Posted on 01/14/2024 5:41:30 AM PST by dennisw
Dana White (MMA) on Doctors are full of sh#t# During Covid he got into shape and lost 50 lbs
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oFpN-a-_Fp4
As my own doctor admitted to me, doctors are trained to deal with illnesses after the fact—to treat them. Not to prevent them.
I refused and increased my exercise program, went back on keto, and lost weight.
In my next checkup, my weight was down 20 pounds, my blood pressure was within normal range...and my cholesterol had dropped.
She was shocked.
I was shocked that she was shocked...because she had no idea that keto and more exercise (4+ hrs of relatively high-intensity cardio a wk.) could have such an immediate impact.
She should have known.
My doc wanted to put me on cholesterol medication. I changed my diet and within a month, my total cholesterol dropped 100 points. He still wanted to put me on medication but I refused.
I’m 72, and if people ask me what my doctor says, I don’t know what to tell them - because I don’t have a doctor.
Thirty years ago I was having weird lower back pains and someone suggested it might be gall bladder or pancreas, so I checked in through the emergency room. They asked me who my doctor was and I said I didn’t have one. They ran all sorts of tests and said it was pancreatitis. They put me on IV and liquids for five days, and cleared it up - haven’t had a problem since (never changed my diet or alcohol intake).
About 25 years ago my shoulder was so bad I got rotator cuff surgery - again, i didn’t know who my doctor was. I think there were times for health insurance we had to put down who our doctor was, so we picked someone - but we never met or even spoke.
That’s what I think of doctors.
Absolutely spot on. This has been posted before, and should be posted every day.
Doctors don’t want to cure you, they just want to manage your symptoms with drugs. They are “legal” drug pushers.
For example, there is increasing evidence that with improved diet and exercise (me!), your LDL will go up beyond “normal”.
My doctor wanted to put me on statins, and I politely said no. There is a time and place for statins, and other medications. But proper nutrition, sleep, exercise, and stress reduction is ABSOLUTELY the best way to go.
Do a YouTube search on “Statins LDL”, and watch a few.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=statins+LDL
Eleven years ago, when I was eighty I saw my urologist. He said, “I will see you when you’re ninety.” At ninety-one I saw him again recently and reminded him what he said when I was eighty. I told him I drank two bottles of beer every day. He said, “You’re obviously during the right thing, keep it up.”
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