Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-
I don't get the "high cholesterol" thing either. I'm on a pill for that too. But I've never said "Ouch! my cholesterol hurts!" What I heard sounded more like "Studies suggest that you should take these drugs
that were manufactured by the creators of covid-19." :)
Which is why I question my BP medicine.
But blood pressure and cholestrol are the "quiet scares" that they use on us. "You won't hurt until you have a stroke or heart attack. So you better take our pills that are not proven to prevent those things."
It's amazing how many things doctors take on faith today. It's like medicine is more religion than science.
I bet that all this "killing" has been going on for a long time. The
media likes to pick on Trump for saying "inject bleach," but big names like Wonderbread and Sara Lee have been feeding us bleach for more than 100 years.
And, other, more incidious chemicals too.
Have you ever heard of PBBs? Short story: PBBs are fire retardents used in transformers. Back in 1973, a chemical plant goofed and labeled a barrel of PBB as a nutritional suppliment for animals. The expected occured and now everyone has some level of PBBs in their blood (higher if you are from Michigan).
(See the movie "Bitter Harvest" (1981) for a dramatization of that.)
The point here is that the symptoms were wildly different for various people. That let the chemical company get away with arguing that the PBBs weren't at fault for a long time (basically long enough for them to pretty much get away with it).
How many other chemicals are like that in our food supply? Or our "medicines"?
In reality, I won't really ask my doctor much of anything because all
she does is follow guidelines from the American Academy of Family Physicians. She doesn't test the drugs on lab rats, she just prescribes them because that's what her institution says to do.
Sadly, too true. Too many doctors today look your symptoms up in a book to find the drug to use to hide the symptom instead of trying to find the cause of the symptom and correcting that.
But healthy people aren't profitable for the Medical Industrial Complex.
... The best defense against logic is stupidity.
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