Topic: Pseudoscience is Modern Medicine (Read 426 times)

It's possible it was simply a placebo effect.  Even in the mythbuster's episode, Adam fell for the placebo (B-12 vitamin pill)

Another variable would be the season in which the ginger was picked... not all plants produce the same chemicals during spring/summer/fall/winter... it might need to be harvested during the correct season to have anti-motion sickness chemicals

This is why we have science... to find the truth behind the anecdotes... assuming there is an anti-motion-sickness chemical in ginger, it will eventually be found and isolated (or debunked as a myth)

Go Science!

Also lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium. Ayurveda is literal poison.



Using the word chemical in a negative fashion is either deliberately misleading or pure ignorance. Everything is chemicals. Literally everything is chemicals. Water. Oxygen. Food. Your precious herbs. All chemicals.



Can you provide evidence of a single disease (any disease) that is cured by deep breathing as you claim?

I agree eating plant based diet; and physical excercise is also definitely very good.  Walking running too help; eating outside is big threat to health.
Ayurveda medicines (Originated in India);  made of herbs, in few cases gold, silver, diamond too used.  Due to excessive advertisements ; fast results (though with side effects) people in India  started consuming modern chemical based medicines.  But now people here are shifting towards ayurveda.  
Meditation with deep breathing (long inhales and stopping inside; then ex hale)  will give double benefit.  It cures physical (due to more oxygen going to lungs ) and mental stress too. Help of light music also helps getting good results because the mind concentrates more.  Or else we should concentrate on our breathe.  This itself is enough.  If done sitting straight; spine straight eyes closed; long breathe; concentrating on breath or music; I am sure one can enjoy the bliss of meditation very shortly.   

Putting a name on something does not make it any more valuable. Ayurveda medicines?  Never heard of it.

You might get really sick eating herbs, following a vegan, Ayurveda, vegetarian or traditional diet.  You really have to know where the fish, meat, eggs, your fruits, and vegetables come from.  Just because you call yourself Ayurveda or Vegan will not make you healthy.  

Reducing stress, eating mostly plant-based diet, with lots of physical exercise (I recommend calisthenics) is the way to go.  Learn how to cook, stop eating out, stop consuming processed food, stop smoking, drinking alcohol, read the labels etc. that is the fastest way to become healthy.  Walk or run every day, do push-ups, pull-ups, muscle-ups every day and you will feel and look good.

Relaxation and meditation I have not tried, I'll give it a go.   Seems like a good idea.  

PS.  If you have a stressful job, change it or retire early.

Modern medicine is typically designed to treat the symptoms, rather than cure the disease.  Your body will often react to the increased chemicals, and reduce it's own natural production of similar chemicals.  This is why people have withdrawals when quitting certain medicines/drugs.  Some medicines can even be deadly to quit "cold turkey"

You also have a problem with things like antibiotics being overused, which leads to antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria like Gonorrhea, MRSA and Legionnaires


Yes and no...

Meditation has been shown to be effective for treating stress and anxiety, but it isn't going to cure any serious illness that isn't caused by your own mind.  Granted, there are a multitude of psychosomatic illnesses which meditation can treat/cure

I agree there are some herbal remedies that have some actual effects - indeed, many modern medicines were isolated/purified/derived from plants and herbs. The evidence for ginger is very inconclusive, however, with some studies stating it is "superior to dimenhydrinate" as you said, but other studies (1, 2) finding "ginger does not possess antimotion sickness activity" and was no different to placebo.



Consider me now well informed of your pseudo-scientific heavy metal poisoning sham. I will be doubly careful not to willingly ingest arsenic and lead in the future.

Regular consumption of modern medicines actually decreases resistance power of body that is why the effect of homeo or ayurveda is late on such persons.

Yoga and Pranayam (deep breathing exercise) definitely show positive results in 3-6 months; and it is just for free.
I have no problem if it is called scam  my objective just to inform whatever good I know.

I agree with this, but I would like to add that there are some "alternative medicines" that actually do work and have been proven to be effective.

