Alternative remedies gain acceptance despite lack of evidence
BALTIMORE - At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits...People turn to unconventional therapies and herbal remedies for everything from hot flashes and trouble sleeping to cancer and heart disease. They crave more "care" in their health care. They distrust drug companies and the government. They want natural, safer remedies.
Source While this article doesn't have much to do with Bionics or Nanotechnology, it is interesting nonetheless for several reasons. Take a look at this graph:
As education level increases, so too does the use of alternative supplements. Makes sense, right? But the well-educated among us may be getting duped, as the article goes on to explain that many of these supplemnts are either tainted or laced with poisonous compounds and even pharmaceuticals, or are completely bogus altogether.
NOW is the time for Bionics to become the new 'alternative medicine'. People became disenchanted with traditional medicine and began looking for other ways to improve health: organic foods, yoga, acupuncture, herbs, supplements, meditation and more. But while some are obviously beneficial (organic food, let's say) others are proving to be questionable at best.
The biggest thing that traditional medicine has going for it is that it typically has measurable results: You take the antibiotics, the infection goes away. You eat fatty foods, we can measure your cholesterol level and tell you you will die at a young age.
Not always so, with supplements. How do you know if the shitake mushrooms are preventing cancer? How do you know if acupuncture is really restoring your energy flow, preventing disease?
The time is ripe for a new field of medicine, an 'alternative' field with measurable, quantifiable results. Enter Bionics, Nanotechnology and everything discussed at BionicMe.com.
Traditional medicine just isn't getting the results needed to keep us healthy: We are still plagued with heart disease, cancer, MS, Parkinson's Diabetes and many more afflictions. We need new methods and new technoogy.
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I can’t blame them since drug prices are getting high now. Even I turn into using alternative remedies since I don’t really trust drugs tat much.
I want to become a bionic man with super strength and other bionic powers.
Yeah my family is all in to the natural herb medicine crap. And I call it crap because they buy so much stuff online, they literally spend about $600 a month on it, divided out over 4 people.
Some of it makes sense, like fish oil or flax seed oil, but do you really need 4 different probiotic pills every day?
Back in the day (up to the 1800s and early 1900s I think) when we didnt even know to WASH OUR HANDS before performing surgery, there really wasn't much of a medical community. They were still learning how the body worked, and what organs did what. At that time, THAT was traditional medicine. Give the man some whiskey before you cut off his arm! That will numb it down. THOUSANDS of civil war soldiers would have lived if they had poured that whiskey on the wound instead of down the gullet!
But anyways, I love technology like bionics and stuff because it is so cool, and can perform so much better than all the poison crap the big companies make, and this new technology will actually work instead of pumping vitamins into your blood that you will literally piss away!
Figures the 'smart' people would be the ones dumb enough to fall for the herbal crap!
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Not my cup of tea but if they feel it works then more power to em. Once an individual sets their mind to something, it helps with their mental health if they are supported. I struggle with those who reject traditional med for alternative though. But if they do anything and everything - what does it hurt?
The reason for their preferance of safer medicines is that they want to be safe as far as medicinal benefits are concerned. They do not want themselves to be affected by the side effects of the existing system.
Thanks.