My elderly cat is getting B vitamins weekly. She’s gaining weight and not kvetching so much. Asked the vet what the diagnosis was and he said, “Everything and nothing. She’s old.”
I remember getting those shots 50 years ago while pregnant. Just vitamins, nothing more, but they stopped the excessive *morning sickness* I had 24/7. Got them in a buttock and they hurt a lot.
It is not crazy; it is entirely by design.
The AMA, FDA, and USDA are actively inimical to natural therapies. They hate the competition.
Medical doctors (as of 15 years ago or so) received 1.5-4.0 hours of lecture on nutrition in a seven-year program.
They are taught: cut-burn-drug-repeat, ad infinitum.
Most medical doctors are not scientists at heart; they are technicians (like mechanics). Some of them are very good (and even very dedicated and well meaning) at what they do, but they lack the scientific intuition to go beyond what they are taught.
Cookie-Cutter Conservatives love to extol the pharmaceutical companies and medical procedures as the best kind of capitalism as much as they love to deride the nutritional companies and alternative therapies as the worst kind of chicanery. They do not acknowledge the extent to which the former are just another crony-capitalist industry. The revolving door between the FDA & AMA and Big Pharma is blatant and stunning: An executive approves a drug, and then six months later earns six figures at the very company whose drug he just approved; a medical doctor likely holds stock in the very company whose drug he prescribes. Very efficient business, I must say.
I was a biology major, on the pre-med path. Ironically, my own lifelong health problems forced me to drop out (too many lab hours in the hard sciences for my failing body). Years later, when I nearly died, I stopped going to medical doctors - what had they accomplished with me? - and began studying diet and nutrition, which they had not taught me at all in lower or upper division.
Today I am healthier than I ever was from birth into my early thirties, and I have not been to any medical doctor in over twenty years.
If I break a leg tomorrow, I will make a beeline for the nearest hospital - otherwise, I stay away.
Western (especially American) medicine: Trauma, great; prevention, lousy.
Many thousands die every year from taking prescription drugs precisely according to doctor’s orders. (Thousands alone have been dying annually for many years from taking aspirin according to prescription.) That is not legally malpractice, since it is standard protocol. The media does not even bother to report it. (They love Big Government - FDA, EPA, et al - and care nothing for the little people.)
As The Joker said in The Dark Knight: “Nobody panics when things go according to plan.”
Follow the money: A natural substance cannot be patented; a drug can. A natural substance may or may not have detrimental side effects; a pharmaceutical drug by definition always has them (frequently in abundance, and sometimes very dangerous).
I realize the AMA is not a government agency, but it wields cultural and governmental influence, and protects the interests of a doctor, whether or not that doctor is a member. As I understand it, it descends directly from the medieval guild, and has always aggressively sought to protect its territory by destroying the competition.
Contrary to the Cookie-Cutter Conservatives, who call alternative practitioners like me quacks, quackery comes from quacksilver, the archaic spelling of quicksilver, the obsolete name for mercury.
Question: Who was it who used mercury - an extremely toxic heavy metal that is now controlled by the government (unless it is in government-mandated CFL bulbs, because Jeff Immelt, of General Electric, and Barack Obama, of Federal Communists, are fiscal cronies, and GE donated big time in exchange for incandescent bulbs being banned so that people would be forced to buy their proprietary product, just like the cronyism between the FDA and the drug companies with their patented drugs) - in everything from prescription medicines to dental fillings in the past
Answer: It was the hallowed doctors and dentists of the past, the predecessors of the vaunted medicos of today, not the naturopaths or homeopaths.
The medical doctors and dentists are the original quacks - and remain so (e.g., many vaccines in the past have contained mercury; amalgam fillings still contain mercury).
There is no such thing as a drug deficiency: Drugs do not heal.