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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough

Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

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By *lan157Man
over a year ago

a village near Haywards Heath in East Sussex


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

No thank you.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

No thank you. "

You don't find peer support valuable?

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

I think it's a good idea

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"I think it's a good idea"

It'd be good to get away from the devisive nature of Covid and vaccines.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

There have been useful health related threads before but they are scattered in the Lounge. Would be good to have one Forum for them.

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By *rotic desiresWoman
over a year ago

Here and there


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

Depends on the peers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

Depends on the peers "

Yep, exactly this.

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

Flagrante

There have been a few non covid posts in here and it seems the best place for them so could be a good idea.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

My personal opinion is that

giving validation to some of the frankly ridiculous, factually incorrect and sometimes dangerous health advice I've seen dished out on the fab forums would be a mistake. People would use it as a replacement for professional advice because that is so hard to access.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

Depends on the peers "

Ain't that the truth!

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

I presume people who describe themselves as "unique" have no peers !

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

I presume people who describe themselves as "unique" have no peers !

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Apologies for inadvertent duplication

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex

Op if you want to make the suggestion to admin you could post it in the site feedback section.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"There have been useful health related threads before but they are scattered in the Lounge. Would be good to have one Forum for them. "

And so fast paced is the lounge, some get lost among the tits out Tuesday threads.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Op if you want to make the suggestion to admin you could post it in the site feedback section. "

I did before this thread.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

My personal opinion is that

giving validation to some of the frankly ridiculous, factually incorrect and sometimes dangerous health advice I've seen dished out on the fab forums would be a mistake. People would use it as a replacement for professional advice because that is so hard to access. "

I see your point, however none of the sub-forums give validation to the content within them. Each post is an opinion made by each poster and doesn't represent the opinions of the owners or of the institutions that may be mentioned. A clause that should actually be on the site somewhere.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

My personal opinion is that

giving validation to some of the frankly ridiculous, factually incorrect and sometimes dangerous health advice I've seen dished out on the fab forums would be a mistake. People would use it as a replacement for professional advice because that is so hard to access.

I see your point, however none of the sub-forums give validation to the content within them. Each post is an opinion made by each poster and doesn't represent the opinions of the owners or of the institutions that may be mentioned. A clause that should actually be on the site somewhere."

In my experience the people who will seek out professional advice will do so by whatever means and the ones who are prepared to believe anything on the net would flock to a health forum on a swingers site ready to take and give medical 'advice'. No clause will stop them from trying to treat whatever ails them with snake oil.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hell no!

I’ve seen some of the ‘advice’ given out.

Alongside that, it will inevitably attract the usual divisive folk that could cause a fight with their own shadows, in an empty room.

So kinda like what this forum already is. It’ll just have a new name.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

I have seen useful threads eg has anyone had a coil fitted, anyone use hormone patches, anyone had LETZZ treatment etc

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
over a year ago

Cumbria


"My personal opinion is that

giving validation to some of the frankly ridiculous, factually incorrect and sometimes dangerous health advice I've seen dished out on the fab forums would be a mistake. People would use it as a replacement for professional advice because that is so hard to access. "

Absolutely this.

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By *enSiskoMan
over a year ago

Cestus 3


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

I would rather see my GP thanks.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"I have seen useful threads eg has anyone had a coil fitted, anyone use hormone patches, anyone had LETZZ treatment etc"

Other people's experiences are often helpful, so is a lot of the support I see given. What would concern me would be the self appointed health experts who would see a designated health forum as their spiritual home.

One thing I have a great deal of experience of is spinal stenosis, one symptom of which is sciatic pain. I look on in horror at the suggestions given and eagerly taken up by people who are suffering with sciatica. The damage some of these suggestions could cause is awful to contemplate. I always try to suggest that people find the root cause before attempting any self treatment but...

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By *enSiskoMan
over a year ago

Cestus 3

Quack, quack

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

My personal opinion is that

giving validation to some of the frankly ridiculous, factually incorrect and sometimes dangerous health advice I've seen dished out on the fab forums would be a mistake. People would use it as a replacement for professional advice because that is so hard to access.

I see your point, however none of the sub-forums give validation to the content within them. Each post is an opinion made by each poster and doesn't represent the opinions of the owners or of the institutions that may be mentioned. A clause that should actually be on the site somewhere.

In my experience the people who will seek out professional advice will do so by whatever means and the ones who are prepared to believe anything on the net would flock to a health forum on a swingers site ready to take and give medical 'advice'. No clause will stop them from trying to treat whatever ails them with snake oil. "

I wasn't thinking of the posters but protecting owners from liability.

Threads are posted seeking support just in a haphazard way at present.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Quack, quack"

Different to the normal baa accusations.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

My personal opinion is that

giving validation to some of the frankly ridiculous, factually incorrect and sometimes dangerous health advice I've seen dished out on the fab forums would be a mistake. People would use it as a replacement for professional advice because that is so hard to access.

I see your point, however none of the sub-forums give validation to the content within them. Each post is an opinion made by each poster and doesn't represent the opinions of the owners or of the institutions that may be mentioned. A clause that should actually be on the site somewhere.

In my experience the people who will seek out professional advice will do so by whatever means and the ones who are prepared to believe anything on the net would flock to a health forum on a swingers site ready to take and give medical 'advice'. No clause will stop them from trying to treat whatever ails them with snake oil.

I wasn't thinking of the posters but protecting owners from liability.

Threads are posted seeking support just in a haphazard way at present."

Support, which I acknowledge was the word you used in your op is great. Almost always the support turns to medical advice though.

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By *enSiskoMan
over a year ago

Cestus 3


"Quack, quack

Different to the normal baa accusations."

Sorry I am just saying I would be a quack if I gave medical advice, better go see my G.P or talk to a person I know, as this forum is not the best for advice as one poster wrote there are some who would argue with their own shadow alone in a room.

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

local, but not too local


"It'd be good to get away from the devisive nature of Covid and vaccines."

Agreed.

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I think, as with the politics forum, now the hell of it all has been unleashed, keeping the hell separated is important. I don't think changing the name of this section would change its fundamental nature, and removing it would just see the worst parts creeping into other sections

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

local, but not too local

What would be useful would be a way to “mute” threads/forums so they don’t keep popping up full of nonsense.

Also : people.

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By *ugby 123Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

O o O oo


"What would be useful would be a way to “mute” threads/forums so they don’t keep popping up full of nonsense.

Also : people. "

There is a way for yourself not to read them already. Don't open them

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

local, but not too local

Yes, but I am so weak!

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By *ugby 123Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

O o O oo


"Yes, but I am so weak! "

Resist the temptation !! It will only end in shaking your head and rolling your eyes a lot

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By *ugby 123Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

O o O oo

Support would be different to what you would get though. The amount of bad medical advice from posters who some people would take as gospel that I have seen over the years would make your hair curl

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

You will always get someone giving the medical equivalent of:

Q. Intimate hair removal advice?

A. Flame thrower.

(Okay yes, that person will often be me!)

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

My personal opinion is that

giving validation to some of the frankly ridiculous, factually incorrect and sometimes dangerous health advice I've seen dished out on the fab forums would be a mistake. People would use it as a replacement for professional advice because that is so hard to access.

I see your point, however none of the sub-forums give validation to the content within them. Each post is an opinion made by each poster and doesn't represent the opinions of the owners or of the institutions that may be mentioned. A clause that should actually be on the site somewhere.

In my experience the people who will seek out professional advice will do so by whatever means and the ones who are prepared to believe anything on the net would flock to a health forum on a swingers site ready to take and give medical 'advice'. No clause will stop them from trying to treat whatever ails them with snake oil.

I wasn't thinking of the posters but protecting owners from liability.

Threads are posted seeking support just in a haphazard way at present.

Support, which I acknowledge was the word you used in your op is great. Almost always the support turns to medical advice though. "

And some come across as knowledgeable even though they are lay people.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Quack, quack

Different to the normal baa accusations.

Sorry I am just saying I would be a quack if I gave medical advice, better go see my G.P or talk to a person I know, as this forum is not the best for advice as one poster wrote there are some who would argue with their own shadow alone in a room."

Sometimes people are signposted to others like charities/organisations, to get quality information (after all seeing your GP nowadays can be a nightmare).

I often signpost people to NICE guidelines, and this informs them what to expect from their doctors.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"You will always get someone giving the medical equivalent of:

Q. Intimate hair removal advice?

A. Flame thrower.

(Okay yes, that person will often be me!)"

Can I say I've noticed?

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod

over a year ago

East Sussex


"You will always get someone giving the medical equivalent of:

Q. Intimate hair removal advice?

A. Flame thrower.

(Okay yes, that person will often be me!)"

So how far back should I hold the flame thrower?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'll put myself forward as doctor baffled. You have a sudden attack of turbo cancer? Well I'm baffled. You have had a heart attack straight after your booster? You got me scratching my head, quite frankly I'm baffled. And so on...

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

Flagrante

13 out of the 32 threads on the first page are not covid related so people are starting to use it for general health topics so why not rename it.

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By *izandpaulCouple
over a year ago

merseyside


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

No thank you.

