You write about an innovative Western medical sector. As far as I know, Western medicine hasn't produce much good since 1960. It's mostly revamping old medicines to extend their patent life, often making the medicine worse on average. Author Dick Bijl writes about that https://artsencollectief.nl/dick-bijl/ as a member of the International Society of Drug Bulletins (ISDB).
Your diabetes graph is absolutely shocking. If you can make something as complex as a mobile phone, how can you get food incentives so wrong?
You think so? How much was known about, say, gut issues back in the 1960s? How about about the role played in health by the internal microflora? Or about auto-immune issues? To my knowledge, few of these concepts even existed back then ;)
Dick Bijl makes a good case, and the statistics teacher at my college said the same thing. It also matches my personal experience.
An "anamnese" is old school medicine, and the recommended action is also old school, adjusting your diet.
New school medicine is all about tests and medicine and surgeries. The results are visible on every street. The decline in average health is unbelievable.
As to your point about the diabetes chart, it is indeed pretty grim. Unfortunately until the folks in Beijing abandon their current ridiculous "zero speech" policy it's hard to see how this is likely to change ;)
A lot of those criticisms about underlying causes can also be applied to Western medicine. Alternative medicine practitioners may not be as hard to find, but because they're almost never covered by insurance, are out of most people's reach.
The Austrian position is that choice is always better than no choice, regardless of the price. But you are certainly correct that the regulatory jungle and the overall low level of disposable income in many countries makes it difficult to pay out of pocket for such costs. This is of course no accident. It's the whole point of making sure that insurance companies exclude alternative practitioners.
You write about an innovative Western medical sector. As far as I know, Western medicine hasn't produce much good since 1960. It's mostly revamping old medicines to extend their patent life, often making the medicine worse on average. Author Dick Bijl writes about that https://artsencollectief.nl/dick-bijl/ as a member of the International Society of Drug Bulletins (ISDB).
Your diabetes graph is absolutely shocking. If you can make something as complex as a mobile phone, how can you get food incentives so wrong?
You think so? How much was known about, say, gut issues back in the 1960s? How about about the role played in health by the internal microflora? Or about auto-immune issues? To my knowledge, few of these concepts even existed back then ;)
Dick Bijl makes a good case, and the statistics teacher at my college said the same thing. It also matches my personal experience.
An "anamnese" is old school medicine, and the recommended action is also old school, adjusting your diet.
New school medicine is all about tests and medicine and surgeries. The results are visible on every street. The decline in average health is unbelievable.
"Old school medicine" has also come a long way since then....
As to your point about the diabetes chart, it is indeed pretty grim. Unfortunately until the folks in Beijing abandon their current ridiculous "zero speech" policy it's hard to see how this is likely to change ;)
Hello Thinking Turtle!! Hope you are fine.
I also strongly advice you to read Firstenberg's book. Mobile phones "might" (an understatement) be a cause for the sad state of our health...
Thanks for the reading tip! Do you mean the "The Invisible Rainbow"?
Of course I meant The Invisible Rainbow which I have almost finished. This book is a must read .
I hope you stay quietly and slowly strong and healthy.
Respect
A lot of those criticisms about underlying causes can also be applied to Western medicine. Alternative medicine practitioners may not be as hard to find, but because they're almost never covered by insurance, are out of most people's reach.
The Austrian position is that choice is always better than no choice, regardless of the price. But you are certainly correct that the regulatory jungle and the overall low level of disposable income in many countries makes it difficult to pay out of pocket for such costs. This is of course no accident. It's the whole point of making sure that insurance companies exclude alternative practitioners.
Thank you very much for that article.
I strongly advice you to acquire and read Arthur Firstenberg, "The Invisible Rainbow" refering to what causes the 'epidemic' of heart diseases, diabetes and cancer. His point of view should really be taken into account. https://archive.org/details/the-invisible-rainbow-a-history-of-electricity-and-life-arthur-firstenberg-z-lib.org/The%20Invisible%20Rainbow%20A%20History%20of%20Electricity%20and%20Life%20%28Arthur%20Firstenberg%29%20%28z-lib.org%29/
I gave that link to a free access to his book but I think it is better to buy it so that his work be rewarded.
Take care
Respectfully
Lionel
PS: I have been mostly keto for almost a decade with great success...