One example would be using ginger to treat motion sickness.  Ginger has been shown to be more effective at eliminating motion sickness than the modern medicine (Dramamine).  Dramamine has negative side-effects, which ginger does not have.

I would recommend anyone take ginger to treat motion sickness, rather than dramamine.

I'm not claiming "The Mythbusters" are actual scientists, but their experiment has been duplicated with the same results... ginger cures seasickness/motion sickness:
MythBusters - S03E20 - Seasickness - Kill or Cure
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6pcjx8

Even if Ayurveda medicine had some actual healing properties (it doesn't) and was effective for some diseases (it isn't), there is no way in hell it would ever be approved for use in the developed world given the level of toxic heavy metals it contains.

Heavy metals are not to be fucked around with. Poisoning can cause anything from headaches and vomiting through to kidney failure, liver failure, your skin peeling off, and death. The various antidotes used (Sodium Calcium Edetate and Dimercaprol are the common ones) come with their own large list of side effects.

It always baffles me that people would use alternative "medicines" that either have been proven not to work, or in this case, actively make things worse. Steve Jobs for example. He had a type of minimally invasive pancreatic cancer that is very treatable and usually curable. Instead of treatment, he decided to try veganism, acupuncture and herbal remedies. And well, we all know how that turned out.

There is a reason human life expectancy is the highest it has ever been, and I can assure you it has nothing to do with cleansing your aura or eating raw herbs.

Not to mention EDTA is toxic... BADLogic is recommending ingesting one toxin to rid yourself of another:



So let me get this straight... I take the Ayurveda medicine to cure me of xxx disease... then I take the EDTA to cure me of the toxins in the Ayurveda medicine... so, what do I take to rid myself of the toxic effects of EDTA?  More Ayurveda medicine?!?

Yes, real medicine can often cure the problems caused by fake medicine, but that doesn't make using fake medicine a good idea, any more than the existence of antivenom makes snake handing a good idea.

But EDTA and cilantro remove heavy metals - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654245/.

     

I don't think Ayurveda and Homeopathy are equivalent in any way beyond their ineffectiveness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda#Classification_and_efficacy


The "no side-effects" claim is debunked by the above quote... 40% have elevated blood pressure, and many of these "medicines" contain toxic levels of heavy metals

Lifestyle changes are hard. Changing diet, taking up exercise, stopping smoking, stopping drinking - these things require effort on the part of the patient. I wouldn't agree that most doctors think these things are irrelevant, but you are right that it is much easier to prescribe a statin or an ACE inhibitor than it is to get the patient to change their diet, exercise, and lose weight.



There is no doubt that we should all be eating more fruits and vegetables and less sugar and soda. And there is also no doubt that too much red meat is particularly bad for you in terms of cholesterol and cancer risk. I wouldn't go as far as advocating veganism however, as there are too many nutrient deficiencies in a vegan diet - calcium, Iron, Vitamin B12, Vitamin D, often even protein.



The reason homeopathic "medicines" have no side effects because is because they have no effects whatsoever. They are sham water tablets. Go peddle your scam elsewhere please.

Modern Medicines are of great help in case of extreme emergency cases.  Life threats must be dealt immediately with these medicines to save life.  But using it for each and every sickness is very much dangerous.  All these medicines have side effects.  If these cure one decease; they generate several reasons for new start of other deceases.  There are some common deceases like blood pressure ; blood sugar; where these medicines have completely failed.  The patient has to consume pills for life time.  These do not cure; just suppress the level of BP or sugar, cholesterol etc.  Not even a single man is cured by using these medicines.  If you continuously consume cholesterol medicine; after 2-3 years it will be affecting your bones; kidney etc.  So IMO that it is just foolish to use this lifetime.

Homeopathic ; Ayurveda medicines are alternative having no side effects.  I also suggest if one has option to use either of these two ; they should prefer these only.  And if your baby suffers from some decease ; never make him habitual of modern medicine.  Always get treatment for the baby from Ayurveda / Homeopathic doctor.  

