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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Most of these drugs are just expensive patent medicines. > Since Ramadan joined the committee, the drugs Invega Sustenna and Abilify Maintena have always made the preferred list. These two drugs are atypical antipsychotics. They are pall
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
You have a very good point about patient expectations. But patients have been trained to expect a prescription for magic pills from the doctor, and the doctors do their best to oblige, even when they ought to recommend a lifestyle intervent
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Honey is making a comeback for problematic wounds. The most researched kind is from New Zealand, Mānuka honey [0], but really any kind of honey will do. I've [also] read that [white] sugar works too - from a search now, [1]. [0] https
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Medical profiteers broke the health insurance system. Insurance companies encourage profiteering by taking a flat percentage of the total amount spent.
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
(Just noticed your reply. It's been 5 days - this reply is strictly "for the record" & I don't expect you to notice). > You are trying to argue that hormone therapy has no therapeutic value [...] Estrogen therapy
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Conventional doctors still prescribe premarin, as if horse urine still has therapeutic value. Premarin == PREgnant MAre's uRINe. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugated_estrogens The tragedy of this situation i
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
> I don't think I've ever heard of a blood test for a mental disorder Autism, and all the other pseudo-mental disorders, have always had underlying physiological considerations. It is a mistake to treat people with these diagno
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
No, I'm saying that birth trauma (related to a Nuchal Cord [0], and possibly a breech birth [edit: just confirmed she was born breech; doctor tried pulling her out with forceps and the nuchal cord wrapped around her neck made her birth
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My mother had to have her gallbladder taken out ... maybe 6 months ago. IIRC she was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis at that time too. If she'd been taking better care of herself, she might not have deteriorated to the point that gal
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There's nothing sexist about it. She was a mess, I helped her deal with her problems, she greatly appreciates the help. My point was that people's presentations have a context. She was an emotional wreck because of all the differe
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
> Massage doesn’t cure tonsillectomy Tonsillectomy is prevented by figuring out why the tonsils are becoming inflamed in the first place. I said "bodywork (massage/etc)" because most people aren't familiar with the di
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
> Why people lose trust is another discussion, but I don’t think it’s through an entirely rational process... I think "losing trust" is entirely a rational process. 20th century medical science suffered from single-causism [0]
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I didn't vote your comment down, but I would suspect it was this line: > Because we’re starting to see a break down in trust in the western world too (for example with the anti-vaccination movement). This sentence is borderline-symp
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> The term was coined by a homeopathic doctor with he perceived intent of siloing modern scientific medication and medical study rather than attributing the legitimacy it’s earned due to the accepted rigours of the scientific process. Th
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> If you truly want to understand, you need to be open to the possibility that they are right. Chickenpox is not a horrible disease that ought to be vaccinated against. Pro-vaxxers don't realize that they're missing the big pic
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
Consideration of an illness' context is the one of the most important reforms needed in our approach to health. 20th century doctors were trained to think that nutrition/stress/living environment were of no relevance to their
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by tcj_phx 8y ago
The whac-a-mole [1] tendency of psychiatry is revealed by this line from this submission's link: > Assessment and treatment of vitamin D deficiency should be considered in in-patients to protect musculoskeletal health . Further epi
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
Improved cancer survival rates may be related to shifting diagnostic patterns. "Pre-cancer" might not have deteriorated into full-blown cancer, but since it was caught it was treated, and marked as a success. > most of the gain
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
I also have some conventional/non-controversial ideas that ought to be verified - interventions that I have personally verified work as expected. I will look into the NIH's programs for funding these investigations. Thanks for the
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
> This work is being done in "allopathic" medical schools and hospitals and in biology labs that are the source of most allopathic medicine. 'Allopath' is considered a derogatory term by the modern doctors who are awa
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
Your comment history suggests that you've been through medical school. I like to say that sometimes doctors do good work, and sometimes they make work for themselves. Please take this response as a gentle and well-intended effort to pr
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
> But it doesn’t hold any striking new insights. All of this is not merely known but in fact fundamental knowledge. A lot of "fundamental knowledge" in medicine is wrong. The genetic theory of cancer has always been a dead-end
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> But the first layer is still DNA. This would be one hypothesis. The article is about how the competing field of inquiry ("bioelectricity") has been mistakenly ignored for the past 60+ years. What if the field is more importan
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
Everything old is new again. Early 20th-century biologists were exploring the role of fields in the development of embryos. This line of inquiry was snuffed out when DNA came along. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
Coconut oil helps eliminate the cause of alcohol cravings (insulin resistance of nerve/brain cells). Naltrexone and sugary foods are helpful too. Orange juice is an ideal source of sugar.
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
When I met the friend who taught me about heroin, I figured she was "high as a kite" because she chattered from topic to topic like a butterfly. She called back a few days later, and started to invite me into her world. I didn&#x2
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
The fetus imprints its mother's voice. Searching for that brings up lots of relevant links, such as How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain , https://aeon.co/ideas/how-a-mother-s-voice-shapes-her-b
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
> I don't think any of the people involved in the science here want to be doing paliative solutions, but rather it's the best they can get funding for. Elisabeth Rosenthal wrote An American Sickness about this phenomenon. Thi
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
> Re. your quote about the ego, I didn't quite get its meaning. Can you elaborate on it? I think the "false ego" is when a person creates a sort of 'personality' that isn't based on reality. These are the pe
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by tcj_phx 9y ago
> Rather than activate the receptor, another drug called naltrexone blocks the receptor and can decrease cravings over time. Naltrexone is essentially a vaccine against both opioids and and alcohol. My recovered-alcoholic friend found th

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