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Thank you for your comment. And i apologize for not responding until now.
Your comments did not turn me off reading the post. They seem very reasonable in general. But I do disagree with the idea that i should not care about why it helps. The body is a biochemical machine. It can (in theory...) be figured out. Of course like you say it is miles different from engineering. Measurements are hard to do and very imprecise. The way variables impact each other is immensly complicated. This is before even acknowledging the fact that each human has a unique set of genes (which also means that large studies will miss a lot of things that could improve certain indivuduals). What occurs if a human has a gene that reduces intake of nutrient X by 80%?
Yes, most alternative medicine is crap. Some of it is crap that works because of psychology, some of it because of biochemistry. Chances are that the people promoting these ideas have no idea. They have just observed that it seems to work sometimes. Trial and error, along with a healthy degree of scamming. The thing that initially put me of this kind of stuff is that a large amount of people talking about it seem to make a lot of logical errors. They have tried a bunch of stuff, noticed that a few things worked. Then they developed semi-incoherent theories as to why. With their personality and knowledge influencing the theory itself.
But this does not mean it's all crap. A person claiming that might have a success rate of 90% (and save a looooot of time), but they will also miss new developments.
It's been some time now since starting the things mentioned above and it has kept working. I'm honestly still pretty suprised. I've started spending more time reading about the biochemistry of energy creation in the body and done some experiments. Another thing that has worked fantasically (in a very similar way) is niacin (with the flush...). My gut has never been good so it must have something to do with poor nutrient absorption (vitamin A improved my night vision to an absurd degree) despite eating nutrient rich foods.
This section is valid but it also worries me somewhat. Of course a lot of patients are confused and follow trends. But it feels dismissive. Yeah, your average young woman will probably not self-diagnose herself correctly, but the fact that she has felt the need to self-diagnose herself in the first place is a pretty strong signal that something is wrong with her. How many people with thyroid problems get ignored (and why is it so common)? My frustration is that there's an immense amount of chronic suffering that could be avoided, and I don't think society does enough about this. Someone has to help them, and if responsible people don't, irresponsible ones will. (sorry, this is somewhat incoherent and mixes several points but I have to get back to work.)
Does ADHD really have a clear treatment? Most meds work on SLC6A3, disabling a feature in the brain that from my (limited) research does not seem to be the root cause. If you have mold growing in the basement you can hide it by painting over it. But it will still be there. Slowly causing damage.
I've experienced this as a patient in a similar setting. I can understand why sick (and/or sad) people develop munchausens. We can never have nice things can we.
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