Do ever have "anti modern medicine" thoughts?

[Jerry]

Do you think that your own attitude and your own energy is the only thing that can keep you healthy.

(As long I keep kickin ass, I will live for 100 years)

[MNRon]

My own attitude (which often sucks) and energy (I do exercise a few to several hourrs a week) may help, but having my doc remove a couple bits of cancer from my scalp will likely play a significant role in my longevity, too.

[qwerty]

When you look at people like Rupert Murdock (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) it becomes clear that they have that energy. There is no doubt in my mind that if he retired 10 years ago he would be dead now.

Of course you have to look after yourself, but while you're active and constantly on the ball you don't seem to shut down like many other old people who take the late stages of their life easily.

[iamnotspock]

Yeah, I've met Murdock, and he radiates intensity. Kind of reminded me of the Death Star, though ;-)

[OneBadMother]

I wouldn't say it's the only thing that can keep me healthy, but I think that we live in an overmedicated society. When I'm sick, I tend to take as little medication as possible, which is usually none.

I don't particularly trust medications that alter one's mental state, especially with how limited our knowledge of the mind is and how overzealous prescriptions for behavioral differences seem to be. I guess that if you're extremely mentally ill and that's the only way you can function at all medications are your only resort, but psychological "disorders" tied to distinct differences in thought and perception (Aspergers, ADD, schizotypal) aren't generally extreme enough to require mind-warping pills. Some sort of therapy or different education, maybe, but medication would be an absolute last resort, if anything.

[Rick]

I don't trust modern medicine unless it is with an obvious life-threatening situation. Usually, if I have a problem bad enough to require a doctor, I've went in and requested specific tests myself.

I also always ask for a copy of the lab results and consider it in my (and everyone elses') best interest to be able to read them. There is lots of information available online as to the meaning of all those tests.

[Zilal]

Oh yeah, I go through fits of not wanting anything to do with modern medicine. But I have to take into account the fact that this fits into my general pattern of thinking I should be able to do everything myself, and try not to let my pride get in the way of my health. So I basically try to be balanced about it... work on changing my behaviors as well as trying whatever the doctor whips up.

[Aurelia]

Do you think that your own attitude and your own energy is the only thing that can keep you healthy.

(As long I keep kickin ass, I will live for 100 years)

I am not against modern medicine. The adage of "an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure" best explains my philosophy about health and medicine. (However I am skeptical of new drugs, procedures and herbs that haven't had extensive research). My interest primarily lies in nutrition, learning about diseases in my family history and the ways to best prevent their occurrence or how I can best help family members deal with those diseases.

For example, my grandmother on my father's side and my mother both have osteoporosis. So I have incorporated weight bearing exercises and calcium supplements into my daily regimen. My mother cannot speak English very well so quite often she doesn't understand what the doctors tell her. I want to learn about the diseases she is afflicted with so I can protect her and make sure she's getting the best treatment.

Many don't appreciate their health until something goes wrong. Why not be prepared? The knowledge can only help you or someone you love.

[muguly]

Do you think that your own attitude and your own energy is the only thing that can keep you healthy.

(As long I keep kickin ass, I will live for 100 years)

I think that along with a healthy diet and body will keep anyone from getting sick. Every medicine has side effects, which you have to take more medicine for, which has side effects, etc. But, there are no side effects for anything naturally found on earth. Our bodies tell us what we need, we just have to listen.

[Zilal]

I think that along with a healthy diet and body will keep anyone from getting sick. Every medicine has side effects, which you have to take more medicine for, which has side effects, etc. But, there are no side effects for anything naturally found on earth. Our bodies tell us what we need, we just have to listen.

Contrast this view with the idea that "everything is a poison... it's only a matter of dosage." Which is basically true!

[muguly]

Contrast this view with the idea that "everything is a poison... it's only a matter of dosage." Which is basically true!

True, too much nutmeg can kill you!

[Drayakir]

No.

I can't stand those that refuse to take medicines/supplements, and then wonder why something's wrong with them, or why they don't get better fast.

I swear, I met so many of these damn people, it's like a plague.

[eMachine]

I don't generally trust the mainstream medical community... after-all it wasn't an awful long time ago that a lobotomy was thought to cure many ills... So, it seems to me that all-too-often we're (more or less) part of their on-going experimentation. That's why they call it "practicing" medicine.

I don't support the idea of medicating for emotional problems, it seems to create a dependency on the pill when some counseling and a change of perspective/attitude/thought process could actually address the root of the problem rather than medicating to suppress the symptoms.

I will take Tylenol for a head ache, but generally if I have a cold I suck on some cough drops to help ease my throat. When I don't take medicine for it the cold passes in 3 or 4 days tops, but if I'm taking something for it the symptoms are suppressed but the illness persists for atleast 2 weeks.

Imo, Medicating "undermines the constitution" of my immune system. (George Eliot Middlemarch.)

[Antares]

I tend to reject common cold medicine because they taste horrible when my mom makes me take the chinese ones.

[Mistress Corvidae]

I prefer herb/supplements/minerals. I also agree with the "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" adage. I have a friend that went to an Auyurvedic school in Holland, and I often go to her for my medical questions. If her advice doesn't work first, then I will see a conventional doctor.

[Agile]

I don't generally trust the mainstream medical community...

Imo, Medicating "undermines the constitution" of my immune system. (George Eliot Middlemarch.)

Agreed, in most discussions. Just as I don't buy into conventional wisdom because everybody's doing it, I don't buy into counter-conventional wisdom (ie, throwback to natural medicine and natural food, etc), just because everybody's doing it. Things have a way of not being what they seem. I reccomend reviewing everything, yes, everything on a case by case basis. And then I reccomend reviewing those decisions periodically.

[gogurtdynasty]

I think that everything has it's time and place

I do believe that the power of the human mind is fully able to avoid and bring upon illness during your times of need. Though your physical symptoms are often a projection of your unsolved fears sometimes biting the bullet can be the best decision towards helping you through the moment's events themselves