As I was watching a drug commercial that helped with a family disease, I remembered my grandmother and father and brother were/are a bit of hypochondriacs. Having heard that a good percentage of illnesses are cured by placebo because they are in the mind as well as the cure.
Therefore, I was wondering if the ads for the drugs weren’t causing the symptoms, getting patients to go to doctors who prescribe the medicines to people who are thinking themselves sick. Just wondering.
I suspect that some of our discomforts and illnesses are related to unrecognized nutritional imbalances. Our diet has changed a great deal in just a few generations.
I believe you are exactly right about this.
Sounds plausible! After all, isn't it a commonplace that first-year medical students have a tendency to "diagnose" themselves with most any disease they study?