I have to start by saying that I liked your grocery shopping example in your blog post. I am somewhat similar because if I deviate from the list I make I can end up standing there looking at the apples or chips, trying to make a decision, for longer than I should.

I watched the video of the TVO program and I gave it some thought. I sort of agree with the non-(or sub) conscious mind (I think of ‘unconscious’ as being out of it, knocked out or in a coma) being something that stores automatic information. The example they used of the person driving home and not entirely paying attention makes sense in a way. When something is part of your regular routine and you have preformed it so often I can see it becoming almost like auto-pilot. But I don’t understand how it makes decisions for us and kind of takes away our awareness.
I am quite aware of the things I do; cleaning the house, shopping, moving, talking, etc…. Perhaps it is because of the brain injury that has made me more aware. It also seems to me that the non-conscious being in control of so much thought and decision making, being out of our conscious control, is a bit of a contradiction to neuroplasticity.

The thing I don’t like about “experts” (and they are not all like this) is that when they talk about something that is so individually personal to people (like our habits and the way we function) they talk as if things are set, as if there is only one way. We are all different in many respects to our thoughts.

I just sent in something I wrote for the BIST blog (not published yet) called “Abilities” and one of the things I talk about are the abilities I’ve acquired from my brain injury. I say that I am more focused, more aware, of the things most people take for granted.

Your reference to Healthcare Canada is also a joke. Cold FX tried to pull the wool over our eyes for years. They sell sold packages intended to be take :”at the first sign” of colds or flus. The dosage was 3 pills 2 times a day for one day, then 2 pills twice a day..then one….it total, about $12 worth. Funny thing they were never allowed to prescribe such dosages..yet they did..to make money. When they were told by Heath Canada to stop..it took 3 years for them to actually stop. Very ‘trustworthy” eh? So reading the label fully..is clearly a stupid place to gain your information.

Siereen, i DO have an idea how research works and I CAN tell you that the data they provide is misleading. Their studies are way small, have a poor P factor and are statistically insignificant. The site relative, not absolute differences in order to mislead.

On a broader scale..what a great marketing position eh? Here is the joke of it all!!!! Follow me on this:

You take a pill every day to, supposedly avoid getting something you don’t have. What you are avoiding, your body will fight off most of the time anyway. Hey, we all have felt a cold coming on..the tickle ion the throat…a couple sneezes…and our body’s acquired and innate immune systems fights it off. The people that take it say “Look how well it works”…when it was their own body doing what it does…protecting you.

Then when they DO get a cold, these people say..well..no one pill is 100% effective. Sound familiar…Shireen?

The CSO and founder of Cold FC is at it again with a new product and the marketing is exactly the same. This is where we laugh a little more. Jackie Chan cold FX company was called Afexa Life Sciences…Her new one… Afinix Life Sciences. Sound familiar?

Her old standardization process was called ChemBioPrint…LOL. THis time its called…Afinity Technology and the wording surrounding it is also the same. THis time, she is selling Omegas. At least the product has a sound scientific backing…but nothing revolutionary.

Before I sign off, I wanted to let you know about one last study that was done..the largest to date…partially sponsored by U.S. National Cancer Institute. This IS a credible body. In laymen’s terms, the NCI wanted to see if Cold FX could stop colds from occurring in their cancer ( chronic lymphocytic leukemia) , as a colds can and do kill them!! If Cold FX worked…. would SAVE LIVES!!!!

No shocker here…..It didn’t. The trail concluded “Conclusion: CVT-E002 (Cold FX’s clinical name) was well tolerated. It did not reduce the number of ARI days or antibiotic use…”

Feel free to take it Shireen. it won’t hurt you and if you think it helps you…then by all means…dig in.

“Don’t Waste The Years,” indeed. Autographing books is quite frankly a waste of everyone’s time. I don’t sign anything but my personal cheques.