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My prediction: 1) reducing chronic inflammation by, for example, exercise or eating better food, is proven to have good health effects 2) pharmaceutical compani
by rossdavidh 8y ago
My prediction:
1) reducing chronic inflammation by, for example, exercise or eating better food, is proven to have good health effects
2) pharmaceutical companies try to make that into a pill
3) dang, the benefits of the pill are not nearly as big as if you exercise and eat better food, and not nearly as big as our early trials of the drug indicated they would be
4) we must need a different kind of pill
- ixtli 8y agoYup! I would also predict this. You simply can’t engineer your way out of needing better living conditions.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoSometimes you’re in the conditions you’re in because of mental or emotional issues, and require the assistance of a mental health professional to get back on track (for example, overeating from emotional trauma leading to obesity and inactivity).
- retreatguru 8y agoI predict the pill that may help with these issues is something like psilocybin along with a well trained therapist guide.
- rossdavidh 8y agoSometimes...but not often enough for our pharmaceutical community.
- shloosh 8y agoWell, I would argue that actually you can, but it is extremely difficult and we aren't at that level technologically yet. Currently, the best solution for many health conditions is to optimize sleep, diet, and exercise. We will probably be uploaded into machines before a pill can replace any one of those functions.
- orangecat 8y agoWhat is your reaction when social conservatives say that there's no need for contraception or STD vaccines, because you can just not have sex unless you're prepared to accept the responsibilities of pregnancy and raising a child?
- house9-2 8y agocondom?
- DoreenMichele 8y agoI really don't see where this has anything at all to do with what you are replying to.
- code_duck 8y agoThere’s a theme of people avoiding responsibility or consequences by using a product. Best I can tell, GP feels that this illegitimate, and this poster feels it is legitimate to use a device or product to avoid health effects.
- zwkrt 8y agoThese two statements don't seem to have many analogies, why is this relevant?
- rossdavidh 8y agoSorry about the downvotes you're getting, I think it's a legitimate question. Well, if I thought that having sex for purposes other than procreation was illegitimate, I might buy that. I have the impression that some social conservatives believe that. However, I don't think that. Also, we don't see as much industry effort to push contraception, as we do from the big pharmaceutical industries. Also, we don't see a problem of contraception not actually working; it can fail to work, of course, but most people who use contraception actually get the intended results. I believe it is far more common when Big Pharma tries to put into pill form something that could be obtained from good food or good exercise, that it does not work nearly as well.
- gnoppa 8y agoI'd predict the pharmaceutical pill will be damaging! Our body is very smart and heals most things by itself, given the right nutrition.
- gpickett00 8y agoThe first few generations probably will be. But it'll be solved.
- krageon 8y agoAs much as I distrust the foundation of the comment that you are responding to, this statement is factually incorrect. All you need to do to understand why this is the case is look at current medication. It's all pretty bad, and the only reason you'd take it is because the alternative is even worse.
- folli 8y agoThis sounds like some anti-vaxx reasoning.
- aitchnyu 8y agoThere will be a terrible proposal plus dangerous pill, like the idea to infuse a burger with statins to nullify the cholestrol https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-08/cheeseburgers-should-come-side-statins-researchers-say https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-08/cheeseburgers...
- tracker1 8y agostatins have been shown to increase all cause mortality in more cases than decreasing it... giving them to most of the population is a horrible idea... our bodies need cholesterol, they produce more than we will ever consume and it's fucking ridiculous as a general marker. HDL:Triglyceride ratio is better, but still highly hackable.
- rorykoehler 8y agoThis is the promise of stem cells
- BandOfBots 8y agoThe most effective natural treatment for inflammation is 20 minutes a day in sauna
- muvek 8y agoSource needed?
- oetkerz 8y agoYes please.
- cellularmitosis 8y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941775/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941775/ > "It has been suggested that heat stress induces adaptive hormesis mechanisms similar to exercise, and there are reports of cellular effects induced by whole-body hyperthermia in conjunction with oncology-related interventions" I wonder if the key is simply raising the temperature of the blood. My understanding is that processes like Regenokine extract your blood, elevate its temperature (which causes it to produce natural anti-inflammatory compounds?) and then inject it back into your body. Perhaps sauna (and exercise?) are doing the same, but to a lesser degree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autologous_conditioned_serum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autologous_conditioned_serum
- braink 8y agoBottom line: pharma sells pills to make money; they don't make money off of healthy people who don't take their pills. So long as we link the health industry to making profit, we are prioritizing profits over health.
- skookumchuck 8y agoProfits are what drives innovation in pharmaceuticals.
- sametmax 8y agoProfit didn't get us vaccine against rabies or acetylsalicylic acid. Researchers did, and we have universities for that. So there are alternatives, and probably others we didn't think about.
- skookumchuck 8y agoIt was profit-seeking Bayer that found a way to make aspirin in an industrial process and put it in wide use. "In 1897, scientists at the drug and dye firm Bayer began investigating acetylsalicylic acid as a less-irritating replacement for standard common salicylate medicines, and identified a new way to synthesize it.[2]:69–75 By 1899, Bayer had dubbed this drug Aspirin and was selling it around the world." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aspirin
- bandushrew 8y agoThat is a truism, right? Currently in the US we have private pharmaceutical companies driven by a profit motive, so profits are what drives their innovation. Setup a different system, and other motivations will drive their innovation, right? Unless your claim is that innovation can only EVER be driven by profit?
- fastball 8y agoI thing the argument is more along the lines of: 1. Observed value drives innovation. 2. Profit / profit-motive is one of the most straightforward / most efficient means we have to observe value.
- manmal 8y agoResveratrol was such a pill/fad, with some companies going belly up eventually.
- magnamerc 8y agoIt's still an interesting compound because of it's role in regulating processes within mTOR, however getting the Resveratrol to where you need it (bioavailability) is an almost insurmountable problem.
- jokowueu 8y agoThe Japanese Ibudilast pill is a super interesting anti inflammatory pill that has very interesting research behind it . I recommend taking a look at it if ur interested is this sort of thing It's available for sale