You don't find peer support valuable?"

It would really depend on the peer and how anyone would check the advice and/or the standing of any self appointed peers.

Its a no from me and I'd stick to the advice of initially going to your GP or using NHS helplines, not swingers sites.

Some folks suffer from loneliness and maybe just friendly chat groups may suffice. Sadly, some groups on here are pits of angst and nastiness, probably the worst place to combat loneliness and isolation.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

Depends on the peers "

Not those hereditary ones.

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By *hironMan
over a year ago

Leamington Spa


"And some come across as knowledgeable even though they are lay people."

The arrogance in that statement...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"And some come across as knowledgeable even though they are lay people.

The arrogance in that statement..."

Ok I'll rephrase - some people come across as knowledgeable and others may infer them to be HCPs even though they are lay people.

And if that's arrogance, then I'm truly baffled.

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By *oecutterMan
over a year ago

Clonakilty


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

That would be hilarious. The nonsense I see peddled by self-styled health and wellness wannabes gathered into a dedicated forum on a sex site… what could possibly go wrong?

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

That would be hilarious. The nonsense I see peddled by self-styled health and wellness wannabes gathered into a dedicated forum on a sex site… what could possibly go wrong?

"

You're for it I see

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By *erebraljaguarMan
over a year ago

North West…


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

I don’t use this forum particularly but that sounds a better option and arguably more positive than the nature of the virus debates at times.

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By *oecutterMan
over a year ago

Clonakilty


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

That would be hilarious. The nonsense I see peddled by self-styled health and wellness wannabes gathered into a dedicated forum on a sex site… what could possibly go wrong?

You're for it I see "

I am a fan of Darwin, to be sure.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

No thank you. "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

Depends on the peers "

This

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By *entle_lover_xMan
over a year ago

Great Dunmow


"I think it's a good idea

It'd be good to get away from the devisive nature of Covid and vaccines."

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By *entle_lover_xMan
over a year ago

Great Dunmow

I do think it odd at this point in time there is whole Forum section devoted to "Virus" and something more general like Health and Wellbeing would be better (and more positive)

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

That would be hilarious. The nonsense I see peddled by self-styled health and wellness wannabes gathered into a dedicated forum on a sex site… what could possibly go wrong?

You're for it I see

I am a fan of Darwin, to be sure. "

Have you googled the Darwin awards? There are some beauties on there

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By *ust RachelTV/TS
over a year ago

Horsham


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

Depends on the peers

Ain't that the truth!"

The ones on youtube, seem popular

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

No thank you.

You don't find peer support valuable?"

Not from this biased lot

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I do think it odd at this point in time there is whole Forum section devoted to "Virus" and something more general like Health and Wellbeing would be better (and more positive) "

I don't think the bell can be unrung, and the same narratives around Covid would continue with everything else.

"Stubbed your toe? That's clearly because you are/ aren't vaccinated. You've made a terrible mistake"

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By *yan226Man
over a year ago

everywhere

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By *yan226Man
over a year ago

everywhere


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

Who would be providing this ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

Who would be providing this ? "

I very much doubt you'll get a clear answer, I've long had my suspicions though

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By *oecutterMan
over a year ago

Clonakilty


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

That would be hilarious. The nonsense I see peddled by self-styled health and wellness wannabes gathered into a dedicated forum on a sex site… what could possibly go wrong?

You're for it I see

I am a fan of Darwin, to be sure.

Have you googled the Darwin awards? There are some beauties on there "

Indeed… 30 years ago I was on the Darwin email discussion group.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

Who would be providing this ? "

The clue is in "peer".

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By *andering Welsh GuyMan
over a year ago

All over the place

Yes

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"Yes "

But sadly doubtful

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

That would be hilarious. The nonsense I see peddled by self-styled health and wellness wannabes gathered into a dedicated forum on a sex site… what could possibly go wrong?

You're for it I see

I am a fan of Darwin, to be sure.

Have you googled the Darwin awards? There are some beauties on there

Indeed… 30 years ago I was on the Darwin email discussion group. "

Oh now that is interesting... Was that around the time of the alt.sex boards too? There were some beauties

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By *oecutterMan
over a year ago

Clonakilty


"

Indeed… 30 years ago I was on the Darwin email discussion group.

Oh now that is interesting... Was that around the time of the alt.sex boards too? There were some beauties "

Ah, the joys of usenet

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"

Indeed… 30 years ago I was on the Darwin email discussion group.

Oh now that is interesting... Was that around the time of the alt.sex boards too? There were some beauties

Ah, the joys of usenet

"

What happened to those boards? Did they disappear... I vaguely recall the finish ones had some very creative porn stories.

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By *oecutterMan
over a year ago

Clonakilty


"

Indeed… 30 years ago I was on the Darwin email discussion group.

Oh now that is interesting... Was that around the time of the alt.sex boards too? There were some beauties

Ah, the joys of usenet

What happened to those boards? Did they disappear... I vaguely recall the finish ones had some very creative porn stories. "

No idea. It’s possible it’s still running but the traffic will be low. And probably niche.

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By *uffnmuffCouple
over a year ago

London


"I think it's a good idea

It'd be good to get away from the devisive nature of Covid and vaccines."

I thank it's a good idea.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

Depends on the peers

Ain't that the truth!

The ones on youtube, seem popular"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

Just seen this..

Why not start a YouTube channel?

As you have such strong opinions on all things medical,and probably more qualified than John Campbell ,you could perhaps name it Dr Amelie's Holier than thou show. Just a thought !

Cough

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By *urious couple22Couple
over a year ago

Derby

Good idea.

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By *an1978Woman
over a year ago

GONE/TIMEOUT (No DMs please)

I think it would be a good idea.

Health related posts exist, whether thats STI questions, mental health, weight loss etc, it would be handy to keep them in one place.

It may make more work for the mods?

But members being able to signpost others to profession help may be worth it?

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
over a year ago

Peterborough


"I think it would be a good idea.

Health related posts exist, whether thats STI questions, mental health, weight loss etc, it would be handy to keep them in one place.

It may make more work for the mods?

But members being able to signpost others to profession help may be worth it?"

Why more work? Wherever a thread is posted there may be a need for moderation.

But thank you for agreeing

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

I've been lambasted in the past for suggesting we have a completely separate forum page for all things sexual health related.

I'm very much for changing this to HEALTH, moving it further down the forums list , still allowing people to discuss all things covid related plus more informative thread's relating to sexual health, RD, menopause and perhaps even trans surgery discussion.

However I'm guessing that the sticking point is that any advice given is not checked and verified so potentially dangerous or wrong advice may be given, so does it then boil down to liability.

Difficult one !

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.


"I've been lambasted in the past for suggesting we have a completely separate forum page for all things sexual health related.

I'm very much for changing this to HEALTH, moving it further down the forums list , still allowing people to discuss all things covid related plus more informative thread's relating to sexual health, RD, menopause and perhaps even trans surgery discussion.

However I'm guessing that the sticking point is that any advice given is not checked and verified so potentially dangerous or wrong advice may be given, so does it then boil down to liability.

Difficult one !"

ED not rd

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By *orrow my wifeCouple
over a year ago

Brighton

Definitely not. So many crackpot Covid deniars and anti vaxers does make you wonder about the mentality of many on here.

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By *tes2010Man
over a year ago

Near you

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By *tes2010Man
over a year ago

Near you

I am a HCP and I would not ever give advice on a forum about anyone’s conditions/treatment. I’d want to see the person face to face ideally and have access to any tests that they may have had. My registration is important to me and I don’t want to lose it for anyone.

But… Having people sharing experiences and giving advice on what questions to ask and signposting, yeah, I don’t see any issues with that.

With people being worried about bad advice being taken as gospel, do you think people would advise on treatments etc? Maybe the disclaimer would be that no HCP would give you treatment plans without seeing all of your information? Saying that, would people with legitimate issues be looking for advice on a swingers forum?

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Mental health support if anything people who have been through similar and thorough their own experience hopefully able to assist others.... I understand that not the same works for everyone but with everyone putting in there own way of dealing with maybe help another.... Obviously doctors and specialist are the preferred method but some find it difficult to approach and a little guidance/support help's.....

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex


"I am a HCP and I would not ever give advice on a forum about anyone’s conditions/treatment. I’d want to see the person face to face ideally and have access to any tests that they may have had. My registration is important to me and I don’t want to lose it for anyone.

But… Having people sharing experiences and giving advice on what questions to ask and signposting, yeah, I don’t see any issues with that.

With people being worried about bad advice being taken as gospel, do you think people would advise on treatments etc? Maybe the disclaimer would be that no HCP would give you treatment plans without seeing all of your information? Saying that, would people with legitimate issues be looking for advice on a swingers forum?"

They have done in the past.

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By *ackformore100Man
over a year ago

Tin town


"I am a HCP and I would not ever give advice on a forum about anyone’s conditions/treatment. I’d want to see the person face to face ideally and have access to any tests that they may have had. My registration is important to me and I don’t want to lose it for anyone.

But… Having people sharing experiences and giving advice on what questions to ask and signposting, yeah, I don’t see any issues with that.

