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"Physician heal thyself" should definitely be a baseline in the health and medical establishment -- but it aint. Being in the top 5% of healthy people for your

"Physician heal thyself" should definitely be a baseline in the health and medical establishment -- but it aint. Being in the top 5% of healthy people for your age bracket should be table-stakes and we definitely do not have much of that.

wonderwonder 1y ago
Since I stopped going to the doctor and instead started managing my own health, I have been worlds better. I order my own blood work, healed my Achilles tendonitis on my own instead of having surgery, order my own medication where possible, etc. I still go to a dentist, get a doctor for a colonoscopy, etc as there are obviously things that I cannot do on my own. Everything else though I handle, just pulling in specialists where required. Going to a regular doctor is a lesson in frustration, they don't care, just want to prescribe whatever drug their hot pharmaceutical rep is pushing and have zero interest in working in the grey.
- eYrKEC2 1y ago
  > Achilles tendonitis Do say more. Nursing some achilles tendonitis on one leg right now.
  - wonderwonder 1y ago
    it takes a long time but if you stick with it, it works. Tendon stretches 2x a day with resistance bands. First thing in the morning and night before bed. 3 sets of ~30 - start light and move up. I just got a set of rubber bands off amazon for ~$25 Vitamin C - take at night Collagen supplement - I just got the powder and I mix it in water - take at night with the vitamin C Peptides TB-500 BCP-157 GHK-Cu Ask chatgpt about how much sterile water to mix with the peptides and for a dosing chart Peptides can be injected subq in belly fat or closer to the injury in the calf - don't inject into the tendon. GHK-Cu is also going to help your skin look good so a little bonus. Recommend doing the band workouts, vitamin c and collagen for a month to gauge progress. You can move on to the peptides after that, lots of people don't like shots so would recommend starting with the less invasive parts of the plan and scale accordingly. took 3 months but I went from getting out of bed and having to hop around for 2 hours until the tendon warmed up to getting out of bed and no pain. Its still not 100% but I can jog lightly now and do heavy calf raises without issue. Alternative was surgery. Note: my tendon did not rupture, that's a whole other ball game where surgery is pretty much a must.
    - eYrKEC2 1y ago
      Thank you for that. For your consideration, I just ran across Dr. Keith Baar of UC Davis via Tim Ferriss' podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFzjcPTSsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFzjcPTSsc He is recommending isometrics for tendon health, which is something I'm also going to incorporate.
      - ruibiks 1y ago
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wonderwonder 1y ago

Since I stopped going to the doctor and instead started managing my own health, I have been worlds better. I order my own blood work, healed my Achilles tendonitis on my own instead of having surgery, order my own medication where possible, etc. I still go to a dentist, get a doctor for a colonoscopy, etc as there are obviously things that I cannot do on my own. Everything else though I handle, just pulling in specialists where required. Going to a regular doctor is a lesson in frustration, they don't care, just want to prescribe whatever drug their hot pharmaceutical rep is pushing and have zero interest in working in the grey.

eYrKEC2 1y ago
> Achilles tendonitis Do say more. Nursing some achilles tendonitis on one leg right now.
- wonderwonder 1y ago
  it takes a long time but if you stick with it, it works. Tendon stretches 2x a day with resistance bands. First thing in the morning and night before bed. 3 sets of ~30 - start light and move up. I just got a set of rubber bands off amazon for ~$25 Vitamin C - take at night Collagen supplement - I just got the powder and I mix it in water - take at night with the vitamin C Peptides TB-500 BCP-157 GHK-Cu Ask chatgpt about how much sterile water to mix with the peptides and for a dosing chart Peptides can be injected subq in belly fat or closer to the injury in the calf - don't inject into the tendon. GHK-Cu is also going to help your skin look good so a little bonus. Recommend doing the band workouts, vitamin c and collagen for a month to gauge progress. You can move on to the peptides after that, lots of people don't like shots so would recommend starting with the less invasive parts of the plan and scale accordingly. took 3 months but I went from getting out of bed and having to hop around for 2 hours until the tendon warmed up to getting out of bed and no pain. Its still not 100% but I can jog lightly now and do heavy calf raises without issue. Alternative was surgery. Note: my tendon did not rupture, that's a whole other ball game where surgery is pretty much a must.
  - eYrKEC2 1y ago
    Thank you for that. For your consideration, I just ran across Dr. Keith Baar of UC Davis via Tim Ferriss' podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFzjcPTSsc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnFzjcPTSsc He is recommending isometrics for tendon health, which is something I'm also going to incorporate.
    - ruibiks 1y ago
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