[majkinetor]

That is why I said majority of stuff, some are clearly good, like insulin for TDB1. For TDB2 however, the insulin also kills pateints due to the hypoglicemia (as body adapts to its sympothoms) in what I deem to be unacceptable number, while there may be more promissing treatments in "alternative medical circles". Statins are useful only for small subset of patients - clearly overprescribed just like AB and lead to diabetes, dementia and other adverse effects.

The points you made about the causes of those deseases are irrelevant when we talk about treatments. The reasons for a disease are not the reasons for clearly suboptimal treatments. And you certainly can't justify destroying family to lengthen the life of cancer patient for few months, maybe a year, in a general case ?

> ... are willing to take the tradeoff for resolution of acute problem over long term consequences

Meh... majority of acute treatmets have very low long term consequences. AB is not one of those as evidence shows that gut flora may take very long time to recover (or it may never recover) even after single usage (and we know that disfunctional gut flora is bad). But I can probably take a bet that few doses of ibuprofen will not harm me at all. What I am saying is that standard medicine does have many fenomenal things but that people should probably look elsewhere for help about stuff it doesn't handle good at all. This requires everybody to be very well informed, not something most of humans have time or motivation to do.

> We are willing to take those risks because we decide that it is worth it.

No, "we" are taking those risks because doctors tells us its safe and that risks are trivial or non existent (while at the same time bashing supplements as dangerious?!). "First do no harm" should probably be deleted from mission statement. You don't really think that random person knows anything about medicine or that it questions doctor ? Its mostly buisnis only.