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by alwillis 729 days ago
> The public itself is not interested in preventing. They think the probability of something bad happening for them is low

Which is ironic because we all know someone who’s had a heart attack, cancer or a stroke.

And if someone decides to make lifestyle changes, they’re often going against society and the medical establishment.

A friend recently was able to stop taking her diabetes and hypertension meds after she did things her doctors discouraged her from doing, like intermittent fasting, which I told her about.

Now she distrusts doctors because they told her she’d have take these meds for the rest of her life.