Quote from: dogtana on December 14, 2019, 03:27:46 PM

Pap smears, breast examinations (even men), colonoscopy... a good idea to do them in recommended time frames.

Except mammograms (what often is meant by "breast examinations"), you might want to carefully consider those, as they carry some risk of cancer and there are better alternatives: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2017/12/20/mammograms-tragic-lie.aspx

Quote from: BADecker on December 14, 2019, 09:27:12 PM

If what doctors say is true:
- then why are they often surprised when people live who are not expected to live, and that people die who are not expected to die;
- then why do many doctors not prescribe for their own families the same medications that they prescribe for other people;
- then why is it that they haven't figured out how to keep people alive for 500 years.

Doctors know a lot of stuff. But they mostly know that they don't know much of how life works.

Cool

There are a large number, I want to say a majority, of people in the medical industry who are well-meaning people, and a large subset within that who are heart-centered/service-to-others-oriented.

But the business model of the healthcare industry hinges upon people being sick. Even moreso the pharmaceutical industry. There are more incentives to keep people sick than to keep them healthy. Drug research is conducted based on how to mask a condition rather than how to expand consciousness (e.g. by ideally agonizing serotonin receptor types), how to increase well-being (e.g. by selective modulation of neurotransmitters, like a safer MDMA), how to help you meditate (say by eliminating anxiety or mind chatter), etc.

"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence." --James Bryce

"The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions." --Florence Nightingale

"'Modern medicine' may well be defined as 'the experimental study of what happens when poisonous chemicals are placed into malnourished human bodies.'" --A. Saul, Contributing Editor, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine

Quote from: BADecker on December 16, 2019, 11:22:36 AM

Try "gotu kola" for brain enhancement. Take it with Korean ginseng, and Russian ginseng (which is really eleuthero), and eat a lot of fish and walnuts.

Those are great indeed, although only small fish which eat few or no other fish is recommended, because of high mercury levels in most seas. An example is salmon, which by itself is one of the healthiest things you can eat, but due to the mercury contamination it's only worth it if it's wild-caught from uncontaminated waters in Alaska. Mercury is one of the most damaging toxins, but it's a slow gradual easily unnoticeable damage spread over its long half-lives. Farmed salmon also has several other toxins such as pesticides, antibiotics, dioxins, PCBs: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/03/24/why-farmed-salmon-are-toxic.aspx

Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on December 30, 2019, 10:19:53 AM

Quote from: btcusury on December 29, 2019, 10:59:56 PM

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Good. I'm glad we are in agreement that all serious scientific and peer reviewed data back up my statements.

Only if by "all serious scientific and peer reviewed data" you mean the (unscientific) selective science underpinning the established/dogmatic beliefs and deliberate lies of the medical and pharmaceutical industry.

"Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years' time." --Marcel Proust

"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine." --Dr. Marcia Angell (2009)

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It's actually far more common for tolerance to side effects to develop over time, rather than sensitization to them. Still, if you have serious side effects then of course you should try a different class of drug, but that's not what you said originally. You said you should continually cycle between drug types, which is just plain dangerous.

Not continually based on some schedule based on generalities/averages as the medical industry would give you the impression is the best way to do it, but based on your own discernment of desired-to-undesired effects progression over time. The same is true for any drug taken chronically. You generally want to allow homeostasis to take hold, rather than adaption to chronic administration of some chemical.