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If a doctor thinks the system they work for is the problem then maybe they should be getting a different job instead of always making excuses.

I don't think being embedded in a system is an excuse. Especially when that system takes money from people by force through mandatory insurance requirements and shuffling around costs so that you're paying for more than the service you want. Not to mention how the medical community criminalizes anyone but themselves providing healthcare, even though biochemists are better equipped to handle chronic illness. Doctors could work outside the system, and many do. Or they could quit being a doctor and work in the alternative healthcare industry in a myriad of ways, and many do.

And how am I the difficult person when I tell a doctor that I have excruciating pain everywhere, they do some tests, the tests show that I'm "fine", and the doctor gets angry at me? Sounds like the doctor is the difficult person in this scenario. They assume that they are so correct that it justifies treating me like shit. Or maybe it's my illness that is difficult and the doctors are taking that personally and taking it out on me? This has happened to me over and over again and the interactions were always pleasant until tests came back negative. If I was the problem then wouldn't the interaction go poorly from the start? If a doctor can't help but stereotype people, then they are not a good candidate for the job and should be fired. I don't think there is a single industry in this country besides the healthcare industry that says they just can't help but stereotype people.

I can't even get testing done without a doctor's approval. It's a racket.

It's not a mental illness. And there are millions of sick people getting together online talking about the exact same experiences that I've had.

I don't want to bring it up here because sometimes it invites a deluge of downvotes. If you go back through my older posts you'll find it. There's not that many.

You're right, I shouldn't have directed those comments that way in the end.

But it's hard. Doctor's have personally attacked me over and over, to the point where I don't bother going to them anymore. I would show up to appointment after appointment asking for help with no clue as to what I had, and doctors and nurses were very quick to anger. I didn't question their intelligence. I didn't tell them theories about what I thought I had. All I did was try to describe what my body felt like. I think they thought I was faking to get drugs or something, but I really don't know. I never asked for any drugs. It was a nightmare.

Finding someone to monitor your vitals during a fast would be difficult as most doctor's don't want to risk losing their license doing something experimental.

But I wasn't just referring to fasting. It's incredibly difficult to do anything that isn't approved by a doctor. Even lab tests is a huge battle unless you pay out of pocket via mail order.

I really don't get the excessive warnings of caution for fasting. It's not hard to try. It's not very dangerous (unless doing prolonged fasts). In the case of prolonged fasts, if the patient is monitored by qualified people then there is little risk as well.

I'm battling a crippling illness. Fortunately I've found the cure and the recovery is nothing short of miraculous. But it's a huge HUGE uphill battle because the medical community works incredibly hard to throw road blocks in my way.

Why does the medical community work so hard to throw up as many road blocks as possible to experimental treatments that are low risk? Why do you insist on being the only group of people who can say what is and isn't tried? Why do doctors and public health officials ignore the work of biochemists? Why do you ignore millions of people battling crippling illness that say your treatments are ineffective, and that other approaches are more effective?

Seriously. I don't get it. I don't believe you're a bad person, but the only explanations I can come up with are arrogance, ego, cowardice, or greed.

Right on. The government gets things so so wrong sometimes that they cause massive epidemics much worse than anything they solve.

Good Ted Talk on the diabetes epidemic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMhLBPPtlrY

I've done about 5,000 Uber rides at night driving drunk people.

I once had a young woman who thought I was taking her somewhere that was not her destination. This was because I had the map on my phone set to "North always pointing upwards" instead of the usual of having the map facing the direction I was driving. I do this because GPS can not accurately point you in the right direction when you're making a bunch of tight turns--something that is common when you're an Uber driver.

About half-way through the 8 minute drive she started freaking the FUCK out. It took me a while to figure out why she was getting so upset as I hadn't been talking to her and I was driving towards her destination. She must not have recognized where we were. It was so distracting that it was very difficult to drive safely and I had to pull over. I eventually was able to convince her that I was driving to her destination after all by switching the map to point in the direction I was driving.

If I hadn't been able to quickly figure out why she thought I was trying to kidnap her, I could see how this situation may have spiraled out of control and led to me being accused of assault.

Mitochondria also pump protons across their membranes in order to synthesize ATP. They are thought to be descended from bacteria.

Couching negative interest rates as wealth preservation fees is ridiculous. We already have mechanisms to charge for wealth preservation. Why is something so round-about as negative interest rates required?

Because it's not about charging people for wealth preservation. It's about encouraging people to spend money that is created out of thin air on things they don't need so the economic indicators look good and the masses are "fully employed". Many of the jobs in this setup tend to be selling addictive substances, addictive entertainment, and extracurricular actives that are hard on the environment.

I don't know about y'all but I think an economy based on what people actually need is essential for human survival and sustainability.

One of the most paradigm shifting mental adjustments I've made is considering humans and our actions as nature.

Which, of course, is true.

So strange we don't think of ourselves as being part of what created us and would die without.

Humans behavior is not an external force. When we destroy nature that is nature destroying nature, as it always has.

I've been partially-to-fully disabled for 15 years now.

Discrimination against disabled people is 100% socially acceptable and I don't see it ending anytime soon. It comes from liberals/conservatives/rich/poor/everyone.

What almost always happens is this: a person/group will perform whatever mental gymnastics they have to and find a way to blame the disabled person and/or wash their hands.

