Altering Lifestyle is the Proper Treatment for Lifestyle Diseases
Using pharmaceuticals to treat lifestyle diseases has been largely ineffective and provides no solution or long-term option for improving one’s health or reducing disease risk. Most drugs that are used to treat lifestyle diseases like heart disease, diabetes, acne, etc only act as a band aid to eliminate symptoms, not to eliminate the root of the problem.
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The point I’m trying to make is that drugs should only be used as a last resort and in the proper context, not just given out like candy, as doctors currently tend to do.
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Well said. The only pharmaceutical I have taken in the past 15 years was something required by the govt when I visited India a few years ago. I don’t even take aspirin or tylenol. I’ve always thought, as this article notes, that it is silly to eliminate symptoms rather than treating causes. I feel pretty healthy and would recommend that anyone who reads this try ditching all pharmas for a year and then for good.
My recent goal has been trying to avoid animals that have been fed antibiotics and other non-natural crap. This is a bit harder, but I think it’s the next logical step.
Let’s wrap up with this gem, from the same interview:
I don’t mean to bother you with my own idealism, but it seems that we have lost sight of the fact that the only way to achieve anything worthwhile in life is to work hard, there’s just no getting around it.
Damn right.
