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And then there is the holistic practice where there is no blanket statement, but an answer for just your body Unfortunately no two holistic practictioners can
by gammateam 8y ago
And then there is the holistic practice where there is no blanket statement, but an answer for just your body
Unfortunately no two holistic practictioners can articulate their method, or come to the same conclusion or repeatable conclusion
No better than a fortune teller reading palms in an alley
Individualized medicine has some merit, and I think we are close to being able to do that, it has the possibility to incorporate some holistic remedy, but at that point it will just be called “a prescription” and the holistic practioners will continue to be on the fringes of science and quackery
- nradov 8y agoI don't think individualized medicine will really bring much benefit in this area until we develop fast, cheap, minimally-invasive sensors to check blood levels of substances such as glucose, hormones, vitamins, etc. That way we'll be able to see in near real time how individual bodies react to different foods and exercises. At the upper levels of pro sports they're already sort of doing this but it requires taking frequent small blood samples (not fun), specialized test equipment, and manual analysis by experts. We won't see it at the consumer level any time soon.