Originally Posted By: Benito
Originally Posted By: d00df00d
Even if it isn't eventually confirmed for humans, it'll still have been big news. For one thing, it validates the techniques the researchers used. It also enhances our understanding of the mouse models. If the gravy train ends there, that'll be unfortunate, but at least the ball will be a few yards down the field from where it was.
If you've ever read or listened to Dr Caldwell Esselstyn at the Cleveland Clinic, you may have heard that when he explained to his colleagues what the root cause of heart disease was, they all said it didn't change anything because of how the system was set up for surgery, statins, research etc as well as what patients were willing to do. The medical profession wasn't going to let go of what made them money in exchange for dispensing advice to patients about their diet.
1500 people die a day from cancer in the US, and that's the second leading cause of death after heart disease.
I've always wondered what is the root cause of the higher incidences of diseases we see as well as new ones we never saw before or think we saw before. The mainstream medical profession has just or is now actually coming round to what some people were saying about diet's effect on diabetes, heart disease and cancer. What will they say in 10 years time about the newer diseases?
I've also heard so many incidences of medical science telling us what is safe and is not safe at the level of an individual component. Perhaps they should take a leaf out of the tribology mantra that it's not an individual component but how it all works together. If that's true of an internal combustion engine, think how true it must be for a human being.
The money pours into finding treatments for diseases once they have occurred. Very little money, and perhaps more importantly time, is set aside for understanding root causes and changing lifestyles.
I sort of agree with this. I think there is a lot of research into causes of disease and so forth. But there must be a reason, for example, that autism is increasing in numbers and percentage per population, at least in the USA. Some have suggested that aluminum could be a cause. I have tried to stop drinking pop in aluminum cans.
I don't have definite information, but I believe the rates of cancer are increasing. And the rate of heart disease should be increasing in the USA, because a lot of people are overweight.
There are other things that people are being exposed to that are not natural. Like plastics for example.
Aluminum is actually common, but in nature it is highly bound up in combination with other elements.
People have increasingly disrupted the natural flow of things.