"you lack respect"

"you're exaggerating your disability and using it as an unfair advantage"

"you're not ready to get back into the workforce"

"people will complain that you're accommodated but they aren't"

"i just can't afford to help you, but i'm sure the next person will"

"too many gaps in your resume"

"you need to start at a low-level position and work your way up, but since you are physically incapable of the low-level position you can't work here"

At my last workplace I was repeatedly accused of sexism by a female coworker when I tried to set boundaries with her and communicate that I couldn't do all the things she asked me to do. I ended up just leaving because I couldn't get any work done as I had to spend an extraordinary amount of time crafting arguments to defend myself.

Yes I agree with that theory, but I don't see how that proves that pain is completely decoupled from physical damage, and just randomly happens to some people solely because they are upset or "disturbed".

I apologize for an excessive amount of anger. But you were commenting on my situation. Saying you weren't does't change that.

Because I don't take kindly to people telling me that the excruciating pain, bone fractures from gentle use, and fascia disintegration I had was really just my brain amplifying pain signals for no reason.

I do not think this hypothesis is correct. What evolutionary purpose would functional pain serve?

To me, it seems it's a theory to compensate for medical imaging technology that has far too low resolution. Doctors hate admitting that they don't know what's wrong, so instead they claim that the patient is crazy in politically correct terminology with an excessive number of syllables.

Structural tissue damage starts at a molecular level that cannot be seen by medical imaging technology. The fascia alone is too thin to be imaged at all, and so is completely ignored.

Biochemists have delineated in explicit detail how tissue breaks down at the molecular level. And they can reverse it. We need to start listening to them more.

Then perhaps we are talking about two separate illnesses.

But yes, pain is how your brain protects your body. Pain means you need to rest before your tissues literally rip to pieces from a structural failure.

I won't. You don't know what you're talking about unless you have this illness and have a minimum of PhD level of understanding of biochemistry and enzymology.

I've cured myself. Who have you cured? No one I'm sure.

Rent isn't paid with debt, so is very different. You don't get to make magic money out of nothing to pay rent. But with the way the Fed is running things, almost anyone can create magic money out of nothing and buy a house. The money the bank lends you did not exist(save for the reserve requirement) before the loan was created.

Also, inflation requires increasing demand for it to occur. The existence of increasing demand does not mean it's not inflation. That's why goods/services with no increasing demand do not inflate in an inflationary economy. Inflation has always been an uneven phenomenon.

I've spent the last 15 years convincing my doctors, friends, and family that my physical symptoms are not just a manifestation from mental illness. It took me pushing myself to the point where I could no longer stand up. My legs felt like they were being ripped to pieces when I put weight on them.

I had attempted all the psychiatric treatments recommended to me. None of them ameliorated the physical symptoms.

Then I discovered what physical compounds my body was missing, and the physical symptoms AND mental symptoms resolved. So yes, the mind and body are not separate. They are constructed out of the exact same basic building blocks.

Housing prices have doubled in the past decade. Home ownership has declined in the past decade. Seems like inflation to me.

I want to like Mastodon, but there are no like/retweet counts. I have no idea how to find the good content without sifting through mountains of stuff I don't want to read.

Just because we know it inhibits one specific enzyme does not mean we know that it will not inhibit any other enzymes.

Enzymes and other parts of biological systems often share similar modalities, and if glyphosate targets a shared modality, it would affect any compound that uses said modality.

Bitcoin was invented as a way to protect individuals from governments devaluing fiat currency. Payments have always been secondary to this goal. Read Satoshi's white paper.

In a democracy the lowest common denominator of citizens determines policy. They are easily manipulated by moneyed interests and always insanely uninformed (not because they are stupid but because it is impossible to know everything). Knee-jerk, short-term policy is a given.

Private insurance companies are held accountable by the customer's ability to switch plans.

I understand that billing is an incredibly frustrating issue, but forcing people to participate in one master healthcare system would be devastating to people battling poorly understood diseases. People in this situation desperately need choice in their healthcare options.

Successful, long-time drivers do not waste there time with this pettiness. Nor do they waste time talking to reporters about insignificant issues like this when that time could be better spent actually making money. I've been driving on and off for 5 years now and all us veterans on the Facebook groups laugh at how silly all the constant nitpicking is.

As with any rating system, there will be outlying bad raters. That's why it is normal for absolutely no one to have a perfect 5 star. It's really not a bid deal.

Drivers have no way of knowing if someone will tip/review before they are prompted for a rating. Drivers rate riders immediately after the ride finishes.

In lawsuits like this, are the judge's and other court employee's salaries covered by legal fees paid by the loser? Or is this footed by tax payers?

What a ridiculous waste of tax payers money if this is funded by them.

I specifically follow Andrew Hall Cutler's frequent low-dose chelation protocol.

This is all done in 3-10 day rounds. I started with 1mg DMPS every 8 hours and saw rapid improvement of many symptoms within a few rounds. I worked my way up to 10mg DMPS and added ALA every 3 hours currently at 1mg.

I take many supplements which facilitate healing. It is unlikely that one would see rapid improvement without a proper supplement regimen.

I'm currently using 3mg DMSA only due to DMPS supply issues. I get many side-effects from DMSA so progress has slowed recently.

I've completed 37 rounds and have been chelating for just over a year. I know several people who are claiming near 100% remission of their symptoms after 2-6 years of chelation.

ALA is easy to obtain as it is regulated as a supplement. It is very dangerous to take in the doses normally sold if you are mercury toxic. DMPS/DMSA are prescription only, but is easy to get.

There is another product that I am going to try soon. They make dramatic marketing claims which makes me suspicious, but the science behind it is compelling once you dig past all the bullshit. It is called TRS annd is manufactured by Coseva.

Feel free to write me at jbob286 (aat) gmail if you have questions. I can point you to a bunch of free resources.