Third and best option is Yoga and pranayam.  Yoga is not just physical exercise.  If you can spare one hour a day in the morning; I guarantee that you will see the  results in just 3-6 months.  Your efficiency will increase.  There is no decease in the universe which can not be cured under this system for if not 100% but for +95% cases.  If you get your training from some expert trainer for few months it will be better.  Or else your can follow . world famous Yoga master Swami Ramdev on facebook twitter etc.  His videos are uploaded on you tube also.  
https://twitter.com/yogrishiramdev
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=swami%20ramdev%20yoga%20classic
https://www.facebook.com/NewsNationChannel/videos/1324166504347714/

If one visits India ; can visit his Ashram (institution)  the Patanjali Yogpeeth at Hardwar where he himself conducts yoga classes.  Stay; food of good quality is also available there.  You may learn by watching his videos too.  
In addition to above Pranayama (deep breathing exercise) if done for half an hour.  99.9% deceases can be cured.  It is just free no fee.  But with best results.
I have experienced yoga and pranayam.

Maybe the "fixed idea" was the wrong word.  I agree. I should have said the "prevalent opinion in the medical profession".  Most doctors dismiss nutrition as completely irrelevant.  They know drugs work and work fast without changing the patient's lifestyle.

As for the nutrition itself, well, everybody is different (metabolism, activity level) but most people benefit from "mostly plant-based" diets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX58PyQwrcI

I tried the mostly plant-based diet (plus eggs and fish) and I drank only water for 6 months, my HDL is 40, LDL is 82 (still high), total cholesterol is 140 (went down from 270), my BMI went from 24 to 20.  When my doctor saw my blood test results, she ordered a second test to validate the results.  Now we exchange tips on the best sources of macros and micros.  She never saw such a big improvement in her 40 years of being a family doctor.  Oh, and the side effect was that my testosterone went to 798, and I am in my early 50s.

I want to get it to 117 total cholesterol like that old guy in the video.

Now, I firmly believe that we are what we eat.

Absolutely. What af_newbie has pointed out is an apparent failing of US medical schools. It says nothing about nutrition being a "fixed idea". Now, I didn't train and don't work in the US, but where I trained we had a specific nutrition module, covering everything from the basics of carbs/fats/protein, right through to the hormones involved in hunger and the molecular generation of energy, as well as touching on nutrition when relevant to something else we were learning.

Certainly in Intensive Care, nutrition is hugely important to what we do. We have a range of different liquid feeds available, all with their own pros and cons. We have a specialist ICU dietician attend the unit every day to assess patients' nutritional needs and set up a personalized nutritional plan for each patient. There are many studies, with new ones coming out all the time regarding type of nutrition (gastric feed versus intravenous nutrition), type of feed used, timing of feed, rate of delivery, electrolyte/mineral/vitamin supplementation, etc, etc. There is certainly no "fixed idea" that nutrition isn't important, and similarly there is no "fixed idea" that one type of regime of nutrition is the best.

Now, if US med schools aren't teaching nutrition, and US doctors don't feel confident in talking to patients about what constitutes a healthy diet, then it might help to explain why the US has one of highest incidences of obesity in the world.

Why do you have to include those stupid pictures? I couldn't be bothered to waste time trying to read them and construct a relationship.

I find it interesting how many people are anti-science or anti-medicine... But, when they are sick, they go to the doctor

Religious people be all like, "God can fix anything if you believe in him"... but they still go to the doctor/hospital whenever they or their children get sick or in an accident... nobody actually trusts God to fix them

We all know that God will not heal an amputee or heal any wound that couldn't heal by itself without God's intervention... it's never happened

"Science - It works bitches" -Richard Dawkins

Okay, I see where you are coming from. However I can't say that I would agree that "more hours on the subject" is related to a "fixed idea in medicine." Particularly the presence or absence of a course means little.

Also since there have been and continue to be massive shifts in scientific opinion on various nutrition/healthy lifestyle subjects, more hours in medical school would seem to result in more wrong ideas being taught.

These students have all memorized the Krebs cycle, so of course they are a quick study on nutrition.