With people being worried about bad advice being taken as gospel, do you think people would advise on treatments etc? Maybe the disclaimer would be that no HCP would give you treatment plans without seeing all of your information? Saying that, would people with legitimate issues be looking for advice on a swingers forum?"

There are a lot of well intentioned, well experienced and intelligent folks on here so... Sure why not? Just so long as you take it in context

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Yes i think that's a great idea

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

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By *adCherriesCouple
49 weeks ago

Cheshire/Northwest


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

Looking at some of the health advice and conspiracy ideas on here I would say definitely not.

If you feel unwell see a Dr.

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By *ausageandbeansMan
49 weeks ago

south west

It's tricky because what some people may think is helpful advice could be harmful to others.

Internet diagnosis is risky and people can quickly hold on to things non qualified people have suggested so having a specific area for this sort of interaction is probably not a good idea.

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By *idnight RamblerMan
49 weeks ago

Pershore

No place for amateurs in medicine and healthcare, however well intentioned.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
46 weeks ago

Peterborough

New calls for this sub forum to be renamed (in the threads that want it closed).

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By *ools and the brainCouple
46 weeks ago

couple, us we him her.

I think a simple change to viruses to cover many things, however noticed people starting to give medical advice based on conspiracy knowledge rather than professional advice.

Which is dangerous.

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By *ackformore100Man
46 weeks ago

Tin town


"I think a simple change to viruses to cover many things, however noticed people starting to give medical advice based on conspiracy knowledge rather than professional advice.

Which is dangerous."

Maybe have a conspiracy section.?

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By *naswingdressWoman
46 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I think a simple change to viruses to cover many things, however noticed people starting to give medical advice based on conspiracy knowledge rather than professional advice.

Which is dangerous.

Maybe have a conspiracy section.?"

Wouldn't work. The people believing in conspiracies think that what they believe is the truth. Take away the virus forum - including by renaming it health - and it'll metastasise in the lounge

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By (user no longer on site)
46 weeks ago


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

No, there's enough nonsense on it already

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By *mpierdoleMan
46 weeks ago

Birmingham


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

Yes

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By (user no longer on site)
44 weeks ago


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

Great idea. I guess the number of topics/ replies prooves the interest.

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By *irldnCouple
44 weeks ago

Brighton

FWIW I would totally support changing the “Virus” forum to a “Health” forum to encourage wider health related discussion and, hopefully, less Covid related discussion.

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By *entle_lover_xMan
44 weeks ago

Great Dunmow


"I think a simple change to viruses to cover many things, however noticed people starting to give medical advice based on conspiracy knowledge rather than professional advice.

Which is dangerous.

Maybe have a conspiracy section.?

Wouldn't work. The people believing in conspiracies think that what they believe is the truth. Take away the virus forum - including by renaming it health - and it'll metastasise in the lounge "

Why? People could still post Virus threads in a Health Section. Why would they choose the Lounge over Health? In any case there are hundreds of threads a day on all kinds of drivel in the Lounge so it would barely get noticed in any case

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By *onameyet2Man
44 weeks ago

chorley

Homeopathy it’s the future

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By (user no longer on site)
44 weeks ago

Local authorities can't cope with rise in STIs...

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By *ellaboo400Couple
44 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"Homeopathy it’s the future "

It's very trial and error but I've used it twice on horses with sarcoids and it worked but I've used it for other things and it didn't work so well

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By *onameyet2Man
44 weeks ago

chorley

It doesn’t work on anything it’s a con,

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
44 weeks ago

Central


"Homeopathy it’s the future "

Yikes. Lawd help us

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
44 weeks ago

Peterborough


"It doesn’t work on anything it’s a con, "

Prove it

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By *stbury DavenportMan
44 weeks ago

Nottingham

I find it interesting that some people are so determined to change the virus forum into something else. Does this happen on the camping forum as well? "Ignore the pile of tents and sleeping bags! Camping was over two years ago. Change this into a general outdoorsing forum instead!"

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
44 weeks ago

Peterborough


"I find it interesting that some people are so determined to change the virus forum into something else. Does this happen on the camping forum as well? "Ignore the pile of tents and sleeping bags! Camping was over two years ago. Change this into a general outdoorsing forum instead!""

Glad you're interested

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By *ackformore100Man
44 weeks ago

Tin town


"FWIW I would totally support changing the “Virus” forum to a “Health” forum to encourage wider health related discussion and, hopefully, less Covid related discussion."

If we added "and efficiency" to it, we might be onto something.

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By *I TwoCouple
44 weeks ago

PDI 12-26th Nov 24


"It doesn’t work on anything it’s a con,

Prove it "

In Australia, in 2015, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) released a Statement on Homeopathy based on its own review of available clinical evidence. NHMRC concluded there is no reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective for any health condition.

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By *londebiguyMan
43 weeks ago

Southport


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP."

I think that could be an excellent idea.

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By *londebiguyMan
43 weeks ago

Southport


"Would you like this forum to be turned into a health forum?

Peer mediated support and NOT a replacement for seeing your GP.

My personal opinion is that

giving validation to some of the frankly ridiculous, factually incorrect and sometimes dangerous health advice I've seen dished out on the fab forums would be a mistake. People would use it as a replacement for professional advice because that is so hard to access.

I see your point, however none of the sub-forums give validation to the content within them. Each post is an opinion made by each poster and doesn't represent the opinions of the owners or of the institutions that may be mentioned. A clause that should actually be on the site somewhere.

In my experience the people who will seek out professional advice will do so by whatever means and the ones who are prepared to believe anything on the net would flock to a health forum on a swingers site ready to take and give medical 'advice'. No clause will stop them from trying to treat whatever ails them with snake oil.

I wasn't thinking of the posters but protecting owners from liability.

Threads are posted seeking support just in a haphazard way at present.

Support, which I acknowledge was the word you used in your op is great. Almost always the support turns to medical advice though. "

I think if people decide to take medical advice from these discussions then there is nothing that can be done to help them.

Hopefully, the discussions could include advice and experience from people who have gone through sone of these things personally and at least have some helpful or useful suggestion such as yourself with sciatica advice.

Anyone with sone personal knowledge of a more serious ailment would , think, always suggest professional advice in the first instance.

I know that I would always say to seek a medical professional despite my own knowledge of certain things.

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By *londebiguyMan
43 weeks ago

Southport


"It doesn’t work on anything it’s a con, "

There is much proof certainly for certain natural remedies from antibacterial/sporicidal to alleviating symptoms.

(Note, I did not say cure)

With in depth and controlled studies I'm sure much more could be shown.

After all, medicine is the baby of herbalism...

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By *londebiguyMan
43 weeks ago

Southport


"No place for amateurs in medicine and healthcare, however well intentioned."

I would imagine that there could well be many medical professionals on this site.

I certainly know a few .

They would never diagnose through these forums I'm certain but they can assure people and suggest the correct course of action to take I'm sure.

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By *loss aka Miss JonesWoman
43 weeks ago

south coast IOW

I must admit ive always been baffled as to why we need this type of thread at all on a swingers site. If people want health or virus advice this is the last place they should be looking in my view.

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By *oxy jWoman
43 weeks ago

somerset

i would not trust '' Peer mediated support ''

im all for it being a health forum tho

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By (user no longer on site)
43 weeks ago

Agree. Virus is soooo 2020. And there are loads of viruses. We should also cover bacteria and fungi. We’re at risk of being infectionist.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
43 weeks ago

Peterborough


"I must admit ive always been baffled as to why we need this type of thread at all on a swingers site. If people want health or virus advice this is the last place they should be looking in my view. "

Do we need a politics forum or the lounge?

It's want, not need.

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
43 weeks ago

Peterborough


"i would not trust '' Peer mediated support ''

im all for it being a health forum tho "

You don't have to. It's about declaring what worked for you or asking others what worked for them. It's not amateur hour for armchair doctors diagnosing.

Never seek medical help here but support and perhaps signposting. This is being directed to those who can give appropriate support out in the real world: GPs, nurses, pharmacists, physios, charities, and so on.

It's about saying "you're not alone".

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By *iss_Juicy79Woman
43 weeks ago

Edinburgh

I'd like it to change to a health forum too

It's a fascinating subject to me

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By *oxy jWoman
43 weeks ago

somerset


"i would not trust '' Peer mediated support ''

im all for it being a health forum tho

You don't have to. It's about declaring what worked for you or asking others what worked for them. It's not amateur hour for armchair doctors diagnosing.

Never seek medical help here but support and perhaps signposting. This is being directed to those who can give appropriate support out in the real world: GPs, nurses, pharmacists, physios, charities, and so on.

It's about saying "you're not alone"."

but it will attract people who work in the health / care profession see it on here all the time nurse's/wannabe nurses giving medical advice or people who work in mental health giving advice thats what im trying to get at and it can dangerous ... otherwise like i said i agree on it being renamed health forum so that all those mental health post can live in there to so people know where to go if they want

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By *londebiguyMan
43 weeks ago

Southport


"i would not trust '' Peer mediated support ''

im all for it being a health forum tho

You don't have to. It's about declaring what worked for you or asking others what worked for them. It's not amateur hour for armchair doctors diagnosing.

