Short-Term Costs and Long-Term Gains
Rule of thumb: ALL mental models are WRONG but some are useful.
That doesn't mean you necessarily feel worse than with standard medical treatment. Overall, this has been LESS miserable for me than when I was on tons of medication.
If you are seriously nutrient deficient, just getting some of the right vitamins in you will likely make you feel IMMEDIATELY better. People with CF misprocess fats, so I was severely fat deficient for most of my life and this was resolved in part thusly:
A lot of people who are seriously ill are also seriously dehydrated and just getting adequate hydration can make you feel immediately better and can have substantial positive health impacts.
You are a living organism and modern medicine seems to have forgotten that. Medical care used to be more inclined to use approaches in line with what I do, such as treat ALL the kids in a family at the same time instead of just one (and then watch them pass infection 'round and 'round) and track down sexual partners and treat THEM if you were diagnosed with an STD.
See also: The Hydra; The Burning of Atlanta.
Modern medicine treats people like specimens in a petri dish, not products of our environment, not the sum total of our diet and lifestyle, not at the mercy of social forces that can ruin our health. Worse, medicine tends to seek to ADD something to the system without thinking nor speaking in terms of throughputs.
They prescribe antibiotics and everyone knows a common side effect is diarrhea, but none of this is spoken of in terms of throughputs nor in terms of what is going on biologically. WHY do you have diarrhea? HOW is infection being resolved?
Well, it's a war and the body is taking out the dead bodies, basically. You're body is a world, an ecosystem, and you are trying to edit the contents of that ecosystem and decide which living things inside you can stay and which should go.
This approach is not necessarily more miserable than a medical approach. In fact, it's generally MUCH more pleasant.
The big thing you need to remember is that there are COSTS involved in killing things you don't want living in you and/or in removing poisons and rebuilding a ravaged body and if you are extremely ill you need to be able to bear those costs in the short term.
So, pace yourself and be aware of things like The 48-Hour Rule.
...the medical approach trades short-term gains for long-term costs so the doctor can take credit and say "I DID THAT! PAY ME!" and THIS approach trades short-term costs for long-term gains...The quoted bit, above, is a very broad umbrella idea for the general difference between my approach and typical medical treatments that tend to rely heavily on drugs and surgeries. I have also at times used the expression wellness model or wellness approach as compared to the sickness model of Western medicine.
That doesn't mean you necessarily feel worse than with standard medical treatment. Overall, this has been LESS miserable for me than when I was on tons of medication.
If you are seriously nutrient deficient, just getting some of the right vitamins in you will likely make you feel IMMEDIATELY better. People with CF misprocess fats, so I was severely fat deficient for most of my life and this was resolved in part thusly:
I ate one half to three quarters of a stick as part of a butter sandwich every few weeks at one time because it was the ONLY thing that put a stop to my excruciating jaw and dental painI can no longer eat that much butter in one sitting. I also no longer routinely have excruciating jaw/dental/bone pain.
A lot of people who are seriously ill are also seriously dehydrated and just getting adequate hydration can make you feel immediately better and can have substantial positive health impacts.
You are a living organism and modern medicine seems to have forgotten that. Medical care used to be more inclined to use approaches in line with what I do, such as treat ALL the kids in a family at the same time instead of just one (and then watch them pass infection 'round and 'round) and track down sexual partners and treat THEM if you were diagnosed with an STD.
See also: The Hydra; The Burning of Atlanta.
Modern medicine treats people like specimens in a petri dish, not products of our environment, not the sum total of our diet and lifestyle, not at the mercy of social forces that can ruin our health. Worse, medicine tends to seek to ADD something to the system without thinking nor speaking in terms of throughputs.
They prescribe antibiotics and everyone knows a common side effect is diarrhea, but none of this is spoken of in terms of throughputs nor in terms of what is going on biologically. WHY do you have diarrhea? HOW is infection being resolved?
Well, it's a war and the body is taking out the dead bodies, basically. You're body is a world, an ecosystem, and you are trying to edit the contents of that ecosystem and decide which living things inside you can stay and which should go.
This approach is not necessarily more miserable than a medical approach. In fact, it's generally MUCH more pleasant.
The big thing you need to remember is that there are COSTS involved in killing things you don't want living in you and/or in removing poisons and rebuilding a ravaged body and if you are extremely ill you need to be able to bear those costs in the short term.
So, pace yourself and be aware of things like The 48-Hour Rule.
