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Only focused on the ineffectiveness of drugs to treat it. One has to feed yeast with sugars to keep it alive. Not giving medical advice here, just pointing out
by CodeWriter23 4y ago
Only focused on the ineffectiveness of drugs to treat it. One has to feed yeast with sugars to keep it alive. Not giving medical advice here, just pointing out practitioners of disciplines other than allopathy have solutions for candida infection.
- ch4s3 4y agoNo one is successfully treating candida with homeopathy and using the derogatory term "allopathy" for conventional medicine isn't really appropriate here.
- malfist 4y agoAs Tim Minchin said: > Do you know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? > Medicine.
- notshift 4y agoExcept for, you know, the entire field of functional medicine which has done wonders for the lives of millions who have been failed by the mainstream medical establishment.
- bitwize 4y agoFunctional medicine has not been proven to work. There's no actual evidence it's effective.
- notshift 4y agoWhat's your standard of evidence? The functional medicine folks I follow and who I am a client of generally follow the latest research closely. In the content they produce and in the books they write, they refer to and cite hundreds of studies.
- ch4s3 4y agoThey do love to cite studies but there aren't any studies that back up their claims and not RCTs of their methods at all. Here's a good overview https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/aafp-functional-medicine-lacks-supporting-evidence-includes-harmful-and-dangerous-treatments/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/aafp-functional-medicine-la....
- notshift 4y agoI was hoping for critiques of specific functional medicine treatments that were administered, but didn't find many in the article. Their link about heavy metal poisoning being "rejected by medical science" is a broken link. Besides that the article is mostly just attempted character assassination of various people and goes after some of the more fringe elements / treatments in the field. A huge part of functional medicine is just helping the patient address lifestyle factors - diet, exercise, sleep, stress, and removing negative environmental influences, whether those are a person, a diet issue (particular foods can do a lot of damage), a physical environmental issue such as mold, etc. The first step that every (decent) functional medicine doctor takes with a new patient is just looking for nutritional deficiencies and other lifestyle factors, and doing tests and asking questions to check for those things. Completely uncontroversial and backed up by science that everyone on earth agrees with. But regular doctors don't even take that basic step for their patients because it takes too long to actually learn about a person, their background, their personality, etc. and actually help them create lifestyle change. Beyond that, I wish the critics would actually address the more common treatments in functional medicine instead of the fringe stuff. Things like alternative treatments for parasites (blastocystis, various worms, dientamoeba, etc.), candida overgrowth, SIBO, heavy metal poisoning, various autoimmune issues, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal issues, etc. The modern healthcare system is broken in a hundred ways but instead of having any curiosity about alternative approaches folks like the author of this article just attack the field and the people in it rabidly.
- ch4s3 4y agoAs the other commenter pointed out, functional medicine has no backing in evidence. As an anecdote a functional "doctor" recently told my mother-in-law to have all of her fillings removed to treat a thyroid problem, which is obviously nonsense.
- cryptonector 4y agoGP did not mention homeopathy, and this is the first time I've ever heard of allopathy being a derogatory term.
- ch4s3 4y agoIt was a term invented by homeopath cooks.
- CodeWriter23 4y agoFalse. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allopathy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allopathy
- bitwize 4y agoYour source (under "allopathic") literally cites the coiner as Samuel Hahnemann, the original homeopath kook.
- cryptonector 4y ago> The first known use of allopathy was in 1832 In 1832 most medical doctors were probably kooks by today's standards. They certainly knew very little.
- bitwize 4y agoTrue... but the discipline of homeopathy is stuck in 1832. Despite the advances in evidence-based medicine from the back half of the 19th century through today, to homeopaths and other quacks no progress has been made since the days of bloodletting and mercury tinctures, it's all dangerous "allopathy".
- ch4s3 4y agoThis is standard gish-gallop. You're wrong on the facts and deflecting by bringing up a tangential topic. Only homeopath charlatans use the word allopathy and they invented it.
- AlexandrB 4y agoWhy would you assume that Candida auris is anything like common yeast? Different fungi feed on different things.
- DoreenMichele 4y agoAntibiotic resistant infections are a whole other ballgame. You have to do better than that to kill them.
- CodeWriter23 4y agoYou misspelled antifungal.
- DoreenMichele 4y ago#NoteToSelf HN is still full of pedants. Must get in the habit of saying drug resistant so that when I'm tired, distracted, etc, I don't misspell antifungal.