Never seek medical help here but support and perhaps signposting. This is being directed to those who can give appropriate support out in the real world: GPs, nurses, pharmacists, physios, charities, and so on.

It's about saying "you're not alone".

but it will attract people who work in the health / care profession see it on here all the time nurse's/wannabe nurses giving medical advice or people who work in mental health giving advice thats what im trying to get at and it can dangerous ... otherwise like i said i agree on it being renamed health forum so that all those mental health post can live in there to so people know where to go if they want"

I really do not think any health professional would try to diagnose and treat on this forum.

I know that I would always advise to speak to your own local health professionals.

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By *onguiliciousMan
43 weeks ago

Northallerton


"I think it's a good idea

It'd be good to get away from the devisive nature of Covid and vaccines."

What’s devisive about it?

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge

I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
43 weeks ago

Peterborough


"i would not trust '' Peer mediated support ''

im all for it being a health forum tho

You don't have to. It's about declaring what worked for you or asking others what worked for them. It's not amateur hour for armchair doctors diagnosing.

Never seek medical help here but support and perhaps signposting. This is being directed to those who can give appropriate support out in the real world: GPs, nurses, pharmacists, physios, charities, and so on.

It's about saying "you're not alone".

but it will attract people who work in the health / care profession see it on here all the time nurse's/wannabe nurses giving medical advice or people who work in mental health giving advice thats what im trying to get at and it can dangerous ... otherwise like i said i agree on it being renamed health forum so that all those mental health post can live in there to so people know where to go if they want

I really do not think any health professional would try to diagnose and treat on this forum.

I know that I would always advise to speak to your own local health professionals."

I signpost.

I advocate looking at NICE guidelines.

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By (user no longer on site)
43 weeks ago

No. Do you ??

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
43 weeks ago

Cumbria


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work "

When alternative medicine has been scientifically tested, and shown to work, it changes its name to medicine.

It’s possible for people to signpost and give advice for things that have worked for them if they have been diagnosed with the same condition as the person asking the question but also tell people to go and see the doctor if they are experiencing symptoms but don’t have a diagnosis.

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work "

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?"

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity "

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!"

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?"

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)"

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge

Can I ask do you wild swim or do you swim in chlorine? Chlorine is absorbed pretty quickly and can affect the thyroid in different ways, mould is another common problem as is gluten

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free "

Ah. So you're advocating big shill and big supplement.

No thanks.

I go with "the majority of experts in a field believe this" rather than "gimmicky saleperson who'll blame you for looking at a cake if things go wrong". Because amazing how whenever the magic protocol fails, it's never because of evidence it doesn't work, it's because the suckers do it wrong! (Did I say suckers? I mean patients. Only £99.99 to correct your errors, you flawed person!)

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Can I ask do you wild swim or do you swim in chlorine? Chlorine is absorbed pretty quickly and can affect the thyroid in different ways, mould is another common problem as is gluten "

Oh!!!! So it was the fault of my parents for getting me swimming lessons as a child so I wouldn't drown, or you're implying they were unclean!

If only they'd followed Dr Quack WitchDoctor!

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)

It always goes this way.

Don't follow mainstream medicine, it's flawed. The evidence is bought and paid for. Follow this protocol.

If you have any health problems, it's because you weren't pure enough. Didn't try hard enough. Your parents fucked up and neglected you.

It'll only take a purification course, a mere three thousand pounds and sacrificing three oxen to Zeus, and maybe you shall atone, you unworthy sinner.

Don't look at the tree of knowledge. Only look at me. I am your god. Science is evil.

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

Ah. So you're advocating big shill and big supplement.

No thanks.

I go with "the majority of experts in a field believe this" rather than "gimmicky saleperson who'll blame you for looking at a cake if things go wrong". Because amazing how whenever the magic protocol fails, it's never because of evidence it doesn't work, it's because the suckers do it wrong! (Did I say suckers? I mean patients. Only £99.99 to correct your errors, you flawed person!)"

Ummmmm he's a doctor but yeah ok if you don't want to believe that then you can think whatever you like, if you really don't want to give up cake and cola that's great you do you dude but some people are all about optimal health and if this were to be a health forum for people who want to really be healthy then you have proven my point for me perfectly. Do you think there we cakes and thyroid pills growing on trees when early humans were here? Of course not. People started getting sick because they started eating stupid stuff and bathing in chemicals whether that was chlorine in the pool or air freshener in their home or maybe they work with chemicals etc.

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"It always goes this way.

Don't follow mainstream medicine, it's flawed. The evidence is bought and paid for. Follow this protocol.

If you have any health problems, it's because you weren't pure enough. Didn't try hard enough. Your parents fucked up and neglected you.

It'll only take a purification course, a mere three thousand pounds and sacrificing three oxen to Zeus, and maybe you shall atone, you unworthy sinner.

Don't look at the tree of knowledge. Only look at me. I am your god. Science is evil."

All I'm saying is stop poisoning your body and your problems usually go away.... Mine did but it was probably more to do with my goat sacrifice to the fairy god than just not eating chemicals. Now who sounds ridiculous?

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

Ah. So you're advocating big shill and big supplement.

No thanks.

I go with "the majority of experts in a field believe this" rather than "gimmicky saleperson who'll blame you for looking at a cake if things go wrong". Because amazing how whenever the magic protocol fails, it's never because of evidence it doesn't work, it's because the suckers do it wrong! (Did I say suckers? I mean patients. Only £99.99 to correct your errors, you flawed person!)

Ummmmm he's a doctor but yeah ok if you don't want to believe that then you can think whatever you like, if you really don't want to give up cake and cola that's great you do you dude but some people are all about optimal health and if this were to be a health forum for people who want to really be healthy then you have proven my point for me perfectly. Do you think there we cakes and thyroid pills growing on trees when early humans were here? Of course not. People started getting sick because they started eating stupid stuff and bathing in chemicals whether that was chlorine in the pool or air freshener in their home or maybe they work with chemicals etc. "

I didn't mention cake or cola. I mentioned being a teenager, very skinny, and involved in a lot of sport.

It's fun that you can only defend your position by invoking something I never mentioned.

And why should I trust that doctor over all the other doctors? The ones who've actually examined me over decades, the ones who've done the research that has been vetted by other doctors? Amazing how credentials are irrelevant and should be discarded as mainstream - except when it backs up your argument. Consistency. Nice. (I'm not dismissing credentials - my position is based on the scientific consensus)

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"It always goes this way.

Don't follow mainstream medicine, it's flawed. The evidence is bought and paid for. Follow this protocol.

If you have any health problems, it's because you weren't pure enough. Didn't try hard enough. Your parents fucked up and neglected you.

It'll only take a purification course, a mere three thousand pounds and sacrificing three oxen to Zeus, and maybe you shall atone, you unworthy sinner.

Don't look at the tree of knowledge. Only look at me. I am your god. Science is evil.

All I'm saying is stop poisoning your body and your problems usually go away.... Mine did but it was probably more to do with my goat sacrifice to the fairy god than just not eating chemicals. Now who sounds ridiculous?"

You do.

You have no idea what my diet is. I've never told you. You know that as a teenager I engaged in a bunch of physical activities and was very skinny, but developed a medical condition which I follow with conventional medical advice.

On the basis of that you've recommended something very specific that is counter to nearly a quarter of a century of medical advice I've had. And have implied that my parents did something wrong or were unclean, because if they'd only followed your magic, this wouldn't have happened.

I've just engaged in some hyperbole to get my point across.

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

Ah. So you're advocating big shill and big supplement.

No thanks.

I go with "the majority of experts in a field believe this" rather than "gimmicky saleperson who'll blame you for looking at a cake if things go wrong". Because amazing how whenever the magic protocol fails, it's never because of evidence it doesn't work, it's because the suckers do it wrong! (Did I say suckers? I mean patients. Only £99.99 to correct your errors, you flawed person!)

Ummmmm he's a doctor but yeah ok if you don't want to believe that then you can think whatever you like, if you really don't want to give up cake and cola that's great you do you dude but some people are all about optimal health and if this were to be a health forum for people who want to really be healthy then you have proven my point for me perfectly. Do you think there we cakes and thyroid pills growing on trees when early humans were here? Of course not. People started getting sick because they started eating stupid stuff and bathing in chemicals whether that was chlorine in the pool or air freshener in their home or maybe they work with chemicals etc.

I didn't mention cake or cola. I mentioned being a teenager, very skinny, and involved in a lot of sport.

It's fun that you can only defend your position by invoking something I never mentioned.

And why should I trust that doctor over all the other doctors? The ones who've actually examined me over decades, the ones who've done the research that has been vetted by other doctors? Amazing how credentials are irrelevant and should be discarded as mainstream - except when it backs up your argument. Consistency. Nice. (I'm not dismissing credentials - my position is based on the scientific consensus)"

So you've been going to them for decades and they haven't cured your condition but the doctor who my friend took advice from cured him in 3 months and I'm the idiot? I think your reasoning is flawed here

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"It always goes this way.

