More critical thinking
Important for optimal health
Critical thinking in health and wellness. To me it starts with not believing what someone tells me without asking for, seeing and evaluating for truth. In other words verify verify verify. Make sure the mechanisms apply and are valid. Make sure you are always trying to get to a root cause so you can actually try and fix, reverse or slow the problem process.
Let’s give some examples:
Yes a fever is a response of the body to help it fight an infection. So why are we almost always told to take something to reduce a fever when sick? Yes it may temporarily make us more comfortable, but I ask “is it reducing our immune response to fight off the infection?”
Perhaps someone should do a deep dive research study and let us know.
The above pic is really one of perspective, and shows there are always more than one. Try not to let preconceived bias cloud your judgement when it comes to your health and wellness.
What do you think is better for long term profits and stock prices of a big pharmaceutical company?
Would it be a medication that cures a condition quickly in about a week without the need for further medication?
Or
Would it be a medication that needed to be taken for lifetime to “manage” the condition without ever truly curing it?
Think about that just a bit when you are told by health professionals that you have a chronic irreversible condition and you need to take a medication for the rest of your life. That’s good for the $$ bottom line for Big Pharma and for the health professional treating you, but not necessarily for you.
This is another way of moving the goalposts to allow more medications to be sold prescribed.
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Science is all about critical thinking and open debate and criticism. This is how science advances. Unfortunately this is NOT how science has been done the past 5 years and probably counting.
Which takes me to the last pic.
When it comes to health and wellness, and how to best achieve optimal health, the above pic applies.
Examples of why:
1- Original Food Pyramid
2- The war on Salt
3- The war on Fat
4- The war on Cholesterol
5- The war on animal foods
The above have all mostly started about 40-50 years ago. Do you believe we are healthier today than we were 40-50 years ago?
If you were in high school 30+ years ago, answer this.
If you looked at your classmates, how many were overweight compared to today’s high school age children?
How many of your high school classmates were diagnosed as Autistic or on the spectrum compared to today?
Yes, I believe government intrusion into health and wellness has increased the opposite of health and wellness. I believe government has a role to play, but certainly not what they have done since I was in high school.
So when it comes to critical thinking and your own health, please don’t let ego or preconceived teachings or bias cloud your judgement.
Your health is your responsibility, not the government’s, not your doctors and certainly not Big Pharmas. Keep your eyes and ears open. Work your brain. Ask as many questions as needed and then decide for yourself what you believe will improve your health.
One example before I sign off of someone deciding to think critically and try something safe and new to improve their health.
Notice how “had” is past tense.
Kinda cool don’t you think?
As always, comments and questions welcome.
Points well taken. The decades-long influence of Big Pharma is completely intertwined in untruths. We older folks grew up believing we should leave our doctor appointments with a prescription to ‘help’ our issue. Thankful beyond that I challenged my thinking by reading non-conventional medicine pieces, thus finding my way to you, Dr. H! Forever grateful!
Great read Doc. Thank you 🙋🏻♀️