This is a fantastic thread. We don’t have a health care system. We have a disease profit system. I’m not mad at doctors and nurses. They are also the victims of this system.
I can’t mention all of the ideas I’d like to say, but here are some. I agree with almost everything that people have recommended. Obviously, people have differing ideas about carnivore vs. vegan, vaccinations, organic, etc. I am just going to offer some web sites that I think are helpful. If someone thinks that this has nothing to do with fruit, Pumpkin seeds, mulberry leaves, blackberry roots, and tart cherries have already been recommended. I advocate for 3 of those and I’m interested in blackberry roots.
For athlete’s foot, I agree that taking your shoes off is key. I remove shoes and socks in the evening. I grew Arnica from Strictly medicinal seeds, plantain weed, arnica and made it into an oil that has helped with my painful cracking feet. I also use UNREFINED coconut oil to stop fungus. It’s cheap and it works.
John Douillard has a great site that pores through Ayurvedic medicine and uses natural healing that way. He was a medical professional with pro sports teams and is a chiropractor: https://lifespa.com/
The People’s Pharmacy is a web site that features two pharmacists who are willing to look at natural, low cost herbs and home remedies to see whether there is any science behind them: https://www.peoplespharmacy.com/
Green Med Info is an alternative health site. They are very anti vaccines, which may be great for some people’s views and terrible for others, but they have lots of useful info about natural medicines: https://greenmedinfo.com/
Nutritionfacts.org is a web site run by a vegan doctor as a non-profit. He advocates for achieving health by eating whole food plant based lifestyles. He is a little biased in favor of vegans, IMHO, but he has great info about science-based critiquing of our medical system.
Jim Roach, MD, is an integrative doctor who uses natural healing along with standard hospital approaches. He is skeptical of the Big Pharma approach. He does include some spiritual ideas in his newsletter as well, but it’s mostly science based approaches to natural health. You can sign up for his excellent newsletter here: https://www.themidwaycenter.com/
You can always check out pub med, the unfiltered data base of publications on science that we Americans pay for. Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know about this one, because they include studies from other countries that aren’t controlled by our powerful medical system: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Sorry for the long post. This topic is important to me. I’ve already had many friends die, and I’m not young either.
John S
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