Don't follow mainstream medicine, it's flawed. The evidence is bought and paid for. Follow this protocol.

If you have any health problems, it's because you weren't pure enough. Didn't try hard enough. Your parents fucked up and neglected you.

It'll only take a purification course, a mere three thousand pounds and sacrificing three oxen to Zeus, and maybe you shall atone, you unworthy sinner.

Don't look at the tree of knowledge. Only look at me. I am your god. Science is evil.

All I'm saying is stop poisoning your body and your problems usually go away.... Mine did but it was probably more to do with my goat sacrifice to the fairy god than just not eating chemicals. Now who sounds ridiculous?

You do.

You have no idea what my diet is. I've never told you. You know that as a teenager I engaged in a bunch of physical activities and was very skinny, but developed a medical condition which I follow with conventional medical advice.

On the basis of that you've recommended something very specific that is counter to nearly a quarter of a century of medical advice I've had. And have implied that my parents did something wrong or were unclean, because if they'd only followed your magic, this wouldn't have happened.

I've just engaged in some hyperbole to get my point across."

iv never mentioned your parents hygiene lol and there is no magic

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"It always goes this way.

Don't follow mainstream medicine, it's flawed. The evidence is bought and paid for. Follow this protocol.

If you have any health problems, it's because you weren't pure enough. Didn't try hard enough. Your parents fucked up and neglected you.

It'll only take a purification course, a mere three thousand pounds and sacrificing three oxen to Zeus, and maybe you shall atone, you unworthy sinner.

Don't look at the tree of knowledge. Only look at me. I am your god. Science is evil.

All I'm saying is stop poisoning your body and your problems usually go away.... Mine did but it was probably more to do with my goat sacrifice to the fairy god than just not eating chemicals. Now who sounds ridiculous?

You do.

You have no idea what my diet is. I've never told you. You know that as a teenager I engaged in a bunch of physical activities and was very skinny, but developed a medical condition which I follow with conventional medical advice.

On the basis of that you've recommended something very specific that is counter to nearly a quarter of a century of medical advice I've had. And have implied that my parents did something wrong or were unclean, because if they'd only followed your magic, this wouldn't have happened.

I've just engaged in some hyperbole to get my point across. iv never mentioned your parents hygiene lol and there is no magic "

Mould.

So do tell me. How does diet make a thyroid rebuild itself? Because mine's dead.

Woooo. Reincarnation.

Sounds pretty fucking magical to me

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

Ah. So you're advocating big shill and big supplement.

No thanks.

I go with "the majority of experts in a field believe this" rather than "gimmicky saleperson who'll blame you for looking at a cake if things go wrong". Because amazing how whenever the magic protocol fails, it's never because of evidence it doesn't work, it's because the suckers do it wrong! (Did I say suckers? I mean patients. Only £99.99 to correct your errors, you flawed person!)

Ummmmm he's a doctor but yeah ok if you don't want to believe that then you can think whatever you like, if you really don't want to give up cake and cola that's great you do you dude but some people are all about optimal health and if this were to be a health forum for people who want to really be healthy then you have proven my point for me perfectly. Do you think there we cakes and thyroid pills growing on trees when early humans were here? Of course not. People started getting sick because they started eating stupid stuff and bathing in chemicals whether that was chlorine in the pool or air freshener in their home or maybe they work with chemicals etc.

I didn't mention cake or cola. I mentioned being a teenager, very skinny, and involved in a lot of sport.

It's fun that you can only defend your position by invoking something I never mentioned.

And why should I trust that doctor over all the other doctors? The ones who've actually examined me over decades, the ones who've done the research that has been vetted by other doctors? Amazing how credentials are irrelevant and should be discarded as mainstream - except when it backs up your argument. Consistency. Nice. (I'm not dismissing credentials - my position is based on the scientific consensus)

So you've been going to them for decades and they haven't cured your condition but the doctor who my friend took advice from cured him in 3 months and I'm the idiot? I think your reasoning is flawed here"

1. Not all thyroid conditions are the same

2. I have no evidence that your friend exists

3. Even if I did, I have no idea what his status actually is, just what he or you might believe about it. (I don't really care, either, because it has little or nothing to do with my condition)

4. I've seen no evidence that your protocol does anything - and you'd best believe that I want gold standard evidence before engaging in any treatment.

5. I find it difficult to take seriously advice that is laden with recommendations and condemnations that have nothing to do with my situation or any of the facts that you've been presented with.

6. On the basis of believing my own personalised medical advice over some random internet chatter, no, I don't believe my reasoning is flawed.

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
43 weeks ago

Cumbria


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free "

A lifetime customer of whom?

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

A lifetime customer of whom?"

Big Pharma probably.

When I was last paying a proportion of what my medication cost/ dispensing pills (rather than the English flat rate), a year's pills at the maximum dose for any human was about £10 (approx currency conversion rate). Shit's been generic for decades

I'm hardly making Bill Gates masturbate with greed over here.

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge

Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
43 weeks ago

Cumbria


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

A lifetime customer of whom?

Big Pharma probably.

When I was last paying a proportion of what my medication cost/ dispensing pills (rather than the English flat rate), a year's pills at the maximum dose for any human was about £10 (approx currency conversion rate). Shit's been generic for decades

I'm hardly making Bill Gates masturbate with greed over here.

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It’s an odd term to use in the UK, almost as if critical thinkers just repeat what their chosen messiah has said.

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

"

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever.

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever."

Oh the offer isn't there don't worry.

Well they probably all ate gluten which was hybridised in the 1950's and ok I'll tell all the people who cured themselves that they're just imagining it

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever.

Oh the offer isn't there don't worry.

Well they probably all ate gluten which was hybridised in the 1950's and ok I'll tell all the people who cured themselves that they're just imagining it "

Ah. The time travelling gluten. (Note the time period of the Great Depression, and note that the 1950s is after it)

I thought the benefit of non mainstream medicine was the personalised advice, tailored just for you, rather than the generic stuff thrown out that doesn't meet your specific needs?

Not even getting the decade of the Great Depression right is hardly personalised... and doesn't bode well for a grasp on evidence.

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
43 weeks ago

Cumbria


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever."

I think one of the problems with people who think they can trace (and therefore cure) any illness back to something the person suffering from it has done wrong, is that they are too scared of living in a world where people get sick and die through no fault of their own, from pure bad luck. That they can live the healthiest possible life and still get sick and die. Why? Because life’s unpredictable, uncontrollable, and unfair.

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever.

Oh the offer isn't there don't worry.

Well they probably all ate gluten which was hybridised in the 1950's and ok I'll tell all the people who cured themselves that they're just imagining it

Ah. The time travelling gluten. (Note the time period of the Great Depression, and note that the 1950s is after it)

I thought the benefit of non mainstream medicine was the personalised advice, tailored just for you, rather than the generic stuff thrown out that doesn't meet your specific needs?

Not even getting the decade of the Great Depression right is hardly personalised... and doesn't bode well for a grasp on evidence."

I never studied the great depression I spent all my time reading about health. So you're whole family had the same condition and never managed to fix it? Genetics load the gun but lifestyle pulls the trigger. There's nothing personal about giving everyone synthetic thyroid hormones either lol gluten is a common cause of all autoimmune. Off to sacrifice another goat, have fun

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever.

I think one of the problems with people who think they can trace (and therefore cure) any illness back to something the person suffering from it has done wrong, is that they are too scared of living in a world where people get sick and die through no fault of their own, from pure bad luck. That they can live the healthiest possible life and still get sick and die. Why? Because life’s unpredictable, uncontrollable, and unfair."

Yes. It's just superstition dressed up.

Worse of all - the practitioners are preying on the decline in trust in institutions. Why did regulations come about for medications? Because of snake oil salesmen. This is a pejorative term these days, but it comes from the days when people bottled up... god knows what, really, and said that it was a magical elixir, oil from the finest snakes, and it'd cure (insert anything here).

There's been a divide between the standards required for pharmaceuticals and alternative regimens, not just testing but also purity. And there's this cultural battlecry that the evidence is part of the global elite something or other.

I genuinely see no difference between "trust This Person on the internet and their book" (or their supplements which may or may not have any oversight) and the old snake oil salesman techniques that resulted in crackdowns on medicinal claims. We're regressing.

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever.

Oh the offer isn't there don't worry.

Well they probably all ate gluten which was hybridised in the 1950's and ok I'll tell all the people who cured themselves that they're just imagining it

Ah. The time travelling gluten. (Note the time period of the Great Depression, and note that the 1950s is after it)

I thought the benefit of non mainstream medicine was the personalised advice, tailored just for you, rather than the generic stuff thrown out that doesn't meet your specific needs?

Not even getting the decade of the Great Depression right is hardly personalised... and doesn't bode well for a grasp on evidence.

I never studied the great depression I spent all my time reading about health. So you're whole family had the same condition and never managed to fix it? Genetics load the gun but lifestyle pulls the trigger. There's nothing personal about giving everyone synthetic thyroid hormones either lol gluten is a common cause of all autoimmune. Off to sacrifice another goat, have fun "

You don't know... basic historical dates?

