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I suggest watching the whole video, I found it very interesting. Here's my attempt to summarize the key points. An MIT-educated neurosurgeon quit his job afte
by zerof1l 2y ago
I suggest watching the whole video, I found it very interesting. Here's my attempt to summarize the key points.
An MIT-educated neurosurgeon quit his job after realizing surgeries weren’t addressing the root cause of patients’ problems. He observed that the outcome of surgeries would vary greatly: for some it would help, for others a bit and for others, it would not help at all even though he performed them perfectly every time. Some patients even called before the surgery to say that they were okay and no longer needed surgery.
So he started asking patients questions and after 9 years he concluded that patients who got better and healed did the following (at 19:42 in the video): low salt diet; mostly plant-based diet; did things that would cause sweat: exercise, sauna, or living in hot weather; did not smoke; drank little to no alcohol; had good social support: family, friends, etc; slept 8 hours a day; were not stressed or managed to release it back, e.g. meditate.
Then he talks about the moral dilemma. If he helps patients to truly heal by sharing what he has learned, he and the hospital would not make money.
- kazinator 2y agoThe combination of low salt intake and {exercise/sauna/hot weather} is poor advice. If your salt intake is low, and you start sweating due to hot weather, exercise or a new-found interest in saunas, you probably need to bump that up.
- careless_lisper 2y agoGoogle tells me that Americans consume on average 3.5g of salt, while the recommended intake is 2.3g. Quite some room there to decrease salt consumption.
- omnimus 2y agoSo he concluded that we should destroy capitalism?
- samiru 2y agoNo. The way we have built our healthcare system on top of private actors (at least here in Finland) has very little to do with capitalism. Successful lobbying, if not straight corruption, would be closer to the current situation.