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had a gout flareup couple years ago, stopped drinking beer, didn't stop eating rich meats, never had a flareup since.
on the rare occasions i have a few beers (holidays, etc) i can feel the pain in my joints starting.
I did a pretty deep dive on that question and what I found was they just blamed everything kings ate. Because back in the day pretty much only royalty got gout.

Jared Leto needed to gain a bunch of weight for a role so he gorged himself on carbs and got gout. When he cut out the carbs the gout went away.
bro 100%. It’s hard for me to put to words, because I do think modern medicine is incredible, but it seems like they β€œoveract” sometimes. Most healing comes from getting homeostasis back and letting the body do its thing. Sometimes
that’s β€œimpossible” (is it though?), and that’s when things go off the rails. I started getting into chiropractors and naturopathic stuff a few years ago after doctors couldn’t diagnose an injury that an LMT detected (hip/glute) while working on my neck. Nobody even thought to check for fascia issue while I had two doctors and two nurses fondling my balls looking for a hernia.

I joke but the issue with modern medicine is that the massive groundbreaking humane advancements (antibiotics, safe general anesthesia making all types of surgery possible, MRI/CT/angiography revolutionizing radiology, typed and crossmatched blood transfusions) are always overshadowed by infinite quackery

When you realize Obesity, Type 2 diabetes, Heart attack (and high blood pressure & hardening of the arteries), cancer, PCOS, dental caries, Alzhiemers (sp), and a few other things are considered metabolic diseases (diseases of catmrbohydrates) it really changes the picture.

And several dr/profs have studied hunter gatherers do not get these things
Great roundup of medical advancements.

> overshadowed by infinite quackery

With the exception of computer science, all science is like this.

You've got people like Robert Maxwell intentionally trying to make things worse - but then you also have these supposed "scientists" who are total princesses and throw a bitch fit if someone finds an experiment that doesn't fit their grand theory. And then the universities and research centers do not fund great scientists, they fund great politicians who theater play as scientists.

The only reason I think CS manages to not get drowned in bullshit is because it's code, and when you send someone your code, they run it, and if it doesn't work, everybody knows instantly.
All my reading and thinking has led me back to homeostasis as foundational truth of health (at least).

Focusing on homostasis as prime importance means taking away things that prevent health is number one. Over-eating? bad food? bad sleep? too much sedentary time? too much blue light? stale air? corrupted water? Too many "suppliments"?

it takes the focus away from the germ or the faulty gene or nucleotide and puts the onus upon the person, returning the power and responsibility into their own hands rather than a medical priest.

This philosopy pre-supposes that the body naturally knows how to be healthy.
There's a little book called Quantised Accelerations, and in it the author proposes a new - fairly rough - theory about what might be causing inertial force.

But the majority of this little book is just one experiment after another that have been done before, have been reproduced, and yet cannot be explained by mainstream physics.

Now this is fine, it's okay have unknowns, but the fact that these things are NOT taught in school, and the physics community has decided to kind of pretend they don't exist, makes it impossible to take anyone in academia the slightest bit seriously.

And this is physics, supposedly the MOST serious branch of academia - and even they are acting like they can make facts go away by pretending they don't exist.

If I was king, I'd send a copy of this book to the dean of every university - along with the letter saying they're being defunded, effective immediately.
So someday even psychiatry may be a respectable field?

I jest but I knew a young psychiatrist once who was beyond frustrated at not being able to help the truly ill patients she had to treat. Not the other ones. The genuinely ill. She'd joke that she should have gone into orthopedics.