The purpose of medicine is to have you come back for more medicine.
M.D.s will not and do not prescribe great food, healthy nutrition, walking shoes, gym memberships, or exercise. Why? No $$ in that "health care".
They want and need you to come back for MORE MEDICINE!
Not many things in life are worse to live with than chronic pain. I fixed some chronic pain yesterday. I climbed back into the Sea of Cortez and went to work in the salt. My morning swim today was a beautiful thing. If you don't use it, you lose it. Mornings in the sea in Cabo are a beautiful thing. Swimming is great medicine. Funny I have never gotten a prescription for an ocean swim.
That said, if medications truly worked, why would you need to refill them every month? Because they don’t fix the problem—they just mask the symptoms while the disease continues.
An antibiotic cures an infection. But weight loss drugs, blood pressure meds, and diabetes medications? They just keep you dependent.If your doctor is trying to put you on meds instead of taking you off them, you need a new doctor.
Medications for chronic disease do not cure you; they are just an antidote. If you want the cure, you'll have to stop poisoning yourself.
The poison is ultra-processed foods, causing us to eat 500-1,000 calories extra every day over time, causing energy toxicity. What is energy toxicity? It's obesity spilling over into excess visceral (belly) fat once you're past your personal fat threshold. Now you have a fatty liver. You have insulin resistance. You have high insulin and high blood pressure. Your blood glucose is rising. Soon, you'll have type 2 diabetes (severe energy toxicity). Keep it up, and a decade or two or three later, you'll get heart disease, cancer, dementia, stroke... and by then, it may be hard to fix things. Today, you can fix it. Fix the energy toxicity. Cut out the foods that make you overeat, the ultra-processed, low-satiety-per-calorie foods that make you need to eat more. You can try a low-carb diet, a high-protein diet, or only eat real foods (nothing processed). These options all work.
I think the simplest and potentially most effective approach may be to go straight for the problem. Eat foods that are more satiating per calorie, on average. That makes you eat less. That fixes the energy toxicity, and you'll likely get stronger and leaner, too.
Remember I said this. Get yourself healthy, it's your responsibility.
Any pill you take long term is a business model, not a medicine.
Remember kids: The healthcare system is a for-profit industry that makes its money selling pills and procedures to sick people, not fresh meat and vegetables to healthy people.
Here lies the problem. The average American is a lazy fuck. People like pills. Most Americans don't have the ability or drive to do hard work. People are unable or unwilling to enact the lifestyle changes required to prevent or reverse disease.
Big Pharma is evil but the average person is too dam lazy and not in control of their own body. Look at the obesity in America.
Here's a thought.
Don't be average.
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