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It is absolutely true for certain conditions. If you have insomnia and go to a doctor they want to put you on Ambien CR for the rest of your life. There aren't

It is absolutely true for certain conditions. If you have insomnia and go to a doctor they want to put you on Ambien CR for the rest of your life. There aren't even any reliable tests for magnesium deficiency. Psyllium husk for cholesterol? Never heard a doctor mention that, all they recommend is statins. Your experience is clearly different from mine. The notion that Western doctors recommend natural medicines when possible is extraordinary. If they did, naturopathic doctors will not have jobs.

Nursie 9mo ago
‘Western’ doctors generally recommend things that work and are proven to work. They don’t always get it right but in general that is at least the driving idea. Psyllium husk is a source of dietary fibre and has been shown to to absorb cholesterol from bile as it passes through the digestive tract, hence it can be recommended as an evidence-based first attempt at reducing levels. Statins are likely to be an escalation from there if it doesn’t help. Magnesium blood tests exist - https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/amp/article/magnesium-blood-test https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/amp/article/magnesium-blood-... Naturopathic ‘doctors’ have jobs because the credulous believe they’re something other than quacks. Naturopathy is a grab bag of unproven, alt-med bullshit and should be regarded as nothing more than charlatanry. Your view of western medicine is nonsense driven by antipathy. Yes, there are problems with money from big Pharma corrupting the system. That doesn’t mean any of the woo-woo alt systems are any more real. They’re all far worse because they don’t even start with an evidence base.
- lateforwork 9mo ago
  > Your view of western medicine is nonsense driven by antipathy. The same could be said about your view of natural and traditional medicine. > ‘Western’ doctors generally recommend things that work and are proven to work. That's true of traditional medicine as well. The difference is how they are proven. Western medicines prove using a double blind study. It is expensive and you can't get funding for such studies unless an investor is assured of returns for their investment, which is only possible for novel, patentable medicines. And that means many natural medicines that work are ignored by the Western system. Traditional medicine on the other hand prove that something works not using double blind studies but 100s years of actual experience. An example is magnesium. Doctors don't know that it works for muscle tightness and insomnia because no one has done a double blind study on it with thousands of patients. And nobody will because magnesium is not patentable. And so they prescribe Ambien CR, a very harmful and addictive drug. It is a very broken system, and you don't seem to want to acknowledge those limitations. (And no, no reliable tests exist for magnesium deficiency but that's a side point.) > Naturopathy is a grab bag of unproven, alt-med bullshit and should be regarded as nothing more than charlatanry. Yeah.. this attitude is the problem. > They’re all far worse because they don’t even start with an evidence base. They do, perhaps not in a way that satisfies you, but they do. The evidence is based on 100s of years of experience.

Nursie 9mo ago

‘Western’ doctors generally recommend things that work and are proven to work. They don’t always get it right but in general that is at least the driving idea. Psyllium husk is a source of dietary fibre and has been shown to to absorb cholesterol from bile as it passes through the digestive tract, hence it can be recommended as an evidence-based first attempt at reducing levels. Statins are likely to be an escalation from there if it doesn’t help. Magnesium blood tests exist - https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/amp/article/magnesium-blood-test https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/amp/article/magnesium-blood-... Naturopathic ‘doctors’ have jobs because the credulous believe they’re something other than quacks. Naturopathy is a grab bag of unproven, alt-med bullshit and should be regarded as nothing more than charlatanry. Your view of western medicine is nonsense driven by antipathy. Yes, there are problems with money from big Pharma corrupting the system. That doesn’t mean any of the woo-woo alt systems are any more real. They’re all far worse because they don’t even start with an evidence base.

lateforwork 9mo ago
> Your view of western medicine is nonsense driven by antipathy. The same could be said about your view of natural and traditional medicine. > ‘Western’ doctors generally recommend things that work and are proven to work. That's true of traditional medicine as well. The difference is how they are proven. Western medicines prove using a double blind study. It is expensive and you can't get funding for such studies unless an investor is assured of returns for their investment, which is only possible for novel, patentable medicines. And that means many natural medicines that work are ignored by the Western system. Traditional medicine on the other hand prove that something works not using double blind studies but 100s years of actual experience. An example is magnesium. Doctors don't know that it works for muscle tightness and insomnia because no one has done a double blind study on it with thousands of patients. And nobody will because magnesium is not patentable. And so they prescribe Ambien CR, a very harmful and addictive drug. It is a very broken system, and you don't seem to want to acknowledge those limitations. (And no, no reliable tests exist for magnesium deficiency but that's a side point.) > Naturopathy is a grab bag of unproven, alt-med bullshit and should be regarded as nothing more than charlatanry. Yeah.. this attitude is the problem. > They’re all far worse because they don’t even start with an evidence base. They do, perhaps not in a way that satisfies you, but they do. The evidence is based on 100s of years of experience.