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01-27-2012, 02:00 AM
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Not sure about how I feel about homeopathy, but at the same time I don't feel western medicine has all the answers, either. There's probably something to some eastern medicines, or natural medicines. Western medicine could probably learn from the East new ways to make their medicine more natural and more in line with our biology, and Eastern medicine can learn to make their medicine more effective. We need to find a balance of the best of both worlds.
Stag brings up a good point about avoiding bacteria. By attempting to create such a sterilized environment for ourselves, we rob our bodies of the chance to be exposed to trace amounts of a bacteria or virus, and thus developing a defense for them. This is known as hormesis. It's gotten a bad name recently, because of right-wingers like Ann Coulter who took a previously legitimate phenomenon and used it to...say, justify looser nuclear regulation because low levels of gamma radiation can be "good for us." The best way to use hormesis to prevent disease? Let kids be kids! Let them play in the dirt and play with bugs, like most of the more adult members on here did when they were kids, before the whole "hand sanitation" and "helicopter parenting" became the craze. All this is is just a scam by Purell to hawk their stupid hand sanitizers. And yes, no matter what side your on I think we can all agree that the medical-industrial establishment has strayed from healing and become more a money-making scheme than anything. Modern medicine can be just as capable of peddling snake-oil as some alternative medicines, and we need to do something about it. #OccupyBigPharma, anyone?
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