Hmm. Fascinating.

I'd say that testing my blood and giving me a dose that's indicated by my symptoms and levels is a bit more personal than telling my great grandparents to stop eating gluten from the future

... btw. Just so you know. Synthetic thyroid hormone was invented in the 1950s. My great-grandparents only took that later. Hope this helps

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
43 weeks ago

Cumbria


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever.

I think one of the problems with people who think they can trace (and therefore cure) any illness back to something the person suffering from it has done wrong, is that they are too scared of living in a world where people get sick and die through no fault of their own, from pure bad luck. That they can live the healthiest possible life and still get sick and die. Why? Because life’s unpredictable, uncontrollable, and unfair.

Yes. It's just superstition dressed up.

Worse of all - the practitioners are preying on the decline in trust in institutions. Why did regulations come about for medications? Because of snake oil salesmen. This is a pejorative term these days, but it comes from the days when people bottled up... god knows what, really, and said that it was a magical elixir, oil from the finest snakes, and it'd cure (insert anything here).

There's been a divide between the standards required for pharmaceuticals and alternative regimens, not just testing but also purity. And there's this cultural battlecry that the evidence is part of the global elite something or other.

I genuinely see no difference between "trust This Person on the internet and their book" (or their supplements which may or may not have any oversight) and the old snake oil salesman techniques that resulted in crackdowns on medicinal claims. We're regressing."

I think a lot of the suspicion is due to the US health system, where it does actually pay doctors to prescribe certain medications, or that there are only certain medications available to prescribe, because it’s not a health system, it’s a moneymaking system that is based around healthcare. So in the case of the US it’s understandable, to a point.

Sadly though, it’s polluted the rest of the world and we have ‘critical thinkers’ who believe they know better than doctors because they’ve watched some monetised videos on a YouTube channel, or read a book (that the author earns money from) yet think they are somehow smarter than the ‘sheeple’.

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever.

I think one of the problems with people who think they can trace (and therefore cure) any illness back to something the person suffering from it has done wrong, is that they are too scared of living in a world where people get sick and die through no fault of their own, from pure bad luck. That they can live the healthiest possible life and still get sick and die. Why? Because life’s unpredictable, uncontrollable, and unfair.

Yes. It's just superstition dressed up.

Worse of all - the practitioners are preying on the decline in trust in institutions. Why did regulations come about for medications? Because of snake oil salesmen. This is a pejorative term these days, but it comes from the days when people bottled up... god knows what, really, and said that it was a magical elixir, oil from the finest snakes, and it'd cure (insert anything here).

There's been a divide between the standards required for pharmaceuticals and alternative regimens, not just testing but also purity. And there's this cultural battlecry that the evidence is part of the global elite something or other.

I genuinely see no difference between "trust This Person on the internet and their book" (or their supplements which may or may not have any oversight) and the old snake oil salesman techniques that resulted in crackdowns on medicinal claims. We're regressing.

I think a lot of the suspicion is due to the US health system, where it does actually pay doctors to prescribe certain medications, or that there are only certain medications available to prescribe, because it’s not a health system, it’s a moneymaking system that is based around healthcare. So in the case of the US it’s understandable, to a point.

Sadly though, it’s polluted the rest of the world and we have ‘critical thinkers’ who believe they know better than doctors because they’ve watched some monetised videos on a YouTube channel, or read a book (that the author earns money from) yet think they are somehow smarter than the ‘sheeple’."

Agreed.

I think the decline in trust is broader, and people are looking for something to blame. But rather than actually asking difficult questions, they cling onto narratives. The Big Pharma wank is kinda fun, and American voices are loud because of their numbers and cultural dominance over our media.

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By *stbury DavenportMan
43 weeks ago

Nottingham


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever.

I think one of the problems with people who think they can trace (and therefore cure) any illness back to something the person suffering from it has done wrong, is that they are too scared of living in a world where people get sick and die through no fault of their own, from pure bad luck. That they can live the healthiest possible life and still get sick and die. Why? Because life’s unpredictable, uncontrollable, and unfair."

This, once again, is the Just-World Fallacy. I've brought it up on here at least once before. Nobody wanted to know, of course.

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Mould exposure could have happened at school, a friends house, somewhere you were playing or anywhere so stop jumping to conclusions, I did NOT say your parents were unclean.

No they're not all the same and his way autoimmune however there are common toxins that causes thyroid problems.

If you weren't so irrate and swearing at me and you were actually interested I would happily arrange for you to speak to him.

I haven't given you a protocol I just asked if you frequently were exposed to a few common toxins.

I'm not telling you to take my recommendation all I done was inform you that other ways exist and mentioned a doctor who has helped people in your situation.

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity

I'm not interested, thank you.

I have been following medical advice, which has been the same since some of my great-grandparents had the condition, because this autoimmune disease isn't reversible. And I'm sure my great-grandparents were stuffing their faces with cake and cola while raising a dozen children on a barely over subsistence farm in depression era Australia, sitting on the couch and watching the tellybox (that my parents remember getting for the first time, let's forget my great-grandparents )

If your friend believes it works for him, that's great.

As for me - this is why a health forum on Fab is a terrible idea. Too many people who think they're too kool 4 skool giving fucking awful advice about stuff that isn't in their lane, and assuming that the reasons others have health problems is because they didn't eat clean enough or whatever.

I think one of the problems with people who think they can trace (and therefore cure) any illness back to something the person suffering from it has done wrong, is that they are too scared of living in a world where people get sick and die through no fault of their own, from pure bad luck. That they can live the healthiest possible life and still get sick and die. Why? Because life’s unpredictable, uncontrollable, and unfair.

This, once again, is the Just-World Fallacy. I've brought it up on here at least once before. Nobody wanted to know, of course. "

It's the same as with many crimes. If you displace it (what were you wearing, did you leave your purse out, did you provoke him, why did you park your nice car there, etc - note that none of these have to be gendered) it won't happen to you, because you don't deserve it.

Life isn't fair. Sucks, but it is.

Does this mean we should all eat nothing but cake and cola and watch the telly? No. But no one's actually arguing we should. I take my pills *and* work out. I even eat vegetables!

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By *ackformore100Man
43 weeks ago

Tin town

I wonder how much "breakthrough" science would make if we only ever tried, lived, discussed peer reviewed by an agreed select set of special people matters.

I wonder if penicillin would ever have been invented or would they have said. No don't touch that it's not been agreed by the super pharmacy peer review people.?

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"I wonder how much "breakthrough" science would make if we only ever tried, lived, discussed peer reviewed by an agreed select set of special people matters.

I wonder if penicillin would ever have been invented or would they have said. No don't touch that it's not been agreed by the super pharmacy peer review people.? "

Peer review is testing the inventions. It's not a secret society with handshakes.

Medicine would have gone a different way without the rigours we have - but we also wouldn't have had some of the medical disasters we've had.

I mean if you want to lick some random mould to see if it saves the world, then it's a free country, but I'll wait to find out whether it's toxic, makes you high, or actually fixes things before I'm eating that.

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
43 weeks ago

Cumbria


"I wonder how much "breakthrough" science would make if we only ever tried, lived, discussed peer reviewed by an agreed select set of special people matters.

I wonder if penicillin would ever have been invented or would they have said. No don't touch that it's not been agreed by the super pharmacy peer review people.? "

I’m not sure you understand how new treatments are developed and approved.

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By *oxy jWoman
43 weeks ago

somerset

uk drs are just like our american friends every drug is about getting paid always have been ....medicine is a very good money maker indeed ...vitamins are no different or alternative meds its all about money its better to treat than cure for most why do so many already rich people invest in drugs ...

going back to the forum i see no harm in a health forum as long as its a moderated space that cancels out medical advice that only a dr or specialist can give face to face

in my job and the amount of training ive had to do and still do to keep currant i could sit in a forum giving advice all day long easy to do to a screen but so dangerous when you just dont know that person health wise or mental health wise .... i cringe when i see people giving out mental health advice on here ..

its the internet its so easy to say oh im a nurse or i work in mental health most of us who work in these fields generally dont talk about our jobs or what we do and deffo would not give blind advice over the internet

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
43 weeks ago

Central


"uk drs are just like our american friends every drug is about getting paid always have been ....medicine is a very good money maker indeed ...vitamins are no different or alternative meds its all about money its better to treat than cure for most why do so many already rich people invest in drugs ...

going back to the forum i see no harm in a health forum as long as its a moderated space that cancels out medical advice that only a dr or specialist can give face to face

in my job and the amount of training ive had to do and still do to keep currant i could sit in a forum giving advice all day long easy to do to a screen but so dangerous when you just dont know that person health wise or mental health wise .... i cringe when i see people giving out mental health advice on here ..

its the internet its so easy to say oh im a nurse or i work in mental health most of us who work in these fields generally dont talk about our jobs or what we do and deffo would not give blind advice over the internet"

I think the Fab volunteer Mods could be in overload too readily, if it expanded much

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
43 weeks ago

Peterborough


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

Ah. So you're advocating big shill and big supplement.

