Greetings, here is my no-obligatory introductory post.
I came here by an odd route. Maybe I will learn the path I used is not so different than other's but let just get right to it.
In March of 2017, my doctor told me that if I did quit smoking and committed to a fully vegan diet I could probably avoid the statins therapy and other pills they wanted me on. She understood that "I had taken my life into my own hands." and abandoned those pills more than 6 months earlier. Maybe I will post some more about it all, like my testimony or whatever.
I say that to say I bailed on chemistry and looked to food and lifestyle because I started to understand all those pills are not medicine. In reality, it is all the blue pill and it's a little like the matrix. With very little exception I believe all medicine to be of little value. I do still take the baby aspirin and a B-12. I did quit the 3 pack a day habit and committed to a plant based diet.
Congratulations, I wish more doctors would learn the benefits of a plant based diet and encourage others to take it up for their own health.
Me too buddy. You know that they cannot promote lifestyle solutions though? Most work for or through clinics that have clear policies about what is allowed and not. They can say, "Reduce your meat intake, BUT without this Simvastatin you won't survive long." There are such huge incentives to push chemistry that it becomes policy.
Not to mention ALL of a doctors training is done by pharmaceutical industries schools, training materials, etc..
I take every opportunity to talk about better life through better living or a lifestyle over chemestry I am offered. I am just too pissed off at shit like, "Milk, does a body good." to not campaign right back.