Take a drug Get a side effect Take another drug for the side effect
If you don't use the phrase "FUCK OFF" to your doctor's face, you can wind up on 8 billion meds that way. But they make more money selling the meds than telling us the dietary cures.
For example, cutting soy out of my diet really helped my thyroid for a long time. But no one other than a naturopath is going to tell a patient that: soy is a huge cash crop, and they'd rather treat you with expensive thyroid meds they get kickbacks from. And yes, I am now going to a doctor with the expectation of going on thyroid meds, but only because I did the diet/supplement thing, and now it's failing. Of course, if my educated guess is right, my whole family has this condition and it's getting worse with each generation, so ya know... that's a pretty good example of when one might need to resort to drugs.
IMO, dietary changes, supplements and activity recommendations should preceed medical prescriptions. But then pharm woudln't be the #1 $$$ industry in the US, even outpacing designer jeans and their 1000% profit margins.
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Take a drug
Get a side effect
Take another drug for the side effect
If you don't use the phrase "FUCK OFF" to your doctor's face, you can wind up on 8 billion meds that way. But they make more money selling the meds than telling us the dietary cures.
For example, cutting soy out of my diet really helped my thyroid for a long time. But no one other than a naturopath is going to tell a patient that: soy is a huge cash crop, and they'd rather treat you with expensive thyroid meds they get kickbacks from. And yes, I am now going to a doctor with the expectation of going on thyroid meds, but only because I did the diet/supplement thing, and now it's failing. Of course, if my educated guess is right, my whole family has this condition and it's getting worse with each generation, so ya know... that's a pretty good example of when one might need to resort to drugs.
IMO, dietary changes, supplements and activity recommendations should preceed medical prescriptions. But then pharm woudln't be the #1 $$$ industry in the US, even outpacing designer jeans and their 1000% profit margins.