Despite unprecedented access to pharmaceuticals, chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, neurological issues, infertility, obesity, and mental health struggles continue to rise.

Much of modern healthcare focuses on managing symptoms rather than identifying root causes — leaving many people dependent on prescriptions instead of supported in true healing. Nutrition, mineral balance, toxin exposure, gut health, mold toxicity, and parasites are rarely explored deeply, even though they play critical roles in how the body functions.

Medical education itself offers surprisingly little training in nutrition, despite the fact that every cell, hormone, immune response, and detox pathway depends on it.

And while scientific research is essential, it’s also worth acknowledging that many studies are funded by the very industries that profit from their outcomes — raising valid questions about transparency and neutrality.

Chemicals in Daily Life

Hormone-disrupting chemicals are present in plastics, personal care products, cleaning supplies, receipts, perfumes, and even products marketed as “clean” or “gentle.” Over time, these exposures quietly interfere with endocrine balance, fertility, metabolism, and mood.

Microplastics have now been found in human blood, lungs, placentas, breast milk, and newborns — a sobering reminder of how deeply environmental contamination has reached.

We’re told the body doesn’t need detoxification, even as exposure to pollutants, metals, pesticides, and synthetic compounds increases with each generation.

Disconnection & Mental Health

Rates of anxiety, depression, burnout, and brain fog have exploded alongside disconnection from sunlight, nature, movement, mineral-rich food, community, and rest.

Many symptoms people accept as “normal” — fatigue, hair loss, cravings, irritability, poor sleep, chronic pain, brain fog — are often signs of mineral imbalance, inflammation, or environmental stressors that are rarely tested for.

Aging itself has been framed as inevitable decline, when in reality it often reflects decades of accumulated depletion, toxin exposure, and unresolved lifestyle patterns.

The Narrative Problem

Natural health information is frequently censored, buried, or labeled extreme, while pharmaceutical advertising saturates media spaces. Ultra-processed foods are marketed as “healthy” because they’re fortified with synthetic vitamins. Hospitals serve inflammatory foods to people who are actively trying to heal.

Meanwhile, questioning any part of this system is treated as radical — as if blindly accepting it all is somehow more reasonable.

So No — Not a Conspiracy Theorist

I’m not claiming there’s a secret cabal meeting in a dark room. I’m saying that systems driven by profit rarely prioritize long-term human well-being unless they are forced to.

I’m saying that listening to your body, trusting lived experience, and asking informed questions is not dangerous — it’s responsible.

Noticing patterns doesn’t make you “one of those people.”
It makes you conscious.

And perhaps the strangest part of all is how normalized chronic illness, exhaustion, inflammation, and emotional overwhelm have become — while awareness itself is treated like the problem.

Once you start connecting the dots, it’s hard to unsee them. And no, that doesn’t make you crazy.

It just means you’re awake.

On a personal note, I live with a rare genetic blood vessel disorder, HHT.

This photo was taken in 2020, after an Iron Infusion series that had me in and out of the Emergency Room 3 times, with multiple diagnosis and multiple antibiotics prescribed. My body has been out of balance these past 5 years since. I didn't realize it at the time, but this was a turning point, a setback, in my health journey.

What I've since learned about antibiotics and iron infusions has been eye opening. Today, I'm trying to reverse the inflammation, the edema, the side effects including the degenerative joint pain I'm experiencing. And although I'm 40 pounds heavier today, I am focused on health and not weight. I find the weight comes off when your body is healthy and balanced.

Living with HHT has been an interesting learning curve full of side effects, setbacks and successes. Foods that didn't bother me when I was younger now trigger blood loss. I've had to learn what foods, drinks, spices I can tolerate and what I can't.

It's been a balancing act trying to find these foods that I can tolerate with HHT, that also do not cause inflammation in the body, and are good for my gut microbe and are kidney friendly.

In upcoming Blog Posts I will be focusing on what I'm finding, and what I think will work for ME on my quest.

Even if you're not suffering from health issues now, learning how to combat inflammation, keeping your gut microbe healthy and eating well is something you're body may just thank you for in the future.