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As somebody who follows this topic very closely (nutrition, inflammation, mental health and autoimmune diseases), I find Terry Wahls' work to be very encouragin

As somebody who follows this topic very closely (nutrition, inflammation, mental health and autoimmune diseases), I find Terry Wahls' work to be very encouraging. I also find the strong interest by the research communities in inflammation and its causes to be cause for hope. My personal opinion is we've created incredibly toxic environments through a thousand mildly-toxic cuts, and I hope we can make it better sometime soon.

Mz 12y ago
I guess my frustration is I have been resolving my own issues for more than thirteen years. To me, this should not remotely be a hope of "sometime soon." It is something I think we have the information to be resolving in the here and now. I am baffled and frustrated that I get so much hostility for attempting to speak of my own experiences in addressing such issues. Yes, a thousand mildly toxic cuts is certainly a factor in my life, snowballed in part due to a bottleneck in how my cells function. Thank you for commenting.
- SoftwareMaven 12y ago
  When I look back on the objective history of nutrition and chronic disease, I get extremely passed off. The entire field has been driven by egos and check books, even as good studies have shown how wrong those egos were. While we still have huge holes in our knowledge, there is a lot of good, rigorously tested information available today. The decision I've come to is that I'm going to trust nobody but myself. There are no authorities I trust, but there are people whose science I will read before others (people who've shown integrity and the ability to design and carry out good science (not very many, unfortunately)). Unfortunately, it's places like schizophrenia where our knowledge gaps are most pronounced. I hope some day we will understand the brain and, more importantly, be able to fix it. Good luck with your own issues. So many people don't take responsibility for their own health, and that's when this go really bad. Our society believes doctors are the beginning and end of our health. They may be the end[1], but we, individually, are the beginning. 1. I'm referring to chronic conditions here. Doctors have done some amazing things for infectious and acute disorders.

Mz 12y ago

I guess my frustration is I have been resolving my own issues for more than thirteen years. To me, this should not remotely be a hope of "sometime soon." It is something I think we have the information to be resolving in the here and now. I am baffled and frustrated that I get so much hostility for attempting to speak of my own experiences in addressing such issues. Yes, a thousand mildly toxic cuts is certainly a factor in my life, snowballed in part due to a bottleneck in how my cells function. Thank you for commenting.

SoftwareMaven 12y ago
When I look back on the objective history of nutrition and chronic disease, I get extremely passed off. The entire field has been driven by egos and check books, even as good studies have shown how wrong those egos were. While we still have huge holes in our knowledge, there is a lot of good, rigorously tested information available today. The decision I've come to is that I'm going to trust nobody but myself. There are no authorities I trust, but there are people whose science I will read before others (people who've shown integrity and the ability to design and carry out good science (not very many, unfortunately)). Unfortunately, it's places like schizophrenia where our knowledge gaps are most pronounced. I hope some day we will understand the brain and, more importantly, be able to fix it. Good luck with your own issues. So many people don't take responsibility for their own health, and that's when this go really bad. Our society believes doctors are the beginning and end of our health. They may be the end[1], but we, individually, are the beginning. 1. I'm referring to chronic conditions here. Doctors have done some amazing things for infectious and acute disorders.