It is sobering to witness how marketers of medicine try to convert the well into the potentially ill. I am just amazed to watch Morgan Freeman, during a break from national news coverage, earnestly pitch a new treatment for cardiac amyloidosis. I have been practicing medicine for a long time and know barely anything about this diagnosis. Overmedicalization is a big problem in this country.
Personally... I avoid them like the plague... I know if they will go looking... they will find something and I am happier and healthier ... so far... without them... at least until my daughters force me to do the bloodwork...
It is sobering to witness how marketers of medicine try to convert the well into the potentially ill. I am just amazed to watch Morgan Freeman, during a break from national news coverage, earnestly pitch a new treatment for cardiac amyloidosis. I have been practicing medicine for a long time and know barely anything about this diagnosis. Overmedicalization is a big problem in this country.
Personally... I avoid them like the plague... I know if they will go looking... they will find something and I am happier and healthier ... so far... without them... at least until my daughters force me to do the bloodwork...
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If “low testosterone” is a pathology then let’s just call “high age” the same.
Did you mean more good than harm?