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I wish more people, whether or not they believe they're healthy/strong or not, got annual bloodwork and general health checks done. You can't run a complex mach
by KittenInABox 5y ago
I wish more people, whether or not they believe they're healthy/strong or not, got annual bloodwork and general health checks done. You can't run a complex machine like a human body and never, ever do any analysis to ensure it's running within acceptable levels.
Imagine how much less psychological pain this guy could've been through if he had regular bloodwork enough to let him know that his vitD is getting low and to supplement before he even realized he was "failing".
- huachimingo 5y agoWe are all still humans after all :D
- throwawayboise 5y ago> You can't run a complex machine like a human body and never, ever do any analysis to ensure it's running within acceptable levels. Well, it's been how humans have lived for the vast majority of the time we've existed. You don't even have to go back 100 years and medicine was closer to superstition than science.
- edejong 5y agoAnd a lot of practiced medicine, unfortunately, still is.
- victorwho86 5y agoI think the difference is that now we live in an artificial environment with new problems. few people would have had vitamin D insufficiency before industrialization