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Indeed. It is difficult to have good-faith conversations about this subject with others sometimes because trust in "The System" (as it were) is often a core of peoples' relating to society. Western medicine does have excellent treatments for problems like appendicitis (in my case...), but is very much lacking in the holism that prevents the issues to begin with.

A quote from Ray Peat:

>“Besides fasting, or chronic protein deficiency, the common causes of hypothyroidism are excessive stress or “aerobic” (i.e. anaerobic) exercise, and diets containing beans, lentils, nuts, unsaturated fats (including carotene), and undercooked broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and mustard greens. Many health conscious people become hypothyroid with a synergistic program of undercooked vegetables, legumes instead of animal proteins, oils instead of butter, carotene instead of vitamin A, and breathless exercise instead of stimulating life.”

We see that health-consciousness, when lead somewhere by ideology, is not in itself sufficient to make progress.