No thanks.

I go with "the majority of experts in a field believe this" rather than "gimmicky saleperson who'll blame you for looking at a cake if things go wrong". Because amazing how whenever the magic protocol fails, it's never because of evidence it doesn't work, it's because the suckers do it wrong! (Did I say suckers? I mean patients. Only £99.99 to correct your errors, you flawed person!)

Ummmmm he's a doctor but yeah ok if you don't want to believe that then you can think whatever you like, if you really don't want to give up cake and cola that's great you do you dude but some people are all about optimal health and if this were to be a health forum for people who want to really be healthy then you have proven my point for me perfectly. Do you think there we cakes and thyroid pills growing on trees when early humans were here? Of course not. People started getting sick because they started eating stupid stuff and bathing in chemicals whether that was chlorine in the pool or air freshener in their home or maybe they work with chemicals etc. "

What a very foolish thing to state. People have been getting ill for centuries before "eating stupid stuff". We just didn't have the knowledge to diagnose and treat.

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

Ah. So you're advocating big shill and big supplement.

No thanks.

I go with "the majority of experts in a field believe this" rather than "gimmicky saleperson who'll blame you for looking at a cake if things go wrong". Because amazing how whenever the magic protocol fails, it's never because of evidence it doesn't work, it's because the suckers do it wrong! (Did I say suckers? I mean patients. Only £99.99 to correct your errors, you flawed person!)

Ummmmm he's a doctor but yeah ok if you don't want to believe that then you can think whatever you like, if you really don't want to give up cake and cola that's great you do you dude but some people are all about optimal health and if this were to be a health forum for people who want to really be healthy then you have proven my point for me perfectly. Do you think there we cakes and thyroid pills growing on trees when early humans were here? Of course not. People started getting sick because they started eating stupid stuff and bathing in chemicals whether that was chlorine in the pool or air freshener in their home or maybe they work with chemicals etc.

What a very foolish thing to state. People have been getting ill for centuries before "eating stupid stuff". We just didn't have the knowledge to diagnose and treat."

Well when everyone was throwing buckets into the street before plumbing there was disease for different reasons but now it's usually diet

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
43 weeks ago

Peterborough


"I don't see the point because some people have some great information and things that have helped them but everyone is just gonna say go to your doctor anyway so I don't think this is the place for it, if the community was more open minded and less mainstream it could work

So, what you're advocating for is stuff that's got a lot of hype on the internet, rather than things that have been vetted by experts with appropriate thresholds of evidence?

Cool. What could possibly go wrong?

I'm 38 and have absolutely no health problems (I fixed them all myself) my mum has been on hundreds of pills her whole life and eats shit and she's been ill since I was about 10, recommending that people take pills to hide symptoms whilst they carry on eating half a loaf of kinsmill per day while drinking cola and eating cake and sitting at a desk or on the couch all day is insanity

Ah. Anecdotes. These are the solution to all our societal problems. Give this person a Nobel Prize.

I can play too. We should eliminate all standards. If your house collapses, it's not because it didn't adhere to those icky mainstream architectural standards bought for by Big Construction, it's because you didn't believe in fairies hard enough and the builder looked at a cake once!

Yeah basically just stop eating stupid stuff that's doing you harm rather than take a pill to stop the symptoms which are your body's way of telling you something is something is wrong. If you drop a rock on your leg do you remove the rock or just take a painkiller and put a nice picture over the top of the rock so you can't see it?

I use my common sense and follow the evidence and the people who've spent decades of their lives learning how their subspeciality works, rather than random people on the internet.

Tell me: when I developed hypothyroidism as a teenager (a skinny size 8, the same height I am now, in year round swimming squads, two dance classes, and cricket in the summer), which god should I have prayed to or goat should I have slaughtered to have avoided taking medication for the last 20-something years?

(Please note: I'm going to keep taking my pills, because I wasn't dropped on my head as a child)

If you had got Dr Eric Osansky's book (not all doctors are just drug pushers, some actually cure disease) you would have been more likely to have given your body what it was asking for rather than just become a lifetime customer. My friend cured his thyroid problem with a clean diet and is pill free

Ah. So you're advocating big shill and big supplement.

No thanks.

I go with "the majority of experts in a field believe this" rather than "gimmicky saleperson who'll blame you for looking at a cake if things go wrong". Because amazing how whenever the magic protocol fails, it's never because of evidence it doesn't work, it's because the suckers do it wrong! (Did I say suckers? I mean patients. Only £99.99 to correct your errors, you flawed person!)

Ummmmm he's a doctor but yeah ok if you don't want to believe that then you can think whatever you like, if you really don't want to give up cake and cola that's great you do you dude but some people are all about optimal health and if this were to be a health forum for people who want to really be healthy then you have proven my point for me perfectly. Do you think there we cakes and thyroid pills growing on trees when early humans were here? Of course not. People started getting sick because they started eating stupid stuff and bathing in chemicals whether that was chlorine in the pool or air freshener in their home or maybe they work with chemicals etc.

What a very foolish thing to state. People have been getting ill for centuries before "eating stupid stuff". We just didn't have the knowledge to diagnose and treat.

Well when everyone was throwing buckets into the street before plumbing there was disease for different reasons but now it's usually diet "

Lifestyles increase/reduce risks to certain conditions granted. But a good diet is not a panacea.

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By *arry and MegsCouple
43 weeks ago

letterkenny


"

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. *Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity*

"

Except maybe when it's called treatment for an incurable condition ?

Still there's a lot of good reasons for NOT having a forum to "discuss" health issues I suppose ?

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By *ackformore100Man
43 weeks ago

Tin town


"I wonder how much "breakthrough" science would make if we only ever tried, lived, discussed peer reviewed by an agreed select set of special people matters.

I wonder if penicillin would ever have been invented or would they have said. No don't touch that it's not been agreed by the super pharmacy peer review people.?

I’m not sure you understand how new treatments are developed and approved."

Right you are. Why not patronise me instead.

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By *ebauchedDeviantsPt2Couple
43 weeks ago

Cumbria


"I wonder how much "breakthrough" science would make if we only ever tried, lived, discussed peer reviewed by an agreed select set of special people matters.

I wonder if penicillin would ever have been invented or would they have said. No don't touch that it's not been agreed by the super pharmacy peer review people.?

I’m not sure you understand how new treatments are developed and approved.

Right you are. Why not patronise me instead."

You could go out tomorrow and develop a treatment for an illness, no one is stopping you, or anyone else, doing that. Doctors will not use or prescribe your treatment until it has gone through rigorous testing to ensure it is safe (or that the benefits outweigh the dangers enough to make it worth using - i.e. chemotherapy) and effective.

Peer review, and scientific testing does not stop innovation, it just ensures that it is safe and effective before it is licensed for use.

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. *Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity*

Except maybe when it's called treatment for an incurable condition ?

Still there's a lot of good reasons for NOT having a forum to "discuss" health issues I suppose ?

"

Except loads of people have fixed their condition themselves through diet, not everyone wants to change I understand that and if taking pills suits you then crack on or maybe the docs already fried her thyroid then there's nothing you can do but plenty people are taking charge of their own health now and it's amazing the results they're having

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. *Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity*

Except maybe when it's called treatment for an incurable condition ?

Still there's a lot of good reasons for NOT having a forum to "discuss" health issues I suppose ?

Except loads of people have fixed their condition themselves through diet, not everyone wants to change I understand that and if taking pills suits you then crack on or maybe the docs already fried her thyroid then there's nothing you can do but plenty people are taking charge of their own health now and it's amazing the results they're having "

I see no reason why this kind of speculation about why it's my, my parents', or my doctors' fault that I developed a health condition, particularly when it's contrary to the personalised medical advice I've been receiving for a quarter of a century.

I think it's reckless at best to speculate about other people's health, and rude.

There are a lot of forums for spewing such evidence free bullshit, I don't see why this kind of bollocks should be given a whole subforum here. (I understand - and agree with - the virus forum as a quarantine against the kinds of conversations that have arisen since 2020, in the same way the politics forum quarantines from what has happened since the Brexit referendum)

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. *Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity*

Except maybe when it's called treatment for an incurable condition ?

Still there's a lot of good reasons for NOT having a forum to "discuss" health issues I suppose ?

Except loads of people have fixed their condition themselves through diet, not everyone wants to change I understand that and if taking pills suits you then crack on or maybe the docs already fried her thyroid then there's nothing you can do but plenty people are taking charge of their own health now and it's amazing the results they're having

I see no reason why this kind of speculation about why it's my, my parents', or my doctors' fault that I developed a health condition, particularly when it's contrary to the personalised medical advice I've been receiving for a quarter of a century.

I think it's reckless at best to speculate about other people's health, and rude.

There are a lot of forums for spewing such evidence free bullshit, I don't see why this kind of bollocks should be given a whole subforum here. (I understand - and agree with - the virus forum as a quarantine against the kinds of conversations that have arisen since 2020, in the same way the politics forum quarantines from what has happened since the Brexit referendum)"

I don't see why you keep making up stuff I didn't say, you know I didn't mention your parents and sometimes docs fry the gland with radioactive iodine even for hypo so ..... What's your problem? You're acting crazy

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. *Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity*

Except maybe when it's called treatment for an incurable condition ?

