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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 28, 2024, 12:26 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/millions-americans-might-damaging-livers-173300171.html
[quote]Millions Of Americans Might Be Damaging Their Livers
Using Herbal Supplements, Study Shows
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The researchers focused on six supplements previously linked to
liver damage:
Ashwagandha
Black cohosh
Garcinia Cambogia
Green tea extract
Red yeast rice
Turmeric/curcumin
Nearly 58 percent of the study participants said they used an
herbal or dietary supplement at least once within the past
30-day period. About five percent of those said they had taken
at least one of the six concerning supplements.
When that 5 percent is extrapolated to the general population,
researchers estimated that 15.6 million adults in the United
States could be using herbal supplements that are potentially
toxic to their liver.
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“Just because it’s an herb doesn’t mean it’s risk-free.”
For starters, the dosage may be more than you need; plus, herbal
supplements could interact with medications you may be taking,
Cording says.[/quote]
I told you so.
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: rp Date: September 8, 2024, 4:59 pm
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HTML https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1832332434668458199?t=3Wxju9gYkznnJJpBZj0Bgw&s=19
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This male sumatran orangutan is Raku: he got a wound on his
right cheek. Scientists were surprised to spot him applying a
medicinal plant on his face: akar kuning (Fibranaurea
tinctoria), a type of climbing vine that acts as an analgesic.
After about 8 days he applied the chewed stems and leaves of the
plant, the wound began to heal and in approximately a month he
completely recovered.
This series of observations undoubtedly constitutes the
conclusive proof of the level of ingenuity that these majestic
animals have
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 8, 2024, 5:14 pm
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Already covered here:
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 19, 2024, 1:55 am
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How inferior is Western medicine?
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/drug-resistant-germs-kill-millions-100055796.html
[quote]Drug-resistant germs will kill millions more people in
coming decades, researchers warn
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Since the dawn of the antibiotic age, opportunistic pathogens
have evolved defenses faster than humans can develop drugs to
combat them.[/quote]
We have seen this dynamic before!
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/questions-debates/vaccination/
Continuing:
[quote]At the same time, humans have unwittingly given the bugs
an advantage through the overuse of antibiotics, allowing
pathogens that survive their exposure to pass on their resistant
traits.[/quote]
Not all humans. Just Westerners.
[quote]“The numbers in the Lancet paper represent a staggering
and unacceptable level of human suffering,” said Henry Skinner,
chief executive of the AMR Action Fund, a public-private
partnership that invests in new antibiotic development, who was
not involved in the study. “A continued failure of governments
to meet their moral obligations to protect and care for their
people, as this paper shows, will doom millions of people to
needless deaths.”
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Across all ages, the mortality rate from resistant pathogens is
projected to be highest in South Asia, Latin America and the
Caribbean.[/quote]
As usual, those who caused it are not the ones most affected by
it.
So, considering the above, have Westerners have figured out that
we need to stop using antibiotics ASAP? Of course not. They are
Westerners. Therefore they looked at the exact same data and
reached the exact opposite conclusion:
[quote]In June, the World Health Organization warned that far
too few new antibiotics are currently in the global development
pipeline, and the ones that are there fall far short of the
innovation required to vanquish the most dangerous
microbes.[/quote]
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: rp Date: January 22, 2025, 2:24 am
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: rp Date: May 20, 2025, 11:23 pm
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: rp Date: February 28, 2026, 9:14 am
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What is your opinion on "Vitamin B12" deficiency? Apparently
only animal products contain it, and it is essential. I
originally downplayed it but I am having many of the symptoms
that are associated with it.
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Re: Medical decolonization
By: 90sRetroFan Date: February 28, 2026, 1:42 pm
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Firstly, to use the Western model:
HTML https://www.webmd.com/diet/vitamin-b12-deficiency-symptoms-causes
[quote]Benefits of B12
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Bone and red blood cell health
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Vitamin B12 for vision
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Improved mood and memory
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Better energy levels
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Vitamin B12 for hair, skin, and nails[/quote]
HTML https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4042564/
[quote]A survey of naturally occurring plant-derived food
sources with high Vitamin B12 contents suggested that dried
purple laver (nori) is the most suitable Vitamin B12 source
presently available for vegetarians.[/quote]
Now to move to a non-Western model:
HTML https://josephcoccagna.com/blog-1/the-health-benefits-of-seaweed-through-a-tcm-lens
[quote]In Chinese medicine, seaweed is used to balance the yin
and yang of the body. Your yin encourages fluid, lubrication,
moistening, cooling and stillness. Yang is associated with more
heat, dryness, warming and movement. As one gets older, it is
common to get yin deficiency. When you have yin deficiency, heat
rises due to yin depletion not balancing the yang energy.
...
One food that has been shown to help is seaweed. Seaweed is in
the category of “cold and salty” of food quality and
temperature in Chinese medicine.
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in general it is great for the skin, hair, teeth and
bones.[/quote]
In other words, ancient people had the same problem and
addressed it successfully without requiring the abstraction of
"Vitamin B12" (and more importantly without animal products!).
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