Eh. I've had longer. Especially if you consider all of my posts in a given thread as one essay. But, the example that sticks out the most is my breakdown of cannabis here. That stuff's literally an essay.
my last post had about 11k characters, i think the limit is 20k?
THC and CBD are both neuroprotective, disease relieving, cancer killing cannabinoids.
is this relevant as a treatment option? i would assume there is evidence and sources you could cite about this because you mentioned it? i mean, i'm assuming the things you're saying are backed by scientific evidence due to your taking of that view.
Yeah, for some reason I was thinking I formatted it the way I did here. If you quote either of our posts, it's just a block of text. That makes it hard to find beginnings and ends to points.
best way i'm doing it is being lucky enough to see carriage returns and line breaks on the end of your responses
Well, first off, I'm assuming this cancerous person isn't living in Romania (sorry LeetZero) and actually gets proper nutrition, so that article is utter stuff. Cancerous people do not have a Vitamin C deficiency. People with cancer have blood tests all the time and such a nutritional link would be way more publicized if it were actually true. When I made that comment, I had not yet read the article you were referring to about deficiency, so I assumed you were just flooding the system when they already had enough from normal diet.
just wondered what you thought about it. also, i read somewhere that you can't take more than a certain amount of vitamin C orally. so yeah. not to mention the drama surrounding Linux Pauling, the guy who dreamt the treatment up.
You're kind of using it as evidence. Since there's no actual scientific study done in your case, I can't really argue against it because there's just not enough information. All I can say is, it worked for you and that's good, but that doesn't mean it'll work for everyone or that it should be used in place of western medicine.
it also worked for my mother, but i haven't brought her up because she's not interested in merging eastern and western medicine. she's spent a long portion of her life not using western medicine if she could avoid it, and instead going with oriental medicine, acupuncture primarily, herbs and 'moxa' which is basically heating certain points on the body with a herbal thing to cause changes.
she says that during her pregnancy with me, i went breach and she treated that with moxa and acupuncture. i allegedly corrected myself in three days and she did not have to go through a cescarian birth. she also says she used acupuncture for pain management during the birth and allegedly felt no pain. i'm taking that second point with a grain of salt, but for the purposes of this discussion we could consider it another testimonial.
I'm not really generalizing it, I'm just pointing out why they're untrustworthy. They've developed to survive, which means to hurt the things that eat them. Or, in this case, just taste really bad (fyi, things taste bad because your body thinks they're poison and it's to let you know to spit it out to not die.) Steroids and Creatine are not herbs, that's why I brought them up as acts of science. Regardless of their existence in the body, I was referring to them as external compounds introduced. I meant a steroid shot, or inhalation, or a creatine milkshake. They were just an example, since they have obvious physical benefits and supported my point.
i'm not well enough versed with the herbs to properly defend them, so i won't try and look like an idiot.
My next point represents a conflict of interest, but regardless I will make it. My father works in the biopharmeceutical industry as a vice president of manufacturing and operation. Because of such, I have a working knowledge of FDA regulation and process of development. Now, when I say it's hard to get a drug approved, it's hard to get a drug approved. It is very, very hard. Any drug your doctor prescribes has been so rigorously tested that it is irrefutably exponentially more beneficial than it is harmful.
yes, and they are presumably safe. my point is that enough funding has not gone into the alternative treatments to get
them approved by the FDA, therefore they are considered not safe.
Well, first off, many medicines are not compatible with eastern medicines. Second, most evidence says it doesn't work. Third, we don't want people dropping western medicine in favor of eastern medicine, which lots of people do.
first) i'm not really sure this is true
second) beyond the placebo effect, which, i might like to add, some treatments cause a greater result in this fashion than other treatments. also, as i said above, while there are studies showing it isn't effective, said studies are few and far between, likely due to the reasons i've been saying about how alt. medicine sends less money in the direction of the people who test and perscribe it.
third) these people are dumb, unless it works for them, such as my mother.
I think you're referring to the removal of an appendix, or something similar. You should know that appendixes are not removed unless they have either burst or are going to and are incurable. They don't just chop you up for any reason.
my mother was advised repeatedly to get a hysterectomy to remove fibroids from her body. she didn't go through with it, instead opting for alternative medicine. according to her, the radiologists and various other doctors were baffled when, a month (not sure on this detail) later, the fibroids in question had shrunk.
The opinion that eastern medicine will cure you better than western medicine is detrimental. I'm not saying that's your opinion, but people have that opinion.
i've heard and seen the testimonials first and second and third hand myself, it
does work. i'm not personally advocating diving in and trying it without a backup plan, but why not try it? again, what have you got to lose?
yeah well,
you can learn stuff if you read them!
Let's make game a get well soon card :S
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