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Suzanne Gruber MSN, RN, BMTCN's avatar

Agreed!

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Saoirse's avatar

Spot on!

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Tracy Kolenchuk's avatar

Re: "Anecdotal - real life case study. The best evidence there is..." Also see STATISTICAL - as in 'lies, damn lies, and statistics,' a collection of anecdotal cases intentionally selected to support a pre-defined hypothesis.

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Tracy Kolenchuk's avatar

fun, and cute. Consider this:

Placebo effect: an effect caused by rationalization of a doctor who needs to avoid giving credit to the actual cause of an improvement because that cause is not an approved medicine.

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Mark.Kennard's avatar

I like it. I actually wrote an article on the placebo effect

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DearAuntEdna's avatar

I’m a nurse. These are good. I agree with you.

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ArielT's avatar

Thanks for this, I love your writing and relate with it deeply.

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Mark.Kennard's avatar

Thank you, that’s a great compliment. Much appreciated

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Flying Gabriel's avatar

Psychiatrist. I've met a few. In such diverse roles it invokes disbelief really, including a gaslighted patient. These are people best avoided entirely - they're nothing but over-paid salesmen for pharmaceutical companies. Natural remedies and new healing pathways are there to be found now, happy searching.

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Jane 333's avatar

Doctors are great magicians, great regurgitators, and great claimers and dis-claimers.

They wave a magic prescription pad, pronounce and dispatch.

If you get better, it was their advice, prescription. If you have little improvement, it's on you.

We have been conditioned to accept pHARMa solutions, cv19 was the ultimate test, and most swallowed it down whole.

May we learn to discern and detect non-science better as a society post cv19.

Because if the lesson is not learned, guess what it will be repeated and repeated.

Zero oxygen is required in mammalian physiology. Zero!

Hydration not oxygenation underpins our physiology.

Hydration equals salt plus water.

I have logically dismissed the gaseous exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Oxygen toxicity damages and will kill or cull. Dehydration results from oxygen inhalation.

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Leslie Dennis Taylor's avatar

The term autoimmune really frustrates me. The body never attacks its own tissue for no reason. This is perhaps the biggest fallacy in all of modern medicine. On the other hand, the immune suppressant Humira is the largest grossing medication in the history of medicine so I suppose the autoimmune narrative is working exactly as it was intended to work.

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Mark.Kennard's avatar

I agree entirely. It’s a bad term. The term they should be using is a hyperimmune response because that’s what happens when the immune system can’t cope. Thats why immunologists give the patient immuno suppressant drugs to stop the immune system from being in a hyper immune state which settles it down and stops it going haywire

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Leslie Dennis Taylor's avatar

Yes, but the real point that mainstream medicine is missing is that the tissue itself is damaged, and when you give the body the resources to rebuild the tissue, the body no longer attacks it. For example, in rheumatoid arthritis, the joints can be healed when the patient supplements with boron, and the fat soluble vitamins A, D, and K in food form (such as cod liver oil) which allows the body to put the minerals to use. Weston Price in the 1930s cured many from rheumatism through diet. But nutritional therapy takes many months to effect a turnaround and there is little profit in selling vitamin and mineral supplements that can't be patented.

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Mark.Kennard's avatar

I think the real point is that our health system is damaged - by design. This is to protect industry which is why allopathic drs are not allowed to investigate or diagnose the cause of disease.

I’ve reversed the disease process multiple times over my life and found healthcare to be very intuitive and very simple too. I eat lots of beef fat to keep the arthritis away that was triggered by an adverse event to bone cement in surgery. A drs job is to protect industry and not the patients health. They are required to blame everything on a fault in the patients own body. Because most think a drs job is to investigate the cause of disease and seek a cure, I decided to write about it so that people could see the logic of it and how they’ve been deceived by their drs their whole life. It’s turned into one of my most popular posts

https://healthcarenotmedicine.substack.com/p/allopathic-medicine-is-not-healthcare

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Leslie Dennis Taylor's avatar

absolutely agree! Good for you for reversing your disease! I did the same thing. I reversed type 2 diabetes, chronic migraines, gastritis, and an autoimmune condition called interstitial cystitis, plus I lost 45 lbs. I did most of it by intermittent fasting but also by eating most beef, eggs, raw milk, and cheese.

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Robert Yoho, MD's avatar

Great post and exactly accurate

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KatWarrior's avatar

Absolutely Brilliant and True! Bravo 🎊

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