I feel like if he gets his way I’ll be prescribed sunshine, exercise, raw milk, and whatever drug a pharmaceutical bribed him to sell, instead of the immunomodulators I really need.
He’s like a mix of your uncle who thinks your chronic illness would go away if you “go outside and get some sunshine, stop being so negative, and eat more xyz” and your aunt who believes “acupuncture and supplements will cure you and all other medicines are a conspiracy”.
TIL the FDA aggressively suppresses the sun and exercise, somehow.
You can burn a lot of calories and get a lot of vitamin D from cutting the head off of a beached whale. The FDA is terrified of how this is not patentable.
Exercise suppression is delegated to car-brained urban planners who design single-zoned suburbs without sidewalks where the only way to get exercise is to explicitly make it a consumer activity by driving to a gym to uselessly walk on a treadmill
It’s not just urban planners; it’s also the Federal Housing Administration, which created lending guidelines back in the day that redlined all the dense traditional development.
Hell, when it really comes down to it, they don’t surpress things like psychedelics or stem cells, either. In so far as the FDA is involved at all, it’s in following mandates from congress. Those things are suppressed as a matter of policy that’s much broader than the FDA.
It’s more about not promoting their positives.
No, but many doctors would be quick to perscribe you a pill instead of saying you need more sunshine or exercise
And many doctors would be quick to prescribe you exercise, instead of actually looking at your problems.
I always felt like shit after exercise so I went to see doctors. I saw atleast ten of them over a couple years who presxribed me exercise which seemed to make me worse. After I finally found a doctor who took me seriously, tests found I had a mitochondrial (energy production) disease, and told me exercising will make it worse.
I’m glad you got the diagnoisis you needed. I went to a doctor as a teenager because I had the runs for several weeks. I was 99% sure I had gotten a parasite or other gut based sickness, I had done some traveling to a country known for unsafe water and I had also done a lot of camping that summer and didn’t follow the best rules for sanitatizing water. The doctor I saw tried prescribing me an antidepressant, he thought it was depression causing my gastric distress. It took 6 months of trying this diet or cutting out that food etc until they finally decided to test my stool and found I was sick with Giradia. I was basically a skeleton by the time i finally got the treatment I needed. Since that experience, I have a fair amount of distrust for doctors at least when they are quick to throw pills at a problem.
Ah yeah they have an obsession with antidepressants. It’s also what I was prescribed alongside with exercise instead of doctors actually looking my body and figuring out whats wrong with me.
The billions of dollars pharmaceutical companies have spent on drug trials trying to show antidepressants cure everything have influenced doctors. Now don’t get me wrong SSRI’s are quite helpful for some diseases like biological depression. But some doctors give them out like candy when they really shouldn’t.
That’s not an FDA problem, that’s a capitalism problem.
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What I was replying to was about doctors being quick to prescribe pills over other options. And the reason is profit. That is what happens with a for-profit healthcare system.
The doctor goes to pills because they get kickbacks (in various forms), and it isn’t like it won’t work, so they aren’t doing harm, right?
But then it goes to the insurance company, who will decide whether that pill or a different as a generic is the right one. Not a doctor, obviously, just regular people making calls about medicine - decisions based on the profit for the insurer from the deals they have to discount certain medications from certain companies.
And then still it goes back to the pharmacist, who doesn’t have that medicine readily available (because they didn’t order more in probably), but this brand? Totally the same (and cheaper for them or more expensive for you). And since the insurance company probably owns that large chain pharmacy you go to, its just a question of the best option for best profit for all.
Are you talking about property zoning?