The most alternative medicine I'll use is a melatonin pill when I need to get to sleep.
Eating fresher foods and more vegetables? I should probably do that, too, although eating fresh food isn't exactly easy when you're a poverty striken student. Gimme a few years and a bachelors degree in biology and let's see if things change.
And even things like meditation and incence have health benefits, mostly that they relax you and relaxation has been proven over and over again to be beneficial to your health.
But most of what passes for alternative medicine is just snake oil. Garbage being sold to people without a firm understanding of chemistry or biology or germ theory. A lot of it can be really dangerous, too. Take aspirin, for example; it comes from tree bark, right? So, why not just take the bark directly instead of the processed pills? Mostly because you'd have to eat a tremendous amoun of the bark to get the same amount of aspirin you could get out of one little pill and the bark, under those circumstances, is probably going to be filled with other less beneficial ingredients.
Eating fresher foods and more vegetables? I should probably do that, too, although eating fresh food isn't exactly easy when you're a poverty striken student. Gimme a few years and a bachelors degree in biology and let's see if things change.
And even things like meditation and incence have health benefits, mostly that they relax you and relaxation has been proven over and over again to be beneficial to your health.
But most of what passes for alternative medicine is just snake oil. Garbage being sold to people without a firm understanding of chemistry or biology or germ theory. A lot of it can be really dangerous, too. Take aspirin, for example; it comes from tree bark, right? So, why not just take the bark directly instead of the processed pills? Mostly because you'd have to eat a tremendous amoun of the bark to get the same amount of aspirin you could get out of one little pill and the bark, under those circumstances, is probably going to be filled with other less beneficial ingredients.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
