Holistic remedies do work, in Asia and in the West Indies life expectancy's are much higher than the US.
Completely wrong. Average life expectancy in China is ranked ~30 places lower than the United States according to this list:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
Funny how all the highest countries are ones with socialized health care based on
science-based medicine :)
Too many Americans eat terribly, and the pharmaceutical companies don't provide a service; it's just a business..
I don't see what dietary choices have to do with pharmaceuticals, and furthermore all businesses provide services. That's literally the definition of a business.
These medications in the long run destroy so many things in your body.
Give me a specific medication.
I honestly don't trust any of it. A lot of Westernized medicine isn't good.
Do you want me to explain how a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study works, or will you just take my word for it when I say that pharmaceutical medicine is proven to work better than Hollistic remedies?
Barbados is one West Indian country which has very high life expentencies and they mainly use simple medications and many holistic remedies.
Barbados is ranked #38 in life expectancy, which is up to 5 years lower than countries that do use modern medicine (such as Japan or Switzerland).
Furthermore, while it's probably true that some people from Barbados make use of so-called alternative medicines, modern medicine has definitely become the primary established form of health care in Barbados. From what I can see, the Barbados Ministry of Health is associated with the WHO and other such organizations. According to Barbados.org,
"Barbados has a high standard of health care which is easily accessible to all. The main Government hospital - the Queen Elizabeth Hospital - has 600 beds and offers specialized care in areas such as pediatrics, obstetrics, plastic surgery, radiology, etc. ".I think you may have been given some spurious information.
A lot of these drugs have side effects, and most are bad.
All effective medication comes with a side effect. It's an inherent part of human biology. Why do you think that all the alternative remedies that are 'side effect free' are also the ones that fail to pass double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical studies?
The typical ones are: "loss of breath may be involved, constant throwing up, weakness, migraines, death, miscarriage, loss of sperm cells".
Where are you getting these statistics from? Side effects are called
side effects because they are usually not statistically prevalent in patients taking the medication.
I realize that sometimes traditional medications are necessary in scenarios, I won't be that close-minded.
You're close-minded because you're making outrageous claims about medicine with very little comprehension of the material.
