804 sats \ 9 replies \ @sb 11 Sep 2023 \ on: Daily discussion thread
I am writing a series of articles about healthcare, pharmaceuticals and scientific history based on the research that I have done for my own personal life and family's health. These will be long, with citations aplenty. Is there any interest in that type of content here? The devolution of r/science and other subreddits into echo-chamber hellholes is partially motivating this. I'm hoping to have a place to go on SN where these important discussions and disagreements can take place without moderator bans or overt partisanship.
Looking forward to reading it! I also dug quite some books about health last year, and happy to input some of my findings:
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Sickness actually comes from the mind, and some important influencing factors are air, food, and liquids.
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All bacteria are already within ourselves; the art of remaining healthy is to avoid creating a suitable environment for the bad bacteria to grow.
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Learn how to listen to our body instead of listening to others: when we are sick, it means our body is trying to tell us something; the so-called symptoms actually mean the body is doing its work.
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Our body is a perfect machine - it can heal itself, and all we need to do is do less harm! For example, when sick, fasting and sleep.
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Modern medicine only masks the systems, not curing the root cause.
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Thanks for the positive response! You make some excellent points. Simple things like changes to diet can cause significant improvements in healthspan.
The responses on SN have been encouraging and I look forward to sharing my work with you all :)
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Another interesting idea I have been exposed to lately is that we are actually not eating the food but "eating" the living gas inside ( our cell does not need any food ).
How fascinating 🤯
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Yes, diet is really important, definitily not eating any fiat food.
Also do more what brings joy and being surrounded by positive and loving people helps a lot, and waiting for your articles!:)
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I like the idea, as long as there ends up being a healthy discussion of it which I suspect there probably will
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Thanks! I have faith in the SN community to have an open mind, despite our many differences
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Hah yes, I'm not so much looking for "safety". I'd rather have people dig deep into my citations and poke holes in my findings (because some things are quite ugly as you can probably imagine). I WANT TO be proven wrong, if that makes sense. I don't like the things I've found, they make me uncomfortable and sad.
The biggest issue I have with Reddit at the moment, as a scientist myself, is the unwillingness to engage with uncomfortable truths described in peer-reviewed publications (hardly conspiracy theories)
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