> Nothing worthwhile comes for free. There are no such things easy fixes or health hacks. There are no shortcuts or easy solutions.
Antibiotics vs. the black death? Spectacles for short sight? Vaccines for smallpox? Surgery for appendicitis? Aspirins for headaches?
Once you actually understand, it's usually dead easy. And sometimes it's easy even if you don't understand. Persons advocating hard struggles are to be treated with suspicion. Only through the reliable performance of miracles can we know the wise.
This is a fair point I’m more speaking from the nutrition angle here helping people with chronic disease/obesity e.g. inject yourself with some GLP-1 drug rather than do the work to eat well and be healthy it’s natural to look for the shortcut but usually there is none. And we ignore the cost to our future health. Scientific discoveries to treat acute diseases you mention here is different that’s where current modern medicine excels.
... Vitamins for deficiencies, hormones for gland failures, surgery for appendicitis ...
> Scientific discoveries to treat acute diseases you mention here is different that’s where current modern medicine excels.
That's certainly where they excelled in the first half of the twentieth century. And a lot of that was just tidying up the implications of the germ theory, which was discovered by a chemist. Not too many new magic tricks since.
mRNA vaccines were cool, but even then, if you'd handed a tool like that to the heroic age medics they'd have gone out and used it.
H. pylori for stomach ulcers? I mean, bloody hell, still germ theory, and how long did it take them to accept that it was the cause? After blithering on about "stress" for fifty years.
Meanwhile a whole new set of horrors have mysteriously replaced all the old horrors and medicine seems roughly useless. OK, anti-tobacco campaigns I guess.
But if us loonies are right about linoleic acid then they've actually *caused* most of it.
Biochemistry is coming on in leaps and bounds, which is nice.
> Nothing worthwhile comes for free. There are no such things easy fixes or health hacks. There are no shortcuts or easy solutions.
Antibiotics vs. the black death? Spectacles for short sight? Vaccines for smallpox? Surgery for appendicitis? Aspirins for headaches?
Once you actually understand, it's usually dead easy. And sometimes it's easy even if you don't understand. Persons advocating hard struggles are to be treated with suspicion. Only through the reliable performance of miracles can we know the wise.
This is a fair point I’m more speaking from the nutrition angle here helping people with chronic disease/obesity e.g. inject yourself with some GLP-1 drug rather than do the work to eat well and be healthy it’s natural to look for the shortcut but usually there is none. And we ignore the cost to our future health. Scientific discoveries to treat acute diseases you mention here is different that’s where current modern medicine excels.
... Vitamins for deficiencies, hormones for gland failures, surgery for appendicitis ...
> Scientific discoveries to treat acute diseases you mention here is different that’s where current modern medicine excels.
That's certainly where they excelled in the first half of the twentieth century. And a lot of that was just tidying up the implications of the germ theory, which was discovered by a chemist. Not too many new magic tricks since.
mRNA vaccines were cool, but even then, if you'd handed a tool like that to the heroic age medics they'd have gone out and used it.
H. pylori for stomach ulcers? I mean, bloody hell, still germ theory, and how long did it take them to accept that it was the cause? After blithering on about "stress" for fifty years.
Meanwhile a whole new set of horrors have mysteriously replaced all the old horrors and medicine seems roughly useless. OK, anti-tobacco campaigns I guess.
But if us loonies are right about linoleic acid then they've actually *caused* most of it.
Biochemistry is coming on in leaps and bounds, which is nice.