Your case shows people that everyone should take better care of their health and their habits. In general, I have recently discovered functional medicine for myself. I don't want to talk about it now. If someone is interested, then let Google this question:
what is functional medicine. Well, I can say in a nutshell about this. For everyone who cares about their health, it is better to monitor it regularly. Go to the doctors and examine the whole body at least once every six months. And believe me, you will live a long time. My mother worked as a doctor for 50 years, and she is now 81 years old. And she feels great because she has always taken care of her health.
Your right, we all need to take care of ourselves, it's the only life we have, so we need to conserve it, wherever possible. But that doesn't require living in fear, or at the benevolent mercy of a total stranger, who might not have your best interest at heart.
Working in healthcare, you do see preventable illness, but there's a lot more to medicine than simply "health habits" Pathology does, and will happen. People don't generally "seek out" treatments without underlying pathology. People get exposed to pathogenetic virus, bacteria, fungi, sustain injury, accidents, chronic environmental hazards, occupational hazards, there's a multitude constant onslaught to the human body that cause stress and provide ample opportunity for disease. You don't need a doctor to keep yourself healthy, you generally need one when your ill.
Some habits are obviously unhealthy, and taking care of oneself is ideal under optimum circumstances, but not everyone is entitled to heath, and/or having good habits being instilled at a young age. Human cells make up only 43% of the body's total cell count. The rest are microscopic colonists. Think about that for a moment. The human genome contains billions of pieces of information and around 22,000 genes, but not all is, strictly speaking,
human.
Eight percent of our DNA consists of remnants of ancient viruses, and another 40 percent is made up of repetitive strings of genetic letters that is also thought to have a viral origin. Those extensive viral regions are more than evolutionary relics: They may be deeply involved with a wide range of diseases including multiple sclerosis, hemophilia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), along with certain types of dementia and cancer. ie. heredity x-factor...
As for doctors, I take them with a grain of salt. There are certainly a few very good ones, no doubt. If they aren't trying to cut on you, or sick a periscope up your ass, or look between your ears, there overcharging you for itemized services, and selling your some poison from Big Pharma. No thanks, No thanks, No thanks. lol
Alternative medicine is no better, nor more pure motives.
I suppose if my options were limited, and I needed a chemical lobotomy, or something to keep me from going into anaphylactic shock, because it's illegal to get without a permission slip, I suppose I'll go, and pay the toll booth.
This is what I get when looking up functional medicine: This is why Wikipedia is one of my favorite unbiased sources.
en.wikipedia.org
Functional medicine is a form of
alternative medicine that encompasses a number of unproven and disproven methods and treatments. Its proponents claim that it focuses on the "root causes" of diseases based on interactions between the environment and the gastrointestinal, endocrine, and immune systems to develop "individualized treatment plans" It has been described as pseudoscience,
quackery, and at its essence a rebranding of
complementary and alternative medicine.
In the United States, functional medicine practices have been ruled ineligible for
course credits by the
American Academy of Family Physicians because of concerns they may be harmful.
The discipline of functional medicine is vaguely defined by its proponents.
[6] Oncologist
David Gorski has written that the vagueness is a deliberate tactic that makes functional medicine difficult to challenge, but that in general its practice centers on unnecessary and expensive testing procedures performed in the name of "holistic" health care.
Proponents of functional medicine oppose established medical knowledge and reject its models, instead adopting a model of disease based on the notion of "antecedents", "triggers", and "mediators". These are meant to correspond to the underlying causes, the immediate causes, and the particular characteristics of a person's illness respectively. A functional medicine practitioner will devise a "matrix" from these factors which acts as a basis for treatment.
Treatments, practices, and concepts will generally be those not supported by
medical evidence.
Functional medicine practitioners claim to diagnose and treat conditions that have been found by research studies to not exist, such as
adrenal fatigue and numerous imbalances in body chemistry. Despite lacking evidence or studies to back up his claim, Joe Pizzorno, a major figure in functional medicine, purports that 25% of people in the United States have heavy metal poisoning and need to undergo detoxification. Mainstream scientists state that claimed detox supplements are a waste of time and money.
In 2014, the
American Academy of Family Physicians withdrew granting of
course credits for functional medicine courses, having identified some of its treatments as "harmful and dangerous" In 2018, it partly lifted the ban, but only to allow teaching an overview of functional medicine, not to teach its practice.
The opening of centers for functional medicine at the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation and at
George Washington University has been described by Gorski as an "unfortunate" example of pseudoscientific
quackery infiltrating medical academia.