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[Lily]

Each cancer is different and some only prolong life.

 

[Lily]

But there are cures that are coming. Immunotherapy is a huge development and I see that becoming more common over time.

 

[LotusBud]

That's the problem. Every cancer is different, and every person's immune system is different. It's really unfortunate the science waited so very long to research alternative rememdies. If they had been doing research into stuff that's not patentable all this time, we'd be much further along.

 

[Lily]

We don't invest enough, really, in science Lotus

 

[Reggie_Essent]

I think RFK and Wednesday are on to something. There's big money in "managing symptoms" and the money train stops cold when people get "cured." I treat my BPH with saw palmetto and African Pygeum for about a tenth of the cost of the standard drugs prescribed.

 

[Lily]

Most HBP pills have been off patent for years and there's not big money in it.

 

[Lily]

Most HBP pills have been off patent for years and there's not big money in it. @Reggie_Essent

 

[Lily]

An elderly lady friend of mine has hbp, diabetes, and congestive heart failure, was on several meds

 

[LotusBud]

We don't invest enough in research that is not patentable, that is for sure. Doctors, until very recently, got almost no training in the connections between nutrition and disease. I mean close to zero. That's criminal, imo. I was at the doc on ce in SM, and one of the docs had a high school kid in the hall right outside my room. She was telling him that is he felt weak during a football game to eat a candy bar. WTF?

 

[Lily]

She decided to believe the stupid shit she read on facebook and stopped taking her meds

 

[Lily]

She had another heart attack and needs open heart surgery

 

[Lily]

But isn't well enough to have emergency surgery.

 

[Lily]

She has to be monitored daily by an RN to make sure she takes her meds and get those numbers down to have surgery.

 

[LotusBud]

eah, well, people have to know what they're doing if they do their own research. But I still don't trust doctors to do it well. They have been telling me absolute bullshit my entire life. I had to learn to research.

 

[Lily]

Glucose isn't a bad thing for a spurt of energy, but honey or orange juice could work too.

 

[Lily]

Every doctor I've had has steered me correctly, though I acknowledge that they don't understand nutrition. So, mine referred me to a nutritionist when I asked.

 

[LotusBud]

Bodies were designed to run on nutrition. I think it's a crime that doctors aren't given very detailed training in nutrition and how it actually makes the body either work or start to break down.

 

[Alticus]

I use only honey in my tea.

 

[LotusBud]

Wow, Altucis!

 

[Alticus]

Huh?

 

[Lily]

That's because medical schools existe before this modern society where people now eat 70% of their calories from processed food.

 

[Alticus]

I think this shit is kicking in.

 

[LotusBud]

Joke.

 

[Lily]

They didn't have to include nutrition education because people didn't eat processed foods that often.

 

[Alticus]

I see..thanks. :)

 

[Lily]

People didn't work in front of computers...they stood and moved about more.

 

[Lily]

It's modern times and the crap that gets funded and subsidized by Congress that is screwing us up. Like the corn lobby and HFCS

 

[Lily]

It's a complex problem with no quick fixes.

 

[Reggie_Essent]

Another part of the problem is the Catholics burned all the hedge witches at the stake and all their knowledge of the herbal parmocopia has to be rediscovered.

 

[Reggie_Essent]

Another part of the problem is the Catholics burned all the hedge witches at the stake and all their knowledge of the herbal pharmocopia has to be rediscovered.