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Any medicine that is disproportionately represented in our post hunter-gatherer treatment plans, especially synthesized chemicals, must have an element of "bad
by morelisp 3y ago
Any medicine that is disproportionately represented in our post hunter-gatherer treatment plans, especially synthesized chemicals, must have an element of "bad for you" in it.
Drink clean water and boil willow bark and don't sweat the small stuff.
- darkerside 3y agoWell, yeah. There's a reason these drugs all have side effects, and that the first principle of medicine is, Do No Harm. We have a long history of interventions leading to worse outcomes. It's just sometimes those bad outcomes are worth it by evading worse outcomes.
- TheSpiceIsLife 3y agoWhy should the general population increase their intact of salicin via Willow Bark? What kind of advice is that?
- gruez 3y agoI think he's satirizing the parent poster, by copying his logic and saying that we should eat willow bark rather than taking aspirin pills.