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by gaganyaan 1676 days ago
Capitalism incentivizes selling a pill to cure something instead of other solutions, I'll grant you that.

However, I have RLS to the point that I'll kick my wife awake at night. I have found that certain foods trigger this, and avoid those foods. Search for "IBS RLS" if you don't believe me.

I guess what I mean is, don't let the existence of hucksters for a problem's cure convince you that the problem doesn't exist.

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I didn't intend to mock the syndrome... It was moreso about a company's attempt to classify it as any kind of rapid leg movement that can be fixed with a pill that potentially causes diarrhea that made me roll my eyes during the commercial... Then they played a "Reverse Mortgage" commercial just after it, which also causes diarrhea..