Still there's a lot of good reasons for NOT having a forum to "discuss" health issues I suppose ?

Except loads of people have fixed their condition themselves through diet, not everyone wants to change I understand that and if taking pills suits you then crack on or maybe the docs already fried her thyroid then there's nothing you can do but plenty people are taking charge of their own health now and it's amazing the results they're having

I see no reason why this kind of speculation about why it's my, my parents', or my doctors' fault that I developed a health condition, particularly when it's contrary to the personalised medical advice I've been receiving for a quarter of a century.

I think it's reckless at best to speculate about other people's health, and rude.

There are a lot of forums for spewing such evidence free bullshit, I don't see why this kind of bollocks should be given a whole subforum here. (I understand - and agree with - the virus forum as a quarantine against the kinds of conversations that have arisen since 2020, in the same way the politics forum quarantines from what has happened since the Brexit referendum)

I don't see why you keep making up stuff I didn't say, you know I didn't mention your parents and sometimes docs fry the gland with radioactive iodine even for hypo so ..... What's your problem? You're acting crazy "

You're speculating as to why I developed a condition as a child. You didn't mention my parents, no, but you mentioned types of swimming (which, as a teenager, I wasn't taking myself to), diet (again, teenager), mould (some sort of adult in my life), and medical care (when I was a teenager that wasn't my choice to make).

You're now also speculating on medical negligence, when I've given you absolutely no reason to indicate that.

I said that I was an active, skinny teenager who developed a health condition - and you're assigning all sorts of blame. The fact that I can infer that you might be blaming my parents for circumstances I had little/ no control over as a child is not exactly rocket surgery.

And all over a condition that is so treatable that I can live as though I don't have it, except taking the pills. Which approximately cost sweet fuck all (including to the taxpayer, if we're thinking about it in those terms) and are even less inconvenient.

I submit, though, that this is why we should not have a health forum on Fab. Because any health problem would be attributed to cake, cola, gluten (before or after 1950), chlorine, sitting on the sofa too much, the TV... and wild unqualified advice will be given.

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By *ellaboo400Couple
43 weeks ago

Gorebridge


"

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. *Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity*

Except maybe when it's called treatment for an incurable condition ?

Still there's a lot of good reasons for NOT having a forum to "discuss" health issues I suppose ?

Except loads of people have fixed their condition themselves through diet, not everyone wants to change I understand that and if taking pills suits you then crack on or maybe the docs already fried her thyroid then there's nothing you can do but plenty people are taking charge of their own health now and it's amazing the results they're having

I see no reason why this kind of speculation about why it's my, my parents', or my doctors' fault that I developed a health condition, particularly when it's contrary to the personalised medical advice I've been receiving for a quarter of a century.

I think it's reckless at best to speculate about other people's health, and rude.

There are a lot of forums for spewing such evidence free bullshit, I don't see why this kind of bollocks should be given a whole subforum here. (I understand - and agree with - the virus forum as a quarantine against the kinds of conversations that have arisen since 2020, in the same way the politics forum quarantines from what has happened since the Brexit referendum)

I don't see why you keep making up stuff I didn't say, you know I didn't mention your parents and sometimes docs fry the gland with radioactive iodine even for hypo so ..... What's your problem? You're acting crazy

You're speculating as to why I developed a condition as a child. You didn't mention my parents, no, but you mentioned types of swimming (which, as a teenager, I wasn't taking myself to), diet (again, teenager), mould (some sort of adult in my life), and medical care (when I was a teenager that wasn't my choice to make).

You're now also speculating on medical negligence, when I've given you absolutely no reason to indicate that.

I said that I was an active, skinny teenager who developed a health condition - and you're assigning all sorts of blame. The fact that I can infer that you might be blaming my parents for circumstances I had little/ no control over as a child is not exactly rocket surgery.

And all over a condition that is so treatable that I can live as though I don't have it, except taking the pills. Which approximately cost sweet fuck all (including to the taxpayer, if we're thinking about it in those terms) and are even less inconvenient.

I submit, though, that this is why we should not have a health forum on Fab. Because any health problem would be attributed to cake, cola, gluten (before or after 1950), chlorine, sitting on the sofa too much, the TV... and wild unqualified advice will be given."

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By *naswingdressWoman
43 weeks ago

Manchester (she/her)


"

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. *Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity*

Except maybe when it's called treatment for an incurable condition ?

Still there's a lot of good reasons for NOT having a forum to "discuss" health issues I suppose ?

Except loads of people have fixed their condition themselves through diet, not everyone wants to change I understand that and if taking pills suits you then crack on or maybe the docs already fried her thyroid then there's nothing you can do but plenty people are taking charge of their own health now and it's amazing the results they're having

I see no reason why this kind of speculation about why it's my, my parents', or my doctors' fault that I developed a health condition, particularly when it's contrary to the personalised medical advice I've been receiving for a quarter of a century.

I think it's reckless at best to speculate about other people's health, and rude.

There are a lot of forums for spewing such evidence free bullshit, I don't see why this kind of bollocks should be given a whole subforum here. (I understand - and agree with - the virus forum as a quarantine against the kinds of conversations that have arisen since 2020, in the same way the politics forum quarantines from what has happened since the Brexit referendum)

I don't see why you keep making up stuff I didn't say, you know I didn't mention your parents and sometimes docs fry the gland with radioactive iodine even for hypo so ..... What's your problem? You're acting crazy

You're speculating as to why I developed a condition as a child. You didn't mention my parents, no, but you mentioned types of swimming (which, as a teenager, I wasn't taking myself to), diet (again, teenager), mould (some sort of adult in my life), and medical care (when I was a teenager that wasn't my choice to make).

You're now also speculating on medical negligence, when I've given you absolutely no reason to indicate that.

I said that I was an active, skinny teenager who developed a health condition - and you're assigning all sorts of blame. The fact that I can infer that you might be blaming my parents for circumstances I had little/ no control over as a child is not exactly rocket surgery.

And all over a condition that is so treatable that I can live as though I don't have it, except taking the pills. Which approximately cost sweet fuck all (including to the taxpayer, if we're thinking about it in those terms) and are even less inconvenient.

I submit, though, that this is why we should not have a health forum on Fab. Because any health problem would be attributed to cake, cola, gluten (before or after 1950), chlorine, sitting on the sofa too much, the TV... and wild unqualified advice will be given.

"

And nothing of value was learned

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By *melie LAL OP   Woman
43 weeks ago

Peterborough


"

Your docs have still been doing the same thing for decades and you still have the condition no matter what you think of me. *Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity*

Except maybe when it's called treatment for an incurable condition ?

Still there's a lot of good reasons for NOT having a forum to "discuss" health issues I suppose ?

Except loads of people have fixed their condition themselves through diet, not everyone wants to change I understand that and if taking pills suits you then crack on or maybe the docs already fried her thyroid then there's nothing you can do but plenty people are taking charge of their own health now and it's amazing the results they're having

I see no reason why this kind of speculation about why it's my, my parents', or my doctors' fault that I developed a health condition, particularly when it's contrary to the personalised medical advice I've been receiving for a quarter of a century.

I think it's reckless at best to speculate about other people's health, and rude.

There are a lot of forums for spewing such evidence free bullshit, I don't see why this kind of bollocks should be given a whole subforum here. (I understand - and agree with - the virus forum as a quarantine against the kinds of conversations that have arisen since 2020, in the same way the politics forum quarantines from what has happened since the Brexit referendum)

I don't see why you keep making up stuff I didn't say, you know I didn't mention your parents and sometimes docs fry the gland with radioactive iodine even for hypo so ..... What's your problem? You're acting crazy

You're speculating as to why I developed a condition as a child. You didn't mention my parents, no, but you mentioned types of swimming (which, as a teenager, I wasn't taking myself to), diet (again, teenager), mould (some sort of adult in my life), and medical care (when I was a teenager that wasn't my choice to make).

You're now also speculating on medical negligence, when I've given you absolutely no reason to indicate that.

I said that I was an active, skinny teenager who developed a health condition - and you're assigning all sorts of blame. The fact that I can infer that you might be blaming my parents for circumstances I had little/ no control over as a child is not exactly rocket surgery.

And all over a condition that is so treatable that I can live as though I don't have it, except taking the pills. Which approximately cost sweet fuck all (including to the taxpayer, if we're thinking about it in those terms) and are even less inconvenient.

I submit, though, that this is why we should not have a health forum on Fab. Because any health problem would be attributed to cake, cola, gluten (before or after 1950), chlorine, sitting on the sofa too much, the TV... and wild unqualified advice will be given."

I cannot disagree with your rationale. Disputing medical knowledge, hence medication/treatment is a very dangerous thing to do.

Some people can go off and research various diets and find themselves in a healthy place after trying them. Fantastic for THEM and other INDIVIDUALS. But I'll restate: a diet is NOT a panacea (even if in your thirties, at which most people are relatively healthy anyway).

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