Do you like to read articles/watch videos about health or your illnesses? What do you read/watch and why a particular resource? I want to learn about interesting sites with general articles on the topic of health.
Thinking quickly about this, if you want some potentially best health care providers to research and read about and their results, some of (maybe all of ) the BEST have been labeled quacks by the experts, ama, cdc, and pharmakeia. There is a website, maybe more than one, that lists the fda's reports of quacks, and it just so happens, on purpose or otherwise, that the quacks (what they call quacks) are the ones who do tremendously better than the regular ama doctors and totally a different way than the druglords drugs (pharmacy). The so-called quacks have been successfully practicing , helping people, time and time again, with almost no negative side effects while the drug lords drugs all have very troublesome side effects including infertility, death, seizures, and the drugs usually do not cure anyone as they are designed only to treat symptoms and to cause more symptoms , thus more money for the drug manufacturers and the doctors.
Welcome to the forum, @Ilya Pavlov ! There are quite a few of us here who are very interested in maintaining our health, and not having to be so dependent on medication to live a happy and comfortable life. We have a whole section in the forum that is dedicated to health and wellness, in fact. That is not to say that everyone here is interested in articles and videos about what we can do to stay healthy, but you are definitely welcomed into the company of those of us who are interested in reading and learning about taking care of our health. As a person who has had congestive heart failure, kidney failure, and a-fib; to me , learning more about taking care of my health is a vital subject, and I am always watching videos and reading books. Please share with us some of the health books that you are reading and think are important ?
Hello Ilya and welcome. Yes, I frequently research health concerns and my standard go-to is WebMD. I also participate in a forum where people have the same diagnosis as mine because many times the best information is from the people who've experienced it.
I used to subscribe to a lot of health newsletters, like University of California Berkeley/Wellness Letter, Center for Science in the Public Interest/Nutrition Action Letter and a few others I cannot recall. I subscribed to them for the longest time and for some reason stopped. These days I may putz around the web, but that's only on a situational basis to get a specific question answered or to research a particular subject. For example, Yvonne Smith has a thread on sprouts, and I've started growing them, so I'm reading a lot of sites on methods and on their nutritional content. At some point I'll be satiated with this topic, or I'll get distracted by something else. There's nothing I routinely read on the subject of general health and nutrition anymore. The closest I get are periodic emails from recipe websites.
I've heard of WebMD, but I've been told that there are a lot of unverified articles there. Is this true, and are there any other flaws I should be aware of?
Thank you! I love literature about longevity. For example, "Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever" by Bill Gifford.
No, at some point I guess I felt I had absorbed all I could out of them and maybe they became repetitive. I knew that I had a reasonably healthy diet, I new where I could make improvements and just chose not to, and I didn't feel I was getting incremental worthwhile advice. You learn things, you incorporate what you want, then you go into a Live & Maintain mode. I guess I was through tweaking things.
I once read a lot of journal and research articles. I am retired now, so the demand to do so isn't there, but I still dabble. I have read a lot about the current goings-on with Covid and the associated vaccines and treatments. I also still research DMI as I have a grandchild who has been recently diagnosed...even though his mother doesn't listen to my opinions at all, or to any of the physicians tasked with treating her child. "Dr. Internet" is her physician of choice.
I honestly have no idea regarding unverified articles. I mainly use it to look for stuff like drug interactions or "symptom checker." I don't use it for research, just casual info.
I think it's as accurate as any because when you say unverified, that would lead me to wonder who is supposed to do the verification and whether I could trust them.
They are controlled and directed , perhaps 100%, by the biggest monopoly type business (pharmacy) in the world. (since wwII ended). Thus, instead of objective truth, or even any concern for what is true and right and healthy, there is what is most profitable, including by causing more problems instead of relieving any problems realistically. They are and have been well known for treating the symptoms, and not even revealing the true cause of health problems. A few exceptions recently, at a very high cost, have been publicized. One , for instance, is the one pill cure they (pharmacy) offer through medical providers who go along with them, and the pill costs $22,000.00 or more. Oh, yes, it does work (for liver problem) - or has worked according to reports, and I knew one person who used it , but I don't know if they paid for it, or someone else did. Compare that to a similar cure , a tea, used for hundreds of years successfully, for the same health complaint (as far as I know). It costs a few dollars a week .
Verification: (drug makers control) "The truth about WebMD, a hypochondriac's nightmare and Big Pharma's dream www.vox.com/2016/4/5/11358268/webmd-accuracy-trustworthy"