Medical Mistory

We want to live long healthy lives

You wouldn’t want to resort to black and white thinking. You wouldn’t want to lose out from the good you can get just because you wouldn’t trust the source implicitly.

Medical scams have been around since medicine began. Chazal say טוב שברופאים לגהינים

Still, I wouldn’t want to discredit western medicine for what is has accomplished. (for us) Modern medicine has easy to use cast for injuries, anti-biotic creams, insulin for diabetes. Infant mortality has gone down, according to anything I’ve seen on the subject. Many mistakes that were widespread over western medicine have been corrected. With Hashem’s help we’ll correct the rest.

Only Hashem controls the life and death of a person. Including, which information he will find out and when, if the medicine offered will cure the disease, and if said person will get sick to begin with.

It’s true that Big phrama is running a lot of scams from top to bottom and bottom up. There is a skyrocketing amount of corruption in modern medicine, for example cancer treatment.

And there definitely are some holistic/naturalist scammers. And plenty of people that claimed to have found the ‘cure of all ills’ which is really a cure of some ills.

Still, I don’t think it’s worth it, to ignore what you could gain, because you don’t like their political affiliation.

In the middle ages in Europe, bad medical practices could be blamed for much of the mortality. Also today, bad medical practice could be blamed for much of the disease we see, be it physical, emotional or mental. There is a list of diseases called ‘diseases of the modern world’ They barely existed in the ancient societies. (and so too today, in societies that still live that way)

Handing out drugs like candy won’t force humanity into health. Especially, since all their drugs have side effects.

It’s very sad that the medical institution and big phrama refuse to acknowledge the idea that there could be better out there. They completely ignore, even ridicule, a whole lot of peer reviewed studies, with real scientific vigor with maybe not 100% success rates, but at least better than the expensive drugs being offered.

It’s also sad that they haven’t advanced much as far as results are concerned in quite a while. Yes, we are living longer than during the middle ages. Technology seems to rush so fast. And so much of tax payer’s money is put into ‘medical research’ And the results on the ground are minimal.

Why are we not living healthy until 120, (maybe that is lot to ask for by why are elderly people so sick for so many years the ancient tribes don’t have that.)

Why has life expectancy not risen in the last 50 yrs? Why has the maternal mortality rate not dropped in 100 yrs? Why does cancer have no cure, even after all the cancer drugs? Why is depression on the rise, even with all the health professionals? They keep promising, with just a little bit more money and another experiment, we will finally have found the solution. Yet, they said that last time and still nothing. But instead of admitting disappointment (or trying a something radical, like natural health) They keep the same hopeful promise.
They have a lot of false humility, when they say ‘we don’t now yet’ what they really mean is we don’t yet have enough money.

And science should invest the time in figuring out the root cause of illness.

The ancient people had some excellent medical practices. They should be studied and if proved helpful should be routinely available. Standard medicine just mocks this stuff without even checking it out. (For example: Egyptians elevated their beds slightly like a half a foot at the head side. This has later been studied to improve circulation.) Obviously, the ancient people also had some way of minimizing infections. Did the people in Chazal’s times die of infection every time they got a cut?

It’s not even fair to call them alternative medicine, as it they are doomed to fail, so why try. Many, many of them work a lot better than the available conventional stuff. And they have been properly studied. Sometimes we know the mechanism of how it works. Most of them have so little side effects. So in that case there isn’t much to lose.

When checking out a medication for yourself, a pharmaceutical drug. Please check the side effects. That list is real. It’s not an over precaution.

Also, find out from regular people, who took the drug, what was their experience. For example which brand of ADHD medication worked for them. When it comes to cancer and chemotherapy you’ll probably get like ‘none’ So then look for some alternative treatments.

It’s not an informed choice, if you go to the Dr’s office and he says. I’ve evaluated your son. He has ASD. here’s a prescription. So you then ask could these symptoms be an allergic reaction to food colors? and then the doctor laughs at you, what are you quack?
That’s not nice. Belittling is not scientific. If you would have asked is autism hereditary or just genetic. He wouldn’t have laughed, he would have humbly said we don’t know.

Why, there have been people who said going off food colors worked for them in treating autism. No, I don’t have exact numbers. I don’t have to give numbers, or even verify my facts; I’m not selling a drug. The doctor should justify why he thinks a small boy should be taking a drug to do a regular thing like go to school. Why can’t he say, maybe just maybe, the solution could be to fix something in the environment. Doctors and Big phrama have yet to prove the theory wrong.

I’m not ridiculing modern medicine, I appreciate what the knowledge they have can do for humanity. I begging science to promote wellness. Not a series of drugs for every pain or disorder. But a healthy lifestyle that prevents diseases from accruing in the first place and to recommend as the order of first treatment, the natural, low side effect and easily available options.