I agree with everything you’re saying.
Just like how I posted a few studies not too long ago showing showing fish oil to be more effective than ADD medication for kids.
However,if doctors were to recommend fish oil,along with proper diet and an exercise program,the drug companies wouldn’t be making much money on those drugs that treat ADD or ADHD.
Congrads on beating the diabetes!
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eengrms76 wrote:
Once the damage is done I would consider it and the resulting lifelong sturggles a disease. Maybe before that it can just be a condition.
I consider alcoholism a psychological disorder, not a medical disease. So I agree with you there. But that’s a discussion for a whole other thread.
WE AGREE!!! Well sorta anyway. May be a semantic difference, but once the damage is done there are undeniably lingering consequences that must be permanantly addressed.
However, again, how is this that much different than someone who gets in an accident and walks with a limp the rest of their lives and maybe develops arthritis later that they wouldn’t have without the injury.
When we were in our late twenties we had foster kids and by law were required to have a comprehensive annual physical paid for by the state. The doctor that checked us out told me that in 18 years of practice he had never, EVER witnessed another human being in such a state of “perfect” physical conditioning as myself. His words.
Blood pressure, standing heart rate, entire blood profile, body composition, aerobic capacity, you name it. How am I to believe that had I continued in that lifesyle that I would 10 years later be sitting in an emergency room with doctors telling me my blood sugar was 6 times normal?
A few more trips to the emgergency room over the next few years showed it getting worse. When I started doing my own testing it read “HI” on the freestyle flash meter all the time which means over 500. All I had to do was buckle down, eat right, and excercise, which admittedly I had a lot of experience with already, and it corrected itself.
80-100 fasting and sometimes up to 150 after a high carb meal. I’m on the anabloic diet for the last couple weeks and on my first carb up I swallowed hundreds of grams of carbs including honey, fruits and milk all in one breakfast and even that only brought it up to 158 90 minutes later.
I cannot believe I’m some super esceptional case. Maybe I caught it before too much permanant damage was done, but that only proves my point. It was under my direct control the whole time, hereditary predisposition or not. The things the doctor mentions above are the exact ones I’ve been talking about all along that we see commercial after commercial for touting the latest drug when people could be avoiding these things altogether to a large extent, though certainly not in all cases.
With some conditions/diseases maybe not even most, but dammit we are better than drugs, drugs and MORE DAMN DRUGS all the time.
–Tiribulus->
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