Wonder drugs can’t solve our obesity problem
A contentious issue so putting this opinion piece here in the War Zone.
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Too many assume that they can follow self-destructive behavior and science will be able to come to their rescue.
Don't bet your life on that. |
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Too true. Very sad. Big pharma rakes in the huge bucks, squeezing the little fish. Its very sad. |
Demi, thank you posting the entire article from The Times. I’m seeing more articles in the US about serious side effects, and now personal injury attorneys going after the Pharma companies for downplaying the serious permanent side effects. This story is fast evolving.
https://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=485276 I live in an area with many large Novo Nordisk US operations, getting bigger by the monthhttps://www.fiercepharma.com/manufa...-north-carolina |
When I was a child, our family physician said that we should assume every drug has a side-effect, some mild, some major.
He said they were very powerful tools, but should be used as a last resort when more natural methods don't work. I think he was wise. Bob |
THAT is what I teach my children!
Every drug comes with a hidden price, sometimes little, sometimes BIG. Avoid all drugs, even pain relievers when possible. |
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I live by that. Not a purist; I believe in supplements, especially since my weakened state means I can't always digest enough food without help. But now it's shown that the constant steroid injections into troubled joints was a bad idea. The person would have been better off not having any treatment, sadly. Masking the symptoms so people keep eating high profit items. That's what it is boiling down to. Because for many, lessened joint pain is worth giving up "treats." They are abusive partners, we might say. |
Yes, we are victims of powerful food companies and pharmaceutical companies. Follow the 🤑 money.
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This is an ironic result of the last century's successes with drugs like the sulfas and antibiotics. The conviction spread among the general public. Snake oil remedies switched to pill form as a result. Everyone believed in magic drugs.
In the sixties transplants started, and it's not the surgery as much as shutting down what was seen as the "troublesome part" of their great triumph of replacement. Knowing what we know about steroids since then, I find it troubling that it is extended to people who don't have a transplanted organ. To me, that's a big difference. I had a much easier time rejecting the autoimmune standard of care because there really isn't one. My own issues presented and progressed in atypical ways. I couldn't figure it out at first, and so any notes might not be down as autoimmune at all. It was hard for them to commit to a diagnosis, then, difficult to treat. So I avoided it, too, since I already knew what they would say and do, and it was already not working for me. My GP at the time agreed that if I could avoid the drugs, I should. Never got passed on to a specialist, but there's nothing new out there, since. Dr. Terry Wahl's book highlighted my own convictions, and she convinced me "it's all one disease." They get hung up on the classification and which drug and miss the whole point of what's causing it. It's their training, the local Patient Advocate agrees. It's so mechanical, the doctors themselves aren't thinking about what they are doing. They will admit they don't know why my immune system is confused. Now that I'm in a properly nourished body, I don't think so. The oxalate theory explained my remaining symptoms even after fixing so many with better food. I feel, and perform, better. It also explains that my body is actually reacting to something, and even the lingering symptoms can be explained by different ways the body sheds oxalate. And yet, DH has moved himself towards something more unconventional in many ways. After too many bags of veg spoiling in the fridge, I convinced him our programming was pointless. I'm the one who actually likes romaine and onion, and ate whatever didn't spoil. He realized he was eating something he didn't like out of obligation, he had been taught that as a child, as we both were. I had a habit of periods where I went off nuts and vegetables, and now I simply stay off them. It was the oxalates all along. So, it's not a lack of necessary pharmacueticals in my case. I think they should be up front about what they are offering, and start with a B-12 shot for vegans. People cross a threshold because they go "plant based" and I'm convinced a lot of it presents like autoimmune. Now we are in a mess. |
Growing up I was surrounded by reseachers. So developed the mindset that medicine and drugs was nearly godlike. Even remember a topnotch physiologist kindly telling me to eliminate one stick of butter (really margarine), to decrease my obesity.
We now need the research to show the real benefits of eating real food, danger of franken foods and more on side effects of drugs. |
Some of the tools that have been developed in my lifetime are truly miraculous. When, needed, they provide life and comfort that were not even imagined 50 years ago. But using these methods when they aren't necessary IMO is asking for trouble.
But then, I'm no doctor, so I can't make the decision for anyone but myself. |
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